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100

What is the newest founded college at UCSC?

What is JRL/C9?

100

What page on the internet is accessible for anyone to edit

What is Wikipedia?

100

Coplanar lines that never intersect?

What is Parallel Lines?

100

In Python, what symbol is used to indicate a block of code that belongs to a specific control structure like if, for, or while?

What is a colon (:)?

100

Fastest animal in the world?

What is Cheetah?

200

A popular major that was started in 2006?

What is Computer Game Design?

200

Elon musk recently bought..

What is Twitter?

200

Which planet in our solar system is closest to the sun?

What is Mercury?

200

In Python, how do you declare a variable and assign it the value 10?

What is x = 10?

200

What Disney Pixar Film consists of a character named Woody?

What is Toy Story?

300

UCSC astronomer Jerry Nelson helped design….

What is The world’s largest optical telescope?

300

Which country has the most Facebook/ Meta users?

What is India?

300

What law states that an object moving in a line will keep moving in a straight line?

What is Inertia?

300

In Python, what keyword is used to test multiple conditions after an if statement?

What is elif?

300

In a standard pack of M&M's, what color was discontinued in the 1970s due to health concerns, but later brought back in 1987 by popular demand?

What is red?

400

When was the university founded?

What is 1965?

400

First company to design a portable phone

What is Motorola?

400

What is a very common Biological Catalyst?

What is Protein?

400

In Python, what method is used to convert all the characters of a string to uppercase?

What is upper()?

400

Who is the author of the book “Of mice and Men”?

Who is John Steinbeck?

500

How many Pulitzer Prizes have UCSC Alumni won?

What is 5?

500

Amazon’s former name

What is Cadabra?

500

What did Benjamin Franklin invent?

What is Bifocal glasses?

500

In Python, what function is used to iterate over a sequence, such as a list or string, and returns both the index and the value at that index?

What is enumerate()?

500

What was the most money ever paid for a cow at an auction?

What is $1.3 million?

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