Keep On Truckin'
Uncanny Valley
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Equals One
Design Patterns
Bits & Bites
100

5 brothers one with the rhyming name Jack started this company in the early 1900s.

What is Mack?

100

The Atlas, a humanoid robot developed by this company, is known for its balance and ability to do parkour.

In 2017, Atlas was caught on film making a fairly human mistake, tripping on a curtain and falling off a conference stage.

What is Boston Dynamics?

100

This exploit shares a name with a popular developer help message board.

What is Stack Overflow

100

1024 terrabytes

What is 1 petabyte?

100

A pattern formed from criss-crossing lines of varying widths in one, two or three colors, also shares its name with a fintech company.

What is Plaid?
100

Mike Tyson has recently returned to the ring, earlier in his career he famously bit off the ear of this fellow boxer.

Who is Evander Holyfield?

200

This type of engine named for its 19th c. German inventor powers most large trucks

What is Diesel?

200

This company shut down their AI-powered recruiting tool after they discovered it was biased against women.

What is Amazon?

200

A person who takes party politics and victory over personal convictions and country.

What is a political hack?

200

8000 bits

What is 1 kilobyte?

200

A work of music, literature, or art.

What is composition?

200

Unlike the cryptography in the movie Swordfish, this similarly named block cipher provides real security and is commonly used to hash passwords.

What is Blowfish?

300

Term for a truck whose body tilts to discharge loads like gravel to the rear.

What is a Dump Truck?

300

This chatbot followed in her younger sister Tay's footsteps, but instead of being overtly racist, was criticized as racist for the topics she refused to talk about.

Who is Zo?

300

This IOT malware was responsible for some of the largest DDOS attacks ever conducted, and at least part of it happens to be written in golang.

What is Mirai?

300

In Javascript:
'3' - x = 1

What is 2?
300

Unable to rely on his short-term memory, the character in this Christopher Nolan film tattoos notes to himself on his arms.

What is Memento?

300

The Yucatán Peninsula is the largest producer, and thought to be the origin of this pepper.

Habanero

400

Also called splash guards these on a truck help prevent splashing on following cars.

What are mud flaps?

400

This company had to shut down some of their AI bots after they discovered they had developed their own language to communicate.

What is Facebook?

400

This Russian hacking group is known by their name, which brings to mind top hats, bow ties and large carnivorous animals.

Who is Fancy Bear?
400

In Javascript: 

'3' + 1 - x = 1

What is 30?

400

Often the most important part of the building from a design perspective. Generally one exterior side of a building, usually the front.

What is facade?

400

The soundtrack of this 2002 superhero blockbuster included Learn to Crawl by Black Lab & Bug Bytes by Alien Ant Farm.

What is Spiderman?

500

In 2010 the D.O.T. issued rules banning this new form of communication by truckers while driving.

What is texting?

500

This facial recognition offering sparked ire in congress after falsely matching 28 congresspeople with mugshots of criminals.

What is Amazon Recognition?

500

This hacker collective famously testified before the US Senate that they could shut down the entire internet in 30 minutes.

Who is L0pht heavy industries?

500

In Javascript:
[] + [] + (!![] + x) = 1

What is 0?

500

Three Gorges, Tucurui and Itaipu are the largest of these in the world.

What is a generator?

500

Known as truecolor, 24-bit rbg uses this many bits to represent green.

What are 8 bits?