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What is Business?
This data structure uses FIFO ordering and is commonly implemented with linked lists or arrays.
What is a queue?
This theorem states that in a right triangle, a2 + b2 = c2.
What is the Pythagorean theorem?
If all Bloops are Razzies and all Razzies are Lazzies, then all Bloops are this.
What are Lazzies?
This planet is known as the Red Planet.
What is Mars?
The mountain range west of the CU Boulder campus
What are The Flatirons?
In Big-O notation, this is the time complexity of binary search on a sorted array.
What is O(log n)?
The derivative of x2 is this.
What is 2x?
In propositional logic, this operator is only false when both operands are false.
What is OR?
In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, this is the name of Thor's hammer.
What is Mjolnir?
The year the University of Colorado Boulder was founded
What is 1876?
This algorithm finds the shortest path from a single source node in a graph with non-negative weights.
What is Dijkstra’s algorithm?
This distribution is symmetric, bell-shaped, and defined by mean and standard deviation.
What is the normal distribution?
This is as light as a feather, but the strongest person can't hold it for more than five minutes.
What is breath?
This is the year that Facebook launched.
What is 2004?
The number of NASA astronauts that are graduates of the University of Colorado Boulder
What is 18?
This design pattern ensures a class has only one instance and provides a global access point to it.
What is the Singleton pattern?
A prism has the same relationship to a pyramid as a cylinder does to this shape.
What is a cone?
You are in a room with a matchbook, a candle, an oil lamp, and a heater; you can only light one.
What is a match?
This is what HTTP stands for.
What is Hypertext Transfer Protocol?
The Nobel Prize-winning physicist who served as a professor at CU Boulder
In databases, this isolation issue occurs when a transaction reads data written by another uncommitted transaction.
What is a dirty read?
A line that intersects a circle at two points is called this
What is a secant?
The number of degrees between the hour and minute hand on a clock at 9 a.m.
What is 90 degrees?
The university that Microsoft founder Bill Gates dropped out of.
What is Harvard?