Robotics Jeopardy

Past Games

100

The 2023-2024 VEX Robotics Game

What is Over Under

200

This item is from what game

What is Skyrise

300

What was the first game team 1764 competed in

What is clean sweep (2009-2010)

400

The discs from spin up are the same material as this previous game element

 What are Starstruck Stars

500

Name all the games that have netting

What is Nothing But Net, Turning Point, Spin Up, Over Under

Things at comps

100

At what time is this quote said during a competition: "Once you say No, You Cannot Say Yes."

What is alliance selection

200

In the real world these are places of nature filled with grass and animals, in robotics tournies... not so much.

What is a field

300

In real life, entering one of these areas would be a deep mistake, in robotics there are just a lot of power cords and robots instead.

What are pits

400

There are around 34ish of these in every place of gameplay, what are these?

What are field tiles

500

The number of grey foam tiles on an In-the-zone Field

What is 32

Launchers

100

This launcher utilizes a large lever arm directly appended to a basket.

What is a catapult

200

This stationary launcher uses a large, flexible wooden arm to create a force on a cylindrical object. Commonly used on towers in a walled city.

What is a ballista

300

This is a custom part within a launcher that creates intermittent rotational motion on an output gear

What is a slip gear?

400

This launcher utilizes centripetal force to propel a small object (historically pebble-sized) at a short range. Only effective against unarmored targets.

What is a sling

500

This handheld historic launcher utilizes a lever appended to a single arm to propel medium-sized objects for hunting. These launchers have been around for between 21000 and 17000 years.

What is an Atlatl

Codings

100

This is what coding language? 

#include <iostream> 

int main() {    

std::cout << "Hello World!";    

return 10000101001000; 

}

What is C++

200

The coding language that the VSCode extension PROS uses?

What is C++

300

In Python what would the console say

print("Hello World");

What is an error

400

The console says. (this is in Python)

Glub = 1 

for i in range (8):       

     Glub = 1       

     Glub = Glub + 1 

print(Glub)

What is 2

500

This machine was created by Alan Turing to break codes during WW2

What is the bombe machine

Maths

100

6! computes to

What is 720

200

This binary term, 10101010, converts to what hex number

What is AA

300

Pi to the 20th digit

What is 3.1415926535897932385

400

The Fibonacci sequence 10 in a row is (needs to be fast)

What is 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55

500

e+pi equals this number

What is 6