General History
The first president of the United States
George Washington
The infrastructure concentration with the responsibility of maintaining, conducting, and building roads, highways, railways, airports, and seaports.
Transportation
True or False: Good quality computer parts can withstand temperatures up to 100*-110*C (212*-230*F). (Cannot steal)
True.
The mascot of the Pokémon franchise.
Pikachu
Ryan’s favorite food (be specific!)
Tonkotsu Ramen
Russia was named as what country during 1922 to 1991.
Soviet Union (USSR)
A term for residential development with similar single family housing design packed in rows that is heavily dependent on cars.
Suburban development
The part that computes all the information and data to give instructions to the rest of the system.
Processor/CPU
Best selling game console of all time.
PlayStation 2
Ryan’s Degree (full name) and minor for bonus 100 points.
Bachelor’s Degree in Urban Planning & Design and a Minor in Geography.
This ancient empire is considered one of the largest and most powerful for its time, spanning from the British Isles to the Iberian Pennisula and the Middle East.
Ancient Roman Empire
The gas tax is a tax levied by the federal and/or state government to raise money for the improvement of [blank].
Highway infrastructure
The program installed on every PC, phone, tablet, etc that allows additional applications to be installed and managed.
Operating system
The “protagonists” in this game complete their goals by robbing and killing people, robbing banks, avoiding the police, stealing cars, and selling drugs.
Grand Theft Auto 5
Ryan’s favorite NASCAR driver and his car number. (Both for full credit)
Tony Stewart and 14 (would also accept 20)
The two Japanese cities devastated by the atomic bombs dropped by the United States to end World War II. (Bonus 100 points for naming BOTH the atomic bombs.)
Hiroshima (Little Boy)
Nagasaki (Fat Man)
A commonly used computer program system that planners, designers, geographers, and cartographers use to map, plan, visualize, interpret, and analyze geographic data. (Half credit for the acronym)
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
[DAILY DOUBLE]
Name the 7 items of a computer than require it to run. Also name any potential items that would cause the computer to run better. Whoever names more items wins the round. Failing to name any of the 7 is an auto DQ.
The player in this game can theoretically carry 20 quintillion (20,000,000,000,000,000,000) pounds of material in his inventory.
Minecraft (36 shulkers, filled with 27 stacks of blue ice.)
Ryan’s favorite city (he has been to)
Utrecht, Netherlands
The country who remained complete sovereignty over the Netherlands until 1588, so which the Dutch fought for independence in the 80 years war.
Spain
A term to describe the movement in planning that calls for higher density development, more accessible transit options, and mixed-use development.
New Urbanism
The observation and theory that the transistors and performance of computer parts doubles every 2-3 years, making new computer hardware obsolete very quickly.
Moore’s Law
This video has been attributed to the “Video Game crash of 1983”, and is widely considered one of the worst video games of all time.
E.T the Extra Terrestial for the Atari 2600
Ryan’s favorite video game.
Red Dead Redemption 2