Computer Science
This is the “brain” of the computer, often called the processor.
What is the CPU?
This mineral is the primary power source for Starfleet’s warp drives.
What is dilithium?
This Konami Code sequence grants players extra lives in Contra.
What is Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start?
This is the only even prime number.
What is 2?
This comic book character is sometimes called the “Merc with a Mouth.”
Who is Deadpool?
In binary, this is the value represented by 1010.
What is 10?
This Sith Lord’s original name was “Darth Tyranus.”
Who is Count Dooku?
This is the highest-selling video game franchise of all time.
What is Pokémon?
The second law of thermodynamics deals with this quantity that always increases.
What is entropy?
In Tolkien’s legendarium, this is the creator god of Arda.
Who is Eru Ilúvatar?
This programming language is named after a type of snake.
What is Python?
This was the name of the first Star Wars novel published after A New Hope.
What is Splinter of the Mind’s Eye?
This Dark Souls boss is notorious for its difficulty and appears as a duo.
Who are Ornstein and Smough?
In relativity, nothing can travel faster than this.
What is the speed of light?
The first Doctor Who episode aired in this year.
What is 1963?
He is considered the father of modern computing, creator of the Analytical Engine.
Who is Charles Babbage?
Jean-Luc Picard was assimilated by the Borg under this designation.
Who is Locutus of Borg?
The playable character in The Legend of Zelda series is this, not Zelda.
Who is Link?
This 20th-century mathematician proved incompleteness theorems.
Who is Kurt Gödel?
This Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting features the City of Sigil at the center of all planes.
What is Planescape?
This famous theorem states that no non-trivial program can perfectly decide if another program halts.
What is the Halting Problem?
This alien species was introduced in Star Wars Holiday Special and never spoken of again (mercifully).
What are the Wookiees of Kashyyyk (or the species from the Holiday Special)?
This was the first commercially successful arcade game released in 1972.
What is Pong?
This paradox asks whether an omnipotent being could create a stone too heavy for it to lift.
What is the paradox of omnipotence?
This anime character declared, “I am the hope of the universe… I am the answer to all living things that cry out for peace.”
Who is Goku (in Dragon Ball Z)?