Project Management
The acronym "SDLC" represents these four words
Systems Development Life Cycle
“Hasta la vista, baby.”
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Napoleon Was Once Attacked By a Horde of Bunnies. FACT OR FICTION?
Fact
You see a boat filled with people. It has not sunk, but when you look again you don’t see a single person on the boat. Why?
All of the people were married
The 3 levels of programming languages are:
1.) Machine Language.
2.) Assembly Language.
3.) High level Language
These five processes represent the traditional project management life cycle
Initiation, Planning, Executing, Monitoring/Controlling, Closing
“A martini. Shaken, not stirred.”
James Bond: Goldfinger
Paul Revere Never Actually Shouted, "The British Are Coming!" FACT OR FICTION?
Fact
What word in the English language does the following: the first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four letters signify a great, while the entire world signifies a great woman. What is the word?
Heroine
The first person to write our modern understanding of a program
Ada Lovelace
In the IT sector, ___% of IT projects fail so significantly that they could threaten the company’s entire existence.
17%
This movie (along with two others) is tied for receiving the most academy awards in history (3 acceptable answers)
"Ben-Hur" (1959), "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" (2003), and "Titanic" (1997) each received 11 Oscars.
President Lyndon B. Johnson Gave Interviews From this Room
Bathroom
A woman shoots her husband, then holds him underwater for five minutes. Next, she hangs him. Right after, they enjoy a lovely dinner. Explain.
She took a picture of him and developed it in her darkroom
There are currently over this many computer languages
700
Agile projects are __% more successful than traditional projects.
28%
This male actor is the only man to win 3 Best Actor Oscars
Daniel Day-Lewis
The first face to appear on $1 bill was
Salmon P. Chase (Secretary of Treasury)
I come from a mine and get surrounded by wood always. Everyone uses me. What am I?
Pencil Lead
The name of the man that created Python, also commonly referred to as "The Benevolent Dictator For Life"
Guido van Rossum
DAILY DOUBLE: In a scenario where a four-sided fence must be completed within a four day time period and the budgeted cost of work scheduled (PV) on the last day is $6,000, what would the cost variance (CV) be on the second day if the Earned Value (EV) is only $1000?
CV=EV-AC
Answer: -2000
The highest grossing movie of all time
Avatar
These two prolific presidents died on the same day, just 5 hours apart from each other
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson (July 4th, 1826)
I have keys, but no locks, space, but no rooms. You can enter, but you can’t go outside. What am I?
A Keyboard
DAILY DOUBLE: This SQL statement removes all rows from a table, but the table structure and its columns, constraints, indexes, and so on remain.
TRUNCATE TABLE