Professor Trivia
CS Culture
Programming
Acronyms
Binary
100

The names of all the CS professors (not including the data science professors)

Who are professors Kalmanovich, Gillman, Lepinski, Doucette, and Roy

100

The name of the person who created the vastly popular test to determine whether an artificial system was 'intelligent'

Who is Alan Turing

100

The code in java to print 'Hello World!' to the console on a new line

What is 'System.out.println("Hello World!");'

100

The meaning of the acronym IDE

What is integrated development environment

100

The decimal system uses a power 10 representation, the binary system uses a power ____ representation.

What is 2

200

The name of the first CS professor (who is currently considered a CS professor) 

Who is professor Gillman

200

The name of the CS question-answer site that has become arguably the most popular forum for CS technical peer support

What is Stack Overflow

200

The name of the programming language taught in NCF's standard 'intro to programming' course

What is Python

200

The meaning of the acronym PDF

What is portable document format

200

00110111 in decimal notation

What is 55

300

The professor whose spouse recently ran for a government office

Who is professor Lepinski

300

The name of the person who is commonly believed to be the first programmer

Who is Ada Lovelace

300

The names of all primitive types in Java

What are boolean, byte, char, short, int, long, float, and double

300

The meaning of the acronym ACM

What is the Association for Computing Machinery

300
The largest number representable in 8-bit binary, in decimal notation

What is 255

400

The professor whose spouse works at Bloomberg

Who is professor Doucette

400

The name of the legislation passed by the EU in 2016 that created new user-centric privacy laws 

What is the GDPR

400

True or false, variables are dynamically typed in Python

What is true

400

The meaning of the acronym FLOSS, which is related to the acronym OSS

What is free libre open source software

400

143 in binary representation

What is 10001111

500

The professor who is going on sabbatical next semester (Fall 2019)

Who is professor Doucette

500

The names of the three universities that are often considered tied for the top graduate level CS program 

What are MIT, Stanford, and CMU

500

The name of Python's benevolent dictator for life, who ironically recently stepped down from their position this past summer

Who is Guido van Rossum

500

The meaning of the acronym JPEG

What is the Joint Photographic Experts Group

500

The sum of 170 + 100 in 8-bit binary representation 

What is 00001110

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