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100

This company made the first iPhone

Apple

100

What does CPU stand for

Central Processing Unit

100

This person founded Tesla and SpaceX

Elon Musk

100

the language of the web, runs in every browser

JavaScript

100

This fictional AI goes rogue in 2001 A Space Odyssey

HAL 9000

200

Linus Torvalds created this operating system kernel in 1991

Linux

200

What does API stand for

Application Programming Interface

200

This person founded Amazon

Jeff Bezos

200

This language is known for its use of indentation instead of brackets

Python

200

This HBO show follows a programmer who creates a compression algorithm

Silicon Valley

300

This programming language was created by Guido van Rossum in 1991

Python

300

What does SQL stand for

Structured Query Language

300

This person co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs

Steve Wozniak

300

This language was created by Bjarne Stroustrup as an extension of C

C++

300

This 1999 movie features a simulated reality controlled by machines

The Matrix

400

This company was originally called "BackRub"

Google

400

What does CORS stand for

Cross Origin Resource Sharing

400

This person founded LinkedIn

Reid Hoffman

400

This language was created by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems

Java

400

This social network was originally called "TheFacebook"

Facebook

500

The first computer bug was an actual this, found in a Harvard Mark II machine

Moth

500

What does ACID stand for in databases

Atomicity Consistency Isolation Durability

500

This person founded Stripe alongside his brother John

Patrick Collison

500

This language created by Mozilla is known for memory safety without a garbage collector

Rust

500

This movie features a chess-playing AI called "Prometheus" that becomes self aware

Colossus The Forbin Project