Programming Pleasantries
What The Kids Are Saying
Music To My Ears
Drink Up Me Hearties Yo Ho
Charlie Bucket's Daily Diet
Sitcom Sprint
100
For the past ten years, this programming language has reminded you that it runs on 3 billion devices when installing it.
What is Java?
100
It's more than just a piece of headwear. This word is used to question the honesty behind a given statement.
What is cap?
100
This woodwind is often taught to young children despite it creating an ear-piercing, shrill noise in the hands of a beginner. Just ask Matt Mulholland, who famously recorded a parody cover of "My Heart Will Go On" with it.
What is a recorder?
100
This mocktail is named after one of the most popular child stars of all time and is characterized by its vivid red appearance.
Side note: I got a pitcher of these at a bar once!
What is a Shirley Temple?
100
The Trader Joes alternative to this gummy candy is called "Scandinavian Swimmers," a moniker that's a straightforward paraphrase of the original's title.
What are Swedish Fish?
100
This mockumentary follows the employees of a fictional office supply wholesaler. The US version is less dry than the UK version starring Ricky Gervais but is infinitely more popular.
What is The Office?
200
If you were brought into the fold early, you may have started your software journey with this visual programming language designed by MIT Media Lab to teach children basic concepts like variables and if statements.
What is Scratch?
200
Because of the passive-aggressive nature of the word "ok," the youth of today often rely on this word, synonymous with wager, to relay confirmation of something.
What is bet?
200
This instrument sure does look like a violin but it swaps out the E string for a lower register C string, giving it a warmer sound.
What is a viola?
200
This tasty beverage originated in Taiwan and is typically consumed with a wide straw to allow for easy consumption of the solids inside.
What is boba?
200
When packaged individually, this chocolate-covered biscuit is helpfully separated by "left" and "right."
What is Twix?
200
An episode of this show set in the fictional town of Pawnee, Indiana saw Fred Armisen deliver a memorable monologue about the consequences of undercooking fish and overcooking chicken.
What is Parks and Recreation?
300
This common system design concept allows you to distribute network traffic over multiple servers. Every new grad knows about it but few know how they actually work and even fewer have actually ever built one.
What is a load balancer?
300
Arguably the first "brainrot" term to hit the mainstream, it actually refers to a Youtube series made in Garry's Mod about the valiant struggle against anthropomorphic bathroom fixtures.
What is skibidi toilet?
300
It may look like it's made out of brass but this instrument commonly associated with jazz music and wielded by Lisa Simpson is actually part of the woodwind family.
What is a saxophone?
300
Prepared using a finely ground powder and a whisk, the hot variant of this tea is commonly associated with traditional Japanese ceremonies. The iced variant is commonly associated with performative males.
What is matcha?
300
The first major customer of this sugar-coated confectionery was the U.S. Army who saw it as a way to provide troops with chocolate that wouldn't melt in the tropical conditions of the Pacific Theater.
What are M&Ms?
300
This show ran for nine seasons before airing a disappointing ending involving a blue french horn and rekindling an old flame.
What is How I Met Your Mother?
400
This data structure doesn't sound like much more than a pile but it's actually quite organized, commonly represented as a binary tree with the value of each node larger than those of its descendants.
What is a max heap?
400
This word came to popularity after being used to accuse another player of guilt in the popular social deduction game "Among Us."
What is sus?
400
A predecessor to the piano, this instrument relies on plucking strings instead of striking them. The result is an iconic medieval sound but it comes at the cost of not being able to vary the volume at which you play.
What is a harpsichord?
400
This yogurt-based beverage is primarily consumed in South Asia and the mango version has become the option of choice in the United States.
What is lassi?
400
This oddly-shaped baseball themed bubble gum comes packaged as string as opposed to tape, gumballs, or more uniform pieces.
What is Big League Chew?
400
This show has a star-studded support cast including Stephanie Beatriz, Terry Crews, and Andre Braugher as quirky law enforcement officers.
What is Brooklyn Nine-Nine?
500
This container orchestration system took a page out of the Andreessen Horowitz book of abbreviation. Like a16z, it's often abbreviated to the first and last letter with the number of letters in between.
What is kubernetes?
500
Older generations may have called it "game" but this word is now used to describe someone with attractive qualities and is also part of the pseudonym for internet celebrity Christian Joseph.
What is rizz?
500
This percussion instrument is a point of national pride for Trinidad and Tobago and has a recognizable sound characteristic of island music.
What is a steelpan/steel drum?
500
The name of this espresso beverage means "stained" or "marked" in Italian and has just a thin layer of foamed milk on the top.
What is a macchiato?
500
This taffy candy comes in bar form. Its white "mystery flavor" is supposedly the result of a waste reduction tactic by the manufacturer and is simply a combination of whatever surplus flavors are lying around at any given time.
What are Airheads?
500
This slice-of-life Mike Judge classic is centered around a middle-class propane salesman living in the fictional town of Arlen, Texas and his well-meaning but flawed group of close friends.
What is King of the Hill?
600
This collection of JavaScript-based technologies is primarily used for making dynamic web applications and has a fun acronym so you never forget it, although you may choose to swap Angular out for React on the front-end.
What is the MEAN stack?
600
This term simply sounds like the result of a rough numeric estimation but was popularized due to its use in highlight reels of Lamelo Ball coupled with this hand gesture.
What is 6 7?
600
Don't let the silly name fool you — playing this massive aboriginal wind instrument is serious business in Australia and they can be anywhere from three to ten feet long.
What is a didgeridoo?
600
This blend of rum and water is associated with sailors of all sorts but most commonly pirates. It was diluted down for the sake of rations and reducing belligerence on board.
What is grog?
600
This chocolate bar was a spiritual successor to the original Milky Way bar but was designed to cater to European markets as well. Thus, it's still known as a Milky Way in the United States despite being named after its parent company elsewhere.
What is a Mars bar?
600
This British television show needed just 24 episodes to reach cult classic status and uses "have you tried turning it off and back on again?" as a recurring punchline.
What is The IT Crowd?