Quantifying Excellence: insights into the Test-Frameworks Team
It's not a bug it's a feature
I'll be Amsterdamned
How dare you!?
Guessography
100
The most featured language in the teams top 3 programming languages.
What is Ruby?
100
This often-used debugging method has the programmer verbally explaining their code to a rubber duck or another inanimate object.
What is rubber ducking debugging?
(any derivative ok)
100
This color is famously associated with the Dutch national identity and is often worn during Kingβs Day celebrations
What is orange?
100
Amount of people present that can roll their tongue.
What is ?
Let's go everyone
100
πΆοΈ
What is Chile?
200
12 months of the year, but this is the month where most people were born.
What is November?
(Christof, Carolina and Tina!)
smurflord: January
olefriis: May
hilli: July
radiantspace: August
roberpd: September
daweyland: October
blclo, christof and wuest: November
200
This programming concept involves a function calling itself and is often used to solve complex problems in data structures like trees
What is recursion?
To understand recursion one must first understand recursion
200
Amsterdam is famously home to over 1,200 of these structures, connecting the neighborhoods across Amsterdam
What are bridges?
200
Amount of right-handed people in the room
What is ?
200
πΉπ΅
What is Amsterdam?
300
Furbaby, four-legged friend, companion. The team owns this many pets.
What is 5?
(Dennis: 3 cats, Schopenhauer, Wittgenstein and Nietzsche
Jens: 1 cat
Birgitte: 1 dog, Oscar)
300
The group which Python is named after.
Who is Monty Python?
300
Famous painter born in the Netherlands, Amsterdam has a whole museum dedicated to his art.
Who is Vincent Van Gogh?
300
This person can name the most countries with 4 letters!
Who is Tina?
(Tina: 5, 2nd best: 3, average 1.87)
300
οΌ ππ
What is Athens?
400
The amount of languages we speak in total
What is 11?
Danish, English, French, Finish, German, Hebrew, Irish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
400
Given 20 seconds name 11 programming languages!
(Your competitors will help judge)
400
Amsterdam is built on these, with around 11 million of them driven into the ground to support the city.
What are wooden poles/piles?
400
The number of cups of coffees the team has drunk today.
What is ?
Let's hear it folks
400
π‘β½οΈπ
What is Madagascar?
500
Software development is our trade, but only this many of the team members had it as a first choice.
What is 4?
Christof, Ole, Tina (Cryptography research), Yury (including a detour of studying Biotechnology and working random jobs),
So what was the other first choices
blclo: Industrial engineering (mechanical & electrical
daweyland: academia
hilli: Queens guard
robertpd: civil engineering
smurflord: Accountant, then something business then existential crisis because business is boring
500
Team challenge!
The amount of separate programming languages in existence.
What is 700-9000?
(Apparently there are different opinions on this)
500
app. 15,000
What is number of bikes pulled out of the canals each year in Amsterdam?
500
This many people can touch their toes without bending their knees.
What is ?
500
π π§οΈ
What is Bahrain?