Technology History
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Engineering the Prompt
LASA{CS}
Fast Food
100

After creating the Enigma machine, Turing took his own life primarily due to pressures placed on him for this reason.

What is his Gayness

100

I would tip my hat to you if you used this popular Linux distro that is also a piece of headware.

What is Fedora

100

This hypothetical level of AI would match or exceed human intelligence across all cognitive tasks.

What is AGI
100

This abundant number is the number of peer tutors on the LASA{CS} website.

What is 12
100

This burger chain famous for its golden arches is the largest fast-food retailer in the world.

What is McDonald's

200

In 1939, Bill Hewlett and David Packard started their company in a garage in this California city.

Where is Palo Alto

200

This specific algorithm, abbreviated LRU, decides which page to "evict" from memory based on how long ago it was used.

What is Least Recently Used

200
Users recently found this pattern matching code tool used in the leaked Claude code.

What is Regex

200
This captain of LASA{CS} is known for his extensive work with app development in IOS and hardware designs.

Who is Charlie K. 

200

In 2019, this chain sparked the Chicken Sandwich Wars after releasing its fried chicken sandwich to compete with Chick-fil-A.

What is Popeyes

300

This 1945 machine, built at UPenn, was the first programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital computer.

What is the ENIAC
300

In x86 architecture, this "Ring" number represents the most privileged level, where the kernel resides.

What is Ring 0
300

Not to be confused with the popular tool by Anthropic, this AI tool takes control of a computer and acts as a developer. 

What is Clawd Bot

300

This prime number is the number of years that Mr. Shockey worked at Moterola.

What is 3

300

Look no further than this chain if you want a burger of equal length sides and angles adding to 2*Pi rad. 

What is Wendys

400

Created by Ken Thompson, this was the standard line editor for Unix and is still available today.

What is ed
400

This programming langauge was used to create a very theological operating system.

What is HolyC

400

The definition of GPT in the context of AI.

What is generative pretrained transformer

400

This network control software is used in the current ADV CS class project and most personal networks. 

What is DHCP

400

This aspect of a resturant acts like a queue. In most cases it involves the use of a window.

What is a drive-thru

500

Released in 1982, this 8-bit machine remains the best-selling single computer model of all time.

What is the Commodore 64?

500

This scheduling phenomenon occurs when a high-priority task is blocked by a low-priority task that holds a required resource.

What is priority inversion

500

He created the Laws of Robotics like "A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law".

Who is Isaac Asimov

500

After working at Cyrix, Mr. Mueller worked at this hardware design company sharing a name with a famous band.

What is Oasis SiliconSystems

500

This chain founded only 400 miles from Los Altos, California and 28 years before Apple is famous for its secret menu.

What is In-N-Out Burger

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