Lovelace History
The 19th-century mathematician often called the first computer programmer
Who is Ada Lovelace?
The city where Ada Developers Academy was founded
What is Seattle
A device used to input text into a computer
What is a keyboard?
This document, ratified in 1788, established the framework for the U.S. federal government.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
The pop star known as the “Queen of Pop”
Madonna
The ancient library lost in a famous fire
Rick’s grandson who is anxious, kind-hearted, and constantly dragged into chaos.
Who is morty
The machine Ada Lovelace wrote algorithms for
What is the Analytical Engine?
When was Ada Developers Academy founded?
When is 2013
What “CPU” stands for
What is Central Processing Unit?
The conflict that tested whether the United States would remain a single nation or divide permanently.
What is the Civil War?
The TV show featuring the Upside Down
What is stranger things
The medieval institution that preserved and expanded classical knowledge through manuscript copying and scholarship.
What are monasteries
The color of the swirling portal Rick uses to travel between dimensions.
What is green
Ada Lovelace’s famous collaborator
Who is Charles Babbage?
Who was the first Executive Director who went through a formal hiring loop
The programming language that runs in the browser
What is JavaScript?
This 1896 Supreme Court case upheld racial segregation under the doctrine of “separate but equal.”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
The movie that features a DeLorean time machine
What is Back to the Future?
The ancient civilization that built the aqueducts
Who are the Romans
Rick’s last name, shared by multiple multiverse variants.
Who is Sanchez?
The notes where Ada described a general-purpose computer
What are Notes on the Analytical Engine?
Where did the first large investment for Ada come from?
What is unclaimed lottery winnings
What “open source” means
What is software that is publicly available to use, modify, and share?
This New Deal program created a nationwide system of retirement benefits and unemployment insurance.
What is Social Security
The fictional city where Friends is set
What is New York City?
The mathematician who formalized binary numbers
Who is Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz?
Rick’s daughter, a horse surgeon with complicated feelings about her father.
Who is Beth
The concept Ada foresaw beyond pure calculation
What is the idea that computers could create music, art, or more than calculations?
At what tech company was Ada originally housed at during cohort 1
What is Moz
The difference between hardware and software
What is hardware, being physical components, and software being programs and code?
This 1965 legislation outlawed discriminatory voting practices and reshaped American democracy.
Voting Rights Act
The artist behind Lemonade
Who is Beyonce
This scientific paradigm shift proposed by Thomas Kuhn describes how dominant theories are replaced after accumulating anomalies.
What is a paridigm shift
The episode that centers on the Citadel of Ricks and shifts the series’ power dynamics.
What is The Ricklantis Mixup?