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What is Robarts?
This library was built to look like a peacock but came out looking more like a turkey.
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Who is Steve Jobs?
This former CEO of Apple died in 2011.
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What is Hypertext Transfer Protocol?
HTTP, the protocol used by web browsers, is short for this.
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What are `for`, `while`, and `do while`?
These are three types of loops in Java.
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Who is James Earl Jones?
This actor voices Darth Vader, Mufasa, and Lisa's Sax Hero Bleeding Gums Murphy.
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What is Kit Kat?
The CSSU sells this brand of chocolate, also known as a version of the Android OS.
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What is EventMobi?
Founded by U of T graduates in 2009, this startup has served event apps to millions of users.
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What is Subversion or SVN?
This version control software is still in use today by MarkUs, the program used to submit and mark assignments.
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What is "Hello World"?
This simple program outputs two words, traditionally used to verify that a language or system is operating correctly.
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What is Gangnam Style?
This video is the most-viewed video on YouTube.
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Who is Jonathan Webb?
He is the president of the CSSU.
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What is IBM Watson?
This artificially-intelligent machine has created its own recipies and competed against humans in trivia events.
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What is Linux and Git?
Linus Torvalds is most well-known for creating these two software products.
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What is `switch`?
This type of statement can be used to replace large groupings of `if else` statements.
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What is the Shiba Inu?
This dog breed is well known for the internet meme 'doge'.
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What is Scientific Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics, Computer Vision, Computer Systems, Game Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Theory of Computation, or Web & Internet?
These are three focuses in CS.
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What is Yahoo, Lycos, Alta Vista, Webcrawler, Info Seek, Excite, Ask Jeeves, or Dogpile?
This is a search engine that existed before Google.
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What is Adobe Photoshop?
This is the most pirated software ever.
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What is a nibble?
This is the word for half of a byte.
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What is 10^100, or 1 followed by 100 zeroes?
A googol has this value.
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What is Mega Bites?
Before being replaced by The CUBE, this café existed across from the elevators in Bahen.
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Who are Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, or Chris Hughes?
These are two co-founders of Facebook.
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What is Minuum?
This mobile keyboard for Android was created by U of T graduates.
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Who is Dennis Ritchie?
He is the founding father of the C programming language.
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What is the Basalisk, or Jesus Christ Lizard?
This lizard, native to mexico and central america, can run on water for short distances.
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