AI + AI Club
SoCal/UCI Facts
Spooky Stuff
Brainrot
Random!
100

What does the "GPT" in ChatGPT stand for?

What's a Generative Pre-trained Transformer?

100

What's the name of UCI's mascot?

Who is Peter?

100

Jenna Ortega’s dance in Wednesday went viral set to this Lady Gaga song.

What is “Bloody Mary”?

100

What two-word phrase was picked as the 2024 Word of the Year by Oxford University Press?

What is "brain rot"?

100

Which of the following are true berries by the botanical definition?

Raspberries, cucumbers, cherries, or blackberries

What are cucumbers?

200

During Week 3, we split our data into two sets. What did we reserve 25% of our data for?

What's a test set?

200

What are the hot, dry autumn winds blowing from the desert to the coast that tend to fan wildfires in southern California called?

What are the Santa Ana winds?

200

CempasĂșchil, the orange flower whose petals guide spirits home on DĂ­a de los Muertos, is better known as this flower.

What are marigolds?

200

Which franchise did the insult for AI, "clanker", originate from?

What is Star Wars?

200

What is aibohphobia the fear of?

What are palindromes?

300

If a KNN classifier with k=1 scores 99% during training but does noticeably worse with new data, what is the model's problem called?

What's overfitting?

300

UCI's rallying cry "Zot!" and its anteater mascot both came from this long-running caveman comic strip by Johnny Hart.

What is B.C.?

300

In 1970, roboticist Masahiro Mori named the feeling of revulsion people get as robots approach a human appearance. What is this feeling called?

What is "uncanny valley"?

300

Italian brainrot's first viral star, Tralalero Tralala, was what creature with how many legs?

What is a shark with three legs?

300

Which North American country, as of 2026, is considered carbon negative (i.e. removes more carbon than it emits)?

Where is Panama?

400

How many board members does the club have?

How much is 25 people?

400

In 1960, the Irvine Company sold UC 1,000 acres of the Irvine Ranch for this price (not adjusted for inflation) to build UCI.

How much is $1?

400

Halloween is most commonly agreed to date back to this ancient Celtic festival held around Oct. 31 to Nov. 1. (pronounce it correctly for full points :)).

What is Samhain?

400

"Tung Tung Tung Sahur" originated from which country?

Where is Indonesia?

400

The first-ever picture of a black hole was taken of M87* in 2022. Name the telescope used to photograph it, or the effective size of the telescope used, or how far away the black hole is in light-years.

What is the Event Horizon Telescope?

What is the size of the Earth?

How far is ~53 million light-years?

500

GPT-3 (2020) had how many parameters? (Closest answer wins)

How much is 175 billion?

500

In 1995, two UCI professors were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics and in Chemistry, respectively. Name either:

1. Both of the buildings named after these professors (hint: they're next to each other)

2. What these professors discovered (hint: one discovered a "ghost particle" and the other discovered chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) were destroying this vital atmospheric layer)

Where are Rowland Hall and Reines Hall?

What are neutrinos and the ozone layer?

500

Before pumpkins, what vegetable was first carved to create jack-o-lanterns in Ireland and Scotland?

What are turnips?

500

What date was/is/will be exactly 67 days before New Year’s Day, Jan 1, 2027?

When was Monday, October 26th?

500

As of October 2022, the California Supreme Court declared bees in California to be legally classified as what kind of creature?

Hint: it's not a flying creature

What are fish?