Art
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Social Science 1
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Wild Card
100
What is South Rose Window at Chartres Cathedral?
100
a general increase in prices
What is inflation?
100
a mechanical computer proposed by Charles Babbage
What is Difference Engine?
100
a mechanical calculating machine that was designed by Charles Babbage, but was never completed during his lifetime
What is Analytical Engine?
100
a theoretical model of computing, described by English mathematician Alan Turing in 1936
What is the Turing Machine?
200
The artist of Melencolia I
Who was Albrecht Dürer?
200
the practice of elected officials trading votes
What is logrolling?
200
Daughter of famous author, Lord Byron and is considered the first computer programmer.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
200
He developed a theoretical model of what a computer can and cannot do
Who is Alan Turing?
200
the process by which new technologies make some older ones obsolete
What is creative destruction?
300
What is Judith and Her maidservant with the head of Holofernes?
300
the depletion of a common resource due to overuse
What is the tragedy of the commons?
300
the ability to make decisions and run a different block of instructions based on those decisions
What is Conditional Branching?
300
the ability to run different algorithms, or lists of instructions
What is Programmability?
300
creator of the Atanasoff-Berry Computer, an early electromechanical computer
Who was John Atanasoff?
400
The location of South Rose Window of Chartres Cathedral
Where is France?
400
a possession that allows a firm to obtain more value from an invention than rivals
What are complementary assests?
400
created the Differential Analyzer, an early analog computer
Who is Vannevar Bush?
400
invented a tabulating machine used in the 1890 U.S. Census; His company eventually became IBM.
Who is Herman Hollerith?
400
the circular opening at the apex of a dome; means “eye” in Latin
What is an oculus?
500
strong use of contrasting light and dark in a painting’s palette; a hallmark of the Baroque style in painting
What is tenebrism?
500
unemployment that results because it takes time for workers to search for the jobs that are best suited to their tastes and skills
What is frictional unemployment?
500
designed the Harvard Mark I, an early electromechanical computer built by IBM
Who is Howard Aiken?
500
engineer who created several early computers in pre- and postwar Germany
Who was Konrad Zuse?
500
intellectual property rights over inventions that confer twenty years of exclusive control over novel, non-obvious, and useful new inventions if the inventor discloses a description of how the invention works
What are patents?
600
an arch that extends from the upper portion of a wall to a pier in order to convey its lateral thrust into the ground
What are Flying Buttresses?
600
the total revenue received by a supplier
What is total revenue?
600
The three primary tasks that office automation equipment assists with
What are Document creation, Information storage and retrieval, and Quantitative analysis?
600
a precise, step-by-step list of instructions for accomplishing a given task
What is an algorithm?
600
The art piece made with porcelain painted with cobalt blue under transparent glaze
What is Jar with Dragon?