Video games
The mobile app development company Niantic struck gold in 2016 with what smash-hit smartphone game that captured tens of millions of players within days of its release?
(hint: players mainly play outdoors)
Pokemon Go
What is the programming language developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and named after the type of coffee from Indonesia?
Java
What number is Google named after? Provide it in scientific notation
Invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989, this system of interlinked hypertext documents is what the "WWW" stands for in web addresses.
World wide web
What is the name of Atharva's dog?
Midas
What 1980s arcade game was inducted into the Guinness Book of Records as the "Most Successful Coin-Operated Game" in 2005?
Pac-Man
Python was named after which British comedy television show?
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Former Cisco engineer & executive, Eric Yuan, left to found what speedy meeting company in 2011? The company released its first version of their eponymous software two years later and had a "breakout year" in 2020.
Zoom
What is the name of IBM's 1997 chess-playing supercomputer that made headlines around the world when it defeated reigning world champion Garry Kasparov in a six-game match?
Deep Blue
Name one of April's favorite math/physics youtubers
Veritasium, 3Blue1Brown, Up and Atom (any one of these)
What is thought to be the first video game, created in 1958 and becoming popular in the 1970s?
Pong
Which programming language was created by Brendan Eich in just 10 days during May 1995 while he was working at Netscape?
JavaScript
This software company's name comes from a river that ran behind the house of its co-founder, John Warnock.
Adobe
If a requested web server is not found, it throws a 404. What does it throw if the requested server was found, but the user is "forbidden" from accessing it?
403
How much power does Ediz have in Rise of Kingdoms?
80 million (70 million is also OK)
Welsh software engineer Josh Wardle was paid in the "low seven figures" by the New York Times in January 2022 for what wildly popular daily game?
Wordle
What language powers Roblox and World of Warcraft?
Lua
What did Jeff Bezos originally want to name Amazon?
Cadabra
While 8 bits is a byte, this delicious-sounding term is used in computer science to describe a 4-bit aggregation, or half a byte.
nibble (nybble)
How many Lego sets does Sandy own?
(give a range of size 10)
43
Pocket, Light, Color, and Advance were all styles or variants of what video game hardware system?
Game Boy
What was JavaScript's original name?
LiveScript
Apple's third co-founder, Ronald Wayne, sold his 10% stake in the company in 1976 for this shockingly low dollar amount.
$800
What does CAPTCHA (the "I am not a robot" test) stand for?
Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
Name 7 of the retired captains
(why did you choose 500?)
Kundan, Steven, Armaan, Arthur, Andy, Daniel, Raymond, Anmol, Canchen, Dylan, Haroldas, Jack, Karthik, Kelly, Kenny, Razoreign
(idk if these are some of their real names, they're just the names from the Discord)