SFU Surge Jeopardy

SFU

100

This former SFU athlete ran the Marathon of Hope to raise money for cancer research.

Terry Fox

200

This SFU campus location resides on the unceded traditional territories of the səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Coast Salish people.

Burnaby campus

300

SFU is the first Canadian university to compete in this athletic association.

National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).

400

This was the proposed name for Simon Fraser University when it was opening in 1965.

Fraser University (FU)

500

This famous SFU alumni starred in the hit film "Parasite".

Choi-Woo Sik

Surge

100

This is SFU's largest MLH accredited hackathon.

StormHacks

200

This Surge mascot isn't the most technical of otters. Instead, they can be found drawing - and are sometimes distracted by dinosaurs. 

Sparky

300

As the more technical Surge mascot, this otter turns ideas into prototypes. With their big grain ideas, they help hackers build new things.

Stormy

500

This German software company will be giving an office tour to SFU Surge members in March.

SAP

Gaming

100

This video game franchise is the inspiration for the Netflix series "Arcane".

League of Legends

200

This game features a war between humans and an alien alliance known as the Covenant.

Halo

300

This Minecraft character has a beard.

Steve

400

Before they made video games, this Japanese company produced playing cards.

Nintendo

500

This video game company had a mass burial of unsold video game cartridges, consoles, and computers in a New Mexico landfill site.

Atari

Tech

100

A rival of Thomas Edison, this inventor once worked for him and is widely known for his experiments with electricity.

Nikola Tesla

200

A tag-based programming language designed to create websites.

HTML

300

A detailed outline or rough draft of a program. Done in words.

Pseudocode

400

This is the most used version control system.

GitHub

500

This British mathematician helped the Allies win the Second World War with his advances in computer science. 

Alan Turing

Entertainment

100

This is the highest rated MCU movie on Rotten Tomatoes.

Black Panther

200

It took this many years for the second Avatar sequel to come out after the first.

13 years

300

After Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars, he won the Best Actor award for this movie.

King Richard

400

Before his return to stardom in  Everything, Everywhere All at Once, Ke Huy Quan was best known for playing this Indiana Jones sidekick.

Short Round

500

This 2022 Indian movie won the Golden Globe for best original song.

RRR