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Matthew Rudy Jacobs
March 13, 2013
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Codeaholics Pub Quiz
A quiz for programmers
held at Codeaholics in Hong Kong
on Wednesday 13th March 2013
Matthew Rudy Jacobs
March 13, 2013
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Transcript
Codeaholics Pub Quiz Presented by Matthew Rudy @Codeaholics HK
The Rules
No Cheating No Computers No Phones
Teams of 4(ish) One Answer Sheet per team Choose a
funny team name
Marking We’ll mark the first 3 rounds Then take a
break, and finish it.
Have fun! That’s the most important thing.
Round 1: Codeaholics
10 questions: 1+1 points each
Extra point: Name a speaker at this meeting #1 When
was the first Codeaholics meetup? a) August 2010 b) December 2010 c) February 2011
Extra point: What is their github handle? #2 Who created
the name “Codeaholics”? a) Eddie Lau b) Matthew Rudy c) Steve Holmes
Extra point: What was their original name? #3 Who sponsors
Codeaholics? a) Enterproid b) Softlayer c) Thought Sauce
Extra point: Which group did Codeaholics come from? #4 Which
group did Steve previously organise? a) Agile Hong Kong b) Hong Kong Java User Group c) Hong Kong Linux User Group
Extra point: when did he talk about it at Codeaholics?
#5 What is the name of Jonas Karlsson’s language? a) Bamboo b) Beanstalk c) Panda
Extra point: how many github stars does it have? #6
What is the name of Jimmy’s Backbone Data Grid library? a) BackboneData b) BackGrid c) DataBack
Extra point: how many teams presented? #7 How many teams
took part in Code Camp #01? a) 7 b) 8 c) 9
Extra point: how many parts was it? #8 Who gave
“an Introduction to Haskell” in 2011? a) Leonard Siu b) William Taysom c) YKY
Extra point: which HK githubber joined first? #9 How many
Githubbers are there in Hong Kong? a) 624 b) 724 c) 824
Extra point: Where was it held? #10 In which year
was the first Hong Kong Bar Camp? a) 2006 b) 2007 c) 2008
Round 1: * / 20
Round 2: Initialisms
10 questions: 2 points each
#11 ACID What do the letters stand for:
#12 BASIC What do the letters stand for:
#13 CRUD What do the letters stand for:
#14 FIFO What do the letters stand for:
#15 MINASWAN What do the letters stand for:
#16 PCCW prior to 2001 What do the letters stand
for:
#17 REST What do the letters stand for:
#18 SGML What do the letters stand for:
#19 VRML What do the letters stand for:
#20 WYSIWYG What do the letters stand for:
Round 2: * / 20
Round 3: Authors, Designers, Dictators
10 Questions 2 points each
#21 C Name the Designer of:
#22 Coffeescript Name the Designer of:
#23 Django Name a Dictator of:
#24 GNU, GCC, Emacs Name the Creator of:
#25 Javascript Name the Designer of:
#26 Linux Name the Dictator of:
#27 Python Name the Designer of:
#28 Ruby Name the Designer of:
#29 Ruby on Rails Name the Creator of:
#30 Scala Name the Designer of:
Round 3: * / 20
Halfway Time for a break!
Round 4: Name The Language
10 Questions 2 points each
#31 def fibIter(n): if n < 2: return n fibPrev
= 1 fib = 1 for num in xrange(2, n): fibPrev, fib = fib, fib + fibPrev return fib What language is this?
#32 fib(0) -> 0; fib(1) -> 1; fib(N) when N
> 1 -> fib(N-1) + fib(N-2). What language is this?
#33 ++++++++++ >>+<<[->[->+>+<<]>[-<+>]>[-<+>]<<<] What language is this?
#34 iterfibo <- function(n) { if ( n < 2
) n else { f <- c(0, 1) for (i in 2:n) { t <- f[2] f[2] <- sum(f) f[1] <- t } f[2] } } print.table(lapply(0:20, iterfibo)) What language is this?
#35 |fibo| fibo := [ :i | |ac t| ac
:= Array new: 2. ac at: 1 put: 0 ; at: 2 put: 1. ( i < 2 ) ifTrue: [ ac at: (i+1) ] ifFalse: [ 2 to: i do: [ :l | t := (ac at: 2). ac at: 2 put: ( (ac at: 1) + (ac at: 2) ). ac at: 1 put: t ]. ac at: 2. ] ]. What language is this?
#36 (defn fibs [] (map first (iterate (fn [[a b]]
[b (+ a b)]) [0 1]))) (nth (fibs) 5) What language is this?
#37 fib_iter = (n) -> if n < 2 return
n [prev, curr] = 0, 1 for i in [1..n] [prev, curr] = [curr, curr + prev] return curr What language is this?
#38 FUNCTION itFib (n) n1 = 0 n2 = 1
FOR k = 1 TO ABS(n) sum = n1 + n2 n1 = n2 n2 = sum NEXT k IF n < 0 THEN itFib = n1 * ((-1) ^ ((-n) + 1)) ELSE itFib = n1 END IF END FUNCTION What language is this?
#39 a=0 b=1 max=$1 for (( n=1; "$n" <= "$max";
$((n++)) )) do a=$(($a + $b)) echo "F($n): $a" b=$(($a - $b)) done What language is this?
#40 -(long)fibonacci:(int)position { long result = 0; if (position <
2) { result = position; } else { result = [self fibonacci:(position -1)] + [self fibonacci:(position -2)]; } return result; } What language is this?
Round 4: * / 20
Round 5: General Knowledge
10 Questions 2 point each
#41 Where was Tim Berners Lee working when he invented
the World Wide Web?
#42 What does HTTP status code 418 stand for?
#43 Who did Charles Babbage refer to as “The Enchantress
of Numbers”?
#44 What is the name of Jetbrains’ web dev IDE?
#45 What is the development version of Google Chrome called?
#46 What does the prefix NS in Objective-C stand for?
#47 What is special about jQuery 2.0?
#48 Which JVM instruction was added in Java7 to improve
dynamic language support?
#49 Which HTML 5.1 tag should be used for “content
that is directly related to or expands upon the central topic of a document or central functionality of an application”?
#50 Which “K” is the next version of Android rumored
to be called?
Round 5: * / 20
Round 6: Anagrams
Anagram • Take the given letters • Rearrange them to
form new words • eg. “Acne Hijack”
5 Questions 2 points each
#51 “Choice Loads”
#52 “Romantic Yob”
#53 “Clip More”
#54 “Sly, Prim Oomph”
#55 “Due Icon”
Bonus Anagram 10 points
#56 “I’d Wow Conformists”
Round 6: * / 20
Round 7: The Snowball Round
1 Question 9 Answers 2 points each
30 points for all 9 0 points any wrong
#SNOWBALL HTTP 1.1 + RFC5789 Specify 9 HTTP Verbs! Name
as many as you can!
Round 7: * / 30
Total: * / 150
That’s it.
Thanks!
Sources • http://anagramgenius.com • http://github.com • http://rosettacode.org • http://wikipedia.org •
http://w3.org