path: root/bot/resources/fun/trivia_quiz.json

{
  "retro": [
    {
      "id": 1,
      "hints": [
        "It is not a mainline Mario Game, although the plumber is present.",
        "It is not a mainline Zelda Game, although Link is present."
      ],
      "question": "What is the best selling game on the Nintendo GameCube?",
      "answer": "Super Smash Bros"
    },
    {
      "id": 2,
      "hints": [
        "It was released before the 90's.",
        "It was released after 1980."
      ],
      "question": "What year was Tetris released?",
      "answer": "1984"
    },
    {
      "id": 3,
      "hints": [
        "The occupation was in construction",
        "He appeared as this kind of worker in 1981's Donkey Kong"
      ],
      "question": "What was Mario's original occupation?",
      "answer": "Carpenter"
    },
    {
      "id": 4,
      "hints": [
        "It was revealed in the Nintendo Character Guide in 1993.",
        "His last name has to do with eating Mario's enemies."
      ],
      "question": "What is Yoshi's (from Mario Bros.) full name?",
      "answer": "Yoshisaur Munchakoopas"
    },
    {
      "id": 5,
      "hints": [
        "The game was released in 1990.",
        "It was released on the SNES."
      ],
      "question": "What was the first game Yoshi appeared in?",
      "answer": "Super Mario World"
    },
    {
      "id": 6,
      "hints": [
        "They were used alternatively to playing cards.",
        "They generally have handdrawn nature images on them."
      ],
      "question": "What did Nintendo make before video games and toys?",
      "answer": ["Hanafuda", "Hanafuda cards"]
    },
    {
      "id": 7,
      "hints": [
        "Before being Nintendo's main competitor in home gaming, they were successful in arcades.",
        "Their first console was called the Master System."
      ],
      "question": "Who was Nintendo's biggest competitor in 1990?",
      "answer": "Sega"
    }
  ],
  "general": [
    {
      "id": 100,
      "question": "Name \"the land of a thousand lakes\"",
      "answer": "Finland",
      "info": "Finland is a country in Northern Europe. Sweden borders it to the northwest, Estonia to the south, Russia to the east, and Norway to the north. Finland is part of the European Union with its capital city being Helsinki. With a population of 5.5 million people, it has over 187,000 lakes. The thousands of lakes in Finland are the reason why the country's nickname is \"the land of a thousand lakes.\""
    },
    {
      "id": 101,
      "question": "Who was the winner of FIFA 2018?",
      "answer": "France",
      "info": "France 4 - 2 Croatia"
    },
    {
      "id": 102,
      "question": "What is the largest ocean in the world?",
      "answer": "Pacific",
      "info": "The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of the world ocean basins. Covering approximately 63 million square miles and containing more than half of the free water on Earth, the Pacific is by far the largest of the world's ocean basins."
    },
    {
      "id": 103,
      "question": "Who gifted the Statue Of Liberty?",
      "answer": "France",
      "info": "The Statue of Liberty was a gift from the French people commemorating the alliance of France and the United States during the American Revolution. Yet, it represented much more to those individuals who proposed the gift."
    },
    {
      "id": 104,
      "question": "Which country is known as the \"Land Of The Rising Sun\"?",
      "answer": "Japan",
      "info": "The title stems from the Japanese names for Japan, Nippon/Nihon, both literally translating to \"the suns origin\"."
    },
    {
      "id": 105,
      "question": "What's known as the \"Playground of Europe\"?",
      "answer": "Switzerland",
      "info": "It comes from the title of a book written in 1870 by Leslie Stephen (father of Virginia Woolf) detailing his exploits of mountain climbing (not skiing) of which sport he was one of the pioneers and trekking or walking."
    },
    {
      "id": 106,
      "question": "Which country is known as the \"Land of Thunderbolt\"?",
      "answer": "Bhutan",
      "info": "Bhutan is known as the \"Land of Thunder Dragon\" or \"Land of Thunderbolt\" due to the violent and large thunderstorms that whip down through the valleys from the Himalayas. The dragon reference was due to people thinking the sparkling light of thunderbolts was the red fire of a dragon."
    },
    {
      "id": 107,
      "question": "Which country is the largest producer of tea in the world?",
      "answer": "China",
      "info": "Tea is mainly grown in Asia, Africa, South America, and around the Black and Caspian Seas. The four biggest tea-producing countries today are China, India, Sri Lanka and Kenya. Together they represent 75% of world production."
    },
    {
      "id": 108,
      "question": "Which country is the largest producer of coffee?",
      "answer": "Brazil",
      "info": "Brazil is the world's largest coffee producer. In 2016, Brazil produced a staggering 2,595,000 metric tons of coffee beans. It is not a new development, as Brazil has been the highest global producer of coffee beans for over 150 years."
    },
    {
      "id": 109,
      "question": "Which country is Mount Etna, one of the most active volcanoes in the world, located?",
      "answer": "Italy",
      "info": "Mount Etna is the highest volcano in Europe. Towering above the city of Catania on the island of Sicily, it has been growing for about 500,000 years and is in the midst of a series of eruptions that began in 2001."
    },
    {
      "id": 110,
      "question": "Which country is called \"Battleground of Europe?\"",
      "answer": "Belgium",
      "info": "Belgium has been the \"Battleground of Europe\" since the Roman Empire as it had no natural protection from its larger neighbouring countries. The battles of Oudenaarde, Ramillies, Waterloo, Ypres and Bastogne were all fought on Belgian soil."
    },
    {
      "id": 111,
      "question": "Which is the largest tropical rain forest in the world?",
      "answer": "Amazon",
      "info": "The Amazon is regarded as vital in the fight against global warming due to its ability to absorb carbon from the air. It's often referred to as the \"lungs of the Earth,\" as more than 20 per cent of the world's oxygen is produced there."
    },
    {
      "id": 112,
      "question": "Which is the largest island in the world?",
      "answer": "Greenland",
      "info": "Commonly thought to be Australia, but as it's actually a continental landmass, it doesn't get to make it in the list."
    },
    {
      "id": 113,
      "question": "What's the name of the tallest waterfall in the world.",
      "answer": "Angel Falls",
      "info": "Angel Falls (Salto \u00c1ngel) in Venezuela is the highest waterfall in the world. The falls are 3230 feet in height, with an uninterrupted drop of 2647 feet. Angel Falls is located on a tributary of the Rio Caroni."
    },
    {
      "id": 114,
      "question": "What country is called \"Land of White Elephants\"?",
      "answer": "Thailand",
      "info": "White elephants were regarded to be holy creatures in ancient Thailand and some other countries. Today, white elephants are still used as a symbol of divine and royal power in the country. Ownership of a white elephant symbolizes wealth, success, royalty, political power, wisdom, and prosperity."
    },
    {
      "id": 115,
      "question": "Which city is in two continents?",
      "answer": "Istanbul",
      "info": "Istanbul embraces two continents, one arm reaching out to Asia, the other to Europe."
    },
    {
      "id": 116,
      "question": "The Valley Of The Kings is located in which country?",
      "answer": "Egypt",
      "info": "The Valley of the Kings, also known as the Valley of the Gates of the Kings, is a valley in Egypt where, for a period of nearly 500 years from the 16th to 11th century BC, rock cut tombs were excavated for the pharaohs and powerful nobles of the New Kingdom (the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Dynasties of Ancient Egypt)."
    },
    {
      "id": 117,
      "question": "Diamonds are always nice in Minecraft, but can you name the \"Diamond Capital in the World\"?",
      "answer": "Antwerp",
      "info": "Antwerp, Belgium is where 60-80% of the world's diamonds are cut and traded, and is known as the \"Diamond Capital of the World.\""
    },
    {
      "id": 118,
      "question": "Where is the \"International Court Of Justice\" located at?",
      "answer": "The Hague",
      "info": ""
    },
    {
      "id": 119,
      "question": "In which country is Bali located in?",
      "answer": "Indonesia",
      "info": ""
    },
    {
      "id": 120,
      "question": "What country is the world's largest coral reef system, the \"Great Barrier Reef\", located in?",
      "answer": "Australia",
      "info": "The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,300 kilometres (1,400 mi) over an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometres (133,000 sq mi). The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, Australia."
    },
    {
      "id": 121,
      "question": "When did the First World War start?",
      "answer": "1914",
      "info": "The first world war began in August 1914. It was directly triggered by the assassination of the Austrian archduke, Franz Ferdinand and his wife, on 28th June 1914 by Bosnian revolutionary, Gavrilo Princip. This event was, however, simply the trigger that set off declarations of war."
    },
    {
      "id": 122,
      "question": "Which is the largest hot desert in the world?",
      "answer": "Sahara",
      "info": "The Sahara Desert covers 3.6 million square miles. It is almost the same size as the United States or China. There are sand dunes in the Sahara as tall as 590 feet."
    },
    {
      "id": 123,
      "question": "Who lived at 221B, Baker Street, London?",
      "answer": "Sherlock Holmes",
      "info": ""
    },
    {
      "id": 124,
      "question": "When did the Second World War end?",
      "answer": "1945",
      "info": "World War 2 ended with the unconditional surrender of the Axis powers. On 8 May 1945, the Allies accepted Germany's surrender, about a week after Adolf Hitler had committed suicide. VE Day \u2013 Victory in Europe celebrates the end of the Second World War on 8 May 1945."
    },
    {
      "id": 125,
      "question": "What is the name of the largest dam in the world?",
      "answer": "Three Gorges Dam",
      "info": "At 1.4 miles wide (2.3 kilometers) and 630 feet (192 meters) high, Three Gorges Dam is the largest hydroelectric dam in the world, according to International Water Power & Dam Construction magazine. Three Gorges impounds the Yangtze River about 1,000 miles (1,610 km) west of Shanghai."
    },
    {
      "id": 126,
      "question": "Which is the smallest planet in the Solar System?",
      "answer": "Mercury",
      "info": "Mercury is the smallest planet in our solar system. It's just a little bigger than Earth's moon. It is the closest planet to the sun, but it's actually not the hottest. Venus is hotter."
    },
    {
      "id": 127,
      "question": "What is the smallest country?",
      "answer": "Vatican City",
      "info": "With an area of 0.17 square miles (0.44 km2) and a population right around 1,000, Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, both in terms of size and population."
    },
    {
      "id": 128,
      "question": "What's the name of the largest bird?",
      "answer": "Ostrich",
      "info": "The largest living bird, a member of the Struthioniformes, is the ostrich (Struthio camelus), from the plains of Africa and Arabia. A large male ostrich can reach a height of 2.8 metres (9.2 feet) and weigh over 156 kilograms (344 pounds)."
    },
    {
      "id": 129,
      "question": "What does the acronym GPRS stand for?",
      "answer": "General Packet Radio Service",
      "info": "General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) is a packet-based mobile data service on the global system for mobile communications (GSM) of 3G and 2G cellular communication systems. It is a non-voice, high-speed and useful packet-switching technology intended for GSM networks."
    },
    {
      "id": 130,
      "question": "In what country is the Ebro river located?",
      "answer": "Spain",
      "info": "The Ebro river is located in Spain. It is 930 kilometers long and it's the second longest river that ends on the Mediterranean Sea."
    },
    {
      "id": 131,
      "question": "What year was the IBM PC model 5150 introduced into the market?",
      "answer": "1981",
      "info": "The IBM PC was introduced into the market in 1981. It used the Intel 8088, with a clock speed of 4.77 MHz, along with the MDA and CGA as a video card."
    },
    {
      "id": 132,
      "question": "What's the world's largest urban area?",
      "answer": "Tokyo",
      "info": "Tokyo is the most populated city in the world, with a population of 37 million people. It is located in Japan."
    },
    {
      "id": 133,
      "question": "How many planets are there in the Solar system?",
      "answer": "8",
      "info": "In the Solar system, there are 8 planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Pluto isn't considered a planet in the Solar System anymore."
    },
    {
      "id": 134,
      "question": "What is the capital of Iraq?",
      "answer": "Baghdad",
      "info": "Baghdad is the capital of Iraq. It has a population of 7 million people."
    },
    {
      "id": 135,
      "question": "The United Nations headquarters is located at which city?",
      "answer": "New York",
      "info": "The United Nations is headquartered in New York City in a complex designed by a board of architects led by Wallace Harrison and built by the architectural firm Harrison & Abramovitz. The complex has served as the official headquarters of the United Nations since its completion in 1951."
    },
    {
      "id": 136,
      "question": "At what year did Christopher Columbus discover America?",
      "answer": "1492",
      "info": "The explorer Christopher Columbus made four trips across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain: in 1492, 1493, 1498 and 1502. He was determined to find a direct water route west from Europe to Asia, but he never did. Instead, he stumbled upon the Americas"
    }
  ],
  "math": [
    {
      "id": 201,
      "question": "What is the highest power of a biquadratic polynomial?",
      "answer": ["4", "four"]
    },
    {
      "id": 202,
      "question": "What is the formula for surface area of a sphere?",
      "answer": ["4pir^2", "4πr^2"]
    },
    {
      "id": 203,
      "question": "Which theorem states that hypotenuse^2 = base^2 + height^2?",
      "answer": ["Pythagorean's", "Pythagorean's theorem"]
    },
    {
      "id": 204,
      "question": "Which trigonometric function is defined as hypotenuse/opposite?",
      "answer": ["cosecant", "cosec", "csc"]
    },
    {
      "id": 205,
      "question": "Does the harmonic series converge or diverge?",
      "answer": "diverge"
    },
    {
      "id": 206,
      "question": "How many quadrants are there in a cartesian plane?",
      "answer": ["4", "four"]
    },
    {
      "id": 207,
      "question": "What is the (0,0) coordinate in a cartesian plane termed as?",
      "answer": "origin"
    },
    {
      "id": 208,
      "question": "What's the following formula that finds the area of a triangle called?",
      "img_url": "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/png/d22b8566e8187542966e8d166e72e93746a1a6fc",
      "answer": ["Heron's formula", "Heron"]
    },
    {
      "id": 209,
      "dynamic_id": 201,
      "question": "Solve the following system of linear equations (format your answer like this <x> & <y>):\n{}x + {}y = {},\n{}x + {}y = {}",
      "answer": "{} & {}"
    },
    {
      "id": 210,
      "dynamic_id": 202,
      "question": "What's {} + {} mod {} congruent to?",
      "answer": "{}"
    },
    {
      "id": 211,
      "question": "What is the bottom number on a fraction called?",
      "answer": "denominator"
    },
    {
      "id": 212,
      "dynamic_id": 203,
      "question": "How many vertices are on a {}gonal prism?",
      "answer": "{}"
    },
    {
      "id": 213,
      "question": "What is the term used to describe two triangles that have equal corresponding sides and angle measures?",
      "answer": "congruent"
    },
    {
      "id": 214,
      "question": "⅓πr^2h is the volume of which 3 dimensional figure?",
      "answer": "cone"
    },
    {
      "id": 215,
      "dynamic_id": 204,
      "question": "Find the square root of -{}.",
      "answer": "{}i"
    },
    {
      "id": 216,
      "question": "In set builder notation, what does {p/q | q ≠ 0, p & q ∈ Z} represent?",
      "answer": ["Rationals", "Rational Numbers"]
    },
    {
      "id": 217,
      "question": "What is the natural log of -1 (use i for imaginary number)?",
      "answer": ["pi*i", "pii", "πi"]
    },
    {
      "id": 218,
      "question": "When is the *inaugural* World Maths Day (format your answer in MM/DD)?",
      "answer": "03/13"
    },
    {
      "id": 219,
      "question": "As the Fibonacci sequence extends to infinity, what's the ratio of each number `n` and its preceding number `n-1` approaching?",
      "answer": "Golden Ratio"
    },
    {
      "id": 220,
      "question": "0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34 are numbers of which sequence?",
      "answer": "Fibonacci"
    },
    {
      "id": 221,
      "question": "Prime numbers only have __ factors.",
      "answer": ["2", "two"]
    },
    {
      "id": 222,
      "question": "In probability, the \\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_ \\_\\_\\_\\_\\_ of an experiment or random trial is the set of all possible outcomes of it.",
      "answer": "sample space"
    },
    {
      "id": 223,
      "question": "In statistics, what does this formula represent?",
      "img_url": "https://www.statisticshowto.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/sample-standard-deviation.jpg",
      "answer": ["sample standard deviation", "standard deviation of a sample"]
    },
    {
      "id": 224,
      "question": "\"Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia\" is the fear of which number?",
      "answer": "666"
    },
    {
      "id": 225,
      "question": "A matrix multiplied by its inverse matrix equals...",
      "answer": ["the identity matrix", "identity matrix"]
    },
    {
      "id": 226,
      "dynamic_id": 205,
      "question": "BASE TWO QUESTION: Calculate {:b} {} {:b}",
      "answer": "{:b}"
    },
    {
      "id": 227,
      "question": "What is the only number in the entire number system which can be spelled with the same number of letters as itself?",
      "answer": ["4", "four"]

    },
    {
      "id": 228,
      "question": "1/100th of a second is also termed as what?",
      "answer": ["a jiffy", "jiffy", "centisecond"]
    },
    {
      "id": 229,
      "question": "What is this triangle called?",
      "img_url": "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/png/23050fcb53d6083d9e42043bebf2863fa9746043",
      "answer": ["Pascal's triangle", "Pascal"]
    },
    {
      "id": 230,
      "question": "6a^2 is the surface area of which 3 dimensional figure?",
      "answer": "cube"
    }
  ],
  "science": [
    {
      "id": 301,
      "question": "The three main components of a normal atom are: protons, neutrons, and...",
      "answer": "electrons"
    },
    {
      "id": 302,
      "question": "As of 2021, how many elements are there in the Periodic Table?",
      "answer": "118"
    },
    {
      "id": 303,
      "question": "What is the universal force discovered by Newton that causes objects with mass to attract each other called?",
      "answer": "gravity"
    },
    {
      "id": 304,
      "question": "What do you call an organism composed of only one cell?",
      "answer": ["unicellular", "single-celled"]
    },
    {
      "id": 305,
      "question": "The Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle states that the position and \\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_ of a quantum object can't be both exactly measured at the same time.",
      "answer": ["velocity", "momentum"]
    },
    {
      "id": 306,
      "question": "A \\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_ reaction is the one wherein an atom or a set of atoms is/are replaced by another atom or a set of atoms",
      "answer": ["displacement", "exchange", "substitution"]
    },
    {
      "id": 307,
      "question": "What is the process by which green plants and certain other organisms transform light energy into chemical energy?",
      "answer": "photosynthesis"
    },
    {
      "id": 308,
      "dynamic_id": 301,
      "question": "What is the {} planet of our Solar System?",
      "answer": "{}"
    },
    {
      "id": 309,
      "dynamic_id": 302,
      "question": "In the biological taxonomic hierarchy, what is placed directly above {}?",
      "answer": "{}"
    },
    {
      "id": 310,
      "dynamic_id": 303,
      "question": "How does one describe the unit {} in SI base units?\n**IMPORTANT:** enclose answer in backticks, use \\* for multiplication, ^ for exponentiation, and place your base units in this order: m - kg - s - A",
      "img_url": "https://i.imgur.com/NRzU6tf.png",
      "answer": "`{}`"
    },
    {
      "id": 311,
      "question": "How does one call the direct phase transition from gas to solid?",
      "answer": "deposition"
    },
    {
      "id": 312,
      "question": "What is the intermolecular force caused by temporary and induced dipoles?",
      "answer": ["LDF", "London dispersion", "London dispersion force"]
    },
    {
      "id": 313,
      "question": "What is the force that causes objects to float in fluids called?",
      "answer": "buoyancy"
    },
    {
      "id": 314,
      "question": "About how many neurons are in the human brain?\n(A. 1 billion, B. 10 billion, C. 100 billion, D. 300 billion)",
      "answer": ["C", "100 billion", "100 bil"]
    },
    {
      "id": 315,
      "question": "What is the name of our galaxy group in which the Milky Way resides?",
      "answer": "Local Group"
    },
    {
      "id": 316,
      "question": "Which cell organelle is nicknamed \"the powerhouse of the cell\"?",
      "answer": "mitochondria"
    },
    {
      "id": 317,
      "question": "Which vascular tissue transports water and minerals from the roots to the rest of a plant?",
      "answer": ["the xylem", "xylem"]
    },
    {
      "id": 318,
      "question": "Who discovered the theories of relativity?",
      "answer": ["Albert Einstein", "Einstein"]
    },
    {
      "id": 319,
      "question": "In particle physics, the hypothetical isolated elementary particle with only one magnetic pole is termed as...",
      "answer": "magnetic monopole"
    },
    {
      "id": 320,
      "question": "How does one describe a chemical reaction wherein heat is released?",
      "answer": "exothermic"
    },
    {
      "id": 321,
      "question": "What range of frequency are the average human ears capable of hearing?\n(A. 10Hz-10kHz, B. 20Hz-20kHz, C. 20Hz-2000Hz, D. 10kHz-20kHz)",
      "answer": ["B", "20Hz-20kHz"]
    },
    {
      "id": 322,
      "question": "What is the process used to separate substances with different polarity in a mixture, using a stationary and mobile phase?",
      "answer": "chromatography"
    },
    {
      "id": 323,
      "question": "Which law states that the current through a conductor between two points is directly proportional to the voltage across the two points?",
      "answer": "Ohm's law"
    },
    {
      "id": 324,
      "question": "The type of rock that is formed by the accumulation or deposition of mineral or organic particles at the Earth's surface, followed by cementation, is called...",
      "answer": ["sedimentary", "sedimentary rock"]
    },
    {
      "id": 325,
      "question": "Is the Richter scale (common earthquake scale) linear or logarithmic?",
      "answer": "logarithmic"
    },
    {
      "id": 326,
      "question": "What type of image is formed by a convex mirror?",
      "answer": ["virtual image", "virtual"]
    },
    {
      "id": 327,
      "question": "How does one call the branch of physics that deals with the study of mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids including topics such as vibration, sound, ultrasound and infrasound",
      "answer": "acoustics"
    },
    {
      "id": 328,
      "question": "Which law states that the global entropy in a closed system can only increase?",
      "answer": ["second law", "second law of thermodynamics"]
    },
    {
      "id": 329,
      "question": "Which particle is emitted during the beta decay of a radioactive element?",
      "answer": ["an electron", "the electron", "electron"]
    },
    {
      "id": 330,
      "question": "When DNA is unzipped, two strands are formed. What are they called (separate both answers by the word \"and\")?",
      "answer": ["leading and lagging", "leading strand and lagging strand"]
    },
    {
      "id": 331,
      "question": "How much obsidian is required to craft an enchantment table?",
      "answer": "4"
    }
  ],
  "cs": [
    {
      "id": 401,
      "question": "What does HTML stand for?",
      "answer": "HyperText Markup Language"
    },
    {
      "id": 402,
      "question": "What does ASCII stand for?",
      "answer": "American Standard Code for Information Interchange"
    },
    {
      "id": 403,
      "question": "What does SASS stand for?",
      "answer": ["Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets", "Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets"]
    },
    {
      "id": 404,
      "question": "In neural networks, \\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_ is an algorithm for supervised learning using gradient descent.",
      "answer": "backpropagation"
    },
    {
      "id": 405,
      "question": "What is computing capable of performing exaFLOPS called?",
      "answer": ["exascale computing", "exascale"]
    },
    {
      "id": 406,
      "question": "In quantum computing, what is the full name of \"qubit\"?",
      "answer": "quantum binary digit"
    },
    {
      "id": 407,
      "question": "Given that January 1, 1970 is the starting epoch of time_t in c time, and that time_t is stored as a signed 32-bit integer, when will unix time roll over (year)?",
      "answer": "2038"
    },
    {
      "id": 408,
      "question": "What are the components of digital devices that make up logic gates called?",
      "answer": "transistors"
    },
    {
      "id": 409,
      "question": "How many possible public IPv6 addresses are there (answer in 2^n)?",
      "answer": "2^128"
    },
    {
      "id": 410,
      "question": "A hypothetical point in time at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable changes to human civilization is termed as...?",
      "answer": ["technological singularity", "singularity"]
    },
    {
      "id": 411,
      "question": "In cryptography, the practice of establishing a shared secret between two parties using public keys and private keys is called...?",
      "answer": "key exchange"
    },
    {
      "id": 412,
      "question": "How many bits are in a TCP checksum header?",
      "answer": ["16", "sixteen"]
    },
    {
      "id": 413,
      "question": "What is the most popular protocol (as of 2021) that handles communication between email servers?",
      "answer": ["SMTP", "Simple Mail Transfer Protocol"]
    },
    {
      "id": 414,
      "question": "Which port does SMTP use to communicate between email servers? (assuming its plaintext)",
      "answer": "25"
    },
    {
      "id": 415,
      "question": "Which DNS record contains mail servers of a given domain?",
      "answer": ["MX", "mail exchange"]
    },
    {
      "id": 416,
      "question": "Which newline sequence does HTTP use?",
      "answer": ["carriage return line feed", "CRLF", "\\r\\n"]
    },
    {
      "id": 417,
      "question": "What does one call the optimization technique used in CPU design that attempts to guess the outcome of a conditional operation and prepare for the most likely result?",
      "answer": "branch prediction"
    },
    {
      "id": 418,
      "question": "Name a universal logic gate.",
      "answer": ["NAND", "NOR"]
    },
    {
      "id": 419,
      "question": "What is the mathematical formalism which functional programming was built on?",
      "answer": "lambda calculus"
    },
    {
      "id": 420,
      "question": "Why is a DDoS attack different from a DoS attack?\n(A. because the victim's server was indefinitely disrupted from the amount of traffic, B. because it also attacks the victim's confidentiality, C. because the attack had political purposes behind it, D. because the traffic flooding the victim originated from many different sources)",
      "answer": "D"
    },
    {
      "id": 421,
      "question": "What is a HTTP/1.1 feature that was superseded by HTTP/2 multiplexing and is unsupported in most browsers nowadays?",
      "answer": "pipelining"
    },
    {
      "id": 422,
      "question": "Which of these languages is the oldest?\n(Tcl, Smalltalk 80, Haskell, Standard ML, Java)",
      "answer": "Smalltalk 80"
    },
    {
      "id": 423,
      "question": "What kind of characters are needed in UTF-16 to encode unicode codepoints outside the BMP?",
      "answer": ["surrogates", "surrogate"]
    },
    {
      "id": 424,
      "question": "Under what locale does making a string lowercase behave differently?",
      "answer": "Turkish"
    },
    {
      "id": 425,
      "question": "What does the \"a\" represent in a HSLA color value?",
      "answer": ["transparency", "translucency", "alpha value", "alpha channel", "alpha"]
    },
    {
      "id": 426,
      "question": "What is the section of a GIF that is limited to 256 colors called?",
      "answer": "image block"
    },
    {
      "id": 427,
      "question": "What is an interpreter capable of interpreting itself called?",
      "answer": "metainterpreter"
    },
    {
      "id": 428,
      "question": "Due to what data storage medium did old programming languages, such as cobol, ignore all characters past the 72nd column?",
      "answer": "punch cards"
    },
    {
      "id": 429,
      "question": "Which of these sorting algorithms is not stable?\n(Counting sort, quick sort, insertion sort, tim sort, bubble sort)",
      "answer": ["quick", "quick sort"]
    },
    {
      "id": 430,
      "question": "Which of these languages is the youngest?\n(Lisp, Python, Java, Haskell, Prolog, Ruby, Perl)",
      "answer": "Java"
    },
    {
      "id": 431,
      "question": "Which Turing Award winner created a typesetting language based on Tex?",
      "answer": ["Lamport", "Leslie Lamport"]
    },
    {
      "id": 432,
      "question": "What letter is used to separate date and time in ISO 8601?",
      "answer": "T"
    },
    {
      "id": 433,
      "question": "HTTP/3 is built on which Transport Layer Protocol?",
      "answer": "UDP"
    },
    {
      "id": 434,
      "question": "What algorithm yields accurate RTT measurements in TCP?",
      "answer": ["Karn", "Karn-Partridge"]
    },
    {
      "id": 435,
      "question": "What standard provides the basis for Wi-Fi networks?",
      "answer": ["802.11", "IEEE 802.11"]
    },
    {
      "id": 436,
      "question": "A database index that reorders the data to match the index is called a ________ index.",
      "answer": "Clustered"
    },
    {
      "id": 437,
      "question": "What does the 'B' in 'B-Tree' stand for?",
      "answer": ["Nothing", "B", "Unknown"]
    },
    {
      "id": 438,
      "question": "The name server with the original zone records for a domain is called the ________ name server.",
      "answer": "Authoritative"
    },
    {
      "id": 439,
      "question": "What is the name of the memory cache that stores recent mappings from virtual memory to physical memory?",
      "answer": ["TLB", "Translation lookaside buffer"]
    },
    {
      "id": 440,
      "question": "The process of moving unused page tables out of memory is called?",
      "answer": "Swapping"
    },
    {
      "id": 441,
      "question": "A failing page table lookup is known as?",
      "answer": "Page fault"
    },
    {
      "id": 442,
      "question": "What is the nickname for the textbook 'Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools'?",
      "answer": "Dragon Book"
    },
    {
      "id": 443,
      "question": "In functional programming, a function with identical return values for identical arguments and no side effects is called?",
      "answer": "Pure function"
    },
    {
      "id": 444,
      "question": "On Linux systems, the `fork` system call returns what value in the parent process?",
      "answer": ["PID", "child PID"]
    }
  ],
  "python": [
    {
      "id": 501,
      "question": "Is everything an instance of the `object` class (y/n)?",
      "answer": ["y", "yes"]
    },
    {
      "id": 502,
      "question": "Name the only non-dunder method of the builtin slice object.",
      "answer": "indices"
    },
    {
      "id": 503,
      "question": "What exception, other than `StopIteration`, can you raise from a `__getitem__` dunder to indicate to an iterator that it should stop?",
      "answer": "IndexError"
    },
    {
      "id": 504,
      "question": "What type does the `&` operator return when given 2 `dict_keys` objects?",
      "answer": "set"
    },
    {
      "id": 505,
      "question": "Can you pickle a running `list_iterator` (y/n)?",
      "answer": ["y", "yes"]
    },
    {
      "id": 506,
      "question": "What attribute of a closure contains the value closed over?",
      "answer": "cell_contents"
    },
    {
      "id": 507,
      "question": "What name does a lambda function have?",
      "answer": "<lambda>"
    },
    {
      "id": 508,
      "question": "Which file contains all special site builtins, such as help or credits?",
      "answer": "_sitebuiltins"
    },
    {
      "id": 509,
      "question": "Which module when imported opens up a web browser tab that points to the classic 353 XKCD comic mentioning Python?",
      "answer": "antigravity"
    },
    {
      "id": 510,
      "question": "Which attribute is the documentation string of a function/method/class stored in (answer should be enclosed in backticks!)?",
      "answer": "`__doc__`"
    },
    {
      "id": 511,
      "question": "What is the official name of this operator `:=`, introduced in 3.8?",
      "answer": "assignment-expression operator"
    },
    {
      "id": 512,
      "question": "When was Python first released?",
      "answer": "1991"
    },
    {
      "id": 513,
      "question": "Where does the name Python come from?",
      "answer": ["Monty Python", "Monty Python's Flying Circus"]
    },
    {
      "id": 514,
      "question": "How is infinity represented in Python?",
      "answer": ["float(\"infinity\")", "float('infinity')", "float(\"inf\")", "float('inf')"]
    },
    {
      "id": 515,
      "question": "Which of these characters is valid python outside of string literals in some context?\n(`@`, `$`, `?`)",
      "answer": "@"
    },
    {
      "id": 516,
      "question": "Which standard library module is designed for making simple parsers for languages like shell, as well as safe quoting of strings for use in a shell?",
      "answer": "shlex"
    },
    {
      "id": 517,
      "question": "Which one of these protocols/abstract base classes does the builtin `range` object NOT implement?\n(`Sequence`, `Iterable`, `Generator`)",
      "answer": "Generator"
    },
    {
      "id": 518,
      "question": "What decorator is used to allow a protocol to be checked at runtime?",
      "answer": ["runtime_checkable", "typing.runtime_checkable"]
    },
    {
      "id": 519,
      "question": "Does `numbers.Rational` include the builtin object float (y/n)",
      "answer": ["n", "no"]
    },
    {
      "id": 520,
      "question": "What is a package that doesn't have a `__init__` file called?",
      "answer":"namespace package"
    },
    {
      "id": 521,
      "question": "What file extension is used by the site module to determine what to do at every start?",
      "answer": ".pth"
    },
    {
      "id": 522,
      "question": "What is the garbage collection strategy used by cpython to collect everything but reference cycles?",
      "answer": ["reference counting", "refcounting"]
    },
    {
      "id": 523,
      "question": "What dunder method is used by the tuple constructor to optimize converting an iterator to a tuple (answer should be enclosed in backticks!)?",
      "answer": "`__length_hint__`"
    },
    {
      "id": 524,
      "question": "Which protocol is used to pass self to methods when accessed on classes?",
      "answer": "Descriptor"
    },
    {
      "id": 525,
      "question": "Which year was Python 3 released?",
      "answer": "2008"
    },
    {
      "id": 526,
      "question": "Which of these is not a generator method?\n(`next`, `send`, `throw`, `close`)",
      "answer": "next"
    },
    {
      "id": 527,
      "question": "Is the `__aiter__` method async (y/n)?",
      "answer": ["n", "no"]
    },
    {
      "id": 528,
      "question": "How does one call a class who defines the behavior of their instance classes?",
      "answer": ["a metaclass", "metaclass"]
    },
    {
      "id": 529,
      "question": "Which of these is a subclass of `Exception`?\n(`NotImplemented`, `asyncio.CancelledError`, `StopIteration`)",
      "answer": "StopIteration"
    },
    {
      "id": 530,
      "question": "What type is the attribute of a frame object that contains the current local variables?",
      "answer": "dict"
    },
    {
      "id": 531,
      "question": "What standard library module implements a topological sort function?",
      "answer": "graphlib"
    },
    {
      "id": 532,
      "question": "Fstrings, `str.format`, and `%` style formatting are different methods of performing what operation?",
      "answer": ["string interpolation", "interpolation"]
    },
    {
      "id": 533,
      "question": "What built-in function is the asynchronous version of a function that returns the next value of an iterator?",
      "answer": "anext"
    },
    {
      "id": 534,
      "question": "What module should be used for extended precision floating point values?",
      "answer": "decimal"
    },
    {
      "id": 535,
      "question": "What function can be used to increase the length limit for string to integer conversion (answer should be enclosed in backticks!)?",
      "answer": "`sys.set_int_max_str_digits`"
    },
    {
      "id": 536,
      "question": "What is the default length limit for converting `str`s to `int`s in CPython 3.11+?",
      "answer": "4300"
    },
    {
      "id": 537,
      "question": "What is the minimum length limit for converting `str`s to `int`s in CPython 3.11+?",
      "answer": "640"
    },
    {
      "id": 538,
      "question": "What environment variable configures the length limit for converting `str`s to `int`s in CPython 3.11+ (answer should be enclosed in backticks!)?",
      "answer": "`PYTHONINTMAXSTRDIGITS`"
    },
    {
      "id": 539,
      "question": "An instance of what type is returned when indexing into an instance of bytes?",
      "answer": "int"
    },
    {
      "id": 540,
      "question": "What is `hash(float('iNf'))`?",
      "answer": "314159"
    },
    {
      "id": 541,
      "question": "What kind of regex quantifiers were added in Python 3.11?",
      "answer": "possessive"
    },
    {
      "id": 542,
      "question": "Who invented Tim Sort?",
      "answer": "Tim Peters"
    },
    {
      "id": 543,
      "question": "How many unique compiled patterns can be stored in the `re` module's internal caches?",
      "answer": "512"
    },
    {
      "id": 544,
      "question": "What is the minimum number of comparison methods a class must implement to support total ordering?",
      "answer": "2"
    },
    {
      "id": 545,
      "question": "What is `pow(0, 0)`?",
      "answer": "1"
    },
    {
      "id": 546,
      "question": "What is the max value of `hash(x)` if `x` is an `int` on 32-bit machines?",
      "answer": ["2^31 - 2", "2^31-2", "2**31 - 2", "2**31-2"]
    },
    {
      "id": 547,
      "question": "What common operation does this function implement?\n```py\nimport math\n\ndef mystery(x: float) -> float:\n    return math.copysign(abs(x) + 2**52 - 2**52, x)\n```",
      "answer": "round"
    },
    {
      "id": 548,
      "question": "What common operation does this function implement?\n```py\ndef mystery(n: int) -> int:\n    return (n>>1<<1)^n\n```",
      "answer": "is odd"
    },
    {
      "id": 549,
      "question": "What cache replacement policy is used by the `re` module for up to 256 compiled patterns?",
      "answer": "FIFO"
    }
  ]
}