Art
The speed of Muybridge’s electrically powered shutter was
1/1000th of a second
The foundation for electric power and electronic communications was
Electromagnetism
This shorter selection involves cooking
“The Mushroom Hunters"
WALL-E ends with
The closing credits show vegetation and regrowth of planet earth, depicted via artwork that reflects human history, starting with cave paintings.
GPS stands for
Global Positioning System
After his success at Stanford University what did Muybridge do
He worked at the University of Pennsylvania with painter Thomas Eakins.
The second line of defense used to fight infectious diseases in the early 1900’s
Immunity through vaccines for smallpox, polio, measles, flu, and Covid
The main character has a “sweet, husky voice” in which short selection
No Woman Born
bought Pixar in 2006
Disney
A popular PDA that included a stylus that used a gesture-based alphabet called graffiti?
The Palm Pilot
What was Stanford’s wager when commissioning Muybridge
That a horse did have all four legs off the ground for a brief moment
The third line of defense used to fight infectious diseases in the early 1900’s?
effective treatments like antibiotics and penicillin
This author wrote the book American Gods
Neil Gaiman
Directed Hello Dolly! (1969)?
Gene Kelly
The PDA released in 1999 by Research In Motion
The BlackBerry
Muybridge published his findings on the horse project in what way
He arranged twelve images in a grid, with consecutive phases of the horse’s movement.
How did the three lines of defense reduce mortality in the United States?
by more than 90% since 1900
In which of the shorter selections does the main character make a bee-like hum described as like “a morning early in June when the world wakes to find everything absolutely perfect, fine, delicately attuned, all in balance”?
“I Sing the Body Electric!”
Sang “Put on Your Sunday Clothes” in Hello Dolly! (1969)?
Michael Crawford
The first GPS-powered navigation computers appeared
As an expensive option in luxury cars in the 1990s
A result of Muybridge’s work on the horse project was
It was the launching point for the first scientific study of motion using photography.
The advancement in science in the late 1800’s provided the foundation for what major technological breakthrough?
The Second Industrial Revolution
Which four of the shorter fiction selections are narrated in the first person?
“Moxon’s Master,” “I Sing the Body Electric!”, “Snow,” and “Childfinder”
Michael Crawford was thinking of what when he sang the words “Out there” in Hello Dolly! (1969)?
He was thinking of the stars, which related to how the song was used in WALL-E, as the song played while a field of stars was shown.
The Newton was? When was it released?
Apple’s first attempt at a PDA, 1993