MISC.
HISTORY
GEOGRAPHY
2016
Computer Science
100

This planet is known as the Red Planet.

What is Mars?

100

This pandemic killed millions of people across Europe during the 14th century

What is Black Death


100

This is the largest continent by land area.

What is Asia?

100

This Netflix series about kids, a mysterious town, and the Upside Down premiered in 2016.

What is Stranger Things?

100

Easiest CS Class at the UMN.

What is CSCI1133?

200

This is the largest organ in the human body.

What is Skin?
200

This ship famously sank on its maiden voyage in 1912.

What is the Titanic

200

This river flows through Egypt and empties into the Mediterranean Sea.

What is the Nile River?

200

This singer released the album Lemonade in 2016.

What is Beyonce?

200

This company's name became a verb meaning to search the internet.

What is Google?

300

This is the world's most widely spoken first language.

What is Chinese?

300

This economic policy, introduced by Franklin D. Roosevelt, attempted to combat the Great Depression through government programs and reforms.

What is New Deal?

300

This country has the most natural lakes in the world.

What is Canada?

300

This artist's surprise 2016 album Blonde debuted at No. 1 and followed his critically acclaimed Channel Orange. 

What is Frank Ocean?

300

This programming language was created by Guido van Rossum and is named after a British comedy group.

What is Python?

400

This is the only continent crossed by both the Equator and the Prime Meridian.

What is Africa?

400

This 1962 confrontation brought the United States and Soviet Union close to nuclear war.

What Cuban Missile Crisis?

400

Which country is closest to the United States without sharing a land border?

What is Russia?

400

This video-sharing platform was acquired by Microsoft in 2016 for roughly $2.5 billion.  

What is LinkedIn?

400

This programming language was named after a type of coffee and is commonly used for object-oriented programming

What is Java?

500

This country has more pyramids than Egypt.

What is Sudan?

500

This 1884–85 conference divided much of Africa among European powers without African representatives being present.

What is the Berlin Conference?

500

Which African country has the largest population?

What is Nigeria?

500

This 2016 animated film became the first Disney movie directed by a woman to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.  

What is Zootopia?

500

This algorithmic strategy repeatedly divides a sorted list in half to efficiently find a target value, giving it a logarithmic time complexity.


What is Binary Search?