Riddle Me This
What has a head, a tail, but no body?
I am a famous detective who lives a 221B Baker Stret and play the violin. Who am I?
Who is Sherlock Holmes?
This word can mean a small river, or to watch video content online.
What is stream?
In "The Terminator", Arnold Schwarzeneggar promises, "___ __ ____"
What is "I'll be back"?
This law, named after an intel co-founder, observes that the number of transistors on a microchip doubles approximately every two years.
What is a Moore's Law?
I'm tall when I'm young and short when I'm old. What am I?
What is a candle?
I am the only U.S. president to serve more than two terms, leading the country through the Great Depression and World War II. Who am I?
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This word can describe relatively low temperatures or a viral infection.
What is a cold?
In Apollo 13, Tom Hanks delivers this iconic line: "Houston, we have a ____"
What is "problem"?
This operating system, developed at Bell Labs in the 1970s, became the foundation for many modern systems, not including windows
What is UNIX?
The more your take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
What is footsteps?
I am the first woman to win a Noble Prize and the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences. Who am I?
Who is Marie Curie?
This word represents both a European nobleman and "to list numbers in a progressive sequence".
What is a Count?
This 1994 film's main character says, "Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."
What is "Forrest Gump"
This programming paradigm, championed by languages like Haskell and Lisp, treats computation as the evaluation of mathematical functions and avoids changing-state and mutable data.
What is functional programming?
I can speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with the wind. What am I?
What is an echo?
I am a French philosopher and mathematician, known for my statement "Cogito ergo sum" and for uniting the fields of algebra and geometry. Who am I?
Who is Rene Descartes?
This word is both a type of tree and a feeling of longing.
This 1972 film gave us the line "I'm gonna make him an offer __ ____ ______"
What is "he can't refuse"?
This is a decision problem that states that there is no algorithm that can determine whether every possible program-input pair will finish or run forever. It is called "The ______ problem"
What is the "halting" problem?
What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
I was a pioneering computer scientist and U.S. Navy rear admiral, known for inventing the first compiler for a computer programming language and for popularizing the term "debugging". Who am I?
Who is Grace Hopper?
What is a brood?
In "The Princess Bride", Mandy Patinkin's character repeatedly says, "Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You have killed me father. _____ __ ___"
What is "Prepare to die"?
This quantum algorithm, developed in 1994, can factor large integers exponentially faster than the best-known classical algorithms, threatening RSA encryption.
What is Shor's algorithm?