Christmas
HackBeanpot
Computer Science
Pop Culture
Boston
100

What Christmas single has the most downloads of all time?

All I Want For Christmas Is You by Mariah Carey

100

How many total core members are there?

26

100

Name the fundies design recipe for Data.

This team better have remembered it correctly.

  • Definition

  • Interpretation

  • Examples

  • Template

100

Who is the song “Back to December” by Taylor Swift about?

Taylor Launter

100

Who is the mayor of Boston?

Michelle Wu

200

Name 5 Christmas movies (1 min).

May vary.

200

What year did HackBeanpot officially become a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization?

2015

200

What is the runtime of:


int power(int a, int b){
  if(b < 0) return 0; //error 

  else if(b == 0) return 1; 

  else return a * power(a, b-1) 

}

O(n)

200

Finish this quote: “Denial is a river in Egypt, …”

Denial is a river in Egypt, your husband is gay

200

Boston is also known as Beantown. What kind of beans do they refer to?

Baked beans

300

Fill in the song lyric from Last Christmas:.

“A face on a _____ with a fire in his heart

A man under cover, but you ____ __ _____

Oh, oh now I've found a real love

You'll never ___ me again”

“A face on a lover with a fire in his heart

A man under cover, but you tore me apart

Oh, oh now I've found a real love

You'll never fool me again”

300

List Slack #overheard-at-hbp quotes from 3 different people.

Confirm with Slack. Or Mike?

300

What is 53 in hexadecimal

35
300

What is the age gap between Leonardo Dicaprio and his current girlfriend, Vittoria Ceretti?

24 years

Leonardo Dicaprio - 49

Vittoria Ceretti - 25 

300

How many colleges (+-5) are there in Boston?

64

400

Name all of Santa’s 9 Reindeer

Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, and Rudolph

400

How many followers does our IG, plus or minus 15, have right now?

Confirm with Instagram.

400

Bubble sort your team by height. 

Good job besties

400

Name the top 3 followed people on Instagram in order.

1. Cristiano Ronaldo

2. Lionel Messi

3. Selena Gomez

400

How many Mike’s Pastry locations are there in Massachusetts?

4

500

How tall, plus or minus 25 feet, was the tallest cut Christmas tree?

221 feet

It was a Douglas fir and was put up in 1950 at the Northgate Shopping Center in Seattle, Washington.

500

How many sea creatures, plus or minus 2, are on the HackBeanpot website?

15

500

You have 3 minutes to write a SQL query -


Compose an SQL query that retrieves the names of customers along with their corresponding orders from the "Customers" and "Orders" tables. 

Additionally, filter the results to show only those orders with a total amount greater than $1000, sorted by the order date in descending order.

SELECT Customers.Name, Orders.OrderID

FROM Customers

INNER JOIN Orders ON Customers.CustomerID = Orders.CustomerID

WHERE Orders.TotalAmount > 1000

ORDER BY Orders.OrderDate DESC;

500

Perform either of these TikTok dances, we will provide the music – let us know!

  1. Renegade

  2. Cannibal

Audience -- do they win points?

500

Which Northeastern University academic building was built to replace another demolished academic building, which was once a morgue?

Kariotis Hall