US Capitals
European Countries
PHP Coding
Fictional Geography
Retro Tech History
100

The capital of California, situated in the Central Valley.

What is Sacramento?

100

This southern European country is shaped like a boot.

What is Italy?

100

This specific magic method is automatically called by PHP whenever a new object of a class is created.

What is __construct() or constructor?

100

This highly advanced, fictional African nation is the home of Marvel's Black Panther.

What is Wakanda?

100

The "Save" icon in almost all software programs is famously modeled after this obsolete piece of 3.5-inch magnetic storage.

What is a floppy disk?

200

The capital of Washington State.

What is Olympia?

200

This Iberian nation shares a land border with only one other country: Spain.

What is Portugal?

200

In PHP 7, this double-question-mark operator (??) was introduced to return its first operand if it exists and is not null.

What is the null coalescing operator?

200

Homer, Marge, and their kids live in this famously unspecific American town.

What is Springfield?

200

This widespread computer bug, caused by two-digit year formatting, was expected to create global havoc when the calendar rolled over to the year 2000.

What is the Y2K bug?

300

The capital of Massachusetts, central to the American Revolution.

What is Boston?

300

This country is known for its dramatic fjords and its capital city, Oslo.

What is Norway?

300

This type of array uses named keys instead of numeric index numbers.

What is an associative array?

300

In The Lord of the Rings, this specific, peaceful region of Middle-earth is the homeland of the Hobbits.

What is the Shire?

300

In the mid-1990s, this "navigational" web browser was the dominant way people surfed the early internet before Internet Explorer took over.

What is the Netscape Navigator?

400

With a population of just under 8,000 residents, this Vermont city is the least populous state capital.

What is Montpellier?

400

This double-landlocked European microstate is nestled entirely between Austria and Switzerland.

What is Liechtenstein?

400

PDO is a secure database access layer providing a uniform method of access to multiple databases; PDO stands for this.

What are PHP Data Objects?

400

Divided into an opulent Capitol and 13 original districts, this fictional North American nation is the setting of The Hunger Games.

What is Panem?

400

Before being acquired by Google in 2006 for $1.65 billion, this video-sharing website was founded by three former PayPal employees.

What is YouTube?

500

This capital is the only one in the United States that cannot be reached by road from the rest of the state or country.

What is Juneau?

500

Its capital, Riga, is the largest city in the Baltic states.

What is Latvia?

500

Introduced in PHP 5.4, this mechanism enables code reuse in single inheritance languages by allowing developers to reuse sets of methods in independent classes.

What is a trait?

500

This dark, crime-ridden city is protected by the Caped Crusader and features landmarks like Arkham Asylum.

What is Gotham City?

500

In 1997, an IBM supercomputer named Deep Blue made artificial intelligence history by defeating world champion Garry Kasparov in this game.

What is Chess?