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ECSESS Presents: Trivia Night
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An ECSE Quiz to help students unwind in a fun, competitive way.
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1
Quasimodo is a fictional character from what novel?
Treasure Island
Alice in Wonderland
The Little Mermaid
The Hunchback of Notre-Dam
2
The Leyden jar was an early example of what device?
Capacitor
Diode
Transistor
Audion
3
Which of the following operators has the highest precedence? (In C++)
!=
&&
*
!
4
A Shakespearean sonnet consists of how many lines?
14
12
10
16
5
Status register is also called as:
Flag
Stack
Counter
Accumulator
6
Michael Keaton played which villain in the 2017 superhero movie “Spiderman: Homecoming”?
Vulture
Dr. Octopus
The Green Goblin
Electro
7
ENIAC was the world's first general-purpose computer. What does it stand for?
Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer
Entire Numerical Interpreter And Computer
Electric Number Interpreter and Computations
Early Number Intsruction Arithmetic Computer
8
SNES is the acronym for what popular gaming console released in the early 1990s?
Silver Nintendo Era System
Spirited Nintendo Extra Support
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Strong Nintendo Entry System
9
Which of the following is a made up lyric from Loud Luxury's "Body"?
"Hell nah, been waitin' too long"
"My bad, never got the memo"
"Gimme some verbs, I ain't talkin' nouns"
"Let's go out and take some pics"
10
Orphan Black is a sci-fi television series filmed in which country?
Greenland
Italy
Canada
The USA
11
How many Nobel Prize Winners are McGill Alumni?
12
3
8
15
12
Who is the former drummer for Nirvana that went on to become the frontman for the Foo Fighters?
Chad Smith
Neil Peart
Stewart Copeland
Dave Grohl
13
Which Eminem single set the world’s record in 2013 for the most words used in a song?
Lose Yourself
Rap God
Mockingbird
No Love
14
Who directed the 2018 superhero film “Black Panther”?
Ryan Coogler
Christopher Nolan
Sofia Coppola
Steven Spielberg
15
In music, the space between a musical pitch and another with 2x its frequency is called:
A Score
An Octave
A Cadenze
A Chord
16
In the Star Wars universe, who is Luke Skywalker’s mother?
Shmi Skywalker
Sola Naberrie
Padmé Amidala
Jobal Naberrie
17
What is grep?
A command line text search utility in Unix-like OSs
Generic REPresentation
A system administration utility in Unix-like OSs
Generic Representation of Encapsulation and Polymorphism
18
When talking about memory, what does DIMM stand for?
Digital Immediate Marked Memory
Dual In-Line Memory Module
Dynamic Implied Magnetic Mode
Direct Intsruction Memory Manager
19
The song “Eye of the Tiger” (by Survivor) was the theme song for what movie released in 1982?
Rocky II
Rocky IV
Rocky I
Rocky III
20
What does HTTP stand for in a website address?
Hexadecimal Terminal Transfer Protocol
HyperText Transfer Protocol
Hinted Textual Transcription Protection
Hidden Transmission Term Process
21
Two's Complement of decimal value 5 is:
"0101"
"1110"
"1000"
"1010"
22
What was the name of the coffee shop in the hit sitcom F.R.I.E.N.D.S?
Central Java
Central Perk
Central Park Coffee
Coffee Perk
23
In Fight Club, who is the narrator also known as?
Tyler Durden
Robert Paulson
Marla Singer
Chuck Palahniuk
24
In the TV show "How I Met Your Mother," what college did Lily, Marshall, and Ted attend?
Wesleyan University
University of Washington
New York University
Kenyon College
25
A NOR gate is ON only when all its inputs are:
Opposite
ON
OFF
High Impedance
26
What is the name of Harry Potter’s pet owl?
Ludwig
Polwig
Bigwig
Hedwig
27
What was the theme of the E-Week ECSESS won in 2012?
School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
DisnE-Week
Viking E-Week
E-Week Tell No Tales
28
Which of the Beatles is barefoot on the Abbey Road album cover?
Ringo Starr
Paul McCartney
John Lennon
George Harrison
29
What is the most abundant element in the earth’s atmosphere?
Nitrogen
Hydrogen
Fluoride
Oxygen
30
In Shakespeare’s tragedy Romeo and Juliet, what’s Romeo’s last name?
Dimmock
Capulet
Leventhorpe
Montague
31
In the movie The Terminator, what is the name of the company that created Skynet?
Cyberdyne Systems
Umbrella Corp.
Stark Industries
International Secret Intelligence Service
32
In which region was McGill Principal Suzanne Fortier born?
Laval
Montérégie
Laurentides
Abitibi-Témiscamingue
33
Which command should you use to initialize a new Git repository?
git init
git install
git start
git bash
34
What year did Flood Girl famously take a swim down McTavish?
2015
2013
2010
2016
35
Who interrupted Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech at the 2009 Video Music Awards?
Demi Lovato
Gerard Butler
Kanye West
Drake
36
How much is a 32oz Sangria at Gerts's?
$5
$10
$9
$11
37
What is the longest running U.S. primetime television show of all time?
The Simpsons
Law & Order
Family Guy
Grey's Anatomy
38
In The Office S1E3 "Health Care": Which is NOT one of Jim and Pam's made up diseases?
Hair Cancer
Spontaneous Dental Hydroplosion
Hot dog fingers
Killer nanorobots
39
On the hit show Seinfeld what was Kramer’s first name?
Steven
Cosmo
Bill
Antony
40
What is the running time of a binary search on a sorted array of n elements?
O(1)
O(1)
O(log n)
O(n^2)
41
What musical instrument did Sherlock Holmes play?
Violin
Cello
Piano
Harp
42
Which American writer wrote the narrative poem “The Raven”?
Emily Dickinson
Edgar Allan Poe
E.E. Cummings
T.S. Eliot
43
Who was Bruce Banner's love interest in the 'The Incredible Hulk'?
Peggy Carter
June Carter
Eleanor Ross
Betty Ross
44
Current flowing in a conductor proportional to the potential difference between ends is:
Ampere’s Law
Lorentz Force Law
Ohm’s Law
Faraday’s Law
45
Who was the author of the children’s fantasy novel The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe?
C.S. Lewis
E.B. White
Roald Dahl
Katherine Paterson
