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MICROSOFT
"JON"
FILL IN THE STEINBECK TITLE
MARTIN
ABRAHAM
200
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a museum exhibit at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA.) After reading a 1975 Popular Electronics article about the first PC, the Altair 8800, Paul Allen & Bill Gates adapted this fundamental programming language for it'
BASIC
200
'This tile game takes its name from the Chinese for "sparrows"'
mah-jongg
200
'"T.G.O.W."'
The Grapes of Wrath
200
'He was the first U.S. president born after the country won its independence'
Martin Van Buren
200
'Abraham shows up in chapter 17 of this biblical book'
Genesis
400
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew uses her fingers to move some virtual documents around on a large tabletop flat screen monitor.) Technology that allows a computer to recognize the position & motion of my hands brought Microsoft its 10,000th one of these from the government in 2009'
a patent
400
'This adventurous cartoon boy had a pal named Hadji & a dog named Bandit'
Jonny Quest
400
'"O.M.A.M."'
Of Mice and Men
400
'Of a bird, a lizard or a fish, it's what a sand martin is'
a bird
400
'His nephew, who escaped Sodom with a salty wife'
Lot
600
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew presses her palm to a scanner plate at a museum exhibit at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA.) Futuristic research going on here on the Microsoft campus includes unlocking doors with this method, based on your physical characteristics, from the Greek for "life" & "measure"'
biometrics
600
'In the Bible he's a son of Saul & a close friend of David'
Jonathan
600
'"E.O.E."'
East of Eden
600
'This Dickens title character tries to make his fortune in the United States'
Martin Chuzzlewit
600
'After this wife's death, Abraham married Keturah'
Sarah
800
'(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from a museum exhibit at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA.) Microsoft Research, the company's cutting-edge branch, is developing software using FR, short for this'
facial recognition
800
'Although the flower seen here is a type of Narcissus, it is popularly called this'
jonquil
800
'"C.R."'
Cannery Row
800
'This island northeast of Venezuela was taken by France in 1635'
Martinique
800
'His son by the handmaid Hagar, considered the father of the Arabs'
Ishmael
1000
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew plays with a mouse on a computer at a museum exhibit at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA.) One of the reasons windows sold a million copies a month in the '90s was the GUI, short for this, which let users communicate with the computer via symbols & icons'
graphical user interface
1000
'Sounding like the basement torture room, it's the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle'
the donjon
1000
'"T.R.P."'
The Red Pony
1000
'The patron saint of France, St. Martin of this city was famous for his charity & kindness'
Tours
1000
'Muslims believe that Abraham helped build this building in Mecca thousands of years ago'
the Kaaba