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100

She wrote the first algorithm intended for a machine, earning her the title of the world's first programmer.

Ada Lovelace
100

In Python, this single character is used to start a comment.

#

100

This company owns both Instagram and WhatsApp.

Meta

100

The U of M mascot is this animal.

Bison

100

This fruit appears on the back of every Apple product.

 An apple (with a bite taken out)

200

This mathematician coined the term 'computer bug' after finding a literal moth in a relay of the Harvard Mark II.

 Grace Hopper

200

In most C-style languages, this keyword exits a loop immediately.

break

200

Twitter was acquired in 2022 by this billionaire and rebranded to this single letter.

Elon / X

200

WiCS stands for this.

Women in Computer Science

200

In the NATO phonetic alphabet, 'W' is represented by this word.

Whiskey

300

She and her team of 'human computers' at NASA calculated the orbital mechanics for John Glenn's historic 1962 flight.

Katherine Johnson

300

This Python keyword is used to define a generator function that yields values one at a time.

yield

300

This company, founded in 1994 as an online bookstore, is now one of the largest cloud computing providers in the world.

(Answer: Amazon)

300

Name the CS course at U of M that covers operating systems

3040, 

300

This 1999 movie features a character who discovers their entire reality is a simulation — relevant for CS students.

The Matrix

400

This Egyptian-American scientist co-invented Wi-Fi security (WEP) and holds over 30 patents in wireless communication.

 Hedy Lamarr

400

In JavaScript, this method creates a new array populated with the results of calling a function on every element.

 .map()

400

This company was originally called "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" before being renamed.

Yahoo

400

This network is where CS students most often submit assignments (2nd year and higher)

Aviary

400

Wordle was bought by this major newspaper in 2022.

The New York Times

500

She became the first woman to win the Turing Award (in 2006), recognized for her work on formal verification and abstraction.

Frances Allen (first female IBM Fellow/Turing Award winner)

500

In regex, this quantifier matches 'one or more' of the preceding element.

+

500

Before it was called ____ , this search engine had the working name "Backrub.

Answer: Google

500

This annual U of M tradition recognizes outstanding student involvement and contributions on campus.

 Student Life Awards / President's Student Leadership Award — accept any valid award

500

This programming language shares its name with a tropical island in Indonesia and is used to make your web pages interactive.

Java (JavaScript) — accept either