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100

This is the floor the CDS is located on.

What is the 7th floor?

100

This celebrity gave many girls chlamydia when he went to NYU. Who is he?

Who is Timothee Chalamet?

100

With 32 awards, which singer has won the most Grammys ever?

Who is Beyoncé?

100

In statistics, what measure of central tendency is often referred to as the average?

What is mean?

100

This iconic NYC building was completed in just over 1 year, has 102 floors, and originally intended to have airship docking facilities.

What is the Empire State Building?

200

This is the director of NYU Center for Data Science

Who is Professor Kempe?

200

NYU's Tisch School of the Arts is well-known for its prestigious film program. This actor, known for films like "Uncut Gems" and "50 First Dates," graduated from Tisch. Who is he?

Who is Adam Sandler?

200

The San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs will play against each other this upcoming Sunday in which US sporting contest?

What is the Super Bowl?

200

What term describes datasets that are so large and complex that traditional data processing applications are inadequate to deal with them?

What is Big Data?

200

This borough, the smallest of NYC’s boroughs by population, is often called the “Forgotten Borough” by its inhabitants

What is Staten Island?

300

In this year, the CDS first offered the undergraduate data science major and minor.

What is 2019?

300

This former NYU residence hall is currently undergoing construction and is not an option for incoming freshmen. What is it?

What is Rubin Hall?

300

This Korean Netflix show had a meteoric rise in viewership and popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic and became the most-watched show on the platform of all time. What is it?

What is Squid Game?

300

What Python library is commonly used to create static,
interactive, and animated visualizations in Python?

What is matplotlib?

300

This is the only NYC borough that is not on an island

What is the Bronx?

400

This is the number of students (range) annually enrolled in the data science PHD program.

What is 10-15?

400

This NYU alumni recently won an Emmy for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Show for her role on “The Bear”. She hosted SNL this past weekend and was a fan favorite for her role as Josie in “Bottoms”. Who is she?

Who is Ayo Edibiri?

400

Which US state was recently announced as the host of the 2026 World Cup Final?

What is New Jersey?

400

What technique is used to reduce the number of features in a dataset while preserving the most important information?

What is principal component analysis (PCA)?

400

This was New York City’s original name until 1664

What is New Amsterdam?

500

This professor used to teach Data Science for Everyone and was the Director of Undergraduate Studies for Data Science

Who is Professor Jones-Rooy?

500

This annual event at NYU brings renowned musicians and bands to campus, providing students with the opportunity to enjoy live music performances and a 160 square foot cake. What is it called?

What is the NYU Strawberry Festival?

500

This font gained popularity when it was found that it could be secretly accessed in Instagram stories by typing out its name in Comic Sans. What is it?

What is Papyrus?

500

What term describes the process of converting human language into data that a computer can understand and analyze?

Text processing/nature language processing (NLP)

500

Despite not generally being referred to as such, these two NYC boroughs are geographically part of Long Island.

What are Brooklyn and Queens?

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