"MEAN" WORDS & PHRASES
MONEY
THE CITY ONCE KNOWN AS...
FICTIONAL COMPANIES & PRODUCTS
STATE BORDERS
A.I. BUZZWORDS
200
Instead of "happy" in wishes for solemn holidays, you can tell people to have this kind of Yom Kippur or Memorial Day
meaningful
200
This future queen was just an 8-year-old princess in 1935 when Canada became the first country to feature her on its currency
Queen Elizabeth II
200
Bombay, officially renamed in 1995
Mumbai
200
The Acme products purchased by this cartoon character never quite work; in August, him "vs. Acme" comes to the big screen
Wile E. Coyote
200
Of California's 3 state borders, its one with this state is the longest
Nevada
200
An A.I. one of these software tools can act on your behalf to perform tasks; you may have "met" a customer service one online
an agent (a bot)
400
Machiavelli wrote, "in the actions of all men... one judges by the result" but not this similar maxim often attributed to him
the ends justify the means
400
After a treasury official put himself on a 5-cent bill, outcry led to a new 1866 rule: to be on U.S. money, you had to be this
dead
400
Danzig, until it returned to Polish control after World War II
Gdansk
400
It's the company run by Tony, aka Iron Man
Stark Industries
400
A water border between these 2 states also surrounds Ellis Island
New York & New Jersey
400
"Timely" word for the input you provide to an A.I. system in order to obtain a result
prompt
600
It's the rhyming nickname of U. of North Texas sports teams; there's no "Joe", despite a famous football alumnus
the Mean Green
600
New Zealand's $5 banknote features Aoraki, the nation's highest peak, next to this native son who first climbed Aoraki in 1948
Hillary
600
Kristiania, after King Christian IV
Oslo
600
This magazine with a name familiar to fashion models turns the pages in "The Devil Wears Prada" films
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600
This state once bordered Pennsylvania, but after 1863, it no longer does
Virginia
600
Inspired by the human brain & named accordingly, a system that learns via experience & not programming is this type of network
neural
800
This word precedes "back at the ranch" in a cliché supposedly from old Western movies
meanwhile
800
Switzerland uses this unit & its notes illustrate Swiss qualities like organizational talent
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800
Reval, renamed in the native language after Estonia's 1918 independence
Tallinn
800
On "The Simpsons" you can treat yourself to a Duff beer or this cola that sounds like it might work similarly to the beer
Buzz Cola
800
The only state it borders is New Hampshire
Maine
800
Designed to mimic human writing & speech, systems like ChatGPT are powered by this type of technology, "LLM"s for short
large language models
1000
Horace used this precious phrase for moderation between extremes
the golden mean
1000
This country's 200 peso note honors the martyred Mirabal sisters, who led a resistance movement against dictator Rafael Trujillo
the Dominican Republic
1000
York, until it was renamed in 1834 to avoid confusion with other cities, including one next door in the United States
Toronto
1000
Nautical name of the airline that brings the characters on "Lost" to the start of their odd adventure
Oceanic (Airlines)
1000
Cornering the market on the U.S. Northwest, Washington State borders these 2 others
Oregon & Idaho
1000
This 10-letter type of A.I. creates content by identifying patterns in data, then making new stuff that's similar
generative