cmu trivia
stat/ml
dsc facts
general trivia
100

How old is CMU?

What is 125 years

100

What can models do?

What is

  • Regression

  • Classification

  • Prediction

  • Inference

100

Which two competitions are coming up this sem?

What is Poker AI + AI Agents?

100

Who is playing in the upcoming Super Bowl (and who should win)?

Who are the Seahawks and Patriots? 
200

Name an actor that is an alum from CMU?

couple of options

200

Name 3 ML models

What is
- LDA/QDA

- Classification Trees

- Random Forest

- Gradient Boosting

- Unsupervised Learning

- Reinforcement Learning

- Neural Networks

200

Which project is upcoming for this sem?

What is WeddingBot

200

 How many minutes are in a full week?

What is 10,080?

300

What object on campus broke a world record?

What is the fence

300

What is linear regression?

  • Fit a line to data

    • Try many different lines

    • Choose the one that minimizes error

300

Who is one of DSC's past speakers?

Who are

  • Zhiqing Sun - OpenAI

  • Joy Zhang - GEICO

  • Nikhil Birmiwal - Perplexity

  • Nathan Ang - PearAI

300

What is the world’s largest retailer as of 2026?

What is Walmart?

400

What movie had a scene filmed at CMU?

What is the prison break scene in the Dark Knight Rises?

400

What is Gradient Boosting?

  • Train many models sequentially

  • Each focuses on previous errors

  • XGBoost

400

Who is the current DSC president?

What is Bo

400

Which country has the highest life expectancy as of 2026?

What is Monaco?