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100

This song tops Billboard's list of the greatest of all time holiday 100 songs.

What is "All I Want For Christmas Is You" by Mariah Carey?

100

This operating system is an open-source, Debian-based Linux distribution geared towards various information security tasks, such as Penetration Testing, Security Research, Computer Forensics and Reverse Engineering.

What is Kali Linux?

100

This is the number of reindeer Santa has.

What is nine?

100

This popular operating system, launched in 1991, also has its own mascot, Tux the penguin.

What is Linux?

100

SMTP uses this port.

What is port 25?

200

This was the first Christmas carol broadcast from space.

What is Jingle Bells?

200

This program is a free and independent program for auditing and scanning networks. Originating on Linux, it has now been ported to several operating systems and is designed to identify devices connected to a system, the services and versions operating on it, and the port number.

What is nmap?

200

This country started the tradition of putting up a christmas tree.

What is Germany?

200

This programming language was developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and named after a type of coffee from Indonesia.

What is Java?

200

DNS uses this port.

What is port 53?

300

Traditional Ukrainians put this on their Christmas tree for good luck.

What is a spider's web?

300

This password recovery tool, developed for Microsoft Windows, is named after the first two sons of Adam and Eve in the biblical Book of Genesis.

What is Cain and Abel?

300

This popular Holiday song was originally written for Thanksgiving.

What is Jingle Bells?

300

This term is used for the most basic level or core of an operating system, responsible for resource allocation, file management and security. In a different context, this word can also mean the seed and hard husk of a cereal.

What is Kernel?

300

TFTP uses this port.

What is port 69?

400

The first record of candy canes in America goes all the way back to this year when a German immigrant used them to decorate his holiday tree.

What is 1847?

400

This powerful network protocol analyzer captures and analyzes network traffic on Windows, Linux or MacOS, provides advanced analysis, flow graphs, and color-coded packet display, and has powerful filtering capabilities.

What is WireShark?

400

This soft drink company popularized the red suit of Santa Claus with its advertisements.

Who is Coca-Cola?

400

This technology company, now mostly known as a telecommunications giant, gained mass market popularity with its release of the "RAZR" cell phone in 2004 which became the best-selling clamshell cell phone in the world.

What is Motorola?

400

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RDP uses this port.

What is port 3389?

500

This is the day that Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas.

What is January 7th?

500

Originally developed for network stress-testing, this tool is now commonly used to launch DoS and DDoS attacks by groups like Anonymous as well as users of the 4Chan forums. It features a 'Hivemind' version which lets one primary user control several networked secondary computers, creating a voluntary botnet.

What is the LOIC? (Low Orbit Ion Cannon)

500

This song is the best-selling christmas song of all time.

What is "White Christmas" by Bing Crosby?

500

Coined by theoretical physicist Benjamin Schumacher, this single word is used for the basic unit of information in quantum computing.

What is Qubit?

500

NTP uses this port.

What is port 123?