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Question 1

In 2022, European countries mandated ____ in all new cars.

Accepted Answer

Speed limiters

Question 2

How far was the Blue Marble photograph taken from?

Accepted Answer

29,000km

Question 3

How do AI detectors work?

Accepted Answer

Use a score metric that correlates with the sophistication of the writing

Question 4

What is the best description of the opera "Orpheus"?

Accepted Answer

A modern remake which includes elements from multiple cultures

Question 5

This map projection is a...

Accepted Answer

Winkel

Question 6

The Blue Marble photo was the second entire photo of Earth

Accepted Answer

False

Question 7

What is vaporware?

Accepted Answer

Product that gets released a long time after its announcement or not at all

Question 8

How many time zones does China have?

Accepted Answer

1

Question 9

Inventions from what two continents helped create the idea of first printing press?

Accepted Answer

Europe and Asia

Question 10

What is the best description of the dead internet theory?

Accepted Answer

An internet ruled by artificial intelligence

Question 11

What type of map projection looks like a worm?

Accepted Answer

Goode homolosin

Question 12

Why have virtual influencers/models been getting popular?

Accepted Answer

Are the beauty standard, Not Controversial, Cost-Efficient

Question 13

What short story magazine company had to pause its submissions because of a flood of AI generated works?

Accepted Answer

Clarkesworld

Question 14

What type of map projection is this?

Accepted Answer

Lambert

Question 15

What was the first typeface

Accepted Answer

Blackletter

Question 16

The DOJ has been using wire fraud laws to help catch and try cryto scams

Accepted Answer

True

Question 17

Which one of these was a strategy Benjamin Franklin proposed to make people wake up earlier?

Accepted Answer

There would be a fee of $1 for any window blocking out the sunlight

Question 18

What did Kenneth Arnold see in the summer of 1947?

Accepted Answer

Nine odd shaped vessels flying in a uniformed formation

Question 19

What are the three types of Rug Pulls?

Accepted Answer

Liquidity stealing, Limiting selling orders and Dumping

Question 20

What does VIIRS stand for?

Accepted Answer

Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite

Question 21

What is a title that may indicate a story was written by AI?

Accepted Answer

The Last Hope

Question 22

If you live on the western side of a time zone what are you more likely to get?

Accepted Answer

Less than 6 hours of sleep

Question 23

When did the first telegraph line open in the United States?

Accepted Answer

1861

Question 24

People are moving away from google for information, and are relying more heavily on apps like Tiktok and instagram

Accepted Answer

True

Question 25

Why did the Japanese give Commodore Matthew Perry blue eyes?

Accepted Answer

Based off the narrative, "Blue-eyed Barbarians"

Question 26

Flying Saucers got their name because of an news article title

Accepted Answer

True

Question 27

What is the most accurate test that can help spot AI?

Accepted Answer

The Lovelace Test

Question 28

What years did China use daylight savings time?

Accepted Answer

1986-1991

Question 29

What was Carl Sagan?

Accepted Answer

Astronomer

Question 30

What type of map projection is this?

Accepted Answer

Mercator

Question 31

Who brought the telegraph to the United States?

Accepted Answer

Samuel Morse

Question 32

What does Code-davinci-002 write?

Accepted Answer

Poetry

Question 33

What category did Theranos fall under?

Accepted Answer

Medicine

Question 34

What country did Inō Tadakata map entirely?

Accepted Answer

Japan

Question 35

What happens in a rug pull?

Accepted Answer

Buyers are left with a useless token when a team boosts its value and sells

Question 36

Before 1974 digital typefaces were made up of what?

Accepted Answer

Bitmaps

Question 37

The printing press was the main form of long distance communication after the telegraph

Accepted Answer

False

Question 38

Who came up with the idea of Daylight Savings?

Accepted Answer

Benjamin Franklin

Question 39

What type of map projection is this?

Accepted Answer

Miller

Question 40

What was the Pale Blue Dot?

Accepted Answer

Earth

Question 41

What is the earliest known map?

Accepted Answer

Mammoth Tusk Map

Question 42

What did Nikola claim it was going to do?

Accepted Answer

Make semi-trucks that ran on hydrogen fuel cell technology

Question 43

The thought to be first ever map was created in 2500 BCE and carved into what?

Accepted Answer

A mammoth tusk

Question 44

What has typeface history been largely influenced by?

Accepted Answer

Availability of technology

Question 45

What type of map projection is this?

Accepted Answer

Robinson

Question 46

What is Google plan to try to increase the amount of young people on their search and discovery platforms?

Accepted Answer

Combining texts and images into search results

Question 47

What type of map projection is this?

Accepted Answer

Stereographic

Question 48

What does UAP stand for?

Accepted Answer

Unidentified Ariel Phenomenon

Question 49

This type of projection is called AuthaGraph

Accepted Answer

True

Question 50

Why have orchestras changed their dress code?

Accepted Answer

To strengthen ties between musicians and audience members, To move away from white-elitism

Question 51

What here likely wouldn't go against the OpenAI use policy?

Accepted Answer

A non-branded stuffed animal

Question 52

When did the majority of phantom zeppelin sightings occur?

Accepted Answer

1909-1914

Question 53

What are the four main families of map projections?

Accepted Answer

Conic, Cylindrical, Azimuthal and Conformal

Question 54

What percentage of non-native english speaker essays were flagged as AI generated?

Accepted Answer

61%

Question 55

What was the New York Metropolitan Operas 100th anniversary opera called?

Accepted Answer

The Ghost of Versailles

Question 56

The founder of Theranos was arrested for...

Accepted Answer

Defrauding investors/customers out of $120 million

Question 57

Which of the groups list three vaporware scams?

Accepted Answer

Theranos, Life at Sea Cruise, Bitconnect

Question 58

The telegraph helped...

Accepted Answer

Ease national rivalries, Alter businesses and politics, Contribute to creating world peace, Allow information to be easily shared

Question 59

Waifu Bots _____ .

Accepted Answer

Stereotype Women

Question 60

What some other stereotypes Japanese artists used in their wood block paintings of Commodore Perry?

Accepted Answer

"Hairy Barbarians", "Red-Hairs"

Question 61

What two states don't do daylight saving time?

Accepted Answer

Hawaii, Arizona

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