Datatypes and Math

Strings and Lists

General

Paths in Computer Science

RANDOM TRIVIA

100
Datatype for 0.5, 2.0, 21.21

Float

100

Ordered sequence of objects

Lists

100

What are these examples of?

#python

//java

Comments

100

Alexa and Siri are applications of this popular computer science field

AI (Artificial Intelligence)

100

You probably see it every day, but have you been paying attention - how many different colors are used in the lettering of Google's logo?

Bonus: What colors are they?

MEGA Bonus: what letters are which color?


Four (Blue, Red, Green, and Yellow)

blue, red, yellow, blue, green, red

200

You use this operator to get the remainder

%

200

Characteristic of Strings that does not allow it to be changed once it has been declared. 

Immutability


200

Father of modern-day computer science

Alan Turing (for cracking Enigma)

200

Technology that harnesses the laws of quantum mechanics to solve problems too complex or too time-consuming for classical computers

Quantum Computing

200

Now appearing prophetic, what device was announced in 2007 with the following slogan? "This is only the beginning."

iPhone

300
print("3+2")

3+2

300

2 ways to remove an item/object from a list

.pop()

.remove("element")

300

The First Programmer 

Ada Lovelace 


Fun fact: she was the daughter of a "mad poet"

300

Technologies, processes, and practices designed to protect networks, devices, programs, and data from attack, damage, or unauthorized access

Cybersecurity

300

When a password is limited strictly to numeric characters, the secret is often referred to as a PIN. What does that acronym stand for?

Personal Identification Number

400

Ordered immutable sequence of objects

Tuples

400

What are the two parameters for .insert() in order?

Index, element

400
What base-10 number is 10111

23

400

The study of data to extract meaningful insights for business using AI, statistics, and computer engineering

Data Science

400

The University of Cambridge offered the first degree in computer science but what University had the the US's first computer science department?

Purdue University

500

(2**3+14)%(5//2)

0

500

print(“The {3} {2} {0} {1}”.format(“female”, “is”, “future”, "the")

The future is female

500

First programming language created

FORTRAN

(still used today, predominantly to conduct complex tests in areas such as numerical weather prediction, geophysics, crystallography, and computational chemistry.)

500

Design, implement and operate a computer system. This is one of the fields of computer science in which the person examines how hardware works and how programs store data to best facilitate the transfer of data among connected devices

Computer Architecture


500

You know those annoying "prove you're not a robot" tests that you have to take on websites sometimes? They're known as CAPTCHAs. And CAPTCHA is actually an acronym standing for "Completely Automated Public ______ test to tell Computers and Humans Apart." What surname fills in the blank?

Turing