Science
How many pairs of autosomes do mice have?
Who is the Japanese politican that was assassinated this year?
Shinzo Abe
What is the provincial capital of Newfoundland and Labrador?
St. John’s
What is the full name of BAM (the file format)
Binary Alignment Map
What are Canada’s two official sports?
Ice hockey and lacrosse
Which poison do apple seeds contain?
Amygdalin (or cyanide)
(It releases cyanide into the bloodstream when digested)
What is the first and last name of the current Ukrainian president?
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
What is the world’s largest island?
Greenland
what is the output for the following python code?
nums = [1,2,3,4,5]
print(nums[0::2])
[1, 3, 5]
What geologic period did the T-Rex live in?
Cretaceous period
What is heliology the study of?
The Sun
Which country won the Eurovision this year?
Ukraine
Other than Russia and China, which country borders the highest amount of countries?
Brazil
Name the sorting algorithm successively generates random permutations of its input until it finds one that is sorted.
Bogosort, permutation sort, stupid sort, slow sort, shotgun sort, or monkey sort
An "unkindness" refers to a group of what animal?
Raven
What disease, caused by the bacteria Y. pestis, is spread by fleas and rats?
Bubonic plague, Black plague
The 2022 Platinum Jubilee celebrates the __th anniversary of the accession of Queen Elizabeth II
70
Name three Central Asian republics that were part of the Soviet Union.
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgystan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan
What is the full name of HTML?
Hyper Text Markup Language
What is a contronym?
A word having two meanings that contradict one another
(e.g Sanction, Aught, Dust, Fix, etc.)
What is the only letter that does not appear on the periodic table?
J
What candy brand was sued this year due to their candy's colouring agent containing a carcinogenic ingredient called titanium dioxide?
Skittles
Ulaanbaatar is the capital of _______.
Mongolia
Who is considered the first computer programmer?
Ada Lovelace
What is the name of the neurological disorder named after hatmakers who turned crazy after inhaling Mercury Nitrate during the hat-making process in the 19th century?
The Mad Hatter Syndrome
Which Programming language is invented by
Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman?
(Also recently used by a member of our group and they hated it)
R