NYCT Problem
NYCT Trivia
Python
Linear Algebra
Graph Theory
100

The amount of time a SFE checker collects data at a FCA

What is one hour?

100

The busiest subway station, with 64,531,511 annual riders passing through in 2016

What is Times Square (N/Q/R/W/S/1/2/3/7/ 42 St A/C/E)? 

100

This is the output of the following Python code

True = False

while True:

    print(True)

    break

What is SyntaxError?

(True is a keyword and it’s value cannot be changed)


100

The name of an nxn matrix with 1 entries on the diagonal and 0 entries elsewhere as shown

What is the identity matrix?

100

The number of edges in a K_13

What is 13 choose 2 = 78?

200

The number of hours a checker needs to work in order to get a paid 30 minute lunch break

What is 7?

200

The percentage of subway stops that are underground.

What is 60%?

200

This is the output of the following code fragment:

list = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e']

print (list[10:])


What is []?

(there won’t be any error like an IndexError)

200

An nxn (0,1)-matrix with entries defined as follows:

1 if the pairs of vertices are adjacent
0 otherwise

What is an adjacency matrix?

200

The clique number of the graph below

What is 4?

300

The minimum target for sample completion each month? 

What is 80%?

300

The only subway line that does not make any stops in Manhattan. 

What is the G train?

300

Suppose list1 is [2, 33, 222, 14, 25].  Then this is list1[:-1]

What is [2, 33, 222, 14] ?

300

The eigenvalues of this matrix 

What are -1 and -2?

300

A Hamiltonian circuit in the graph shown

What is 

400

The number of round-trips a BFA checker is currently scheduled to make daily

What is 2?

400

Jay Z's name honors the J & Z subway lines in this borough, his hometown


What is Brooklyn?

400

This is the output of the following Python code:

x = "abcdef"

while i in x:

    print(i, end=" ")

What is NameError?

(i is not defined)

400

The projection of (a,b,c) onto the z-axis?

What is (0,0,c)

400

The minimum spanning tree of this graph

What is 

500

The number of hours a part-time checker works

What is 6 hours?

500

The train line with the longest route.

What is the A line?  

The 31-mile journey carries passengers from 207th St. in Manhattan, to Far Rockaway in Queens 

500

This is the output of the following Python code:

A = [[1, 2, 3],

     [4, 5, 6],

     [7, 8, 9]]

[A[i][i] for i in range(len(A))]

What is [1, 5, 9]?

500

Another word for a singular matrix, such as the one below:

What is invertible?

500

The minimum cost from vertex b to vertex f

What is 6?