Decode Rules
The amount of points a depot is worth
What is 1 point?
A half-cent coin
What is the smallest denomination that the United States has ever produced.
This block emits ice and snow and emits light
What is glow stone?
A hard-drive
This product launched in 2007 and is widely considered the first smartphone, created by Apple
What is the iPhone?
This programming language is commonly used in FTC robots
What is Java?
A decrease in demand
What happens to demand when Supply increases?
A Minecraft zombie has this percent chance to spawn as a baby
What is 5%?
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
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?
This is the name of the robot created by team 9247 Chromium robotics during the 2024-2025 season
What is the Yellow Submarine?
This curve shows the relationship between unemployment and inflation in the short run.
What is a Phillip's Curve?
3 wooden planks, 4 cobblestone, red stone dust, and an iron ingot.
What is the crafting recipe for a piston?
This person is commonly credited for the creation of the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
This interface standard replaced USB-A on many modern devices, including the Nintendo Switch
3 Classified goals, 1 depot point, and a park in the base by myself.
What is 20 points?
When the government increases spending to stimulate the economy during a recession, it is using this type of policy.
What is a Fiscal Policy?
This is the maximum block height you can fall from without taking damage
3 blocks
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?
This was a AI chat bot created by Open Ai
What is ChatGPT?
This is how many seconds can you make contact with an opposing alliances robot
What is 3 seconds?
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?
Minecraft runs its game logic at this fixed rate under normal circumstances
20 ticks a second
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
This storage medium replaced hard-drives in modern in most modern device.
What is an SSD?