Programming Pleasantries
When not being shouted at an unwanted animal, this term refers to a version control system used to prevent the loss of unsaved changes.
What is git?
This "spotty" county in Virginia is home to plenty of Civil War battlefields and, according to one former LORG engineer, is quite a nice place to live.
What is Spotsylvania County?
Rather than Halloween, this critically-acclaimed 2017 Pixar film centers around the Mexican holiday Día de los Muertos, typically celebrated around the same time.
What is Coco?
"To be, or not to be: that is the question."
Who is William Shakespeare?
This pop singer's last album, The Life Of A Showgirl, was released to mixed reviews with many theorizing that it was heavily AI-assisted.
Who is Taylor Swift?
This programming language powers the world's banks and is used by the programmer who famously slept through Y2K in an attempt to skip work.
What is COBOL?
When arriving at the airport in this major American city, you may be greeted by an unnerving blue horse.
What is Denver?
This 2014 action film portrays the consequences of killing a man's innocent dog and has spawned three sequels with a fourth on the way.
What is John Wick?
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
This reality dating show aims to prove that romance shouldn't be shallow but all of its cast members are curiously attractive, at least by traditional standards.
What is Love Is Blind?
This term refers to a TV that simply won't be quiet or an object that can't be changed.
What is immutable?
This borough of New York is often seen as the black sheep of the five and if you don't have a car, you'll need a ferry to get there.
What is Staten Island?
Feeling patriotic? This 1997 sci-fi action film about killing space bugs is a surprisingly deep commentary about militarism and authoritarianism if you look past the surface.
What is Starship Troopers?
"I came, I saw, I conquered."
This athlete took the world by storm while playing basketball for the University of Iowa as her record-breaking college career eventually led to a significant increase in women's basketball at both the amateur and professional level.
Who is Caitlin Clark?
If there's an AWS outage, you can bet your bottom dollar the problem originates in this region which just recently caused major service degradation across the internet.
What is us-east-1?
Despite its citizens often opting for the microwavable minute version, this country is the top exporter of rice outside of Asia.
What is the United States?
This all-time classic 1972 crime drama is known for, among many other things, the quote "leave the gun, take the cannoli."
What is The Godfather?
"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind."
Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
While he was busy shooting the third Dune movie, a look-alike competition for this actor ironically led to a sudden increase in copycat competitions, often held in New York.
Who is Timothee Chalamet?
This multi-paradigm programming language unifies functional and object-oriented programming but is perhaps better-known for being named after the least thirsty animal in the desert.
What is oCAML?
This country is one of just three to be completely surrounded by one other country, the other two being San Marino and Vatican City.
What is Lesotho?
This 1997 sci-fi thriller involves traveling to Saturn's moon Titan and its title takes inspiration from the four main nucleobases of DNA: guanine, adenine, thymine, and cytosine.
What is Gattaca?
"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."
Who is Dan Quayle?
This popular hip-hop dance trend of the late-2000's had a helpful song by Cali Swag District with step-by-step instructions to walk you through.
What is the dougie?