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Economics & Money

Minecraft
Ancient Technology (Before 2000s)
Modern Technology
100

The amount of points a depot is worth

What is 1 point?

100

A half-cent coin

What is the smallest denomination that the United States has ever produced.

100

This block emits ice and snow and emits light 

What is glow stone?

100
This medium used the properties of magnetism to store data on a rotating spinning platter

A hard-drive

100

This product launched in 2007 and is widely considered the first smartphone, created by Apple

What is the iPhone?

200

This programming language is commonly used in FTC robots

What is Java?

200

A decrease in demand

What happens to demand when Supply increases?

200

A Minecraft zombie has this percent chance to spawn as a baby

What is 5%?

200

This medium was most commonly used to record and rewatch movies/shows prior to the invention of DVD/CDs. It also employs the use of magnetic tape to store it's data (Hint: Its not betamax)

What is a VHS Tape

200

This video sharing platform, created in 2005, was later bought by google and is one of the most popular platforms for long-form user made content

What is YouTube?

300

This is the name of the robot created by team 9247 Chromium robotics during the 2024-2025 season

What is the Yellow Submarine?

300

This curve shows the relationship between unemployment and inflation in the short run.

What is a Phillip's Curve?

300

3 wooden planks, 4 cobblestone, red stone dust, and an iron ingot.

What is the crafting recipe for a piston?

300

This person is commonly credited for the creation of the telephone

Alexander Graham Bell

300

This interface standard replaced USB-A on many modern devices, including the Nintendo Switch

What is USB-C?
400

3 Classified goals, 1 depot point, and a park in the base by myself.

What is 20 points?

400

When the government increases spending to stimulate the economy during a recession, it is using this type of policy.

What is a Fiscal Policy?

400

This is the maximum block height you can fall from without taking damage

3 blocks

400

This technology was created in 1973 to help give accurate positions for military operations and is now commonly used by the average person daily.

What is GPS?

400

This was a AI chat bot created by Open Ai

What is ChatGPT?


500

This is how many seconds can you make contact with an opposing alliances robot

What is 3 seconds?

500

According to Okun’s Law, if a country’s natural unemployment rate is 4% and its actual unemployment rate rises to 7%, by how many points (in tenths of a percent) is GDP expected to fall?

What is 67?

500

Minecraft runs its game logic at this fixed rate under normal circumstances

20 ticks a second

500

Daily Double: This coding language was created to allow at-home users easy access into the world of computers in 1964, and was what the commodore 64 shipped with

What is BASIC - Bonus Points if you know what it stands for

500

This storage medium replaced hard-drives in modern in most modern device.

What is an SSD?