Archaic American Television
An American president regularly appears in the original Bozo the Clown television cartoons.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
This underground comic artist gave us the bigfoot and "keep on truckin'".
Charles Babbage got grants totaling £17,000 from the British government to build one of these.
What is the difference engine?
The current name of the college he attended.
What is Princeton University?
The species of trees that the Assyrians cut down in Lebanon in order to build their temples.
What are cedar or cypress trees?
Howdy Doody had the same number of freckles as states of the union.
Superman's original name.
What is Kal-El?
The kind of computers the astronomer Percival Lowell used to search for "planet X" at the beginning of the twentieth century.
What are women or human computers?
Madison studied two languages.
What are Latin and Greek?
The word, calqued out of Akkadian, is used for Mesopotamian temple towers.
What are ziggurats?
Actors Joe E. Ross and Fred Gwynne starred in this Bronx-based police comedy television series.
What is Car 54, Where Are You? ?
The fictional metal alloy that is bonded to the Wolverine's skeleton and claws and was used by code{4}lib 2018 for Library of Congress sponsorship.
What is Adamantium?
The company where laser printing, Ethernet and graphical user interface were created.
What is Xerox PARC?
Two states were added to the union when he was president.
What are Louisiana and Indiana?
Sennacherib, King of Assyria, made this city his capital, whose miles of walls can still be traced in satellite images.
What is Nineveh?
The American Western whose theme song begins with "rollin', rollin', rollin'."
What is Rawhide?
The regrettable black stereotype sidekick in the first nine years of the The Spirit comic books.
Who is Ebony White?
The proposal for the Internet was created on one of these computers.
What is a NeXT Computer?
The burial place of James Madison.
What is Montpelier?
Inanna of Sumer and Greek Persephone share a common mythological motif.
What is a descent into the underworld?
A 1947 radio game show was ported to television in 1950 and became the first such program to be syndicated.
What is Groucho Marx's You Bet Your Life?
The creator of The Spirit who crafted Joe Dope for the Pentagon's ordnance magazine FIrepower during WWII.
Who is Will Eisner?
This man created the lambda calculus and is credited along with Alan Turing for formulating a theory of computable functions.
Who is Alonzo Church?
Madison, like other early American leaders, held religious beliefs informed by this movement.
What is English deism?
The name of the Mesopotamian king whose stele was carried off from Babylon to Elam, shipped to France and is currently claimed by both the Iraqis and the Iranians?
Who is Hammurabi of Babylon?