Who was the first film critic to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?
(Hint: They were also the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.)
Tag: hollywood walk of fame
Used Jan. 9, 2006, at the Old Pequliar. Round topic requested by a team the previous week.
- According to the International System of Units, what’s the official base unit for measuring electrical current? (Examples: meter measures length, second measures time.)
- What 1970s science fiction film recounts electrical engineer Roy Neary’s long, strange trip to Wyoming…and beyond?
- In 1844, Washington DC and Baltimore became the first American cities connected by what method of communication?
- What Austrian-born electrical engineer, who patented a form of spread-spectrum still used in wireless communications, has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?
- German physicist Heinrich Hertz discovered and experimented with what form of electromagnetic radiation?
- What device did Harold P. Brown invent in the late 1880s to help Thomas Edison publicize the dangers of alternating current?
- The US Supreme Court upheld the radio-related patents of what inventor in June 1943, five months after he died?
- After 1941, “radio direction finding” became known by what more popular acronym?
- After the transistor was invented in 1947, it replaced what device in most electronic equipment?
- Before inventing the Moog synthesizer, Robert Moog sold kits for building what other electronic musical instrument?