New York City
Famous Tech Pioneers
Dating Apps
Animals
SQL
100

According to wikipedia, this NYC bridge into Manhattan is the busiest motor vehicle bridge in the world

George Washington Bridge

100

Known for their code breaking work at Bletchley Park, this person's eponymous machine is one of the fundamental mathematical models of computation

Alan Turing

100

one of Hinge's fierciest competitors, this dating app was founded by Whitney Wolf Herd, one of the co founders of Tinder

Bumble

100

Up to 99% of a giant pandas diet consists of this plant which is among the fastest growing plants in the world

Bamboo

100

SQL is actually an acronym for this phrase

Structured Query Language

200

Richmond County in New York State is more commonly known as what NYC borough

Staten Island

200

The first person to devise a theory of machine independent programming languages, this US Navy rear admiral has a major computing conference named after them. During their work on Harvard's Mark II computer in 1947, a moth became stuck inside, and legend has it that this was the "first computer bug"

Grace Hopper

200

co-founded by Christian Rudder, who is also known for SparkNotes, this dating app is known for coming up with a match percentage based on questionaire answers

OkCupid

200

Often featured in coca-cola ad campaigns in the winter time, this bear species is the largest living land carnivore

Polar Bear

200

This data warehouse company was founded by three experts in the field who also loved winter sports and gave their company a name to reflect that

Snowflake

300

This famous slum is now on the site of Civic Center in Manhattaan and was made famous by Martin Scorcese's "Gangs of New York"

Five Points Slum

300

The only child of poet Lord Byron and Lady Byron this person is often considered the world's first programmer and there is a programming language named after them

Ada Lovelace
300

DAILY DOUBLE

Founded by Joel Simkhai in 2009, this dating app designed for the queer community has grown into one of the largest and most popular such apps in the world. Must spell answer correctly for credit

300

This famous Siberian Husky delivered critical medical supplies needed to Nome, Alaska during a diphtheria epidemic in January 1925 and now has a statue in Central Park in his honor

Balto

300

Employees of this major technology company were the original developers of SQL

IBM

400

the construction of this canal, completed in 1825, is credited with giving NYC a strong port advantage over other cities and is partly responsible for NYC's large population growth in the 19th century

Erie Canal

400

Once dubbed the "mayor of silicon valley," and one of the famous "traitorous eight," this influential figure who attended Grinnell College and MIT, co-founded Intel with Gordan Moore in 1968

Robert Noyce

400

Originally founded by Greg Kremen, and first live in 1995, this Dallas based online dating service was one of the first launched and would soon become the namesake for a dating app conglomerate

400

This medium sized mammal native to North America and a common pest in urban areas there, was imported into Japan as a pet after the success of an anime series in 1977 where the main character was an animal of this type named Rascal. This animal species has since become a very destructive invasive species there

Raccoon 

400

This type of function in SQL defines a "frame" for every row and then returns the result of a calculation over that frame

Window Function

500

one of the first settlements of free black americans in NYC, this community lasted from 1825 to 1857, when it was levelled by the city to make way for Central Park

Seneca Village

500

More known for their work in Hollywood starring opposite Clark Gable and James Stewart in various movies, this person helped invent a communication system for torpedo guidance. In addition to having a star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood, they were also inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014

Hedy Lamarr

500

Frustrated with single life in NYC, three Korean sisters founded this online dating app in 2012. It would be featured in SharkTank in 2015

Coffee Meets Bagel

500

 According to wikipedia, this species which is native to Africa, West and Central Asia, was first domesticated about 10,000 years ago in the Near East and would becomes one of the ancestors of the domestic cat. This species can still breed with domestic cats

African Wildcat

500

If table A, column F has N rows with value 'foo' and table B column G has M rows with value 'foo', this is the number of rows with value `foo` that will appear in `A join B ON A.F=B.G`, assuming N, M > 0

N*M