Hong Kong
This European empire colonized Hong Kong following the First Opium War in 1842.
Who are the British (or the United Kingdom)?
Ivan Pavlov famously discovered classical conditioning when he noticed his laboratory dogs began doing this at the mere sound of a ticking metronome or bell.
What is salivating?
Essential for organizing data in Python, the name of this software library is also the plural form of an animal that famously spends up to 12 hours a day eating around 30 to 50 pounds of food.
What is Pandas?
This popular television teen drama, which aired from 2003 to 2007, was set in neighboring Newport Beach but shot many of its high school and mall scenes right on location in Irvine.
What is The O.C.?
This massive Swedish brand completely disrupted the dairy aisle by popularizing milk made from this specific grain, famously creating a "Barista Edition" that foams perfectly.
What is Oatly?
Marking the end of an era, July 1 of this year is when sovereignty over Hong Kong was officially transferred back to China.
What is 1997?
Sigmund Freud believed the human psyche was split into three parts: the Ego, the Superego, and this primitive, pleasure-seeking component.
What is the Id?
Inspired by the biological structure of the human brain, these computational models consist of interconnected nodes arranged in input, hidden, and output layers.
What is a Neural Network?
This legendary architectural firm and private real estate investment company master-planned the city of Irvine from the ground up starting in the 1960s.
What is the Irvine Company?
This massive, spiked tropical fruit from the mulberry family has a stringy, shredded texture when unripe, making it a legendary vegan substitute for pulled pork.
What is jackfruit?
Located just a 40-minute drive or ferry ride away, this gambling mecca is the only other Special Administrative Region (SAR) in China.
What is Macau?
This famous structural brain damage case from 1848 involved a railroad worker surviving an iron rod blasting completely through his frontal lobe, which famously altered his personality.
Who is Phineas Gage?
This specialized processing unit, originally designed to accelerate 3D graphics rendering, is highly favored by data scientists for training deep learning models due to its massive parallel computing power and is the core product offered by NVIDIA.
What is a GPU (Graphics Processing Unit)?
Rather than being split into typical neighborhoods, Irvine is uniquely famous for being organized into these master-planned residential townships, such as Northwood, Turtle Rock, and Woodbridge.
What are villages?
Originating in Indonesia centuries ago, this nutrient-dense cake is made from fermented whole soybeans and has a firm, nutty texture perfect for grilling.
What is tempeh?
Sitting right between the city of Los Angeles, this is the approximate population of Hong Kong.
What is 7.4 million?
Stanley Milgram’s controversial 1961 experiments famously tested how far ordinary people would go in inflicting seemingly lethal electric shocks to a stranger when ordered to do so by an authority figure, measuring this human trait.
What is obedience?
Heavily utilized by statisticians for data mining, the name of this open-source programming language is just a single letter of the English alphabet.
What is R?
When cheering on the UC Irvine sports teams, students use this signature, two-word onomatopoeia chant meant to mimic the sound of their unique mascot.
What is "Zot! Zot!"?
Known for his roles in Joker and Gladiator, this fiercely dedicated vegan actor used his 2020 Best Actor Oscar acceptance speech to passionately advocate for animal rights and dairy industry reform.
Who is Joaquin Phoenix?
The most in the world, Hong Kong has how many skyscrapers exceeding 150m (~500 ft)? For context, Orange County has none.
569
This cognitive bias causes people to overestimate their own ability or knowledge in a subject, often leading incompetent individuals to believe they are experts.
What is the Dunning-Kruger Effect?
This 18th letter of the Greek alphabet is used by data scientists and statisticians to represent a dataset's standard deviation.
What is Sigma?
Long before it became a suburban tech hub, the historical Irvine Ranch area was world-renowned as a massive agricultural producer of this specific type of prized bean.
What is the lima bean?
Soy, quinoa, and buckwheat are highly prized in vegan nutrition because they contain all nine essential amino acids, earning them this two-word nutritional title.
What is a complete protein?