Data Science
Illinois
Art
Literature
Miscellaneous
100
Used to graphically represent distribution across some geographic area.
Choropleth (or Heatmap)
100
This is the former name of the Willis tower.
Sears Tower
100
The Mona Lisa is located in this museum.
The Louvre
100
This person developed the concept of an “invisible hand” regulating the market in his book The Wealth of Nations.
Adam Smith
100
This show has the famous line, “winter is coming.”
Game of Thrones
200
API stands for this.
Application programming interface
200
The capital of Illinois.
Springfield
200
This is the Art Institute of Chicago’s largest piece.
Paradise Lost
200
This character drove the car that killed Gatsby in The Great Gatsby.
Daisy
200
This is where Breaking Bad takes place.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
300
The equation for calculating the residual.
Observed - predicted
300
The number of states that border Illinois, by land.
Five
300
The Scream by Edvard Munch
(acceptable if only the author's last name is correct)
300
The Grapes of Wrath is set during this era.
The Great Depression / the Dust Bowl
300
Guess the song in emojis (title + artist):
🌊👁️
Ocean Eyes - Billie Eilish
400
Method used in natural language processing to evaluate how important a word is to a document in relation to a larger collection of documents.
TF-IDF Analysis
400
Who is the first Chicagoan, also known as the founder of Chicago?
Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (just du Sable is fine)
400
Salvador Dalí is associated with this art movement.
Surrealist
400
This book has the famous quote, “You are my creator, but I am your master; obey!”
Frankenstein
400
Guess the song in emojis (title + artist):
⬆️🤞
High Hopes - Panic! at the Disco
500
This type of matrix is often used in machine learning and comes with rows in the form (1, x_i x_i^2, …. , x_i^n).
Vandermonde matrix
500
What neighborhood did Pope Leo XIV grow up in?
Dolton, Chicago
500
The amount of time it took for Micheangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
4 years
500
In The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the narrator is confined in a room for this reason.
Rest cure
500
The oldest continuously running student film society in the United States, "Doc Films," at UChicago, is how many years old?
94 years (as of 2026)