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Computing
What programming paradigm focuses primarily on data and data behaviour rather than functions?
Object Oriented Programming
A researcher and former employee died shortly after exposing copyright issues for which major tech company in 2024?
OpenAI
What type of persistent storage has no moving parts and is made from floating gate transistors?
Solid State Drive
What entertainment giant originated in 1889 from playing cards?
Nintendo
This viral YouTube video from 2007 captures two brothers in a world of hurt
Charlie Bit My Finger
What is the name of a system that can solve any computable problem given enough time and arbitrary memory?
Turing Machine
What scandal arose from a quality control process that involved contractors listening to recorded voice assistant requests?
Siri Listening Scandal
Which Vehicle has more lines of code? Boeing 777, 2012 Honda Civic, Curiosity Rover
2012 Honda Civic
What 19-second video marked the beginning of YouTube’s history?
Me at the Zoo
This incident in 2022 resulted in this actor’s resignation from The Academy
Will Smith Oscars Slap
What 1999 first-person shooter game utilized a unique method of normalizing surface vectors using a quirk in C memory manipulation?
Quake III Arena
What automakers’ emissions scandal involved software designed to cheat environmental tests?
Volkswagen
The acronym FLOPS is often used when describing the performance of a computer. What does it stand for?
Floating Point Operations Per Second
What was the content of the first tweet posted on March 21, 2006?
Setting up a Twitter account (“just setting up my twttr”)
This cultural phenomenon in 2023 sparked several memes and merchandise for film enthusiasts
Barbenheimer
In complexity theory, what class contains problems verifiable but not necessarily solvable in polynomial time?
Nondeterministic Polynomial Time (NP)
Which company secretly installed a rootkit on users’ devices using music CDs in the mid 2000s?
Sony BMG
The N in an N-bit computer describes what physical characteristic?
Register size, data bus width
What political thriller series marked the beginning of original programming and helped differentiate Netflix from its competitors?
House of Cards (2013-2018)
This entity sparked a hot debate in 2015 and led to it getting its own Crossy Roads character
The Dress
What is the name of an algorithm that maps inputs of arbitrary size to a fixed-sized deterministic output? (hint: used for direct addressing)
Hash Function
Which FTX sister company, co-founded by Sam Bankman-Fried, filed for bankruptcy in 2022 after using customers’ funds to cover business losses?
Alameda Research
A computer with a common address space occupied by both data and instructions follows a convention named after which Hungarian mathematician?
John Von Neumann
Google originated from a research project started in 1996. What was its original name?
BackRub
This song from 2011 went viral on YouTube and launched the career of a middle schooler from Orange County
Friday by Rebecca Black