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A sequence of instructions that is continually repeated typically until a certain condition is reached.
Loop
100
A data structure consisting of a collection of elements. Each element in the data structure is identified by an index.
What is an array?
100
Year NU was founded
What is 1851
100
Date of the 2024 Grammys
What is Sunday, Feb. 4, at 8 p.m. CST
100
The top four most popular programming languages in 2023 (according to Statista)
JavaScript (63.61%), HTML/CSS (52.97%), Python (49.28%), SQL (48.66%)
200
The four primitive types in Python
What are Integers, Float, String, and Boolean?
200
Data structure made up of nodes, that contain data and a pointer to the next node.
What is a Linked List?
200
Famous late night host who is a NU Alumni
What is Stephen Colbert or Seth Meyers
200
Teams playing in Super Bowl 2024
What is Kansas City Chiefs vs. San Francisco 49ers
200
The 3 most popular operating systems (according to Wikipedia)
What are Linux (42%), Windows (28%), iOS (17%)?
300
Defining a problem in terms of itself.
What is recursion?
300
A tree-type non-linear data structure with a maximum of two children for each parent.
What is a Binary Tree?
300
Famous late night show that has NU sent the most alumni to
What is SNL?
300
Title of main song known from the movie Saltburn?
What is Murder on the Dance Floor
300
The most popular framework. (according to g4g and linkedin)
What is React?
400
The 4 principles of OOP.
What are Encapsulation, Abstraction, Inheritance, are Polymorphism?
400
An ordered collection of items where the addition of new items and the removal of existing items always takes place at the same end
What is a stack?
400
NU alumni that founded a famous medical clinic in 1888
Charles Mayo (Mayo Clinic)
400
Name two recent or upcoming hosts of SNL from this season
What is:
Oct. 14: Pete Davidson, Ice Spice
Oct. 21: Bad Bunny (host and musical guest)
Oct. 28: Nate Bargatze, Foo Fighters
Nov. 11: Timothée Chalamet, boygenius
Nov. 18: Jason Momoa, Tate McRae
Dec. 2: Emma Stone, Noah Kahan
Dec. 9: Adam Driver, Olivia Rodrigo
Dec. 16: Kate McKinnon, Billie Eilish
Jan. 20: Jacob Elordi, Reneé Rapp
Jan. 27: Dakota Johnson, Justin Timberlake
Feb. 3: Ayo Edebiri, Jennifer Lopez
400
The very first type of computer.
What is a calculator
500
What will this Python code result in?
500
A linear data structure that is open at both ends and the operations are performed in First In First Out.
What is a Queue?
500
Length of the Northwestern University Dance Marathon (NUDM)
What is 30 hours
500
Name 5 out of the 8 records nominated for Record Of the Year
What is:
Worship
Jon Batiste
Not Strong Enough
boygenius
Flowers
Miley Cyrus
What Was I Made For? [From The Motion Picture "Barbie"]
Billie Eilish
On My Mama
Victoria Monét
Vampire
Olivia Rodrigo
Anti-Hero
Taylor Swift
Kill Bill
SZA
500
Part of the computer that holds the Memory and CPU.
What is Motherboard