First Round - The Linux Cast Jeopardy!

Distros & Software

100

This distro was created by Mark Shuttleworth

Ubuntu

200

One of the only distros installed via a configuration file.

NixOS

300

Created in 1996, this is a versatile software system meant to control every aspect of a system. 

YaST

400

This is the oldest Linux distro still in use today.

Slackware.

500

This Linux distribution came out just one year after Manjaro and was widely known for being Arch but with a better installer.

Antergos Linux

Home Servers

100

This is the most widely used and modern way of distributing software for self-hosting applications. 

Docker

200

This software allows for easy upgrading of all Docker containers with automation included as its best feature.

Watchtower.

300

Allowing for the easy installation of Virtual Machines, this software runs on Debian in the background.

What is proxmox?

400

First released in 2006, this software allows for easy management of PDFs and other word related material.

What is Calibre?

500

Written in PHP and JavaScript, this popular self hosted service is known for its logging of file related actions and shared permissions across a specified user group.

What is Nextcloud?

General Knowledge

100

What is James Bond's code name?

007

200

What is the only food that can never go bad?

Honey

300

Actor Steve Carell plays what memorable character in the popular TV series “The Office”?

Michael Scott

400

Crowned at this age, Queen Elizabeth II was the longest reigning monarch of Great Britain.

27

500

What name did Alan give to the baby they found in the closet in The Hangover?

Carlos

Technology

100

This company is known by its nickname, Big Blue.

IBM

200

First introduced in 1981, which video game character shares the name of the best-selling franchise in history?

Mario

300

What does Yahoo stand for?

Yet Another Hierarchically Officious Oracle

400

What British computer scientist is widely credited with inventing the World Wide Web?

Tim Berners-Lee

500

Unicode, the standard for character encoding used to represent multilingual text as binary, is the successor to what US encoding standard?

ASCII

Ubuntu

100

Based on this Linux Distro, Ubuntu is one of the most popular distros in use today.

Debian

200

This Desktop Environment was introduced in 2011 replacing Gnome 2.

Unity

300

In 2018, Ubuntu released this for the final time.

What is the minimal iso?

400

This is the oldest, still in support version of Ubuntu

Xenial Xerus, 16.04 

500

Ubuntu derives from the Nguni philosophy meaning what?

"Humanity to others"