Political Acronyms
In the News
CS
Geography
PCS
100

DOJ

Department of Justice


100

Elon Musk's "agency" whose job is to cut government programs?

DOGE 

100

In Python, you can perform "___ comprehensions" on this indexed collection of elements in place of a for loop

List
100

Capital of Arizona

Phoenix


100

Founder of PCS (came to speak about a month ago)

Glenn Parham

200

DNC

Democratic National Committee


200

Party which recently won a majority in Canada's national elections

Liberal Party

200

The most simple data structure in R; atomic

Vector


200

Largest city in the world

Tokyo


200

New PCS board members elected last Thursday!

Arnav, Athan, Sofia, Sam

300

CFPB and SEC

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Securities and Exchange Commission

300

Ex-National Security Adviser who recently became the first Trump cabinet member to leave their post (this term)

Michael Waltz

300

This data structure has nodes each connected with pointers to exactly one other node

Linked list

300

Borders Algeria to the west and Egypt to the east

Libya

300

All workshop topics from this semester

Digital privacy and rights, Webscraping, AI, Bootcamp

400

UNHCR

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

400

The anchor of this CBS program recently stepped down after 19 years

60 Minutes

400

This CS professor said his first data analysis project was about skunk and raccoon territory on the Berkeley campus

John DeNero

400

Tallest mountain in South America

Aconcagua


400

Names of 10 graduating PCS seniors!

Miller, Rohit, Iman, Gisele, Vi, Yazda, Sebastian, Mark, Nat, Nico, Annie, Pierce, Mia

500

PATRIOT (as in PATRIOT Act)

Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism

500

Horse which just won the Kentucky Derby

Sovereignty 

500

The type of sort algorithm used by the built-in Python sorted() and .sort() functions

Timsort 

500

Inland sea which has completely disappeared since beginning to shrink in the 1960s

Aral Sea

500

All presentation topics from mini-presentation day

FEC and broadband (Athan)

Women in tech (Siyona, Vrushtee, Smrithi)

Balloon Boy (Alex)

Veganism as boycott (Leela)

Drones, war, and democracy (Sam)

Making the most of college and of life (Miller)

extra credit: What really happened on January 6th (Jay)