All things Splunk
Developer 101
Are you smarter than a 5th grader?
Finish the lyric
Pop Culture
100

This language is used in Splunk to query and transform data.

SPL (Search Processing Language)

100

This version control system is the most widely used for tracking code changes and collaboration.

Git

100

Name the largest planet in our solar system.

Jupiter

100

Just a small-town girl, livin' in a _______

Lonely world

100

This superhero wears a red and blue suit and is known for swinging between skyscrapers in New York City.

Spider Man

200

This Splunk component is responsible for storing and indexing incoming data.

Indexer

200

This data structure follows a "last in, first out" rule.

Stack

200

Name the process plants use to make food using sunlight.

Photosynthesis

200

Don't stop believin', hold on to that ______

feeling

200

This 1994 film follows the life of a man who experiences many historical events while sitting on a bench.

Forrest Gump

300

This command is more efficient than join for combining datasets and works by appending results, often used with subsearches.

Append

300

This programming concept allows a function to call itself to solve smaller instances of a problem.

Recursion

300

What is the smallest prime number?

2

300

I want it that way, tell me why, ain't nothin' but a _____

heartache

300

Name the four houses at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Gryffindor, Slyntherin, Ravenclaw, and Hufflepuff.

400

This configuration file defines how incoming data is routed to specific indexes or transformed before indexing.

transforms.conf

400

This HTTP status code indicates that a request was successful, but the server is intentionally returning no content in the response body.

204 No Content

400

What is the only letter that doesn't appear in any U.S. state name?

Q

400

______, don't make it bad, take a sad song and make it better.

Hey Jude

400

This director is known for movies like Inception, Interstellar, and Tenet

Christopher Nolan

500

This Splunk concept allows you to define a schema on top of raw data and is required for using accelerated datasets with tstats.

Data model

500

What is the output?

x = [1,2,3]

y = x

y.append(4)

print(x)

[1,2,3,4]

500
This organ produces insulin in the human body.

Pancreas

500
'Cause this is _____, ______ night

There ain't no second chance against the things with 40 eyes

thriller

500

This viral TikTok and Instagram slang phrase originated from a rap track, became a widespread meme among teens in 2025 despite having no fixed meaning. 

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