Data Lore
This word is commonly used to describe data about data.
What is Metadata?
This man famously founded Oracle in 1977.
Who is Larry Ellison?
This particular year is (arguably) most famous for being the year that Nationwide Children's Hospital opened its doors for the first time.
What is 1892?
This suburb of Columbus is known for having a large outdoor sculpture known as "Cornhenge".
What is Dublin?
This famous captain of the Enterprise was known for being a Frenchman, despite being played by an actor from England.
Who is Jean Luc Picard?
This process includes organizing data to reduce redundancy, with different tiers called "forms".
What is Normalization?
This famous computer scientist invented the World Wide Web back in 1989, before many of you were born!
Who is Sir Tim Berners-Lee?
In this year, Columbus Children's Hospital was renamed to Nationwide Children's Hospital.
What is 2007?
This neighborhood is known as the oldest in Columbus.
What is Franklinton?
In the movie "Revenge of the Sith", Obi-Wan Kenobi famously says, "It's over Anakin," before yelling this five-word phrase to declare his tactical advantage.
What is "I have the high ground"?
This type of schema features multiple dimension tables linked to a central fact table.
What is a Star database schema?
This man is famously credited with creating the C programming language.
Dennis Ritchie
What is a kidney?
The Ohio State University was founded in this year, the same year the Fifteenth Amendment was passed, and the Franco-Prussian war started.
What is 1870?
Star Trek and Star Wars premiered a little under 11 years apart - can you guess the release year for each?
What is 1966 for Star Trek and 1977 for Star Wars?
An index is used to point to this datatype's actual storage location, since it's saved separately from the rest of the other data elements in a table.
What is LOB data?
Steve Jobs, after being kicked out of the company he created, started this computer company. Some might call it the next big thing!
What is NeXT Computers?
This number, rounded to the nearest 100,000, represents the current number of distinct patients in the NCH patient database.
Hint: # is below 3 million.
These 4 teams, not including the Buckeyes, make up Columbus' professional sports teams.
What are the Blue Jackets, Crew, Clippers, and Fury?
This cybernetic race famously says, "Resistance is futile," while this armor-clad bounty hunter prefers, "This is the way."
Who are the Borg and The Mandalorian?
These four database concepts, critical in making sure data is safe and correct, are commonly abbreviated in the database world as ACID.
What is Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability?
This mainframe computer line from IBM was released in 1964 - it was a complete 180 from their old separate computer architectures.
What is IBM System/360?
This landmark gene therapy, developed by Dr. Jerry Mendell, treats spinal muscular atrophy in patients under 2 years old.
What is Zolgensma?
Columbus wasn't the original capital of Ohio - instead, the government was located in either of these cities - bonus points if you can name both!
What is Chillicothe and Zanesville?
Star Trek and Star Wars are both famous for their robots, but each series has a pair that stick out from the rest - can you name them?
Who are C3PO, R2D2, Data, and Lore?