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100

This Microsoft co-founder famous for jumping over chairs

Bill Gates

100

The weapon or tool Jedi are famous for carrying

Lightsaber

100

This stock market bubble coincided with the “failure” of the internet in 2000

Dot-com Bubble

100

The term for a programming error that causes a program to behave unexpectedly or crash

A bug

100

The value of is 1^0 

1

200

The only one of the main three Microsoft Office application that was acquired, not developed internally

PowerPoint

200

They said “Do. Or do not. There is no try.”

Yoda

200

This term used to describe current large language models was created in 1965

Artificial Intelligence or AI

200

A simple data structure follows the “last in, first out” (LIFO) principle

A stack

200

The namesake of the number “e”

Leonhard Euler

300

The Swedish mobile phone company that was bought then sold by Microsoft in the 2010s

Nokia

300

The protagonists find themselves on this snow planet during Episode 5: Empire Strikes Back


Hoth

300

This version of a technology related to cryptocurrencies was first developed in 1990s

Blockchain

300

In object-oriented programming, this concept allows a class to inherit properties and behaviors from another class

Inheritance

300
The date of Pi day celebrations

3-14

400

The first Microsoft operating system (was not initially developed by Microsoft)

MS-DOS or 86-DOS

400

An organelle that supposedly connects people to the Force (and is named after a real organelle)

Midi-chlorian

400

What the initialism NFT stands for

Non-Fungible Token

400

Is what the common web communication acronym “HTTP” stand for

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

400

The name of a coordinate system Rene Descartes invented

Cartesian geometry

500

The name of the famous Windows XP wallpaper

Rolling Hills

500

This star of the Original Trilogy wanted to be killed off in the movies

Harrison Ford

500

This Nintendo produced VR headset was released in 1995

Virtual Boy

500

This common sorting algorithm has an average and worst-case time complexity of O(n log n)

Merge sort

500

The doublet of the word "zero" 

Cipher (originally both were "sifr" in Arabic)

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