Computer Science
bottom up memory for dynamically allocated variables
What is heap
Person who developed the idea of the social contract
Who is Thomas Hobbes
Name everyone on board for Fall 2026.
Who are Jay, Trinity, Sofia, Liv, Alex, Siyona, Ontario, Jeremy
A strategically vital oil processing island in the Strait of Hormuz that recently made headlines.
What is Kharg Island?
The largest lecture hall at Berkeley
What is Wheeler 150
Name three different components of a tree
What are any three of root, edges, branches, leaves, nodes
what is 53
Year that PCS was founded and our founder's name
What is 2017, Who is Glenn Parham
An archipelago in the South Atlantic at the center of renewed tensions between the UK and Argentina.
What are the Falkland Islands?
Physics Building's old name
What is La Conte
data storage technique which uses redundancy over multiple drives to prevent data loss
what is RAID
gov't org responsible for developing measurement science/standards/tech for American economic security + QOL
what is NIST
Name 3/5 speakers from the panel.
Who are any 3 of Camille Crittenden, Wesley Holliday, Andrew Little, Cathryn Carson, Alane Suhr
A stretch of chalky cliffs overlooking the English Channel formed from Cretaceous-era limestone.
What are the White Cliffs of Dover?
"within artillery distance"
who is shewchuk
worst case runtime of merge sort
What is O(NlogN)
Every country that isn't part of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
What are North Korea, South Sudan, India, Pakistan, Israel
Name our sister club located in Japan.
What is Waseda Social Technology Lab
A cold desert in Mongolia where the first dinosaur eggs were discovered in the 1920s.
What is the Gobi Desert?
the last three Berkeley chancellors
Who are Richard Lyons, Carol Christ, Nicholas Dirks
The leaky integrate-and-fire model is an example of this
What is a spiking neural network/biological neural network
Supreme Court case that stated that prior restraint is largely unconstitutional, allowing the Pentagon Papers' publication
New York Times Co. v. United States (1971)
name 8/10 gm topics (400 pts) or 10/10 (500 pts)
1. Section 230
2. Bias in Data
3. prediction markets
4. romance/erotica/ai agents
5. aesthetics of technology
6. gig economy
7. edtech/ai/racial bias
8. space
9. nuclear/clean energy
10. spyware & surveillance
An African country that contains the Afar Triangle, one of the few places where three tectonic plates meet.
What is Ethiopia?
US President that was given an honorary law degree from Berkeley after speaking at the 94th Charter Day celebration
Who is John F Kennedy