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100

What does CPU stand for?

Central Processing Unit

100

How many continents are there on Earth?

7

100

What gas do humans breathe in to survive?

Oxygen

100

Who is the mascot of UNC Chapel Hill?

Ramses

100

How many notes are there in a standard musical scale (without accidentals)?

7

200

What does HTML stand for

HyperText Markup Language

200

What is the largest desert in the world by area?

Antartica

200

What planet is known as the "Red Planet"?

Mars


200

What year was the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill founded?

1789

200

What is the term for music performed by three singers or instrumentalists?

Trio

300

What sorting algorithm is known for its "divide and conquer" strategy and has an average time complexity of O(n log n)?

Merge Sort

300

What year did the Titanic sink?

1912

300

What is the chemical symbol for gold?

Au

300

Who is the namesake of UNC’s business school?

Frank Kenan

300

Who composed the famous classical piece Fur Elise?

Beethoven

400

In Big-O notation, what is the time complexity of searching for an element in a balanced binary search tree?

O(log n)

400

Who wrote The Art of War?

Sun Tzu

400

What part of the cell is known as the "powerhouse" because it produces energy?

Mitochondria

400

What is the name of the traditional gathering place for students in the center of campus?

The pit

400

In music theory, what is the term for gradually getting louder?

Crescendo

500

What is the name of the famous unsolved problem that asks whether every problem whose solution can be quickly verified can also be quickly solved?

P vs NP Problem

500

What is the term for a word or phrase that is spelled the same forwards and backwards?

Palindrome

500

What is the name for the theoretical particles that are thought to travel faster than the speed of light?

Tachyons

500

What is the name of the bell tower on campus that is rung on special occasions?

Morehead-Patterson Bell Tower

500

Which band released the album The Dark Side of the Moon in 1973?

Pink Floyd