Halloween Town
What is name of this famous series of Disney channel movies
Halloween Town
Mitchel Resnick and Natalie Rusk are widely regarded for creating this incredible programming platform used all over the world and even at BIST
Scratch
Apple, Microsoft, and the Red Hat company all produce and sell this type of software product?
Bonus Question:
Name the specific product for all companies
Operating Systems
In horror movies there is a concept called the Final Girl. What is that even?
Bonus:
Give an example from media.
This math based horror movie was quite a hit with certain audiences
Multiple possible answers
The number 23
Pi
Why doesn't this help Emily?
Motion sensors typically use infrared light or pressure to detect motion.
That rule might not apply to ghosts.
This famous author created a story in which a killer cellphone signal turned people into monsters. Name this author.
Bonus:
Identify some software that a writer could use that does not include word document type software.
Steven King:
Web Browsers
Calendars
Source/Bibliography software.
Rams are often associated with creepy imagery.
Identify what computer RAM is.
Bonus:
Identify ROM and what makes is different than RAM
RAM: Random Access Memory
ROM: Read only Memory
RAM is for temporary storage and ROM is for long term storage
What sort of block would use to adapt this statement to a flowchart.
If you are running away from an axe murderer do you head upstairs or outside
Bonus:
Write the full flowchart for this question
A decision statement with two branches
Famous horror writer HP Lovecraft was described as having a weak constitution for math and science as a child. This show's in his writing in one passage he talks about the horror of a non-Euclidean space.
Why is this statement funny?
Non-Euclidean spaces are just spaces that aren't bound by a plane. I.E. real life.
A witch has decided to enhance her broom with sensors. She wants her broom to automatically stop if it is within a certain proximity of an object. What types of sensors should she use?
Ultra sonic sensor or Optical Sensor
Who was this pioneering woman was both the student of the father of computing Charles Babbage daughter, of Lord Byron the hedonistic poet, and relative of Mother of Horror Mary Shelley?
Lady Ada Lovelace or Augustus Ada Byron
Von Neumann Architecture involves the CPU, the ALU, memory, inputs, and outputs. Describe one of these components.
Bonus:
Describe all components
CPU: Central Processing Unit. Decides what to run
ALU: Arithmetic Logic unit. Does all the math
Memory: Stores instructions and info
Inputs/Outputs: what goes in and out of the system
Four aspects of computational problem solving include decomposition, , pattern recognition, abstraction, and algorithms.
Define one of these terms and give an example.
Bonus Question: Define all the terms.
Decomposition: Breaking down a subject into smaller parts.
Pattern Recognition: Recognizing recurrences in a sequences or subjects.
Abstraction: Identifying aspects of a subject that define it as a whole
Algorithms: A step by step solution to a given problem
What is 50+50?
Hint: There are two answers
An expression and 100
Halloween town hall has been taken over a by a zombie botnet.
What is a botnet and what exactly are the zombies?
A botnet is a group of computers that have been remotely taken over by a threat actor
A mad man or genius directed these films: Psycho, The Birds, Vertigo and more.
Alfred Hitchcock
Whenever this famous vampire hunter needed a system hacked or a magic spell she turned to her reliable friend Willow Rosenburg
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Bonus:
Identify an AI based movie character and how machine learning could be used by them.
Machine Learning is an algorithm that allows a program to do X task by training itself on specific data and improving it's performances over time.
Counting
Iteration
Totaling
Bonus: Give an example of each
Totaling: Adding numbers together
Counting: Adding how many items are together
Iteration: Advancing a value at a set rate.
If you need to explore a haunted house what type of sensors would you need?
List 3 sensors
For a bonus
List and explain 5 Sensors
Audio
PH
Moisture
Temperature
Electromagnetic
What types of special effects are used in making movies and created by tools made by programmers.
Bonus: Describe what the "Volume" is and what sort of screens it uses in it's technology
CGI
Computer Generated Imagery
This device often used by us and not nearly enough in Horror movies is peak convenience.
Identify this device.
Bonus:
Is this device a computer and what qualifies it as such
Write a step by step algorithm for surviving a horror movie.
Answers can be given in Pseudocode, Flowchart, or plain English
Bonus: Best Answer receives a bonus
Various Answers
Belphegor's Prime is 1,000,000,000,000,066,600,000,000,000,001. What is a prime number?
Bonus:
How can primes be used in computing?
A number that is only divisible by itself and 1.
Could be useful in certain algorithms