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2 200 400 600 800 1000 200 400 600 800 1000 200 400 600 800 1000 200 400 600 800 1000 200 400 600 800 1000 Indus-triviaAcronymsDepartment Trivia Random Bytes Turing and His Award Second Round CS Jeopardy! December 2011

3 Help (1) Save a duplicate of this template. (2) Enter all answers and questions in the normal view. (view/normal) (3) Change the category headings in the normal view (view/normal) (4) View as a slideshow. (5) Use the home red button after each question. ©Norman Herr, 2003

4 Question Answer Indus-trivia-200 ANSWER: This company, who has a corporate motto of “Do no evil,” was initiated from results of a National Science Foundation grant. QUESTION: What is Google?

5 Question Answer Indus-trivia-400 ANSWER: Steve Jobs’ vision for the Macintosh came from a famous visit to this research center. QUESTION: What is Xerox PARC?

6 Question Answer Indus-trivia-600 ANSWER: This Hungarian-born billionaire was previously associated with Martha Stewart and has twice flown into outer space, but is best known as the “Father of Microsoft Word.” QUESTION: Who is Charles Simonyi?

7 Question Answer Indus-trivia-800 ANSWER: Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari, created this restaurant chain to promote his video games. QUESTION: What is Chuck E. Cheese pizza?

8 Question Answer Indus-trivia-1000 ANSWER: This is the name of Amazon’s Cloud service. QUESTION: What is EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud)?

9 Question Answer ANSWER: BASIC QUESTION: What is Beginners All- purpose Symbolic Instruction Code? Acronyms-200

10 Question Answer Acronyms-400 ANSWER: XML QUESTION: What is Extensible Markup Language?

11 Question Answer Acronyms-600 ANSWER: PIXEL QUESTION: What is Picture Element?

12 Question Answer Acronyms-800 ANSWER: QR (as in QR Code) QUESTION: What is Quick Response?

13 Question Answer Acronyms-1000 ANSWER: Luis von Ahn of CMU devised this technology for authenticating human users to challenge spambots. QUESTION: What are Completely Automated Public Turing tests to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHAs)?

14 Question Answer Department Trivia-200 ANSWER: This faculty member received his Ph.D. from a university that will be playing in the SEC Championship Game this weekend. QUESTION: Who is Dr. David Cordes?

15 Question Answer Department Trivia-400 ANSWER: She assists in many department activities, including arranging for the snacks at this event. QUESTION: Who is Jamie Thompson?

16 Question Answer Department Trivia-600 ANSWER: Our Department will host the 50 th Anniversary of this ACM conference. QUESTION: What is the ACM Southeast Conference?

17 Question Answer Department Trivia-800 ANSWER: He is the primary advisor for CS undergraduates. Notably, he was born in Japan and his birth announcements were postmarked the day before he was born. QUESTION: Who is Dr. Marcus Brown?

18 Question Answer Department Trivia-1000 ANSWER: She is the President-elect of the UA ACM Student Chapter. QUESTION: Who is Kim Kosta?

19 Question Answer Random Bytes-200 ANSWER: He is often credited as the inventor of the mouse. QUESTION: Who is Doug Englebart?

20 Question Answer Random Bytes-400 ANSWER: The octal representation of 31 is equivalent to this decimal number. QUESTION: What is 25? (Oct 31 = Dec 25)

21 Question Answer Random Bytes-600 ANSWER: The Iowa State University computer science building is named after this early pioneer, who some say invented the first electronic digital computer. QUESTION: Who is John Atanasoff?

22 Question Answer Random Bytes-800 ANSWER: She is often credited as the first programmer. QUESTION: Who is Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace?

23 Question Answer Random Bytes-1000 ANSWER: He invented punch cards to help tabulate the 1890 census. His company was the predecessor to IBM. QUESTION: Who is Herman Hollerith?

24 Question Answer Turing-200 ANSWER: This is the popular name given to an approach for determining a machine’s ability to exhibit intelligent behavior. QUESTION: What is the Turing Test?

25 Question Answer Turing-400 ANSWER: These two Turing Award winners both died in October 2011 (name both). QUESTION: Who are Dennis Ritchie (1983) and John McCarthy (1971)?

26 Question Answer Turing-600 ANSWER: This former Xerox PARC researcher, who is also a Turing Award winner and co-inventor of Smalltalk, said during his Turing Lecture, “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” QUESTION: Who is Alan Kay?

27 Question Answer Turing-800 ANSWER: Born in India, educated in England, Turing received his Ph.D. from this American university under the supervision of Alonzo Church. QUESTION: What is Princeton University?

28 Question Answer Turing-1000 ANSWER: She is the second woman to be awarded the Turing Award (2008). QUESTION: Who is Barbara Liskov?

29 Question Answer FINAL JEOPARDY ANSWER: Pauli Exclusion Principle QUESTION:


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