Software
This design pattern ensures a class has only one instance and provides global access to it
Singleton pattern
This cooking method involves submerging food in hot oil at temperatures around 350-375°F.
What is deep frying?
This country is home to the Taj Mahal, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, located in the city of Agra
What is India
This French military leader became Emperor of France and conquered much of Europe before his final defeat at Waterloo in 1815.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte
This Shakespeare play features the famous balcony scene between two young lovers from feuding families in Verona
What is Romeo and Juliet
This graph algorithm finds the shortest path between nodes and is named after a Dutch computer scientist who won the Turing Award in 1972
What is Dijkstra's algorithm
This grilling tool with long handles is essential for safely flipping burgers, steaks, and other foods without getting burned
What are tongs
This Chinese river, known as the "Yellow River," is considered the cradle of Chinese civilization but is also called "China's Sorrow" due to flooding
What is the Huang He?
This ancient trade route connected Asia and Europe, facilitating the exchange of silk, spices, and other goods for over 1,400 years
What is the Silk Road
This ancient Greek epic poem by Homer tells the story of Odysseus's ten-year journey home after the Trojan War
What is The Odyssey
This database concept ensures that either all operations in a transaction succeed, or none of them do, preventing partial updates that could corrupt data.
What is atomicity
This leavening agent is activated by acid and moisture, causing baked goods to rise immediately when mixed
What is baking soda
This remote island destination famous for its giant stone statues is one of the most isolated inhabited islands in the world, located in the Pacific Ocean
What is Easter Island
This period of European history saw a renewed interest in art, science, and learning, beginning in Italy in the 14th century
What is the Renaissance
This literary device gives human characteristics to non-human things, like "the wind whispered through the trees.
What is personification
This concurrency problem occurs when two or more threads are blocked forever, each waiting for the other to release a resource
What is deadlock
This Indian cooking vessel is traditionally made of clay and used for slow-cooking biryanis and pulavs, giving the rice a distinctive earthy flavor
What is a handi
This famous European tower in Paris was built for the 1889 World's Fair and was initially criticized by artists and intellectuals
What is the Eiffel Tower
This ancient Greek philosopher taught Alexander the Great and founded the Lyceum school in Athens, writing extensively on ethics, politics, and natural sciences
Who is Aristotle
This Japanese form of poetry consists of three lines with a 5-7-5 syllable pattern and traditionally captures a moment in nature
What is haiku
This memory management technique occurs when the garbage collector stops all application threads to perform cleanup, causing noticeable pauses in application performance
What is "stop-the-world" garbage collection
This popular grilling method involves cooking meat low and slow with indirect heat while using wood chips to add smoky flavor
What is smoking? (or What is barbecuing?)
This landlocked European country is doubly landlocked, meaning it's surrounded entirely by other landlocked countries, and shares borders with Austria and Switzerland
What is Liechtenstein
This first emperor of China unified the country in 221 BCE, standardized currency and writing, and built much of what became the Great Wall
Who is Qin Shi Huang
This ancient Sanskrit epic is the longest poem ever written, containing over 100,000 verses and including the famous Bhagavad Gita
What is the Mahabharata