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The value of pi to two decimal places
What is 3.14?
100
A common debugger for the C/C++ Programming language. It is also commonly used in reverse engineering binary code.
What is GDB?
100
The sum of the interior angles of a triangle
What is 180 degrees?
100
The year that the College of Information and Computer Sciences was founded
What is 2012?
100
A shape with 4 equal sides and 4 right angles
What is a square?
200
A computer program that runs as a background process.
What is a daemon?
200
An ethical hacker
What is a white hat?
200
A cybersecurity course designed and previously taught by undergraduate students from UMass Cybersecurity Club.
What is 390-R?
200
The number of concentrations in the Math department
What is 7?
200
A dinner special served at the UMass dining halls every Halloween
What is Lobster and Steak?
300
Potential computer errors related to the formatting and storage of calendar data for dates in and after the year 2000. Many programs represented four-digit years with only the final two digits, making the year 2000 indistinguishable from 1900.
What is the y2k bug?
300
An encryption method that uses one key to encrypt and another key to decrypt the input plaintext
What is asymmetric encryption?
300
Definition of symmetry in mathematics
What is a property where an object or figure remains unchanged under certain transformations, such as rotation, reflection or translation?
300
Female mathematician known for her work in topology
Who is Karen Uhlenbeck?
300
If you divide a heart-shaped chocolate into 4 equal pieces as , how many lines of symmetry would the resulting shape have?
What is 2 lines of symmetry?
400
A computer worm that infected over ten million Windows personal computers on and after 5 May 2000. It started spreading as an email message with the subject line "ILOVEYOU" and the attachment "LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs
What is ILOVEYOU?
400
An attack on a previously unknown system vulnerability
What is a zero day attack?
400
Light, delicate Chinese gelatin-based dessert favored by a certain green-haired polearm-wielding character.
What is almond tofu?
400
The course code that refers to "Logic in Computer Science"
What is COMPSCI 513?
400
A famous condiment founded at UMass
(hint: it goes on pizza)
What is Mike's Hot Honey?
500
Gamified competitions in which participants are challenged to find and exploit vulnerabilities in a system to capture a "flag" or piece of information.
What is a CTF?
500
The top 1 most common web vulnerability released by OWASP in 2021. This occurs when a web application fails to properly enforce restrictions on what authenticated users are allowed to do.
What is Broken Access Control?
500
The first woman to win the Fields Medal often referred to the Nobel Prize of Math
Who is Maryam Mirzakhani?
500
Famous conjecture in number theory that if proven, would show that every even integer greater than 2 is the sum of two primes
What is the Goldbach Conjecture?
500
What is the Physical Sciences Building?