Codeaholics Pub Quiz

A quiz for programmers
held at Codeaholics in Hong Kong
on Wednesday 13th March 2013

Transcript

1. Codeaholics Pub Quiz Presented by Matthew Rudy @Codeaholics HK
2. The Rules
3. No Cheating No Computers No Phones
4. Teams of 4(ish) One Answer Sheet per team Choose a funny team name
5. Marking We’ll mark the first 3 rounds Then take a break, and finish it.
6. Have fun! That’s the most important thing.
7. Round 1: Codeaholics
8. 10 questions: 1+1 points each
9. Extra point: Name a speaker at this meeting #1 When was the first Codeaholics meetup? a) August 2010 b) December 2010 c) February 2011
10. Extra point: What is their github handle? #2 Who created the name “Codeaholics”? a) Eddie Lau b) Matthew Rudy c) Steve Holmes
11. Extra point: What was their original name? #3 Who sponsors Codeaholics? a) Enterproid b) Softlayer c) Thought Sauce
12. 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
13. 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
14. 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
15. Extra point: how many teams presented? #7 How many teams took part in Code Camp #01? a) 7 b) 8 c) 9
16. Extra point: how many parts was it? #8 Who gave “an Introduction to Haskell” in 2011? a) Leonard Siu b) William Taysom c) YKY
17. Extra point: which HK githubber joined first? #9 How many Githubbers are there in Hong Kong? a) 624 b) 724 c) 824
18. Extra point: Where was it held? #10 In which year was the first Hong Kong Bar Camp? a) 2006 b) 2007 c) 2008
19. Round 1: * / 20
20. Round 2: Initialisms
21. 10 questions: 2 points each
22. #11 ACID What do the letters stand for:
23. #12 BASIC What do the letters stand for:
24. #13 CRUD What do the letters stand for:
25. #14 FIFO What do the letters stand for:
26. #15 MINASWAN What do the letters stand for:
27. #16 PCCW prior to 2001 What do the letters stand for:
28. #17 REST What do the letters stand for:
29. #18 SGML What do the letters stand for:
30. #19 VRML What do the letters stand for:
31. #20 WYSIWYG What do the letters stand for:
32. Round 2: * / 20
33. Round 3: Authors, Designers, Dictators
34. 10 Questions 2 points each
35. #21 C Name the Designer of:
36. #22 Coffeescript Name the Designer of:
37. #23 Django Name a Dictator of:
38. #24 GNU, GCC, Emacs Name the Creator of:
39. #25 Javascript Name the Designer of:
40. #26 Linux Name the Dictator of:
41. #27 Python Name the Designer of:
42. #28 Ruby Name the Designer of:
43. #29 Ruby on Rails Name the Creator of:
44. #30 Scala Name the Designer of:
45. Round 3: * / 20
46. Halfway Time for a break!
47. Round 4: Name The Language
48. 10 Questions 2 points each
49. #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?
50. #32 fib(0) -> 0; fib(1) -> 1; fib(N) when N > 1 -> fib(N-1) + fib(N-2). What language is this?
51. #33 ++++++++++ >>+<<[->[->+>+<<]>[-<+>]>[-<+>]<<<] What language is this?
52. #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?
53. #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?
54. #36 (defn fibs [] (map first (iterate (fn [[a b]] [b (+ a b)]) [0 1]))) (nth (fibs) 5) What language is this?
55. #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?
56. #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?
57. #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?
58. #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?
59. Round 4: * / 20
60. Round 5: General Knowledge
61. 10 Questions 2 point each
62. #41 Where was Tim Berners Lee working when he invented the World Wide Web?
63. #42 What does HTTP status code 418 stand for?
64. #43 Who did Charles Babbage refer to as “The Enchantress of Numbers”?
65. #44 What is the name of Jetbrains’ web dev IDE?
66. #45 What is the development version of Google Chrome called?
67. #46 What does the prefix NS in Objective-C stand for?
68. #47 What is special about jQuery 2.0?
69. #48 Which JVM instruction was added in Java7 to improve dynamic language support?
70. #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”?
71. #50 Which “K” is the next version of Android rumored to be called?
72. Round 5: * / 20
73. Round 6: Anagrams
74. Anagram • Take the given letters • Rearrange them to form new words • eg. “Acne Hijack”
75. 5 Questions 2 points each
76. #51 “Choice Loads”
77. #52 “Romantic Yob”
78. #53 “Clip More”
79. #54 “Sly, Prim Oomph”
80. #55 “Due Icon”
81. Bonus Anagram 10 points
82. #56 “I’d Wow Conformists”
83. Round 6: * / 20
84. Round 7: The Snowball Round
85. 1 Question 9 Answers 2 points each
86. 30 points for all 9 0 points any wrong
87. #SNOWBALL HTTP 1.1 + RFC5789 Specify 9 HTTP Verbs! Name as many as you can!
88. Round 7: * / 30
89. Total: * / 150
90. That’s it.
91. Thanks!
92. Sources • http://anagramgenius.com • http://github.com • http://rosettacode.org • http://wikipedia.org • http://w3.org