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This NASA facility, located on Merritt Island, has launched every Apollo mission and every Space Shuttle mission.

Kennedy Space Center

100

In AI, a carefully written instruction or question given to a model is known by this term.

Prompt

100

The world’s most expensive spice comes from the flower Crocus sativus.

Saffron
100

In The Office, Michael Scott starts his own paper company after leaving this fictional company.

Dunder Mifflin

100

The largest species of shark.

Whale Shark

200

This invasive freshwater fish, capable of breathing air for extended periods, has become established in South Florida canals.

Bullseye Snakehead

200

When an AI model uses information from earlier messages in a conversation to answer later questions, it is using this capability.

Context

200

This French mother sauce is made from butter, flour, and milk.

Béchamel

200

The phrase “Winter is Coming” is the official motto of this noble house in Game of Thrones.

House Stark

200

Contrary to popular belief, sharks do not have bones. Instead, their skeletons are made of this flexible material.

Cartilage

300

Florida’s highest natural point reaches only 345 feet above sea level and is known by this name.

Britton Hill

300

In machine learning, the dataset used to evaluate how well a trained model performs on unseen data is called this.

Test Set

300

The Spanish cured ham Jamón Ibérico traditionally comes from pigs that primarily eat these nuts during the montanera season.

Acorns

300

The 1999 film The Matrix popularized this visual effect, in which the camera appears to move around a nearly frozen subject.

Bullet time

300

This shark species is the only known shark that can survive for extended periods in freshwater, allowing it to travel hundreds of miles up rivers like the Mississippi, Amazon, and Zambezi.

Bull Shark

400

Florida has more coastline than any other state in the contiguous U.S., with approximately this many miles of coastline.

About 1,350 miles

400

This technique improves AI responses by supplying relevant external documents or company knowledge at query time, without retraining the model.

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

400

This Japanese knife, traditionally used for slicing raw fish, is sharpened on only one side of the blade.

Yanagiba

400

Name all the members of The Beatles

John Lennon
Paul McCartney
George Harrison
Ringo Starr

400

This organ, filled with oil rather than gas, helps sharks maintain buoyancy since they lack a swim bladder.

Liver

500

This 113-mile river is the only river in the United States that flows entirely north while remaining within a single state.

St. John's River

500

GPT is an acronym. What do the three letters stand for?

Generative Pre-trained Transformer

500

The Maillard reaction occurs primarily between sugars and this class of molecules.

Amino Acids

500

Taylor Swift has won Album of the Year more times than any other artist in Grammy history. Name all four winning albums in chronological order.

  1. Fearless (2010)
  2. 1989 (2016)
  3. Folklore (2021)
  4. Midnights (2024)
500

Sharks can detect the weak electrical fields produced by living organisms using specialized sensory organs known by this name.

Ampullae of Lorenzini

600

Florida is the only state to have been governed under the flags of five sovereign nations. Name all five.

  • Spain
  • France (briefly claimed parts of Florida through Fort Caroline)
  • Great Britain
  • The Confederate States of America
  • The United States
600

This term describes unexpected capabilities that appear only after AI models reach a certain scale.

Emergence (Emergent Behavior)

600

The Michelin Guide doesn’t award stars based on luxury or service alone. Instead, each of its three star levels is defined by whether the restaurant is worth what kind of travel? Name all three.

⭐ 1 Star: Worth a stop

⭐⭐ 2 Stars: Worth a detour

⭐⭐⭐ 3 Stars: Worth a special journey

600

Meryl Streep has received more Academy Award acting nominations than anyone in history. Within two, how many has she received?

21

600

The Greenland shark is famous for its longevity and is estimated to live for approximately this many years.

400 years

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