Pop Culture
In the TV show Friends, what is the name of the coffee shop where the group often meets?
Central Perk
In machine learning, what is the term for a model performing well on training data but poorly on unseen data?
Overfitting
In what year did Canada become a country through Confederation?
1867
What is the largest country in South America by land area?
Brazil
Pierogi are dumplings commonly associated with which country?
Poland
Which long-running animated TV series features the fictional town of Springfield?
The Simpsons
What is the name of the mechanism in transformer models that allows the model to weigh the relevance of different tokens in a sequence?
Attention / self-attention
Who was Canada’s first Prime Minister?
Sir John A. Macdonald
Which country has the most natural lakes in the world?
Canada
Injera is a sour flatbread associated with which African country?
Ethiopia
What 2019 South Korean film became the first non-English-language film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture?
Parasite
What AI approach combines information retrieval with text generation to help a language model answer using external context?
RAG, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, an approach that improves generative AI responses by connecting the model to external knowledge sources before generating an answer.
What was the last province to join Canada?
Newfoundland and Labrador
What is the longest river in Africa?
Nile River
What is the name of the Middle Eastern salad made with parsley, bulgur, tomato, mint, and lemon?
Tabbouleh
What was the first music video shown on MTV when the channel launched in 1981?
“Video Killed the Radio Star” by The Buggles
What approach uses knowledge from a model trained on one task or dataset and adapts it to a related task?
Transfer learning
Which Canadian city hosted Expo 67?
Montreal
What is the smallest country in the world by land area?
Vatican City
What is the name of the Korean rice dish often served with vegetables, meat, egg, and gochujang?
Bibimbap
Which director is known for the films Inception, Interstellar, Memento, and Oppenheimer?
Christopher Nolan
In generative AI, what method commonly uses a learned reward model and reinforcement learning to align model outputs with human preferences?
RLHF — Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
Which province was created in 1905 alongside Alberta?
Saskatchewan
What sea separates Europe from Africa at the Strait of Gibraltar?
Mediterranean Sea
What Italian dessert means “pick me up” in English?
Tiramisu