Computer Science
An artificial intelligence called DeepMind was the first machine to beat Gary Kasparov at this game in 1996.
Chess
The 1918 global pandemic of this virus killed 27% of the world's population.
Influenza
This city in the United Arab Emirates is home to a manmade island in the shape of a palm tree.
Dubai
This firearm common for bird hunting and home defense is best used in close range. It's also good for calling dibs on the front seat.
Shotgun
This jeweler is notable for their robin's egg blue branding. I also hear good things about their breakfast!
Tiffany & Co.
Hard drive
This virus, which traces back to horseshoe bats, appeared in 2002 in the Guangdong Province of China and caused pneumonia-like symptoms.
SARS
This region is divided in a territorial dispute between India, Pakistan, and China.
Kashmir
Photocopy
Founded in 1888 by Cecil Rhodes, this diamond mining and trading company was accused for over a century of being a monopoly, owning 85% of the world's diamond distribution.
De Beers
The other Steve, this co-founder was known as the technical brains behind Apple and its first computers.
Steve Wozniak
Gwyneth Paltrow stars as Patient Zero in this 2011 Soderbergh film about fictional virus MEV-1.
Contagion
An eruption of volcano Eyjafjallajökull in this country disrupted air travel across northern and western Europe in 2010.
Iceland
This Yiddish word describing a trinket you don't have much use for.
Tchotchke
Kanye West features a sample of Shirley Bassey's "Diamonds Are Forever" in his 2005 track called "Diamonds from" this West African country.
Sierra Leone
This Navy admiral namesake for a women's tech conference is considered a pioneer of computer programming.
Grace Hopper
Rapper Eazy-E of the group NWA succumbed to complications due to this especially stigmatized disease in 1995.
AIDS
Augusto Pinochet came to power as dictator in this South American country in 1973 in a US-backed coup-d'etat and ruled for 17 years.
Chile
Good and evil; soul and body; left and right. These are examples of this word, meaning a sharp division into two opposing parts. (It's not a false one!)
Dichotomy
Though sometimes naturally occurring in nature, this low-cost diamond substituent is usually synthetically made.
This basic unit of quantum computing allows for superposition of two simultaneous states to capture quantum concepts such as electron spin.
Qubit
The formal name of this virus, also known as camel flu, broke out in Saudi Arabia in 2014.
MERS
This Baltic nation, considered one of the most digitally advanced countries in the world, was the first state to hold elections entirely online in 2005.
Estonia
This adjective describes a liver in the scarred late stages of liver disease.
Cirrhotic
This 2019 movie stars Adam Sandler as a NYC jeweler with a sports gambling addiction who comes into possession of an Ethiopian opal he lends to basketball player Kevin Garnett.
Uncut Gems