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100

The number of primitive types Java has.

What is 8?

100

The year that LinkedIn became public.

What is 2011?

100

The first widely used programming language.

What is Fortran?

100

This university was crucial in the development of Silicon Valley.

What is Stanford University?

100

This AI, famous for beating grandmasters in chess, was invented by IBM.

Who is Watson?

200

This keyword can be used with classes, variables, methods, and fields.

What is final?

200

The room of Reid Hoffman's house where LinkedIn started.

What is the living room?

200

This computer scientist is often credited with the invention of the web in Switzerland.

Who is Tim Berners Lee?

200

This company is often credited as the "Birthplace of Silicon Valley"

What is Hewlett Packard?

200

The famous field with a blue sky background on the Windows operating system was taken at this county.

What is Sonoma County?

300
The name of the company that created the Java programming language.

What is Sun Microsystems?

300

The year Lynda.com was acquired.

What is 2015?

300

The year the term "software engineering" began to take hold.

What is 1963?

300

This city is known as the place with the most expensive zip code in the U.S.

What is Atherton?

300

This name, also a way to massage someone, was the original name for Google.

What is BackRub?

400

This is what Java's first name used to be.

What is Oak?

400
The college that Jeff Weiner graduated from.

What is University of Pennsylvania?

400

This school, located in New York, is the first to offer a bachelor's degree in software engineering.

What is the Rochester Institute of Technology?

400

This club, also the name of a package manager for macOS, started an informal group of technology enthusiasts in 1975.

What is Homebrew?
400

This is the car brand of the car Steven Jobs sold to fund Apple when he first started the company.

What is a Volkswagen?

500

This is the name of the mascot of the Java programming language.

What is Duke?

500
The place where Ryan Roslansky was born.

What is South Lake Tahoe, California?

500

This nickname for the valley came about due to technology replacing humans at work and for the number of startups that would fail.

What is the Valley of Death?

500

This element was first used for transistors before silicon became popular.

What is germanium?

500

This famous bookstore chain is where Jeff Bezos first held meetings when starting Amazon.

What is Barnes and Noble?