Potent Potables
Hackers in Hollywood
Sweaty
No REST
100

It may sound like a coffee order, but this popular web server platform powers millions of sites — including many that run WordPress.

What is Apache?

100

This 1999 sci-fi film features Neo, a computer hacker who discovers that reality is actually a simulation controlled by machines.

What is the Matrix?

100

This protection randomises memory layouts to make exploits harder.

What is ASLR?

100

404

What is the HTTP RESTFUL API code for "Not Found"?

200

On macOS, you install, you tap, and your “bottles” live in the Cellar—cheers.

What is HomeBrew?

200

Once hacking into his suit, he is Spiderman's "guy in the chair"

Who is Ned Leeds?

200

This record type coordinates DNS-based zone transfers.

What is AXFR?

200

This is the status code for "Bad Gateway"

502

300

Despite the name, this Python micro-framework serves JSON, not shots, with routes and Jinja2.

What is Flask?

300

In this 2014 film, Benedict Cumberbatch plays a codebreaker so good, he decrypted the Nazis — but society still couldn’t handle that he was gay.

What is The Imitation Game?

300

In AWS, this action lets you pivot into another identity by adopting its privileges.

What is AssumeRole?

300

This is the HTTP status code for "Reset Content" 

205

400

This piece of software kinda lets you run windows executables when on linux.

What is Wine?

400

This 2010 film starring Jesse Eisenberg tells the story of the creation of a social media empire born from college dorm room coding.

What is The Social Network?

400

The heap manager responsible for carving, coalescing, and returning memory regions to a process.

What is an allocator?

400

103

What is the HTTP RESTUL API code for "Early Hints"?

500

This minimalist Go web framework (now archived) shares its name with a classic gin-and-vermouth cocktail.

What is Martini?

500

In the 1995 film Hackers, this actress—later known for playing Lara Croft—portrayed the hacker “Acid Burn.”

Who is Angelina Jolie?

500

The 802.1X component that enforces port-based network access control before a device even gets an IP.

What is an authenticator?

500

This is the HTTP status code for when it refuses to brew coffee (it's a teapot) 

What is HTTP 418?