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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Who was the most iconic founder and leader of Apple?	Steve Jobs	72%
Is an Arduino typically more of a fully functional computer than a Raspberry Pi (Yes or No)?	No	63%
What operating system was created by Linus Torvalds?	Linux	50%
Which creature's name is also the name of a popular language for developing AI?	Python	43%
What does the acronym IoT usually stand for?	Internet of Things	33%
What is the name of the computer language that is the closest to what CPUs actually understand	Machine code	30%
What is the biggest number that can be held in one byte?	255	28%
What is the term for data compression which preserves all the detail of the original message	Lossless	28%
What prefix means one thousand times more than tera?	Peta	28%
Which Chinese company started with search, and is sometimes thought of as the Chinese Google?	Baidu	26%
Which computer language was well known for using lots of parentheses	Lisp	26%
What term is used to describe making code harder to understand and copy	Obfuscation	24%
Who invented bitcoin?	Satoshi Nakamoto	24%
Which scientist's name is typically used to describe a conventional computer's hardware architecture	Von Neumann	20%
Which sorting algorithm works by flipping pairs of items?	Bubble	15%
What term is used for a software approach where functions can call themselves?	Recursion	15%
Which Artificial Intelligence library is most closely associated with Google?	Tensorflow	15%
By the end of June 2019, how many tech companies had reached $1 trillion valuation?	Three	15%
What does the character 'P' stand for in the acronym WIMP, used to describe a windows-based user interface?	Pointer	13%
What is layer 5 of the OSI seven layer stack?	Session	13%
What CPU chip was in the Commodore Vic-20?	6502	11%
And what prefix means one million times more than tera?	Exa	11%
What term is sometimes used for software that is marketed before it actually exists?	Vaporware	11%
What word is used to describe systems that allow transactions to be reliably recorded without any central authority?	Blockchain	9%
What is the term used for putting a specification for a piece of work on an open platform, allowing anyone to compete, with the winner getting a reward?	Crowdsourcing	4%
A way to illustrate problems in parallel processing is called "The Dining ________ Problem"?	Philosophers	4%
In AI, which type of learning involves trying different moves and seeing which scores best	Reinforcement	4%
What did the computer language WSFN's letters stand for?	Which Stands For Nothing	4%
What important activity to make software ready for broad usage is referred to as i18n?	Internationalization	2%
What type of learning does the technique known as K-means typically fall into	Unsupervised	2%