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What is Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, and Linux
The three main types of operating systems.
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What is Python
Although most people think this programming language was named after a type of reptile it was actually named after a famous sketch comedy show from the 1970s.
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What is Ada Lovelace
Known as the world’s first computer programmer, she wote the world's first machine algorithm for an early computing machine that existed only on paper and is the daughter of a famous British poet and politician.
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What is Katherine Johnson
This woman is known for her work as a mathematician at NASA during the 1950s and was featured in the film Hidden Figures.
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What is Kamala Harris
This woman was the first female vice president of the United States.
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What is mkdir
Name the linux command is used to make a directory.
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What is C++
This programming language is known as being another programming language with classes and it commonly used at St. Olaf.
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What is Joy Buolamwini
She is known for her work of illuminating racial bias in AI systems and founding the Algorithmic Justice League.
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What is Greta Thunberg
This swedish girl became famous in 2018 as a leader in environmental issues and is known for leading climate change protests in schools.
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What is Anne Frank
This girl became famous after her death when her diary was published detailing her life as a Jewish person in hiding from the Nazis.
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What is 202
Name the room number of the CS lab in regents.
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What is Java
This programming language was originally called Oak before it was renamed to Green and then to its current name which is after a type beverage.
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What is Grace Hopper
This navy admiral is known for building one of the first compilers and the largest women technologist conference named after her.
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What is Marie Curie
This woman was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize and the only person to win two Nobel Prizes in two different fields. One was in Physics and one was in Chemistry.
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What is Malala Yousafzai
This woman was shot by the Taliban on her way home from school as a child after she advocated for education for girls and was the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
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What is Rab
This professor runs the cluster manager program at St. Olaf.
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What is Watson
This computer, built by IBM, is famous for competing on jeopardy.
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What is Prof Jensen!
The first woman to graduate from St. Olaf with a Computer Science degree (hint its someone you probably know)
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What is Mae Jemison
Name the first Black women in space who served aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavor.
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What is Serena Williams
This female tennis player is known as one of greatest of all time and has 23 Grand Slam singles titles.
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Write this binary number is decimal: 101
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What is Fortran
This was the first commercially developed programming language in 1956 by IBM.
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What is Margaret Hamilton
She coined the term Software Engineer and wrote the code that saved the Apollo 11 mission though an alarm she coded
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What is Tu Youyou
This woman discovered a drug to treat malaria saving millions of lives and becoming the first woman from China to win a Nobel Prize.
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What is Sylvia Mendez
At only 8 years old this girl played an important role in the case Mendez v Westminster that helped to desegregate public schools in CA and laid the groundwork for Brown v Board of Education.
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