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Ancient Civilizations
Geography
Data Science
Disney Channel
100

What is the largest major at Berkeley?

Data Science

100

Known for their vast network of roads and advanced engineering techniques, this civilization dominated the Andean highlands in South America.

Inca Empire

100

This is the only country that borders both the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.

Morocco

100

This is the term for the measure of central tendency that is the middle value in a sorted dataset.

What is the median?

100

What iconic line does Baymax say after giving a fist bump in Big Hero 6?

Ba la la la la

200

What is Berkeley's motto?

Fiat Lux 


200

The Minoans, an ancient civilization on this island, are known for their frescoes and the myth of the Minotaur.

Crete

200

The Caspian Sea, the largest inland body of water in the world, borders five countries, including Russia and this landlocked Central Asian country

Kazakhstan

200

This technique, commonly used in neural networks, helps prevent overfitting by randomly deactivating a fraction of neurons during training.

Dropout

200

Which young star of Wizards of Waverly Place went on to become a major pop star?

Selena Gomez

300

What is the proper name of the Campanile?

Sather Tower

300

This empire, which controlled the vast territory stretching from Egypt to India, was ruled by Alexander the Great.

Macedonian Empire

300

This archipelago in the Pacific Ocean is the world’s most geographically isolated country and is known for its unique wildlife, including the extinct dodo bird.

Mauritius

300

This method is used for reducing dimensionality by projecting data onto a set of orthogonal components, which are sorted based on the variance of the original data.

PCA

300

In the show Jessie, which state is Jessie from before she moves to NY?

Texas

400

How many faculty/alumni have won a Nobel Prize? (within 4)

59

400

This ancient civilization, known for its vast empire stretching from Egypt to India, was ruled by emperors like Ashoka the Great.

Maurya Empire

400

The Copper Canyon, a system of six canyons in the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains, is located in the northern part of this Mexican state, known for its rich Tarahumara indigenous culture.

Chihuahua

400

This ensemble learning algorithm combines weak classifiers, such as decision trees, and adjusts their weights based on their previous errors to improve accuracy.

AdaBoost

400

In High School Musical, on what holiday did Troy and Gabriella first meet?

New Years Eve

500

This famous mathematical conjecture, which was solved by a UC Berkeley professor in 1994, was a major breakthrough in the field of number theory.

Fermat's Last Theorem

500

This dynasty, famous for its architectural achievements like the Great Wall of China, built a vast empire across East Asia.

Qin


500

The Sundarbans, the world’s largest tidal halophytic mangrove forest, is located in these two countries.

Bangladesh + India

500

This type of RNN architecture improves upon LSTMs by simplifying the gates to a single update and reset gate, making it faster to train with similar performance on many tasks.

GRU

500

In Austin and Ally, what does Dez want to do for a living?

Be a film director