Math
Invented in Mesopotomia, Egypt, Greece, India, and China, this branch of mathematics uses variables to represent unknown numbers
What is algebra?
This cybersecurity organization is focused on IT governance
What is ISACA?
This colossal statue was a gift from France honoring the United States' 100th birthday and the abolition of slavery
What is the Statue of Liberty?
This scientific study of matter, energy, space, and time, and how they interact at both the smallest and largest scales, is one of the majors at Katz
What is physics?
Created in the Bronx in the 70s, this musical genre and subculture introduced the world to breakdancing and rapping
What is hip hop?
Created by a Hungarian sculptor, this colorful cube toy was popularized in the 80s and requires puzzlers to follow algorithms to solve it
What is the Rubik's cube?
These network security systems monitor and control incoming and outgoing traffic based on predetermined security rules
What are firewalls?
This skyscraper was the tallest building in the world from 1931 to 1970, and then the tallest building in New York City from 2001 to 2012
What is the Empire State Building?
Organic chemistry involves molecules made of atoms of this element
What is carbon?
This annual charity fundraising event for The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute attracts celebrities dressed to fit a theme
What is the Met Gala?
This shape is represented by the equation (x - h)² + (y - k)² = r², where (h, k) is the center and r is the radius
What is a circle?
This malware attack encrypts data on a victim's system until the attacker is paid
What is ransomware?
This 843 acre green space runs from Central Park South at 59th Street to Central Park North at 110th Street and Central Park West at Eighth Avenue to Fifth Avenue
What is Central Park?
The platypus is one of the only two mammals that lays eggs, the other is this
What is the echidna?
Before they moved to Los Angeles, this baseball team played in New York City
What is the Dodgers?
Quantities with both magnitude and direction are called this
What are vectors?
These three key cybersecurity concepts are foundational to protecting and using information
What are Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability?
Spanning the East River, this suspension bridge was the longest of its kind when it opened in 1883
What is the Brooklyn Bridge?
Out of all the planets in our solar system, this large planet has the shortest day due to its gravitational field
What is Jupiter?
The most recent major expansion of the New York City subway system added three stops to this line
What is the Q?
Consisting of twelve pentagonal faces, the regular version of this polyhedron is considered a Platonic solid
What is a dodecahedron?
This process of scrambling data using an algorithm and a key to convert readable plaintext into unreadable ciphertext is used to encode secret information
What is encryption?
Famous for its triangular shape, this skyscraper is located on the intersections of Fifth Avenue, Broadway, and East 22nd Street
What is the Flatiron Building?
The 2024 Nobel Laureates for Physiology or Medicine earned the prize for their work on micro this macromolecule
What is RNA?
At least this many different languages are spoken in New York, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world
What is 800?