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Halloween
100

The world's largest cloud platform, goes by the abbreviation AWS — which stands for these three words

What is Amazon Web Services?

100

 TI's Chairman, President and CEO 

 Who is Haviv Ilan?

100

This type of attack tricks users into clicking malicious links or giving up passwords by pretending to be a trusted source like your bank or IT 

What is phishing?

100

In March 2026, TI partnered with this AI chip powerhouse to co-unveil a complete 800V DC power architecture for next-generation AI data centers.

What is Nvidia?

100

In early Halloween traditions, people wore costumes to disguise themselves from these

What are spirits/ghosts?

200

In 2024, this programming language overtook JavaScript as the most used language on GitHub, largely due to AI and data science

What is Python?

200

TI's newest 300-millimeter wafer fab is located in this city.

What is Sherman, Texas?

200

This type of cyberattack encrypts a victim's files and demands payment to restore access    

What is ransomware?

200

In 2026, OpenAI ended its exclusive cloud deal with Microsoft — making its models available on AWS and this third major cloud platform.

What is Google Cloud?

200

In this 1978 John Carpenter film, masked killer Michael Myers stalks babysitter Laurie Strode on Halloween night    

What is Halloween?

300

This approach to building software breaks applications into small, independent services that each do one job — making it easier to update or scale just one part without touching the rest

What are microservices?

300

In September 2026, TI raised its quarterly dividend to $1.52 per share — marking this many consecutive years of annual dividend increases.

What is 23 years?

300

In 2026, the hacking group ShinyHunters breached this widely used education platform — exposing about 275 million student records across roughly 9,000 schools worldwide

What is Canvas?

300

What was Claude's most recent model release?

What is Haiku 5.5?

300

What famous magician died on Halloween?

Who is Harry Houdini?

400

This open-source container orchestration project holds the record for the most contributors of any CNCF project  

What is Kubernetes?

400

TI's Q3 2026 earnings results — where investors will find out how the company performed this quarter — are scheduled to be announced on this date.

What is today (October 21st, 2026)?

400

In July 2024, a faulty update from this cybersecurity company's Falcon Sensor software crashed approximately 8.5 million Windows systems — considered one of the largest IT outages in history.

What is CrowdStrike?

400

TI's BQ79826Z-Q1, announced in June 2026, is the industry's highest-cell-count battery monitor targeting safer, higher-performing versions of these vehicles.

What are electric vehicles?

400

What was the ancient Celtic fall festival that was a precursor to Halloween?

What is Samhain?

500

In March 2026, TI expanded its microcontroller lineup with the TinyEngine™ NPU — enabling this type of AI processing to happen directly on small embedded devices without sending data to the cloud.

What is Edge AI?

500

In October 2026, Ti announced that its broad embedded portfolio is now supported on the ____ Project, the open-source real-time operating system (RTOS).

What is Zephyr?

500

 In 1988, this self-replicating program launched from a computer at MIT became one of the first major cyberattacks on the internet — crashing roughly 10% of all connected computers overnight

What is the Morris Worm?

500

TI unveiled this type of chip at the 2026 OCP Global Summit to monitor AI data centers at nanosecond speed — ADC stands for these three words

What is Analog-to-Digital Converter?

500

 Before pumpkins, people in Ireland and Scotland originally carved these vegetables into jack-o'-lanterns.  

What are turnips?