Algorithms and Data Structures You Learned in School and Will Never Think About Again
Quarantine Culture
Monty Python
San Francisco
PANW x Panse
100

This well balanced data structure is fond of colors.

Red-Black Binary Search Tree

100

This baked good exploded in popularity 3 weeks A.S. (after shelter-in-place)

Banana Bread

100

The quaint name of a man accidentally crucified by Romans.

Brian

100

A bakery that wrote the book on San Francisco sourdough.

Tartine

100

The SECOND closest bart station to 425 Market.

 Montgomery

200

This algorithm could make it through a maze no problem - but it needs a little hint to get there.

A* Search

200

This Gen Z app probably owes its success to people being locked indoors.

TikTok

200

This actor's name rhymes with the name for a sheep's wool coating. 

John Cleece

200

This winding street provides a wonderful view of the marina from its peak.

Lombard Street

200

The city in Scotland from which Kevan Dunsmore heralds.

Broxburn


300

A data structure, that interviewing engineers are often asked to implement, that uses two other basic structures to back it.

LRU Cache

300

A phrase you might hear one say over Zoom.

Can you hear/see me?

300

This sorcerer led the Knights of the Round Table to face off against a viscous, cavern-dwelling beast.

Tim

300

This stretch of blocks near Golden Gate Park is responsible for the 'Summer of Love'

Haight Ashbury

300

A pragmatic way Collections could horizontally scale its scanning infrastructure.

Bot. Net.

400

This calculus based algorithm is used to optimize parameters of data science models.

Gradient Descent

400

Approximately, the number of MEDIUM Papa John's pizzas two people need between them to converse safely.

6

400

What is the responsibility of the machine the doctors bring into the operating room to impress the hospital director in The Meaning of Life?

It goes 'PING'

400

The highest point in San Francisco.

Mount Davidson

400

The date PANW announced it was acquiring Expanse publically.

December 11, 2020

500

This method of multiplying polynomials is praised by electrical engineers for its speed.

Fast Fourrier Transform

500

The most prevalent fashion trend of 2020/2021

Grey sweatpants

500

The airspeed velocity of an unlaiden swallow?

Unexpectedly, The Spanish Inquisition

500

On a grey day in October you can look to the sky to witness this event.

Fleet Week

500

The founder of PANW, Nir Zuk, was the principal engineer for this technology, which was the first of its kind.

Stateful inspection firewall

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