General Knowledge
This is the operating system made by Apple that runs on iPhones
What is iOS?
This term describes a mistake in code that causes a program to behave incorrectly or crash
What is a bug?
Which free, crowd-edited online encyclopedia was launched in 2001 and became one of the most-visited websites in the world
What is Wikipedia?
When was the School of Computing and Information founded at the University of Pittsburgh
What is 2017?
Which organ in the human body produces insulin
What is the Pancreas?
This wireless technology lets your phone connect to headphones or a speaker without cables
What is Bluetooth?
This is a named container that stores a piece of data, like a number or word, so a program can use it later
What is a variable?
This company, now known for streaming, originally mailed DVDs to customers before pivoting to online video
What is Netflix?
What building is known to be the "Computer Science" building
What is the IS Building?
What is the smallest country in the world by both area and population
What is Vatican City?
This company makes the Windows operating system
What is Microsoft?
This programming structure repeats a block of code multiple times, so you don't have to write it over and over
What is a loop?
This search engine, launched by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, was originally called "BackRub" before its 1998 rebrand
What is Google?
What year was the University of Pittsburgh Founded
What is 1787?
What is the only mammal capable of true flight
What is a bat?
This term describes storing and accessing data over the internet instead of on your own hard drive
What is the cloud (cloud storage)?
This is the term for the specific set of rules and structure a programming language requires you to follow
What is syntax?
This once-dominant search engine lost its market lead to Google in the early 2000s, partly due to Google's cleaner interface and better ranking algorithm
What is Yahoo?
What is the most uncommon major known that is offered in the School of Computing and Information
What is Computational Social Science?
This is the only letter that doesn't appear in any U.S. state name
What is Q?
Which company owns both Instagram and WhatsApp
What is Meta (Facebook)?
This term describes a small, reusable block of code that performs a specific task when called
What is a function?
This 1969 project, funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, sent the first message between UCLA and Stanford and became the internet's predecessor
What is ARPANET?
Which vaccine was invented by a professor at the University of Pittsburgh?
What is Polio?
This sitcom, set in a Scranton, Pennsylvania paper company, is filmed in a "mockumentary" style
What is The Office?