General Knowledge
The number of bones in an adult human body.
206
Name the Area Head of Information Systems
Professor Houda Bouamor
Name the current Dean of CMU-Q
Dean Michael Trick
What does the term CRUD stand for?
Create, Read, Update, Delete
The longest bone in the human body
Femur
Name the Associate Area Head of IS
Professor Savanid (Nui) Vatanasakdakul
Name all the majors at CMU-Q.
Artificial Intelligence, Biological Sciences, Business Administration, Computer Science, and Information Systems.
Named for an Intel co-founder, this 1965 observation holds that the number of transistors on a chip doubles roughly every two years.
Moore's Law
The smallest country in the world by area.
Vatican City
Which two colleges is IS jointly offered by?
Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy
When did CMU-Q accept its first batch of students?
2004 (accept 2003 for established)
Software whose source code anyone is free to read, change and share.
Open source
The only bird able to fly backwards
Hummingbird
What is the name of the 1-unit course all first-year IS students take in their Fall semester?
Information Systems Colloquium
Name all the Associate Deans of CMU-Q
Deans Khaled Harras, Dudley Reynolds, Jennifer Bruder, Kira Dreher, Fadhel Annan, and Dalia Atef Rehal
A shared ledger copied across many computers with no central authority, the technology underneath Bitcoin.
Blockchain
The Titanic struck an iceberg and sank in this year
1912
Name all the professors in Information Systems
Profs Chadi, Houda, Nui, Mano, Ruchit, Sanad, Lal
Who was the first dean of CMU-Q?
Dr. Charles E. "Chuck" Thorpe
Cryptographic one-way function turning any input into a fixed-length string used to store passwords without storing passwords
Hashing