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In 1972, Noland Bushnell, a 28 year-old inventor and eventual founder of Atari, released this wildly successful, mass-produced video game.
What is Pong?
An animated interactive user's guide that came pre-installed with Microsoft Office bundles from 1997-2003.
Who is "Clippy"?
Inventor of the first U.S.flag.
Who is Betsy Ross?
(January 1, 1752)
President Biden signed legislation officially establishing June 19th as this national holiday.
What is Juneteenth?
The new holiday marks the anniversary of the date in 1865 when Union General Gordon Granger announced the end of slavery in Galveston, Texas, under the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863.
The right to remain silent began in this state in 1966.
What is Arizona?
United States Supreme Court case of Miranda v. Arizona (Miranda Rights)
+/-3 years:
The first personal (small enough for in-home use) computer, the Altair, was released this year.
What is 1974?
In February 1971, while at this (non-Ivy League) University, Ralph Gorin created the first true spelling checker program written as an applications program for general English text.
What is Stanford University?
Famously quoted for saying “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can’t hit what the eyes can’t see.”
Muhammad Ali (Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.)
(January 27, 1942)
On August 30, the last U.S. military forces left this country, ending the nearly 20-year-long conflict.
What is Afghanistan?
Lake Tahoe is the second deepest lake in the USA, with the deepest being this lake, found in Oregon.
What is Crater Lake?
Closest without going over:
The first supercomputer, the Cray-1, could perform this many calculations per second.
What is 240 million?
Dean Hachamovitch, the inventor of autocorrect, began his invention by writing code to replace a common typo with this word.
What is the? (Typo: teh)
American gangster from the 1920's sometimes known by the nickname "Scarface".
Who is Al Capone?
(January 17, 1899)
Closest without going over:
In late June, the U.S. Pacific Northwest experienced the most extreme heatwave in its recorded history with temperatures reaching this degree.
What is 116o Fahrenheit (47o Celsius)?
In Nevada, it is illegal to ride this animal on the highway.
What is a camel?
In 1891, Jesse W. Reno introduces a new novelty ride at Coney Island which would later become a common device.
What is the escalator?
This effect occurs when a spell checker erroneously replaces correctly spelled words that are not in its dictionary and was named due to the word "cooperation".
What is the Cupertino effect?
His work “The Raven” (1845) numbers among the best-known poems in US literature.
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
(January 19, 1809)
The rocket company Blue Origin, owned by ex-Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, made this 90-year-old actor the oldest space traveler in history.
Who is William Shatner?
Featured in a nursery rhyme, this structure was taken apart and moved brick by brick to be rebuilt in Lake Havasu City, Arizona in the '60s.
What is the London Bridge?
Nursery rhyme: "My Fair Lady" or "London Bridge"
First correct answer:
The chronological order of the inventions:
Airplane, Dishwasher, Frozen Food, Zipper
Dishwasher - 1889
Zipper - 1893
Airplane - 1903
Frozen Food - 1929
AT&T Experts reviewed the top searched "how to spell" words by state from March 24, 2020 to March 24, 2021 using Google Trend. The result for either California, Washington D.C., or the most common for the USA.
California - What is “Separate”?
Most Common - What is “Quarantine”?
D.C. - What is “Succeed”?
Hosts of the top 2 most awarded talk shows in Daytime Emmy history. (3 guesses must get both)
1. Ellen DeGeneres (January 26, 1958)
2. Oprah Winfrey (January 29, 1954)
On January 6, a mob of pro-Trump demonstrators stormed the U.S. Capitol in an effort to stop lawmakers from certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election. During the chaos, 5 people died. Name 3 causes of the death.
1. Heart Attack
2. Stroke
3. Shot
4. Hit by fire extinguisher
5. "Crushed"
Oregon is the only state which has a different design on each side of its flag. The state seal is featured on the one side, and this animal is featured on the other.
What is a (golden) beaver?