Brainteasers & Riddles
What starts with the letter P and ends with the letter E and has more than 1000 letters in it?
Post Office
What programming language developed in 1995 is named after a type of coffee from Indonesia?
Java
These two TO Sponsors compete in basketball every year in the Crosstown Shootout. Who are they?
Xavier University and University of Cincinnati / UC
Which type of loop best fits a situation where the programmer does not know how many times something needs to be repeated?
This battle during the American Civil War is best known for the address that came after it, marked the turning point in the war and is still the single bloodiest day in American history.
Battle of Gettysburg
How do you spell cow with 13 letters?
see o double you
What delicious computer term refers to information that is sent from the browser to the web server?
This TO sponsor is named after the westward longitude of Cincinnati, the home of the company’s headquarters.
84.51
In most programming languages, like Python, Java, Javascript, C++, and Go, array indices start at ___.
0
Started by Pope Urban II in 1095, this series of conflicts kicked off as an attempt to regain the Holy Land from Muslim control, and rescue the Byzantines from the Seljuk Turks.
The Crusades
I have keys but do not lock. I have space but have no room. You can enter but not through a door. What am I?
Keyboard
Who was the cofounder of Apple with Steve Jobs?
Steve Wozniak
Which of the following products is not manufactured by TO sponsor P&G?
A) Pampers
B) Crest
C) Dove
D) Tide
Dove
In C++, C, Python, Ruby, Perl, and Javascript, which operator represents a bitwise AND operation?
&
Located in the inner ear, this snail shape part that helps turn vibrations into sound is called what?
Cochlea
What is harder to catch the faster you run?
Your Breath
With an initial release in 2003, what is the free website content management tool that is currently used by 39% of the 10 million most-popular websites in the world?
Wordpress
Which TO sponsor was founded by Thomas Edison in 1892?
GE/General Electric
In standard HTML5, what is the most proper way to write a “br” tag?
<br>
In Harry Potter, what character is known for writing A History of Magic. HINT: Voldemort uses her to try to kill Harry, Ron and Hermoine in Book 7: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows?
Bathilda Bagshot
What are the next three letters in this combination? OTTFFSS _ _ _
ENT
Who is the mathematician responsible for cracking the German World War 2 Enigma code?
Alan Turing
The University of Cincinnati’s Innovation Hub and the heart of the Cincinnati Innovation District is named for what year in which UC was founded?
1819
In Python, which very popular library describes itself as, “The fundamental package for scientific computing with Python”?
Numpy
This lake, located in Russia, is the largest freshwater lake in the world and holds a massive 20% of the world’s non-frozen freshwater?
Lake Baikal