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100

The property of a material describes its ability to return to its original shape after being deformed.

What is Elasticity?

100

The primary difference between series and parallel connections.

What is in series components share the same current; in parallel, they share the same voltage?

100

What CPU Stands for.

What is Central Processing Unit?

100

The meaning of the letters in PID.

What is Proportional, Integral, and Derivative?
100

The name of the golden protocol droid fluent in over six million forms of communication from Star Wars?

Who is C-3PO

200

The gear ratio of a driving gear of 20 teeth and the driven gear has 60 teeth.

What is 3:1?

200

The base ten value of 0111.

What is 7?

200

The algorithm explores a graph by visiting all neighbors at the current depth before moving deeper.

What is Breadth-First Search?

200

The name of the Boston Dynamics quadruped robot, known for its dog-like appearance.

What is Spot?

200

In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the name of Tony Stark's AI assistant before he upgrades to FRIDAY?

J.A.R.V.I.S. (Just A Rather Very Intelligent System)

300

The Ideal Gas Law formula.

What is PV=nRT?

300

The device that converts AC to DC.

What is a Rectifier?

300

The type of loop in programming is guaranteed to execute at least once.

What is a Do-While loop?

300

The term for a robot's ability to determine its own location and build a map of its environment simultaneously

What is SLAM?

300

The name of the robot butler in the animated TV series 'The Jetsons'

Who is Rosie?

400

The principle that states a fluid's pressure decreases as its velocity increases.

What is Bernoulli's principle?

400

The purpose of a Buck Converter.

What is to reduce DC voltage levels?

400

The time complexity of Merge Sort.

What is O(nlogn)?

400

The property of an agnostic heuristic.

What is h(s) < h*(s)?

400

The original purpose of Baymax from Big Hero Six.

What is a personal healthcare companion?

500

The number of WPI founders who were manufacturers.

What is two (Boyton, Ichabod)?

500

The resistance of a resistor that has the bands Orange, Orange, Brown, Gold.

330 Ohms +-5%

500

Considered the cause of the first AI winter?

What are the limitations of single-layered neural networks leading to budget cuts?

500

The name of the first mobile, intelligent robot developed by the Stanford Research Institute.

What is Shakey
500

What WALL-E stands for.

What is Waste Allocation Load Lifter: Earth-class

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