Introductory Questions
Prog Not Reg
MTDCEBL
The End is Nearish
Draft
100

Who is the singer behind the song “My Way”?

Frank Sinatra

100

An example of an indeterminate progress bar

Splash screen, throbber, skeleton screen

100

Describe the Eisenhower matrix

4 quadrants, do, delegate, defer, delete

100

The Mayan Apocalypse was predicted to happen in WHICH year?

2012

100

How many drafts/versions are there of Bedroom In Arles by Vincent Van Gogh?

3

200

Two example of a nuclear-powered car model

Ford Nucleon, Seattle-ite, Astral, Arbel Symetric

200

What is the problem from which the creation of progress bars came from?

Not knowing when computers would crash

200

Eating your “frog” refers to the action of…

Doing your hardest task first thing 

200

Volatility, whether it is in stock markets or lakes, often means...

collapse

200

Describe the figure in the Despair version of the famous The Scream

more human, has a top hat, facing away from the viewer

300

Which event popularized the food pill in the 1950s?

The Space Race

300

Give an example of a placebo button in our every day lives

Elevators, street crossing, thermometers, etc.

300

The Zeigarnik Effect can be best described as…

The hold that uncompleted tasks have on our brain

300

What was predicted to happen with the planets in 1974 that would cause enormous earthquakes? 

The Jupiter Effect, all the planets lining up on the same side of the Earth

300

Which song in the curriculum was never replaced in the final musical (give me the name of the song and musical) ?

Dead Mom and Beetlejuice

400

What country was infamous for its karaoke killings associated with the song “My Way”?

The Philippines

400

If I wanted to lower engagement rates, I should go for which kind of fill for progress indicators?

Slow to fast

400

The Ivy Lee method was originally created to help whom with the managing of his shipbuilding company?

Charles Schwab

400

Which painting represents the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse as war itself?

Henry Louis Freund
400
The "strawberry fields" referred to in Strawberry Fields Forever is, in real life, a...

Salvation Army Strawberry Fields

500

The quote often wrongly attributed Ralph Waldo Emerson actually was first said by…

Lynn H Hough

500

Name all 5 components of GDP

Consumer spending, government spending, investment, exports, imports

500

In the ABCDE method stated in Brian Tracy's "Eat That Frog", what does "C" stand for OR give an example of a "C" task

Nice to do, task example: reorganizing bookshelves

500

Apocalypse '42 was made to oppose which political ideology?

facism, authoritarianism

500

Bedroom In Arles was meant to encompass which specific emotion/state and which element of the painting MOST evokes this emotion?

tranquility, the colours