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100

This building is known for having one of the top 5 windiest wind tunnels in Boston

What is International Village?

100

This Roman emperor inspired the name of our Python project for the car

Who is Nero?

100

TypeScript transpiles to this similarly named programming language

What is JavaScript?

100

This game is the best-selling videogame of all time and was written in the language used in Fundies II and OOD

What is Minecraft?

100

SOLID principles are best for this type of programming

What is Object Oriented

200

This popular lunch spot used to be located in what is now called Churchills

What is Rebeccas?

200

Trickster mode does this to the user

What is log out?

200

This kind of function is named after the shape of its initializer, =>

What is an arrow function?

200

Jesse Eisenberg starred in this 2010 film about the lizard man who founded Facebook

What is The Social Network?

200

This algorithm finds the shortest path between two nodes in a graph

What is Dijkstra's?

300

This former Northeastern alum went on to be a popular TV show host

Who is Wendy Williams?

300

This famous test user has the same last name as a Slovenian electric aircraft engine manufacturer founded by Roman Sušnik and based in Kamnik

Who is Thomas Emrax?
300

This operator is written using three dots (...)

What is the spread operator?

300

The Imitation Game (2014) is a biopic of this man who invented the computer

Who is Alan Turing?

300

This man is the creator of Git and Linux

Who is Linus Torvalds?

400

 This device was stolen at the Spotify booth at a career fair

What is an iPad?

400

FinishLine’s backend was based off of this technology before we switched over to Express

What are Netlify Lambdas?

400

This operator allows you to write an if else statement all in one line (<> ? <> : <>)

What is a ternary operator?
400

This Northeastern alum is the creator of a popular game about funny dogs and skeletons that has sold millions of copies

Who is Toby Fox?

400

Racket (your favorite language) is a modern dialect of this family of programming languages

What is Lisp?

500

This music streaming service was invented by a Northeastern alum

What is Napster?

500

This is the original name of Northeastern Electric Racing

What is Northeastern Formula SAE Electric?

500

This operator is symbolized by its use of double question marks (??)

What is the nullish coalescing operator?

500

This son of Batman is the fourth Robin and is a guest user on the FinishLine seed data

Who is Damien Wayne?

500

This theorem, named after a Northeastern professor, is a characterization of planar graphs in terms of the order dimension of their incidence posets

What is Schnyder's Theorem?