Ladies of Literature
Cat Facts
Sweet Greens
Artificial Intelligence
Show-within-a-Show
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She is best-selling novelist of all time and also penned the longest-running play of all time.
Who is Agatha Christie?
100
Several deities of this culture were depicted with cat-like heads, including Mafdet, Bastet, and Sekhmet.
What is Ancient Egypt?
100
The flavor of this Kit Kat.
What is matcha (or green tea)?
100
It was designed to win this game.
What is IBM Watson?
100
Joey Tribbiani was fired from his fictional role in this real-life soap opera when he claimed to a reporter that he wrote all of his own lines.
What is Days of Our Lives?
200
Her most famous work, considered one of the first science fiction novels, was written when she was a teenager vacationing in Geneva with Lord Byron.
Who is Mary Shelley?
200
While his more famous inventions include the reflecting telescope and calculus, this English physicist is also sometimes credited with inventing the cat flap after becoming annoyed with his cats constantly scratching at his office door.
Who is Isaac Newton?
200
The flavor of this Airhead.
What is watermelon?
200
This was first proposed by the eponymous English cryptanalyst in 1950 as a means of answering the question, "Can machines think?"
What is the Turing Test?
200
Before producers retitled the show to highlight star Tracy Jordan and attract a more gender-balanced audience, it was known by this name.
What is The Girlie Show?
300
Oprah Winfrey starred in and co-produced the 1998 film adaptation of this beloved Nobel Prize-winning author's most famous novel, and frequently includes her works in her Book Club segment.
Who is Toni Morrison?
300
Selections from this poet's 1939 light verse collection Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats served as a basis for the 1981 musical Cats.
Who is T.S. Eliot?
300
The flavor of these skittles (currently!).
What is lime?
300
After its launch in late 2022 by OpenAI, this system was promptly banned by multiple school districts and also StackOverflow, who cited the often inaccurate nature of its generated text.
What is ChatGPT?
300
This parody of the PBS show This Old House featured the catchphrase "More Power!"
What is Tool Time?
400
The red-and-white costume inspired by her dystopian novel has become a symbol of oppression used by real-world protestors.
Who is Margaret Atwood?
400
There are a total of 4 NFL teams named after cats -- the Detroit Lions, the Jacksonville Jaguars, the Cincinnati Bengals, and this team.
Who are the Carolina Panthers?
400
The flavor of this jelly bean.
What is juicy pear?
400
As this fictional AI's consciousness degrades, he performs a haunting rendition of "Daisy Bell," in reference to the song's use as an early demonstration of speech synthesis by Bell Labs.
Who is HAL 9000?
400
An avid fan of this fictional British sci-fi series cosplays as the title character by wearing a beige bathrobe and a bowler hat, while his best friend cosplays as sidekick Constable Reggie in a navy sweatshirt.
What is Inspector Spacetime?
500
This British author, celebrated for hyperrealist, incisive works including her 2005 novel On Beauty, changed her name at the age of 14 -- swapping an S for a Z.
Who is Zadie Smith?
500
Scientists have found that cats are unable to detect this basic flavor element.
What is sweetness?
500
The flavor of this Haribo gold bear.
What is strawberry?
500
This class of artificial neural network uses connections between nodes in the same or previous layers to better train on time series data, in contrast with a feedforward neural network, whose node graph is acyclic.
What is a Recurrent Neural Network?
500
Interviews on this fictional news program have covered a wide range of topics including funding for the local Harvest Festival, the "Boy Mayor" controversy, and whether centaurs are real.
What is Ya Heard? With Perd?