Computer History
This person, not Al Gore, is considered to be the father of the internet.
Who is Tim Berners-Lee?
In linguistics, this is the smallest unit of meaning.
What is a morpheme?
In the term "corned beef", "corn" refers to this.
What is the size of the salt kernels?
Although Jeremiah is the longest book in the Hebrew Scriptures, this book has the most chapters.
What are the Psalms? (150 Chapters)
This NT book almost did not make it into the canon because of the faith versus works paradox.
What is the book of James?
The internet started as unlikely project between DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) and this university.
What is Berkeley?
These two sounds often combine with vowels, so much so they care called glides or semi-vowels.
What are "w" and "y"?
The phrase "kitty-corner" or "catty-corner" comes from this French phrase.
What is "quatre-coins" /kat-ruh kwan/ or four corners ?
This book almost did not make it into the OT canon because it makes no mention of God.
What is the book of Esther?
This is only non-Jewish gospel writer.
Who is Luke?
The six original domain suffixes were: .com, .org, .edu, .net, .gov and this suffix.
What is .mil? (Military)
This sound, while uncommon in English, is significant in Hawaiian, and is often denoted by a question mark or apostrophe.
What is a glottal stop?
This phrase comes virtually word-for-word from the Italian "non per niente".
What is "not for nothing"?
This OT book, like Song of Solomon, is considered to be in the form of a love story.
What is the book of Ruth?
This NT author wrote the most number of books.
Who is (Saint) Paul or (the Apostle) Paul?
This dominant browser of the 1990's went into development never to return.
What is Netscape (Navigator)?
This language from the British isles was brought "back to life" after becoming almost extinct.
What is "Manx"?
The different pronunciations of this nut may tell where in the US you are from.
What is "pecan"?
His mother named him "son of my pain", but his father renamed him "son of my right hand".
Who was Benjamin?
This NT books has no internal clues as to its authorship.
What is the book of "Hebrews"?
This person who used Jacquard loom is considered by some to be the first female programmer.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
These two terms explain why a syllable or word is spelled one way, but pronounced another.
What are "grapheme" and "phoneme"?
The tennis term "love" means this from a non-English source.
What is "l'oef" or "egg"? (French)
This is the only OT book which contains non-Hebrew passages.
What is the book of Daniel? (Aramaic)
While the OT is generally considered to have seventeen (17) books of this genre, the NT only has one.
What is prophetical? (Revelation)