History & Geography
Name an author of "The Federalist Papers"
John Jay, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton
This famous SF-based accelerator is named after a fruit
Pear VC
Jan 28, 2000
What is China's ChatGPT?
DeepSeek
In Islam, every believer is encouraged to make the 'Hajj' pilgrimage to which holy city located in Saudi Arabia?
Mecca
Who was the second emperor of Rome
Tiberius
This company, known to most as discount Cursor, had a big acquisition blow-up over the summer this year which led to its senior staff being poached by Google
Windsurf
I picked up writing ____ this year
poetry
What landmark 2017 paper kickstarted the AI revolution?
Attention Is All You Need
This famous Jewish preacher known as the forerunner to Christ is best known for his baptism of Jesus
John the Baptist
This president broke a famous campaign promise, "read my lips, no new taxes"
George H.W. Bush
This podcast, hosted by four tech billionaires, has gained both fame and infamy for its coverage of technology and politics
All-In Podcast
How many different SF apartments have I lived in so far
3
The series of LLMs that come from this AI lab is famous in France as an EU alternative but I've literally heard of nobody anywhere else using their models
Mistral
This famous French existentialist philosopher wrote in the Myth of Sisyphus that "There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide." He was also very good-looking & smoked a lot. Hint, it's not Sartre
Albert Camus
This South American country had a Japanese-ethnicity president in the 1990s
Peru
This clause, common in SAFEs, protects early investors by ensuring they get the same best terms as any later investors
MFN
I almost ended up in Colorado to go to this college
USAFA
Jensen Huang hand delivered this supercomputer to Elon Musk in 2016, and also gave it to the earliest iteration of OpenAI around the same time.
DGX-1
This famous Enlightenment philosopher wrote "The Social Contract" and was a strong influence on the Founding Fathers. Peter claims I quote from him a lot when I couldn't name a single fact about him other than that.
Rousseau
This Indian nationalist leader during WW2 has an extremely controversial legacy today for siding with the Japanese and Germans, as well as for his advocacy for the use of violence against the British.
Subhas Chandra Bose
Name both of these two competing vibe-coding companies, founded by Eric Simons and Amjad Masad respectively, which both nearly died before pivoting to IDE-in-a-browser based tools and then saw massive growth this year
Bolt & Replit
What's my Korean name?
Yoo Dong-geun or Yoo Dong-keun (유동근)
This very early chatbot developed in the 1960s at MIT by Joseph Weizenbaum used basic pattern recognition to simulate a therapist
ELIZA
What does the "Gospel" mean in Greek?
the "good news"