Animated Movies
In this 1995 Pixar film, a traditional pull-string cowboy doll feels threatened by the arrival of a new space ranger action figure who believes he can actually fly.
What is Toy Story?
In Breaking Bad, Walter White uses this specific deadly poison, extracted from castor beans, to secretly eliminate his enemies.
What is ricin?
Before shifting to video games, Nintendo was founded in Kyoto in 1889 to manufacture this specific physical product.
What are hanafuda cards (or playing cards)?
In The Terminator (1984), Arnold Schwarzenegger's cybernetic assassin is designated as this specific model number.
What is the T-800?
This gray or silver compound must be applied directly between the CPU surface and the cooler to fill microscopic air gaps and maximize heat transfer.
What is thermal paste (or thermal compound/grease)?
This Japanese animated film follows an alien music group who gets kidnapped and eventually is saved by a rogue. It doubles as a feature length music video for the hit album of a popular French robot music duo.
What is Interstella 5555?
This beloved, legendary Sci-fi TV Show is constantly used as a reference for current day technology, including handheld communicators.
What is Star Trek?
This bounty hunter removes her power suit at the end of a 1986 NES game, revealing to players for the first time that she is a woman.
Who is Samus Aran?
Mel Gibson and Danny Glover redefined the buddy-cop genre as a reckless, suicidal narcotics cop and a by-the-book veteran homicide detective in this 1987 action film.
What is Lethal Weapon?
Measured in Hertz (Hz), this specification on a gaming monitor dictates the maximum number of times per second the screen can update with a new image.
What is the refresh rate (or framerate)?
To achieve highly realistic human movement, early Disney animators (and later, everyone else) heavily utilized this technique for films like Snow White and Cinderella, tracing over live-action film footage frame by frame. Also used in Smiling Friends.
What is rotoscoping?
Throughout the entire run of The Sopranos, this neon-lit Go-Go bar owned by Silvio Dante serves as the primary daytime headquarters and meeting spot for Tony Soprano’s crew.
What is the Bada Bing!?
Released in 1985, this physical peripheral was marketed as a way to convince American toy stores to stock the NES after the video game crash of 1983.
What is R.O.B. (or Robotic Operating Buddy)?
A movie about a heavy-handed, rule-breaking Los Angeles cop who must deal with a serial killer cult in this 1986 film featuring the tagline "Crime is a disease. Meet the Cure."
What is Cobra?
Originally introduced by Intel in 1995, this three-letter acronym remains the most common form factor standard used today for sizing motherboards and PC cases.
What is ATX (Advanced Technology eXtended)?
This 2009 Japanese Anime racing film was in development for 7 years and used over 100,000 hand drawn frames.
What is Redline?
In The Office, Dwight Schrute capitalizes on a major holiday toy shortage by buying up the local supply of this fictional, poorly manufactured doll whose signature commercial catchphrase is "My horn can pierce the sky!"
What is Princess Unicorn?
A failed contract to create a CD-ROM add-on for the SNES resulted in Nintendo licensing Zelda and Mario to this electronics company for their ill-fated CD-i console.
Who is Philips?
In Die Hard, John McClane sends his first major message to Hans Gruber by placing a Santa hat on a dead henchman and sending him down an elevator with this iconic, holiday-themed phrase written on his gray sweatshirt.
What is "Now I have a machine gun. Ho-ho-ho"?
When building a custom liquid-cooled PC, this specific component serves as the heat exchanger, transferring thermal energy from the liquid coolant into the air blown by the fans.
What is the radiator?
In the 1992 film Aladdin, supervising animator Glen Keane stated that he based the fluid, baggy, and low-crotch motion of Aladdin's pants on the signature wardrobe style of this popular 1990s hip-hop artist.
Who is MC Hammer?
In The Sopranos, Christopher Moltisanti temporarily realizes his dream of making a movie by producing this mafia-themed slasher film starring Daniel Baldwin.
What is Cleaver?
This legendary Nintendo engineer and creator of the Game Boy also invented the modern cross-shaped D-pad for the Game & Watch series before tragically dying in a 1997 car accident.
Who is Gunpei Yokoi?
Before being replaced by the 7-foot-2 Kevin Peter Hall, this future martial arts action star originally wore the suit for the titular alien in Predator but quit due to the miserable physical conditions.
Who is Jean-Claude Van Damme?
A now-unsupported method in which computer users would combine 2 GPUs into a single PC to run their games more effectively.
What is Dual-SLI?