Software
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100

This programming language is named after a snake. 

What is Python?

100

This computer's short-term "fast memory" for quick data access saw huge price surges during the AI bubble due to skyrocketing demand from data centers training massive models.

What is RAM

100

This search engine giant, founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, became synonymous with looking things up online.

What is Google?

100

Which scientist discovered that energy and mass are forms of the same fundamental object (E=mc^2)?

Who is Albert Einstein?

100

This chemical element, atomic number 8, is essential for respiration and is the most abundant element in the Earth's crust by mass after oxygen combined in compounds.

What is oxygen?

200

This version control system, created by Linus Torvalds in 2005, uses commands like commit, push, and pull to track changes in source code.

What is Github?

200

This component, commonly using SATA or NVMe interfaces, provides long-term storage for the operating system, applications, and user files, even when the computer is powered off.

What is a SSD (Solid State Drive)?

200

This popular YouTube educator, known for his monotone voice, built his channel of 7,000 videos that cover everything from algebra to physics.

Who is The Organic Chemistry Tutor?

200

Plants use this green pigment to capture sunlight during photosynthesis.

What is Chlorophyll?

200

 In music, this symbol indicates to play loudly; its Italian term literally means "loud."

What is forte?

300

This debugging technique involves inserting temporary output statements into code to trace execution, named for the fact that it's considered a low-tech but often effective approach.

What is printf debugging?

300

This type of display technology uses organic compounds that emit light when an electric current is applied, allowing for thinner screens, deeper blacks, and flexible form factors compared to traditional LCDs.

What is OLED?

300

Created by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989, this system of interlinked hypertext documents is often confused with the broader global network it runs on.

What is the World Wide Web?

300

Foundational logical truths, such as "things which are equal to the same thing are also equal to one another" and "the whole is greater than the part".

What are Euclid's Common Notions?

300

 This ancient city, famously destroyed in 79 AD by a volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius, was rediscovered and extensively excavated beginning in the 18th century.

What is Pompeii?

400

Introduced in the 2017 paper "Attention Is All You Need," this neural network architecture processes all input tokens in parallel using self-attention mechanisms rather than sequential recurrence, forming the backbone of modern large language models like GPT and BERT.

What is the Transformer Architecture?

400

Invented by James Watt in the 18th century, this mechanical device uses a rotating shaft with weighted arms that swing outward as speed increases, allowing it to regulate engine speed by controlling a throttle valve.

What is the Watt governor?

400

This human-readable string, like "example.com" or "wikipedia.org," maps to a numerical IP address via the DNS system, making it easier to remember and access websites than typing a series of numbers.

What is a domain name?

400

It is the only element that is liquid at standard room temperature, but it is not a metal, and its name comes from the Greek for "stench."

What is bromine?

400

This ancient city, famously destroyed in 79 AD by a volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius, was rediscovered and extensively excavated beginning in the 18th century.

What is Pompeii?

500

A machine framework constructed in 2009 by Hill, Hopkins, and Ravenel. This framework contributed to the solving of the Arf Kervaire Invariant problem. 

What is the slice spectral sequence? 

500

This low-level firmware, stored on a motherboard chip, initializes hardware components during boot-up and provides a runtime interface for the operating system; it has largely replaced the older BIOS standard.

What is UEFI? (Accept: What is Unified Extensible Firmware Interface?)

500

This internet pioneer and computer scientist is credited with inventing the World Wide Web in 1989 while working at CERN.

Who is Tim Berners-Lee?

500

Which equation - based off Schrödinger wave equation - applied to relativistic speeds proved the existence of anti - electrons (positrons)?

What is the Dirac equation?

500


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What is 67?