The fastest possible running time for a sorting algorithm. (ignoring radix sort)
What is n log n?
100
He amazed the country when he made disturbingly accurate predictions about the outcome of the 2012 election.
Who is Nate Silver?
100
Recently became CEO of Yahoo.
Who is Marisa Mayer?
100
An American singing competition that produced stars such as Kelly Clarkson or Carrie Underwood.
What is American Idol?
100
TV show featuring a vampire named Caroline.
What is The Vampire Diaries
200
Data structure with constant access time that is often the answer to interview questions.
What is a Hashmap/Hashset?
200
Silver medalist at the 2012 Olympic games on Women's Vault, however was not too impressed.
Who is Mckayla Maroney?
200
Famous for wearing turtlenecks.
Who is Steve Jobs?
200
A show that mesmerized the nation in its first season when a plane crashed on a mysterious island. Then quickly got more and more confusing and viewers lost interest.
What is LOST?
200
Caroline featured in the chorus of this famous Outkast song.
What is Roses?
300
The tree traversal that will print out a binary search tree from smallest number to largest.
What is Inorder Traversal?
300
Breakout star from a movie based on a book trilogy featuring a strong female lead.
Who is Jennifer Lawrence?
300
Gave these famous 3 pieces of advice:
1) Sit at the table.
2) Don't leave before you leave.
3) Make your partner a real partner
Who is Sheryl Sandberg?
300
A show that lasted 7 seasons featuring a single mother and her daughter in a small connecticut town. It is well known for it's witty banter.
What is Gilmore Girls?
300
Sung a famous song entitled "Sweet Caroline"
Who is Neil Diamond?
400
Machine learning algorithm that that aims to find the "best" line that separates data points.
What is support vector machine?
400
Recently won the country music awards "Entertainer of the Year" award and judges on a singing competition.
Who is Blake Shelton?
400
Infamous investor once arrested after caught with cocaine at a party.
Who is Sean Parker?
400
A new ABC hit drama featuring battling country music stars.
What is Nashville?
400
Animated film with a name of edit distance 2 from Caroline.
What is Coraline?
500
A method of compacting a string such that you can easily recover the original string uses all suffixes of the string to compute the compacted version.
What is burrows wheeler transform?
500
Winner of the American Music Awards "Artist of the Year"
Who is Justin Bieber?
500
Was once a contestant on Dancing with the Stars
Who is Steve Wozniak.
500
A tv show that only lasted 3 seasons starring Kristen Bell has a high school teenager helping out at her fathers private investigator firm.