Coding
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CS in the World
100

It's what you use to store a single piece of information in code.

What is a variable?

100

The 2021 film Spiderman: No Way Home featured this number of Spidermans.

What is 3?

100

This is a way of representing information using only two options.

What is binary?

100

It's the most popular TikTok dance worldwide.

What is Renegade?

100

The system of pages, programs and files built upon the Internet.

What is the World Wide Web?

200

It's the process of finding and fixing problems in an algorithm or piece of code.

What is debugging?

200

Excelsior! This comic book writer created Spiderman, and made cameos in over 40 Marvel movies since 1989.

Who is Stan Lee?

200

It's the process of compressing data in such a way that it can be restored without losing any data.

What is lossless compression?

200

This famous celebrity doesn't know how to cut a cucumber.

Who is Kendall Jenner?

200

It refers to any information that could be linked to an individual.

What is Personally Identifiable Information (PII)?

300
The name for the statement that allows different sections of code to be run depending on the value of a Boolean expression.

What is a conditional statement?

300

This author wrote The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.

Who is J. R. R. Tolkein?

300

It's a chunk of data that is sent over the internet.

What is a packet?

300

She's Miley Cyrus's godmother. (Hint: her name is not Jolene)

Who is Dolly Parton?

300

It refers to the differences in access to computing devices and the internet because of socioeconomic, geographic, or demographic differences.

What is the Digital Divide?

400

It's a code statement where you access each item in a list one at a time.

What is a traversal?

400

This is the highest-selling video game created prior to the year 2000.

What is Super Mario Bros?

400

The inclusion of extra components in a network that allows data to flow even when some components fail.

What is redundancy/fault tolerance?

400

What former Nickelodeon star is also the longest-running member of the Saturday Night Live cast?

Who is Kenan Thompson?

400

This refers to a collection of licenses that allow the owner of a copyrighted digital work to be freely distributed.

What is Creative Commons?

500

The word that defines the "good enough" solution to a problem that either can't be solved by an algorithm, or at least not within reasonable time.

What is a heuristic?

500

Mr. Wright has had two nerdy mugs by his sink over the course of the year. The art on the mugs comes from this nerdy franchise.

What is Star Trek?

500

The rules of the internet, it's what allows different manufacturers and internet providers to be able to communicate with each other over the internet.

What is the Internet Protocol (IP)?

500

This is the famous socialite that Kim Kardashian worked for before she found fame.

Who is Paris Hilton?

500

When scientific work is distributed among a group of individuals, many of whom may not be scientists, but who contribute to research using their own devices.

What is Citizen Science?