Quantifying Excellence: insights into the Test-Frameworks Team
It's not a bug it's a feature
I'll be Amsterdamned
How dare you!?
Guessography
100

Furbaby, four-legged friend, companion. The team owns this many pets.

What is 5?

(Dennis: 3 cats, Schopenhauer, Wittgenstein and Nietzsche
Jens: 1 cat
Birgitte: 1 dog, Oscar)

100

This often-used debugging method has the programmer verbally explaining their code to a rubber duck or another inanimate object.

What is rubber ducking debugging?
(any derivative ok)

100

This color is famously associated with the Dutch national identity and is often worn during King’s Day celebrations

What is orange?

100

Amount of people present that can roll their tongue.

What is ?
Let's go everyone

100

🌢️

What is Chile?

200

The most featured language in the teams top 3 programming languages.

What is Ruby?

200

This programming concept involves a function calling itself and is often used to solve complex problems in data structures like trees

What is recursion?

To understand recursion you must first understand recursion

200

Amsterdam is famously home to over 1,200 of these structures, connecting the neighborhoods across Amsterdam

What are bridges?

200

Amount of right-handed people in the room

What is ?

200

πŸΉπŸ‘΅

What is Amsterdam?

300

12 months of the year, but this is the month where most people were born.

What is November?
(Christof, Carolina and Tina!)

smurflord: January
olefriis: May
hilli: July
radiantspace: August
roberpd: September
daweyland: October
christof,blclo and wuest: November

300

The group which Python is named after.

Who is Monty Python?

300

Famous painter born in the Netherlands, Amsterdam has a whole museum dedicated to his art.

Who is Vincent Van Gogh?

300

This person can name the most countries with 4 letters!

Who is ?

300

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What is Athens?

400

The amount of languages we speak in total

What is 11?

Danish, English, French, Finish, German, Hebrew, Irish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish

400


Given 20 seconds name 11 programming languages!
(Your competitors will help judge)

400

Amsterdam is built on these, with around 11 million of them driven into the ground to support the city.

What are wooden poles/piles?

400

The number of cups of coffees the team has drunk today.

What is ?
Let's hear it folks

400

πŸ˜‘β›½οΈπŸš˜

What is Madagascar?

500

Software development is our trade, but only this many of the team members had it as a first choice.

What is 4?

Christof, Ole, Tina (Cryptography research), Yury (including a detour of studying Biotechnology and working random jobs),

So what was the other first choices


blclo: Industrial engineering (mechanical & electrical
daweyland: academia
hilli: Queens guard
robertpd: civil engineering
smurflord: Accountant, then something business then existential crisis because business is boring

500

Team challenge!

The amount of separate programming languages in existence.

What is 700-9000?
(Apparently there are different opinions on this)

500

app. 15,000

What is number of bikes pulled out of the canals each year in Amsterdam?
500

This many people can touch their toes without bending their knees.

What is ?

500

πŸ‘ 🌧️

What is Bahrain?

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