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This is a new major Gonzaga SEAS is offering this fall.
What is Cybersecurity (or Biomedical Engineering)?
You're working with RGB values to control pixel colors.
This is the color you would see if you set Red to 255, Green to 0, and Blue to 255.
What is magenta (or pinkish-purple)?
(Red + Blue = Magenta)
This sci-fi movie featured characters plugging into a virtual reality — and is known for its green computer code visuals. Keanu Reeves stars in this movie as Neo.
What is The Matrix?
This is Gonzaga’s mascot's name.
What is Spike the bulldog?
She sings this 2010s girl power anthem.
Who is Beyonce?
This is Gina's office room number.
What is Bollier 017?
In binary, each place value is a power of 2. For example:
101 means 1Ă—4 + 0Ă—2 + 1Ă—1 = 5. (where 4 is 22, 2 is 21, and 1 is 20).
This is the decimal value of 10110.
What is 22?
(16 + 4 + 2)
Guess the tech phrase from these emojis:
💻🔒📶
What is “computer security” or “secure wireless” or “cybersecurity”?
These are Gonzaga's official school colors.
What is navy blue and (white/red)?
She sings this 2000s girl power anthem.
Who is Britney Spears?
We are in Bollier. These are all the buildings you can get to from Bollier without going outside.
What is PACCAR, Herak, and Hughes
I connect your devices, but I’m not a cord.
I live in the air, but can’t fly like a bird.
I’m fast, invisible, and kind of a star —
You use me every day, at home, school, or car.
What is Wi-Fi?
Or “wireless network.”
Many people’s first computer program simply prints these two words to the screen.
What is “Hello, world!”
What is the 1940s? (Gonzaga's football team ceased to exist in 1941)
She sings this 1990s girl power anthem.
Who is Spice Girls?
This is the name of the SEAS Dean.
What is Dr. Jennifer Shepherd?
This message was encoded with a Caesar shift of +1, +2, or +3, meaning 1, 2, or 3 was added to each letter to get its encoded letter (example: a + 2 -> c). Work with your team to figure out the shift and decode it:
Wklv lv ixq!
What is “This is fun!” (Shift -3)?
This arcade game, released in the 1970s, featured a simple dot bouncing between paddles — and is considered one of the first video games ever.
What is Pong?
In the 2024–25 season, Gonzaga men's basketball finished with a 26‑9 overall record, won the WCC Tournament, and advanced to this round in the NCAA Tournament.
What is the Second Round?
(They went 26–9, claimed the West Coast Conference tournament championship, and made it to the Second Round of the NCAA Tournament)
She sings this 1960s girl power anthem.
Who is Aretha Franklin?
This is the informal definition of an algorithm we covered in class!
A sequence of steps that solves a problem.
Look at this sequence of numbers:
2, 3, 5, 9, 17, 33, ?
This number comes next.
Hint: in CS, powers of 2 are always show up!
What is 65?
Pattern: Start with 2
→ +1 = 3
→ +2 = 5
→ +4 = 9
→ +8 = 17
→ +16 = 33
→ +32 = 65
This woman was the world’s first computer programmer — more than 100 years before actual computers existed (first name only is okay).
Hint: her first name popped up in the LED matrix lab!
Who is Ada Lovelace?
(Daughter of the poet Lord Byron, she worked on early algorithms for Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine.)
The Gonzaga women’s basketball team went 24–11 overall in the 2024–25 season, shared the WCC regular-season title, and advanced to this round in the NCAA tournament.
What is trick question! Unfortunately our women's team did not go to the NCAA tournament.
(They reached the quarterfinals of the WBIT after a strong season and regular-season championship)
She sings this 1980s girl power anthem.
Who is Cyndi Lauper?