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General Trivia
100

The semester that Launchpad is held

What is the fall semester? (first semester is also correct)

100

The fountain to drink from for good luck on your exam

What is the Lionhead Fountain?

100

Student organization that is a community of students dedicated to learning, building, and growing together. It provides an one-on-one, semester-long mentorship program to help freshmen students hit the ground running

What is Launchpad?

100

The creator of Linux

Who is Linus Torvalds?

100

Third biggest planet in the solar system

What is Uranus?

200

The number of demo events that Launchpad holds

What is two?

200

The location of the Jedi Room

What is the top floor of Beering?

200

Number of tracks available to undergraduate computer science students

What is nine?

200

The creator of the C Programming language

Who is Dennis Ritchie?

200
The age of Queen Elizabeth

What is 95?

300

The number of times you should meet with your mentee every week

What is one or two?

300

The mix-and-match drink you can get for 65 cents

What is Den Pops?

300

The founding year of the Purdue Computer Science department

What is 1962?

300

Law that asserts capacities and capabilities of computers will double every two years

What is Moore's Law?

300

The year that Apple was founded

What is 1976?
400

A group of mentor/mentee pairs that help foster community and strengthen bonds

What is a mentor family?

400

The dancers who pop around campus on Fridays

Morphs

400

Head of the Purdue Computer Science Department

Who is Sunil Prabhakar?

400

The woman who created the first compiler

Who is Grace Hopper?

400

The highest grossing film

What is Avatar?

500

The number of Launchpad organizers

What is thirteen?

500

The tallest building on campus

Hawkins Hall
500

First professor of Computer Science when sorted alphabetically by last name

Who is George B Adams the Third?

500

Mathematical model of computation that manipulates symbols on a strip of tape according to a table of rules

What is a Turing machine?

500

The best selling book

What is the Bible?

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