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Palindromes
100

CU football coach became a major media sensation after taking over the program in 2023    

Who is Deion Sanders?

100

This country has more time zones than any other in the world — 12 in total.

Where is France?

100

This data type holds a series of alphanumeric characters  

 What is a string?

100

This Barbie movie, released in 2023, starred Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling.

  • Answer: What is "Barbie"?
100

This word for "mother" reads the same forwards and backwards    

What is "mom"?

200

This is the name of the infamous campus grill named after Colorado's only convicted cannibal?

Who is Alfred Packer

200

The third planet from the sun

What is earth?

200

This data structure follows "Last In, First Out"    

What is a stack?

200

This singer's "Eras Tour" became the highest-grossing tour of all time.

Who is Taylor Swift?

200

This midday meal name is a palindrome

What is "noon"?

300

What is the name of the current Ralphie?

Who is Brandy?

300

Shrimp's heart located in 

Why is a shrimp's heart technically located in its head?

300

Named after a mathematician, this algorithm finds the shortest path between nodes in a graph    

What is Dijkstra's algorithm?

300

This 2019 Marvel film became the highest-grossing movie of all time (unadjusted for inflation) upon release.

What is "Avengers: Endgame"?

300

This racing term for a lap around a track, or a level surface for water sports, is a palindrome    

What is "level"?

400

This is the number of CU Boulder Alumni that have become astronauts

How much is 18?

400

This taxonomy of animal gets goosebumps

Do mammals get goosebumps?

400

This CS pioneer wrote the first algorithm intended for a machine, making her the world's first computer programmer 

Who is Ada Lovelace?

400

This actress played Wednesday Addams in the 2022 Netflix series "Wednesday."

Who is Jenna Ortega?

400

Napoleon supposedly never said this palindromic sentence about a canal and his exile island    

What is "Able was I ere I saw Elba"?

500

This is the city that the University of Colorado was originally supposed to be built in instead of boulder

Where is Cañon City

500

This is the only mammal capable of true, sustained flight.

What is a Bat?

500

This sorting algorithm uses a "divide and conquer" approach with a pivot element and has an average time complexity of O(n log n).

What is Quicksort?

500

This artist's alter ego, "Slim Shady," became almost as famous as his real stage name?

Who is Eminem?

500

This canoe-related palindrome is also a Toyota SUV model name    

What is "RAV4"?