DSS Lore
This song is infamously played on repeat at DSS retreat
What is "Best Song Ever - One Direction"?
This finely ground green tea powder from Japan is whisked into hot water or milk to create a vibrant drink rich in antioxidants and beloved by wellness influencers everywhere.
What is matcha?
What U.S. state is home to no documented poisonous snakes?
In computer memory, this data structure stores items in contiguous blocks, making random access lightning fast, but resizing a pain.
What is an array?
Who is Wayne?
Acadev Instructor Wayland La is a diehard fan of this song (name the song and artist)
what is "Fein - Travis Scott ft. Playboy Carti"?
This modern dating term describes a romantic connection that has all the emotions and intimacy of a relationship, except the actual commitment or label.
What is a situationship?
This country is home to both the ancient city of Petra and the Dead Sea.
What is Jordan?
Your browser history is best represented by this data structure, where the most recent page visited can be revisited using a “back” button.
What is a stack?
q2
Who is Henry?
Names of the DSS members with the furthest and closest hometowns to Berkeley (name both, in order)
who are Kei and Miles?
This term describes the practice of creating mood boards and photo collages that define a personal aesthetic on Pinterest or TikTok.
What is “vision boarding”?
This country’s official flag is the only national flag to not be rectangular shaped
What is Nepal?
This data structure uses pointers instead of indices, making it ideal for frequent insertions and deletions but poor for random access.
What is a linked list?
q3
Who is Earn?
Names of the past 4 DSS Assassins winners (in order from most recent to least recent)
Who are Shawn Morton, Ryan Stevenson, Lucy Yue, and Wilson Fung?
This phrase refers to girls spending their paycheck on random Target items in the name of “self-care.”
What is “girl math”?
The names of all the “-Stan” countries in the world
What is Afghanistan, kazakhstan, uzbekistan, turkmenistan, tajikistan, Pakistan, and Kyrgyzstan?
This structure can represent a labyrinth of connected cities or subway routes and is used in algorithms like Dijkstra’s and A*.
What is a graph?
q4
Who is Michelle?
The names of all the members of Exec and the semester they joined
Who are: Bing - fall 23, Miles - fall 23, Izze - fall 23, Lynn - fall 23, Yumin - spring 24, Phillip - spring 24, Henry - spring 24, Marisol - spring 24, Jacob - spring 24, Yara - fall 24, Collin - fall 24?
In this 2004 Nicholas Sparks adaptation, Noah says, “It wasn’t over, it still isn’t over.”
What is The Notebook?
This African country, formerly known as “Swaziland”, officially changed their name to ____ in 2018
What is ESwatini?
This structure keeps track of elements that belong to distinct groups, often used in Kruskal’s Minimum Spanning Tree algorithm.
What is a disjoint set (union-find)?
q5
Who is Alaina?