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100

Mother is a computer on the Nostromo in this 1979 Ridley Scott movie

What is Alien?

100

This is the most abundant chemical element in the Universe

What is Hydrogen?

100

Apple made a computer called Lisa before they introduced this famous one in 1984

What is Macintosh?

100

The Black Panther, T'Challa, is king of this country

What is Wakanda?

100

 In TV commercials Reba McEntire served as this brand's first female Colonel Sanders

What is KFC?

200

This space station was "no moon"

What is the Death Star?

200

This unit of length is approximately 3.26 light-years

What is a Parsec?

200

A TFT-LCD is one of these basic parts of a desktop computer

What is a monitor? (or display)

200

In the original comics, Clark Kent works for this Metropolis newspaper

What is The Daily Planet?

200

The iconic geosphere known as Spaceship Earth is the symbol of this Disney World theme park

What is Epcot?

300

"Exterminate" is the cry of this "Doctor Who" race from the planet Skaro

What are the Daleks?

300

This is the change in a wave’s frequency when the source and observer are in motion relative to one another

What is the Doppler Effect? (Doppler Shift) 

300

HDMI is an acronym for these cables used to transmit audio/video

What is High-Definition Multimedia Interface ?

300

When this villain was introduced in a 1948 issue of Detective Comics, he was nicknamed "The Prince of Puzzles"

Who is The Riddler?

300

The ancient Roman festival called Lupercalia was named for this animal

What is a wolf?

400

On this '60s TV show the Jupiter II carried Dr. Smith & the Robinson family off course

What is Lost in Space?

400

In our solar system these two planets rotate clockwise

What are Venus & Uranus?

400

This type of algorithm covers the process of packing data into files such as jpeg and mp3

What is a compression algorithm?

400

Newsboy Billy Batson became Captain Marvel by shouting this one word

What is Shazam?

400

It was Fords second big seller, starting with the 1928 model year

What is the Model A?

500

In the 1983 movie "Wargames" David directs the computer to play this game in order to teach it the concept of mutual assured destruction

What is Tic-Tac-Toe?

500

This "middle" layer of our atmosphere is where meteors first encounter major air & burn up from the friction

What is the mesosphere?

500

This is the first electronic general-purpose computer

What is ENIAC?

500

An inspiration for this character introduced in 1929 was 15-year-old Palle Huld's 1928 44-day voyage around the world

Who is Tintin?

500

Though they can irritate skin, the red hot fruits of this edible plant, Capsicum annuum, are found in some potpourris

What is jalapeño? (cayenne)