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"Q"-PID
OLYMPIC CITY ATTRACTIONS
3-LETTER BIZ
100

Abbreviated VOD, it's one way to watch television

What is Video On Demand?

100

We call television this 4-letter word because of the cathode ray ones the sets once contained

What is The Tube?

100

The skills or experience proving someone is ready for a particular job

What is Qualification?

100

Ebenezer Baptist Church on Jackson St. NE

What is Atlanta?

100

Sending a parcel? You've got some 3-letter choices, including DHL & this shipper with its brown "package cars"

What is UPS?

200

This petroleum corporation uses the stock symbol XOM

What is Exxon Mobil?

200

Invented in the late 18th century, the cyanometer is used to measure the blueness of this

What is the Sky?

200


What is Quixotic?

200

Museo Frida Kahlo

What is Mexico City?

200

In 1924 the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company got this name

What is IBM?

300

It's the "B" in scuba

What is Breathing?

300

In the 1990s Brent Townshend invented the 56K version of this PC communications device & licensed it at $2.50 each

What is a Modem?

300

The metal mercury, to an old English mind

What is Quicksilver?

300

The Christ the Redeemer statue on Mount Corcovado

What is Rio De Janeiro?

300


What is BVD?

400

In French abbreviations, UE is the European Union & EU is this country

What is The United States?

400

The books "Longships" & "The Vikings" inspired computer engineer Jim Kardach to use this word for his wireless project

What is Bluetooth?

400

To put down or suppress forcibly, such as a rebellion

What is Quell or Quash?

400

Bondi Beach

What is Sydney?

400

3 gentlemen started this brand in 1954 with a motor oil treatment

What is STP?

500

I swear on the Good Book that Zp stands for this Bible book

Who is Zephaniah?

500

1941 Chryslers had "vacamatic transmission"; ads asked, "Why" do this while driving?

What is to Shift Gears?

500

I don't want to argue, but it's a minor argument over something small

What is a Quibble?

500

The Naval Museum of Alberta

What is Calgary?

500

In 2018 the U.S. replaced crippling sanctions on this Chinese telecom firm with a fine

What is ZTE?