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Crazy Creations

100

This story concludes with an inventor losing much more than his pride over a chess game.

Moxon's Master

200

This "sinister schemer" created the False Maria robot.

Rotwang

300

This person was the first victim of the HAL 9000 computer.

Frank Poole

400

This man created the modern notion of creating a computer network.

J.C.R. Licklider

500

This author wrote the foundational text for the cyberpunk genre.

William Gibson

Stupid Answers

100

Ufa's film "Metropolis" was first shown at this theater.

Ufa-Palast am Zoo Theater

200

This body within a neuron houses all of its organelles.

Soma (cell body)

300

This melancholic drawing by Albrecht Durer is a classic engraving.

Melencolia I

400

This must have video game was based on HyperCard.

Myst

500

Rumors were heard about this kernel for the GNU project but it never was completed.

HURD

First Name's the Same

100

Washington, Orr, Eastman

George

200

Borough, Lowe, Shockley

William

300

Allen, Baran, Collins

Paul

400

Campin, Heinlein, Metcalfe

Robert

500

Crowley, Symmes, Campbell

John

Expecto Patronum

100

This is the latin word for "concrete."

opus caementicium

200

This is the translation of the latin phrase "camera obscura."

"Dark Chamber"

300

This means "little man" in Latin and refers to a map of the human body in the brain. 

Homunculus

400

This plant's ash was used as the flux for producing cristallo glass.

Allume  catina

500

This is the latin word for a stirrup (foot holder on a saddle).

Stapes (3rd ossicle in the ear)