Regional Knowledge
In Japan, what word is used to describe boxed lunches often beautifully arranged with rice, vegetables, and meat or fish?
What is Bento?
What does "HTTP" stand for in a website address?
What is HyperText Transfer Protocol?
What element has the chemical symbol "K"?
What is Potassium?
Who wrote Animal Farm as a political allegory of Soviet totalitarianism?
Who is George Orwell?
What large park in the Berkeley Hills offers sweeping views of the Bay Area and is popular for hikes, picnics, and sunset watching?
What is Tilden Park?
The name of this landmark means “The Peaceful Mountain” in Tibetan and is the traditional winter residence of the Dalai Lama.
What is Potala Palace?
Which programming language was named after a British comedy group?
What is Python?
What’s the largest internal organ in the human body?
What is your liver?
What dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury was once banned for its critique of censorship, despite being about book banning itself?
What is Fahrenheit 451?
Berkeley is widely considered the birthplace of what now-mainstream food movement emphasizing local, seasonal ingredients?
What is the farm-to-table movement?
What is the most densely populated sovereign country in the world?
What is Monaco?
What popular version control system was originally created by Linus Torvalds in 2005?
What is Git?
What’s the term for an organism that can make its own food using sunlight?
What is an Autotroph (or Photoautotroph)?
What is the largest library in the world by number of items in its collection?
What is the Library of Congress?
Which landmark Berkeley lab, was central in developing the cyclotron?
What is Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory?
What is the name of the traditional Polynesian method of navigation that relies on stars, wave patterns, and bird behavior, revived by the voyages of the Hōkūleʻa canoe?
What is Wayfinding?
In a popular Vine, the driver reads the phrase “road work ahead” on a sign. What sarcastic line do they say in response?
What is “Uh yeah, I sure hope it does”?
What is the most abundant metal in Earth’s crust?
What is Aluminum?
What famous author wrote under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith for a detective series before being publicly unmasked?
Who is J.K. Rowling
What influential computer scientist, professor, and author of "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach" co-founded the Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Lab?
Who is Stuart Russell?
In Nigerian Pidgin English, what does the expression “chop life” mean?
What is "To enjoy life or indulge joyfully"?
What is the name of the decentralized system of servers that caches content closer to users to reduce latency and bandwidth usage, used by platforms like Netflix, Cloudflare, and Akamai?
What is a Content Delivery Network (CDN)?
What fundamental physics concept describes the idea that particles exist in all states until observed?
What is Quantum Superposition?
What style of writing, popularized by William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf, attempts to mimic the unfiltered flow of human thought?
What is Stream of Conciousness?
Which 1964 event, led by Mario Savio, involved student protests against the university’s restrictions on political activity on Berkeley's campus?
What is the Free Speech Movement?