CS HISTORY
UCSD TRIVIA
CSE-PACE TRIVIA
UCSD RESOURCES
CS TRIVIA
100

This computer scientist devised the first method to decrypt encoded German messages during WW2.

Who is Alan Turing?

100

This was the first college established at UCSD.

What is Revelle College?

100

This is the name of two LPMs who were also an LPM last year.

Who is Charisse, D'ante, Josh, Peter, Ryan, Sam, Samvrit, and/or Yuan.

100

This online resource is common for answering questions about topics such as your degree audit.

What is the VAC?

100

Released in 1995, this language shares its name with a popular beverage.

What is Java?

200

The "programming bug" named after this kind of bug.

What is a moth?

200

UCSD was founded in this year.

What is 1960?

200

This is the name of one LPM who is an international student.

Who is Yuan, Ryan, or Anya?

200

This is the starting and ending stop of the blue line of the trolley system.

What is UTC and San Ysidro?

200

This component, abbreviated as CPU, is often called the "brain" of the computer.

What is the central processing unit?

300

The first ever computer virus shares its name with a common enemy in the video game Minecraft.

What is the Creeper Virus?

300

This is the name of the group of art projects including Fallen Star and Bearl.

What is the Stuart Collection?

300

This is the type of animal that Professor Minnes has a robotic version of in her office.

What is a cat?

300

This campus resource helps provide free food anonymously.

What is the Triton Food Pantry?

300

This is the full expansion of the abbreviation GPT.

What is Generative Pre-trained Transformer?

400

This programmer developed the Linux kernel.

Who is Linus Torvalds?

400

This architectural style is prominent in buildings such as Geisel library and Muir College.

What is brutalism?

400

This LPM had an LPM takeover of the CSE-PACE Instagram this week.

Who is Yuan?

400

This campus resource gives students access to a 3d printer.

What is the makerspace or envision?

400

This computer program was the first computer program to beat a professional Go player.

What is AlphaGo?

500

This person helped create the first computer compiler and numerous computer programming languages.

Who is Grace Hopper?

500

Geisel Library made a cameo as one of the settings for this popular action movie.

What is Inception?

500

This is the number of the CSE-PACE room.

What is 4219?

500

This CSE department program allows undergrads to meet with professors on many topics including research, career options, and much more in a 1-on-1 setting.

What is UGCOM?

500

This is the full expansion of the abbreviation CAPTCHA.

What is Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart?