Coffee
Bicycles
Software Engineering
UC Berkeley
Kevin Drum
200

A type of drink that can come in single, double, or triple shots.

What is an espresso?

200

This is undoubtedly the most famous bicycle race in the world.

What is the Tour de France?

200

This language has a popular module which the host has used to create a simple video game.

What is Python?

200

The name of the laboratory overlooking Cal's campus that conducts research on behalf of the U.S. Department of Energy.

What is Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory?

200

This company is his current place of employment.

What is Mother Jones?

400

The name of the man who initiated a specialty coffee revolution in the U.S. and founded a beloved coffee chain.

Who is Alfred Peet?

400

This famous suffragist once stated that the bicycle "has done more to emancipate woman than any one thing in the world."

Who is Susan B. Anthony?

400

A data type that typically represents a true or false condition.

What is Boolean?

400

The official motto of the university (both English and Latin answers acceptable).

What is "let there be light" (or "fiat lux")?

400

The clear liquid he attributes higher rates of youth delinquency to.

What is leaded gasoline?

600

The nickname that early devotees of Peet's Coffee gave themselves.

What is a Peetnik?

600

This famous pair of brothers created a company that designed, manufactured, and sold bicycles during the bike boom of the 1890s.

Who are the Wright brothers?

600

Xcode, Pycharm, and Visual Studio are all examples of this.

What is an IDE (Integrated Development Environment)?

600

This Cal physics professor was named the scientific head of the Manhattan Project in 1942.

Who is J. Robert Oppenheimer?

600

The name of his original independent blog, which he started in 2003.

What is Calpundit?

800

Kopi Luwak coffee, the most expensive coffee in the world, is made from the droppings of this Southeast Asian mammal.

What is a civet cat?

800

Most professional racing bicycles use this material for their frames.

What is carbon fiber?

800

The most common (and often default) encoding used on the World Wide Web.

What is UTF-8?

800

The atomic number of the element named after Berkeley.

What is 97?

800

The university he attended for two years before transferring to CSU Long Beach.

What is Caltech?

1000

This country exports the second-largest amount of coffee, at over 3 billion pounds of coffee annually.

What is Vietnam?

1000

The name of the company that has produced by far the most popular vehicle ever, with over 500 million units of the PA-02 bicycle sold.

What is Flying Pigeon?

1000

The punny name of the command processor used in the Terminal application (double points will be awarded if you know what the name stands for).

What is bash (Bourne-again shell)?

1000

He was the founder of the College of California, which merged with the Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts College to form UC Berkeley.

Who is Henry Durant?

1000

He became a store manager of this chain several years after graduating from college.

What is RadioShack?