Detroit History
Who Reads
Technology
Engineered to Amaze
Dad Jokes
100
Detroit was founded in what year
1701
100
This 1986 horror novel by Stephen King spawned this 1990 mini-series and a 2017 reboot.
What is It?
100
This popular TV series ran from correctly predicted a number of technologies such as handheld communicators, touch screens, and video conferencing.
What is Star Trek?
100
One of Matt's most flavoritest expressions of all time is __________ and Engineered to Amaze
Resplendent
100
The first French fries weren't actually cooked in France. They were cooked in ________.
Greece
200
While known primarily for the Montgomery bus boycott, this civil rights leader spent a significant portion of her life advocating for civil rights in Detroit.
Rosa Parks
200
Mario Puzo wrote this 1969 novel which spawned this trilogy sharing the same name.
The Godfather
200
This exception will be thrown by the C# snippet below.
FileStream fs;
fs.WriteLine("99 little bugs in the code.");
What is a NullReferenceException?
200
Name that Engineered to Amaze ride!
Amperelicious or her formal name, Highness Her Rangealiciousness IV
200
What did the buffalo say when he dropped his son off at school?
Bison
300
Known as Tiger Stadium or "The Corner" to many, this demolished ballpark was also known as Briggs Stadium and _______?
Navin Field
300
The first printed edition of this Russian novel contained 1225 pages.
War and Peace
300
This 1904 invention by John Ambrose Fleming heralded the birth of modern electronics.
Vacuum tube (aka thermionic valve)
300
Engineered to Amaze was Quicken Loans' slogan for years but was replaced a few years ago with this slogan.
Push Button. Get Mortgage.
300
Why did the crab never share? Because (s)he's _____.
Shellfish
400
This park contains a medallion that is the point of origin of Detroit's coordinate system.
Campus Martius
400
This American novelist and underwater explorer was one of the founders of the National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA)
Clive Cussler
400
This method can be used to prove the non-regularity of a language by contradiction. Professor Łucja Iwańska stressed in the winter 1999 semester that this method was something any computer science pupil would use daily in their work. I have yet to use it to this date, despite Prof. Iwańska's protestations that it was so wonderful.
Pumping Lemma (for non-regular languages)
400
Tesla's first car was not the Model S, 3, X, or Y. It was?
Tesla Roadster
400
What noise does a 747 make when it bounces?
Boeing, Boeing, Boeing
500
This unique vessel became the first floating zip code in US history.
JW Westcott
500
The ship destroyed by Ellen Ripley in the 1978 sci-fi thriller Alien was named after this 1904 novel.
What is Nostromo?
500
This security vulnerability, identified in 2018, is a serious hardware vulnerability that affects all pre-2019 processors that use branch prediction.
Spectre
500
This Engineered to Amaze device was launched 10 years ago, being referred to as "magical."
iPad
500
What do you get when you cross a snowman and a vampire?
Frostbite