Computer Science Jeopardy

Wild Card

100

A user interface that uses icons and a mouse.

What is Graphical (GUI)

200

The most widely used operating system.

What is Windows?

300

The most common source control option

What is Git?

400

The popular operating system, launched in 1991, that also has its own mascot, Tux the penguin

What is Linux

500

This technique is used to train AI models by providing them with large amounts of data and allowing them to learn patterns and relationships from that data.

What is machine learning?

Web Development

100

This is used to add style to a static HTML page

What is CSS?

400

This protocol is used to transfer hypertext requests and information between browsers and web servers

What is HTTP?

500

The most used front end web development framework

What is React?

Programming Languages

100

This language, developed in the 1979, is known for its object-oriented features and was heavily influenced by C.

What is C++

200

Designed for web development, this language is used for creating dynamic content and has frameworks like React and Angular.

What is JavaScript

300

The programming language that is most commonly associated with Apple’s iOS app development

What is Swift?

400

This lanugage, created in 1959, is still used by many banks today.

What is COBOL?

500

The most efficient programming language

C

Data Structures and Algorithims

100

The name for an element in a linked list?

What is a node?

200

This structure allows elements to be inserted and removed in Last In, First Out (LIFO) order.

What is a stack?

300

The big O of search for a binary search tree

What is O(log n)?

400

An algorithm for traversing a graph, which starts at the a vertex and explores as far as possible along each edge before backtracking.

What is DFS (Depth-First Search)?

500

A self balancing binary search tree

What is an AVL tree?

Computer Science History

100

What is device that cracked the German code during WWII?

Enigma machine sometimes referred to as the bombe

200

This was the first commercially available computer programming language.

What is FORTRAN?

300

Who is considered the father of modern computer science?

Alan Turing

400

The American research and development laboratory credited with the development of the Unix OS, C++, S, SNOBOL, AWK, AMPL, and others

What is Bell Labs?

500

The observation that the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years

What is Moore's Law