Astronomy
AP Macro
Machine Learning
Ice Skating
This category is still biased to me, so still chopped
200

This is the boundary around a black hole where the gravity gets so intense that not even light can escape. It's the point of no return.

What is the event horizon?

200

This happens when the government borrows a ton of money to spend, which drives up interest rates and pushes private businesses out of the market.

What is the crowding-out effect?

200

The G in GANs.

What is generative?

200

The only figure skating jump where you take off facing forward, meaning it has an extra half-twist in the air.

What is an Axel?

200

What is the worst country in the world?

What is France?

400

These super dense leftovers of dead stars are packed so tightly with particles that a single teaspoon of them would weigh billions of tons.

What are neutron stars?

400

If you are adding up GDP by looking at spending, you use this famous four-letter formula where "C" is consumption and "G" is government spending.

What is C + I + G + NX?

400

This is the algorithm that fixes an AI's mistakes by calculating the errors and sending them backward through the network to fix the weights.

What is backpropagation?

400

The specific part of a figure skate blade that curves down at the very front, with sharp, jagged teeth used for catching the ice during jumps. 

What is a toe pick?
Haha Toes

400

which brawler is the worst to play against?

Who is the stink ahh bird, stupid poison, ong this guy gotta go?

600

Launched at the end of 2021, this space telescope uses infrared tech to look past dust clouds and see the very first galaxies form.

What is the James Webb Space Telescope?

600

This concept explains how a tiny bit of new government spending ripple-effects into a massive change in total income, calculated as 1 divided by the marginal propensity to save.

What is the spending multiplier?

600

This term describes the middle layers of a neural network that are in between the initial inputs and the final outputs, doing all the work to find hidden data features.

What are hidden layers?

600

Unlike the long-track version, this type of speed skating has a bunch of racers shoulder-to-shoulder around a small hockey rink.

What is short-track speed skating?

600

Which Pokemon in Champions(Reg MB) is the most cringe?

Who is basculegion?

800

This invisible stuff doesn't emit any light, but we know it's there because its gravity pulls on stars.

What is dark matter?

800

This is an absolute nightmare scenario for an economy: where there is high inflation, high unemployment, and slow growth all at the same time.

What is stagflation?

800

If your model is overfitting, you use this math technique to penalize complexity and force the model to keep things simpler.

What is regularization?

800

This edge jump requires the skater to take off from the back inside edge of their skate. 

What is a Salchow?

800

What pet would/do I want?

If you're very compelling but wrong, I will give you points

What is pet rock?

1000

Kepler's 3rd law states that a planet's orbital period squared is proportional to this geometric feature of its orbit cubed.

What is the semi-major axis? (Average distance from the sun)

1000

This concept says that changing the money supply only changes nominal things like prices, while real things like actual production stay the same in the long run.

What is monetary neutrality? (Classical Dichotomy)

1000

This is a chain of events where the probability of what happens next depends only on where you are right now.

What is a Markov chain?

1000

Based in Switzerland, this three-letter acronym belongs to the big global organization that runs international competitive skating.

What is the ISU? (International Skating Union)

1000

How many hours do I have in Project Sekai? (Within 20)

What is 328 hours?

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