• A1) Illinois. The mobile phone, computer, and radio company began as Galvin Manufacturing Corporation in 1928.
• A2) Integrated. The Integrated Electronics Corporation was born in Santa Clara, California in 1968.
• A3) Common. The COmmon Business Oriented Language has been used to program computers since 1959. As recently as 1997, the Gartner Group estimated that four-fifths of the lines of code used for business was in COBOL.
• A4) Gateway. Founded as Gateway 2000, the company is now based in Irvine, California but continues to use its trademark black-and-white cow-patterned boxes to reflect its Sioux City, Iowa roots.
• A5) Symbolics registered http://www.symbolics.com on March 15, 1985. The Cambridge, Massachusetts company spun out of the MIT AI Lab and manufactured LISP machines until the market crashed in the early 1990s (a company bearing the same name still supports the old products, but the original company is dead).
• A6) Nokia Corporation. The Finnish company was officially created by the merger of three companies, including the Finnish Rubber Works, in 1967.
• A7) Tux. Linus Torvalds began the Unix-like operating system in 1991, and the penguin was adopted five years later.
• A8) Bluetooth. The wireless protocol, created by Ericsson in 1994, allows short-range radio communication between mobile phones, headsets, computers, printers, and more.
• A9) Sosumi. Added to System 7, the pseudo-Japanese name is a respelling of "So sue me".
• A10) Subscriber. Digital Subscriber Lines evolved from the mostly unsuccessful ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network), which never managed to supplant dial-up lines in any significant number of households.
• A11) Mouse. Engelbart created the first wheeled device for SRI International in the mid-1960s, applied for a patent in 1967, and received his X-Y Position Indicator for a Display System patent on November 17, 1970.
• A12) BubbleBoy. The 1992 Seinfeld episode revolved around a fan who suffered from immune deficiency, and hence was susceptible to viruses.

Technology Questions

Without technology, I don't know what I would have majored in during my undergraduate years (computer science), what I would have chosen as a profession (computer programmer), or what I'd be doing at this very moment (since there would be no Internet and no blogs and no PalmPilots for me to write trivia games for). With that in mind, please enjoy the following very random Technology questions...

• Q1) In which state are the headquarters for Motorola, Inc. located?
• Q2) What is the "Int" in the company name Intel short for?
• Q3) What does the 'C' in the COBOL programming language stand for?
• Q4) What computer company was formerly known as TIPC Network?
• Q5) What was the first Internet domain name ever registered?
• Q6) What cell phone maker previously was best known for making rubber boots?
• Q7) What is the name of the Linux penguin mascot?
• Q8) What technology was named for the nickname of Harald Blatand II, the King of Denmark from A.D. 940 to 981 who pacified and Christianized the Danes?
• Q9) What Macintosh alert sound's name was a commentary on Apple Records legal actions against Apple Computer?
• Q10) In communications, what does the 'S' in DSL stand for?
• Q11) For what computer input device was Dr. Doug Engelbart inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame?
• Q12) What computer virus, discovered in November 1999, was named after a Seinfeld episode?

After last week's air travel disasters (I could fill a new blog with stories, but I'll spare you the details), maybe our next family trip will be by boat... Please give yourself a point for each correct category answer and four points for solving the quilt as always.

Category Questions:

Literature & Arts	What is Li'l Abner's home town?
History & Government	On August 10, 1993, who became the second woman ever sworn in on the Supreme Court?
Math & Science	What is the scientific name for the lungs' tiny air sacs that absorb oxygen into the blood?
Entertainment & Food	What actress played Jody Banks on The Fall Guy from 1981 to 1986?
Sports & Games	What brothers met in the finals of the professional tennis tournament in Chicago in 1991?
Geography & Nature	What is the 10,169-square-mile country in central Africa whose capital is Kigali?

Category Answers:

History & Government	BUSH	Gemini George Bush was born on June 12, 1924 in Milton, Massachusetts.
Literature & Arts	PRADO	Its name means "meadow".
Sports & Games	MARYLAND	Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore has held the contest, named for a New Jersey horse and stable, since 1873.
Math & Science	DNA	Linus Pauling had hypothesized that it might be a triple helix just one month earlier.
Geography & Nature	EUCALYPTUS	Specifically, the finicky marsupial's diet is restricted to the myrtle variety.
Entertainment & Food	ASTLEY	Rick Astley's 1987 debut album, Whenever You Need Somebody, also included "Together Forever".

Quiz Quilt Answer: URANUS (Second letters)

Uranus is the seventh planet from the sun and was named for the Greek god of the sky.

c) Rod Laver

Rocket Rod won the major four times between 1961 and 1969.