Cyberwar!
The most common term people use to refer to malware, it requires a user to accidentally download or execute it.
What is a virus?
This child goes missing in the first season of the hit Netflix show Stranger Things.
Who is Will Byers?
The New York neighborhood (but not a full borough) which experienced a rebirth of black art and culture from approximately 1910-1940.
What is Harlem?
This is the in-game currency for the popular gaming platform Roblox.
What are Robux?
Technically the most general term for a computer program that tries to harm computers or systems.
What is malware?
This is the number of seasons planned for the hit Netflix show Stranger Things.
What is five?
Born in D.C., this young pianist moved to New York City during the Harlem Renaissance and became one of the most influential jazz musicians and orchestra leaders in world history.
Who is Duke Ellington?
This green-and-red 3D wireframe game, featuring a ball rolling down an endless incline, used to be one of the rare unblocked games in MCPS, spawning a sequel.
What is Slope?
An attempt to trick someone by pretending to be an online romantic prospect.
What is catfishing?
This fictional small town in Indiana features as the primary setting for the hit Netflix show Stranger Things.
What is Hawkins?
This Italian word literally means "rebirth."
What is renaissance?
This iconic videogame pioneered the use of cutscenes, powerups, and playable characters -- even though it was designed to look like a pizza with a slice missing.
What is Pac-Man?
An attempt to trick someone into revealing secret information or downloading malicious software by pretending to be a trusted peer or authority.
What is phishing?
The young boys of Stranger Things bond their friendship -- and explain the unknown -- using this popular tabletop game.
What is "Dungeons & Dragons?"
Perhaps one of the most famous poets to arise from the Harlem Renaissance, he authored the free-verse poem Mother to Son.
Who is Langston Hughes?
This installment to the Grand Theft Auto franchise was so controversial it was rated "Adults Only," pulled from stores, and even recalled by Rockstar Games, who revised the game and released it again for a "Mature" rating.
What is Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas?
A nasty kind of virus that does not need an active human user to spread -- this kind of malware replicates itself and spreads on its own.
"Jane Hopper" -- the adoptive daughter of Jim Hopper in Stranger Things -- is better known by this name.
Who is "Eleven?"
The nightclub venue in New York City that originally started as an excuse to illegally sell alcohol, but became the launching pad of world-famous black musicians such as Duke Ellington.
What is the Cotton Club?
"We got Hollow Knight: Silksong before we got..." this game, according to many impatient gamers frustrated with its delayed release.
What is Grand Theft Auto VI?
Named after a famous trap in Greek mythology, this kind of malware pretends to be just another harmless program.
What is a trojan horse virus?
The hit Netflix show Stranger Things was created by these two brothers, whose names appear at the beginning of every episode.
Who are the Duffer Brothers?
What is the Great Migration?
"Jumpman" was the original English name for the first appearance of this character, who is arguably the most famous videogame character of all time.
Who is Mario?
The term for when hackers seek to damage a computer or system, and the reason why myMCPS Canvas went down during May of 2026.
What is a cyberattack?
This is the birth name of the ultimate antagonist of Stranger Things -- someone the rest of the characters refer to as "Vecna."
Who is Henry Creel?
The five boroughs of New York City.
What are Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx, and Staten Island?
From 2015-2022, the official motto of the Roblox gaming platform was these two words.
What is "Powering Imagination?"