Pythonic Pursuits
Blue and White
The Scroll Hole
Cerebral Cornucopia
By the Numbers
100

This data type is used to represent textual data and is enclosed in either single (') or double (") quotes.

What is a string?

100

This Latin word for "more" is the university's motto and guiding principle.

What is magis?

100

This five-letter acronym, meaning "_," has been adopted by Gen Z as a successor to LOL.

What is IJBOL?

100

This is the only country in the world that does not have a rectangular or square flag.

What is Nepal?

100

At sea level, water boils at this temperature in degrees Celsius.

What is 100?

200

This statement allows a program to bring code from another file into the current one, making its functions and variables available for use.

What is import?

200

This is the student-led socio-political organization that is the official student government of the Ateneo de Manila University (full distinction).

What is the Sanggunian ng mga Mag-aaral ng mga Paaralang Loyola ng Ateneo de Manila?

200

In a viral 2023 TikTok trend, users would film themselves trying this purple McDonald's shake before cutting to a bizarre or horrifying aftermath.

What is the Grimace Shake?

200

The distinct smell of rain after a dry spell is not from the water itself but from a combination of plant oils and chemical compounds, and it has this specific name.

What is "petrichor"?

200

Our official course code (number)

What is 25.03?

300

This keyword is used to handle exceptions caught by a try block, preventing a program from crashing.

What is 'except'?

300

After a fire destroyed the Intramuros campus in 1932, the Ateneo moved to this street in Manila, which would serve as its main campus until the transfer to Loyola Heights.

Where is Padre Faura?

300

This term describes a surreal 2025 meme trend featuring bizarre AI-generated creatures with pseudo-Italian names like "Bombardiro Crocodilo" and "Ballerina Cappuccina".

What is Italian Brainrot?

300

This is the only known marsupial to produce cube-shaped feces, which it uses to mark its territory without the droppings rolling away.

What is a wombat?

300

A baker's dozen is equal to this many items.

What is 13?

400

This is the term for a "blueprint" for creating objects, bundling data (attributes) and functions that work on that data (methods) together.

What is a class?

400

Before becoming the Blue Eagle, the university's official mascot was this figure from Greco-Roman mythology, representing the school's classical and humanistic traditions.

Who is a Roman Gladiator (specifically, a murmillo)?

400

This character from the video game Genshin Impact, known for his catchphrase "Osmanthus wine tastes the same as I remember...", became a widespread meme representing nostalgia or showing up in unexpected places.

Who is Zhongli?

400

The most famously misquoted line from The Empire Strikes Back is not "Luke, I am your father," but this three-word phrase spoken by Darth Vader.

What is "No, I am your father"?

400

This three-digit number is the approximate number of muscles in the human body.

What is 650?

500

This concept in object-oriented programming allows a new class to take on the properties and methods of an existing class.

What is inheritance?

500

In 1859, the Jesuits took over this public primary school for 30 children, which would eventually become the Ateneo de Manila.

What is the Escuela Municipal de Manila?

500

This TikTok trend is used to humorously justify expensive purchases by describing a certain kind of flawed logic, like considering anything paid for with cash as "free."

What is Girl Math?

500

Co-invented by staunch anti-masturbation crusader Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, this breakfast cereal was intentionally created as a bland food to be part of a diet that would curb sexual urges.

What are corn flakes?

500

This number, in meters per second (m/s), is the universal physical constant representing the speed of light in a vacuum, often denoted by the letter c.

What is 299,792,458 m/s?