The Dancers Students Loved… and the Ones They Totally Ignored
The most popular torso style in Mix&Move was inspired by this global pop music genre known for polished choreography and high-energy visuals.
What is k-pop?
The most popular song students chose in Mix&Move was Beautiful Things by Benson Boone. Boone first gained national visibility by auditioning for this TV singing competition.
What is American Idol?
In Elf, Buddy travels through the Candy Cane Forest and the Lincoln Tunnel before arriving in this U.S. city.
What is New York City?
This astronomical event marks the shortest day and longest night of the year and has been celebrated by many cultures long before modern holidays.
What is the winter solstice?
AI-generated code can't save students from having to find and diagnose problems (yet). This computer scientist, a U.S. Navy rear admiral, popularized the term “debugging” after a literal moth was found in a computer relay.
Grace Hopper
Axolotls were the most popular dancer choice in the Mix & Move tutorial. In the wild, they’re native to only one lake system near this major world city.
What is Mexico City (Lake Xochimilco)?
The least popular song was iPad by The Chainsmokers. Their hit “Closer” references stealing a mattress in this Colorado college town.
What is Boulder?
In A Christmas Story, Ralphie desperately wants this specific gift, despite warnings he’ll “shoot his eye out.”
What is a A Red Ryder BB gun?
This U.S. city receives the most annual snowfall of any major metropolitan area.
What is Syracuse, New York?
This test, originally known as the “imitation game,” was proposed to assess whether a machine’s conversational behavior is indistinguishable from that of a human.
What is the Turing Test?
The second most popular dancer style was the flame. In Greek mythology, this Titan stole fire from the gods and gave it to humanity.
Who is Prometheus?
Sabrina Carpenter was the second most-popular song choice on Mix&Move! Sabrina opened for this globally famous pop star on a 2023–2024 stadium tour, shortly before releasing Espresso.
Who is Taylor Swift?
In Home Alone, the McCallister family plans to spend Christmas in this European city but famously leaves Kevin behind.
What is Paris?
In Alpine folklore, this horned figure accompanies Saint Nicholas to punish misbehaving children, making the season way scarier.
Who is Krampus?
In 1997, this IBM computer became famous for beating the world champion in chess — a milestone showing computers could outplay humans at complex strategy.
What is Deep Blue?
The least popular dancer in the Mix & Move tutorial was the moose. Moose are the largest species in this animal family, which also includes deer and elk.
What is Cervidae?
Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6 ranked higher than most Chainsmokers songs. Symphony No. 6 is nicknamed this term, reflecting its theme of nature, rural life, and peaceful feelings.
What is The Pastoral Symphony?
In The Nightmare Before Christmas, Jack discovers a grove of trees with doors leading to different holiday worlds. How many distinct holiday doors appear in the film?
What is seven?
This ancient Roman winter festival involved feasting, gift-giving, and role-reversal — and many of its traditions later influenced Christmas.
What is Saturnalia?
The phrase “Artificial Intelligence” was first coined in 1956 by a computer scientist at the Dartmouth Workshop, marking the official birth of AI as a field.
Who is John McCarthy?
We removed the mushroom-head dancers for… reasons. The world’s largest organism - a honey fungus - spans nearly 4 square miles in this U.S. state.
What is Oregon?
The third most popular song in Mix&Move was U Can’t Touch This. When it was released, rap categories at the Grammys were still brand new. In 1991, MC Hammer became the first artist in history to win a Grammy in this newly created category.
What is Best Rap Solo Performance?
In Die Hard, the fictional Nakatomi Plaza was played by a real Los Angeles skyscraper originally known as Fox Plaza. Today, the building is officially identified by this street address.
What is 2121 Avenue of the Stars?
This Welsh tradition involves someone parading a decorated horse skull through town to sing, rhyme, and demand entry to homes.
What is Mari Lwyd?
This 1957 algorithm laid the foundation for training neural networks but became impractical until computational power caught up decades later. It's famous for solving XOR when earlier perceptrons could not.
What is backpropagation?