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100

The year UW CSE became the Paul G. Allen School

What is 2017?

100

The name of UW’s live mascot

Who is Dubs?

100

Paul Allen co-founded this company with Bill Gates in 1975

What is Microsoft?

100

Accessing an array element by index

What is O(1)?

100

Last In, First Out

What is a stack?

200

The two languages CSE 333 is taught in

What are C and C++?

200

The year UW was founded

What is 1861?

200

Allen owned this NFL team

Who are the Seahawks?

200

Binary search on a sorted array

What is O(log n)?

200

First In, First Out

What is a queue?

300

The total endowment from Paul Allen and Microsoft that created the Allen School in 2017

What is $50 million?

300

The name of UW’s fight song

What is “Bow Down to Washington”?

300

Allen and Gates met as students at this private Seattle school

What is Lakeside School?

300

Merge sort

What is O(n log n)?

300

Gives O(1) average lookup by key

What is a hash table/map?

400

The year the Paul G. Allen Center (CSE1) opened

What is 2003?

400

UW’s oldest building

What is Denny Hall?

400

Allen owned this NBA team

Who are the Portland Trail Blazers?

400

Quicksort’s worst case

What is O(n²)?

400

A complete binary tree where every parent is ≤ its children

What is a min-heap?

500

The year UW’s computer science program began, 50 years before it became the Allen School

What is 1967?

500

UW’s team nickname before they became the Huskies in 1922

What are the Sun Dodgers?

500

The title of Allen’s 2011 memoir

What is Idea Man?

500

Naive recursive Fibonacci

What is O(2ⁿ)?

500

This tree stores strings one character per node, which makes it great for autocomplete

What is a trie?

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