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(A coder who can develop both client-side and server-side software is known as a full-___ developer. What word that can also mean a serving of pancakes goes in the blank?","Stack"),
("The “Big Four” in the tech industry are Google (Alphabet), Apple, Meta (Facebook), and Amazon. Which corporation known for computers, software, and Bill Gates, is sometimes added to form the “Big Five” (or GAMAF)?","Microsoft"),
("Welsh software engineer Josh Wardle was paid in the "low seven figures" by the New York Times in January 2022 for what wildly popular daily game?","Wordle"),
("Adobe makes what popular multi-purpose graphic design software that allows users to edit camera images? Its name sounds like a type of store where you can buy these images.","Photoshop"),
("What is the programming language developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and named after the type of coffee from Indonesia?","Java"),
("In 1999 Shigetaka Kurita invented what keyboard additions for cell phones that would eventually replace emoticons and even get their own movie?","Emojis"),
("An open-source, distributed multi-model NoSQL document-oriented database software package for interactive applications, formerly known as Membase, is ______base. Fill in the one word “C” blank, also a term for a long upholstered piece of furniture that people sit on.","Couchbase"),
("Which utensil term describes when software gets updated or a protocol is changed so that the blockchain splits and “forges its own path,” so to speak? (Hint: They can be “hard” or “soft”)","Forks"),
("What popular operating system, launched in 1991, also has its own mascot, Tux the penguin?","Linux"),
("What free program in the Google Docs Editors suite corresponds to Excel in Microsoft's Office suite of software?","Sheets"),
("The mobile app development company Niantic struck gold in 2016 with what smash-hit smartphone game that captured tens of millions of players within days of its release? The game became a global phenomenon with players largely playing outdoors.","Pokemon Go"),
("In the last year more than 250 billion PDFs were opened using products from what highly successful creative software company?","Adobe"),
("On the market for four decades, AutoCAD is a specific brand of CAD software. CAD stands for "Computer-Aided" WHAT?","Design"),
("In the programming world, the acronym SaaS stands for "software as a" WHAT?","service"),
("If you work in supply chain management you’re probably familiar with the top software company in the business. What’s the name of the company that started in Germany in 1972 that’s especially well-known for its enterprise resource planning (ERP) software and more recently its cloud-based products?","SAP"),
("What term is used for a testing environment in a computer system in which new or untested software or coding can be run securely? In a different context, this term refers to a children’s play area.","Sandbox"),
("If you work in supply chain management, you likely use enterprise ______ planning (ERP) software at each stage of the process—from planning, producing, and moving goods to keeping track of finances.","Resource"),
("In 2018, what much-decorated Team USA Olympic swimmer went public on the benefits of therapy with an ad campaign for the app Talkspace?","Michael Phelps"),
("An IT security company co-founded in 1993 by Gil Shwed and based in Israel is ______ Point Software Technologies. Fill in the one word blank, also an announcement made in chess when the King is in initial danger.","Check Point Software Technologies"),
("HANA is the name of the relational database management system developed by what German corporation, which is, by revenue, the largest non-American software company in the world?","SAP"),
("SQS is an AWS that makes it easy to keep messages between software and apps organized without having to worry about losing them. SQS stands for Simple ______ Service.","Queue"),
("What professional social networking site announced a theft of 6.5 million usernames and passwords in 2012, and an even bigger hack of 117 million passwords in 2016?","LinkedIn"),
("Eric Yuan is a former Cisco engineer and executive that left the telecom giant to found what speedy meeting company in 2011? The company released its first version of their eponymous software two years later and had a "breakout year" in 2020.","Zoom"),
("The icon of a white video camera in a green square represents what app that's pre-installed on Apple's iPhone?","FaceTime"),
("When you compare the Microsoft Office Suite to Apple’s iWork software, Word is to Pages, PowerPoint is to Keynote, and Excel is to what program named after the part of a keyboard traditionally found below the “F” keys?","Numbers"),
("What “M” computer security company, founded by namesake John in 1987 before being acquired by Intel in 2011, is well known for its anti-virus software that is available to individual consumers?","McAfee"),
("A Rochester, New York developed what open-source operating system written in way more than three lines of code and named for what short poetry form?","Haiku"),
("After Microsoft and IBM, which Texas-based computer tech corp (known for its databases) is the third-largest in the world?","Oracle"),
("He had intended to call it Freax, but his friend changed the name without consulting him. Finnish-American software engineer Linus Torvalds is best known as the creator of what piece of open source software?","Linux"),
("What is the two-word official name of the feature in the Zoom app in which smaller groups of people meet separately from a main meeting?","Breakout Rooms"),
("Which software with a circus-act-inspired name that starts with A can you download to view PDFs with the greatest of ease?","Acrobat Reader"),
("Steve Jobs is famously one of the two men who co-founded Apple in 1976. The other co-founder was also named Steve. What was this other man's surname?","Wozniak"),
("What term that can describe part of a house also means a way to access a computer system or encrypted data that bypasses the system's usual security mechanisms?","Back door"),
(""Ordinateur" is the word for "computer," and "logiciel" is the word for "software," in what Romance language?","French"),
("Larry Ellison co-founded a company in 1977 with the rather boring name of Software Development Laboratories (SDL). In 1983, the company introduced what word into its official name? This new word is the name of the company today and also means a person considered to provide wise counsel or prophetic predictions.","Oracle"),
("Android is well-known for codenaming its different versions for sweet treats such as Jelly Bean and Cupcake. What cookie brand was the codename for the 2017 release of the popular mobile phone software?","Oreo"),
("What “U” software is is a Linux distribution based on Debian? It is offered in Desktop, Server, and Core For Internet.","Ubuntu"),
("Fill in the name of the app missing from the title of this January 2022 Wall Street Journal article title: "Why Apple’s ___ Is Winning: Teens Dread the Green Text Bubble."","iMessage"),
("A Massachusetts company that offers software and services based on PostgreSQL, whose motto is “Power To Postrgres”, and whose logo is a red circle, is ______DB. Fill in the one word blank, also the name of the starship on the 1960s TV show “Star Trek.”","EnterpriseDB"),
("Founded in 1983 in Mountain View, CA, what accounting software was imagined as Quicken for small business owners?","QuickBooks"),
("If computers had been around 100 years ago, who would have been most likely to install Scrivener on their laptop? A. Al Capone B. Charles Lindbergh C. Coco Chanel D. Ernest Hemingway","Ernest Hemingway"),
("An American company, founded by Olivier Pomel in 2010, that monitors cloud-scale applications through a SaaS-based data analytics platform, is DataD______. Fill in the one word blank, an animal seen in their purple logo playfully holding a chart.","Dog"),
("What talking paper fastener, who served as a virtual assistant in Microsoft Office programs from 1997 until the mid-2000s, will be making a comeback as an emoji, according to the company?","Clippy"),
("What is the name of the Austin-based software business founded by brothers David and Donald Yonce considered to be in the middle of the December 2020 Federal government hack?","SolarWinds"),
("What “O” open source office suite, discontinued in 2011, was started by Sun Microsystems, and acquired by Oracle shortly before its closure? Its name implied it was available to users across all platforms.","OpenOffice"),
("What “A” antivirus software is a freeware solution available across multiple platforms, with an amoeba like orange “A” as a logo? It is also a pirate word meaning “Stop.”","Avast"),
("A Real-Time ______ System or RTOS can handle a lot of events happening at once that need to be processed in a timely fashion—think the software that handles air traffic control.","Operating"),
("Back in the late ‘90s when you couldn’t quickly edit photos or make a gif on any device, you probably downloaded which free, open-source graphics editing software with an icon that’s a dog with a paintbrush in its mouth? (Hint: Its an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program)","GIMP"),
("Internet mogul Richard Barton founded the online travel companyExpedia, the employment search engine and company review website Glassdoor, and what internet-based real estate company?","Zillow"),
("What is the name of a Unix shell and command language written as a free software replacement for the Bourne shell? It also completes the blank of the Mark-Paul Gosselaar lawyer comedy show “Franklin and ______”, and the World Championship Wrestling pay-per-view “______ At The Beach.”","Bash"),
("Billing itself as "The World's #1 Identity Platform," what cloud software company gets its four-letter name from a meteorological unit used to describe the amount of cloud cover at a given location?","Okta"),
("In 1994, which computer company launched its first web browser, Navigator?","Netscape"),
("What innovative radio company developed the Music Genome Project to classify music by mirroring mathematical techniques for gene sequencing within human DNA? The company is named after the first human woman created by the gods in Greek mythology.","Pandora"),
("Providing software that focuses on customer service and market automation, what San Francisco-based company has a blue cloud logo with its name in the middle?","Salesforce"),
("Which F-term refers to software that’s built into hardware, like a BIOS?","Firmware"),
("What color do you get if you mix together the two colors that appear twice in the Google logo?","Purple"),
("In the week between March 11 and March 18, 2020, what Microsoft app went from 32 million to 44 million daily active users, up to 115 million by October of the same year?","Teams"),
("What utility company based in Minneapolis, MN offers electricity and natural gas services to customers across the country? Its name has the same pronunciation as a popular piece of Microsoft Office software.","Xcel Energy"),
("In the early ‘90s, Symantec acquired a software program developed by a computer programmer named Peter Norton. It’s since become one of the most commonly used and well-known of which kind of computer security software?","Antivirus"),
("The free, open-source operating system GNU is a recursive, or self-referential, acronym that stands for "GNU's Not" what other operating system?","Unix"),
("Jack Dorsey is most known for co-founding Twitter, but he is also CEO of another tech company. What is the name of this other company most well-known for credit card readers?","Block"),
("What term is given to a software application that automatically downloads or displays marketing banners or pop-ups when a user is online?","Adware"),
("What “R” database software, an in-memory data structure store with a red stacked logo, was originally written by Salvatore Sanfilippo in 2009?","Redis"),
("What is the seven-letter branded software standard created by Apple that enables a car radio or touchscreen to be a display and a controller for an iOS device?","CarPlay"),
("In September 2022, what video game company acknowledged a massive leak of assets from an upcoming release of a game in its popular Grand Theft Auto franchise?","Rockstar"),
("What regulatory group assigns content rating and suggested age ratings for video games? This group's four-letter initialism is featured near the rating on most video game packaging.","Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB)"),
("The Ports of Los Angeles and New Orleans have been implementing the PortXchange logistics software used by what Dutch seaport, the busiest in Europe?","Rotterdam"),
("What is the version number of Apple's latest iOS, notable for the ability to edit and delete recently sent iMessages even if the user doesn't own an iPhone 14?","16"),
("A type of remote project management software shares what name for general yoga postures that help one relax after remote project management?","Asana"),
("Kubernetes was not named kubernetes until it was open sourced by Google in 2014. Prior to that it was known by what four-letter name of an alien species in the "Star Trek" franchise?","Borg"),
("What is the tasty name of the series of small single-board computers developed by an eponymous foundation in the UK and often used for the promotion of teaching computer science concepts in schools and developing countries?","Raspberry Pi"),
("Common, HDFS, YARN, MapReduce, and Ozone are key modules in what popular open source big data framework managed by the Apache Software Foundation?","Hadoop"),
("Mozilla is a free software community best known for its web browser Firefox. What is the name of Mozilla’s email client product?","Thunderbird"),
("What is the name of the research and advisory firm that puts out "magic quadrants", ranking different enterprises software products?","Gartner"),
("Although the company maintains and distributes many types of open source software, it is most well known for its enterprise Linux and virtualization products. What is this company headquartered in Raleigh and purchased by IBM in 2019? You might also see their name written when visiting a haberdasher.","Red Hat"),
("Which AWS lets you plan and run all kinds of computing jobs at once (in a bunch, you might say) without having to manage it or download any third-party software?","Batch"),
("Norton AntiVirus is an anti-malware and anti-virus software package that has been developed and distributed by what company since 1991? This parent company has a portmanteau'd name and was first publicly traded in 1989.","Symantec"),
("Just Dance, Assassin's Creed, and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six are among the video game franchises developed by what French software company?","Ubisoft"),
("With "Ai" as its icon, which of Adobe's Creative Cloud software programs is used to create vector art?","Adobe Illustrator"),
("The non-profit Mozilla is likely best-known for its Firefox browser but also built what aviary email and RSS client that was first launched in 2004 and is currently supported by a wholly-owned subsidiary?","Thunderbird"),
("In 2005, Linus Torvalds created software for tracking changes on files in order to improve development of the Linux kernel. Since 2005, the open-source software has had Junio Hamano as the core maintainer. What is the three-letter name of this uber-popular software among developers?","Git"),
("Since 2016, the tallest building in Indianapolis has been known by what official name? This is also the name of the tallest building in San Francisco and the name of an enterprise software company.","Salesforce Tower"),
("While working at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center during the 1970s, computer scientist Larry Tesler coined what three common computer commands first used to edit documents on a word processor he co-created called Gypsy?","Cut, copy, paste"),
("What smartphone app and fintech company was founded by father and son duo Walter Wemple Cruttenden III and Jeffrey James Cruttenden to promote incremental and passive investing in 2014? The company's app features a light green color scheme and shares its name with a seed enclosed in a tough, leathery shell. The portfolio options the company offers were designed in part by Nobel laureate Harry Markowitz.","Acorns"),
("With an initial release in 2003, what is the free open-source content management system written in PHP and paired with a MySQL (or MariaDB) database that features numerous plugins and templates known as "Themes" and is currently used by 39% of the 10 million most-popular websites in the world?","WordPress"),
("Apple's App Store released a list of the most popular free iPhone apps in 2019. Six of the top nine apps were products of what TWO companies? You need to name both here.","Facebook and Google"),
("Mostly famous for its "Notebook" product, what is the name of the open source community and project taking its name as a combination (in some order) of three core programming languages: R, Julia, and Python?","Jupyter"),
("According to Apple, what avatar-creation software was the most downloaded app from the App Store in 2017?","Bitmoji"),
("After an aborted merger attempt with Uber, the food delivery company Grubhub agreed in June 2020 to be acquired by what other delivery-focused software company?","Just Eat Takeaway.com"),
("The first principle in the influential "Manifesto for Agile Software Development" reads as follows: "Our highest priority is to satisfy the ______ through early and continuous delivery of valuable software." What word is missing?","Customer"),
("Software development methods typically are considered to range from adaptive to ______, and agile typically lies on the adaptive side of the spectrum. What word fills in the blank?","Predictive"),
("Fill in the missing word from one of the 12 principles from "The Manifesto for Agile Software Development": ______—the art of maximizing the amount of work not done—is essential.","Simplicity"),
("What platform-as-service analytics company, a personalization of the Apache Pinot software, sounds like a celestial body turned into a woody perennial plant?","StarTree"),
("What “x”tremely useful software owned by Cox Automotive allows for car dealers to have direct insight into the cars they sell, allowing for prompt service appointments among other features?","xtime"),
("What open source alternative to Facebook, which allows users to generate money or cryptocurrency for using the platform, was founded in 2011 in Glastonbury, CT? A popular CBS police procedural deals with the Criminal versions of this company’s one-word name.","Minds"),
("What three-lettered invention of Heineken is a green robotic cooler that can autonomously deliver beer to customers? Its name is a common shorthand for robots, and also for a software application that runs automated online tasks.","BOT"),
("If you're down with OCP, you might have read Bertrand Meyers's "Object Oriented Software Construction" and understand the WHAT-WHAT principle?","Open-Closed"),
("The SWORD Project is an open-source project designed to encourage development of software related to what ancient religious text?","The Bible"),
("What art museum in Aarhus, Denmark, established in 1859 and the oldest art museum in Denmark that’s not in Copenhagen, displays pop art and architecture, as well as famous works of Danish art? It shares its four-letter name with a river in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, as well as an AmigaOS software.","AROS Aarhus Art Museum"),
("What "P" word can describe both a square sewn over a hole in clothing, or a set of changes to update, fix, or improve a software program?","Patch"),
("What is the name of the software that can screen an image or document for text and make it readable and searchable (For example, converting a PDF to a text file)?","Optical Character Recognition"),
("If you were trying to download music circa 2000, which free P2P software program with a fruity name did you probably rely on?","LimeWire"),
("Despite its name, which Swedish startup founded in 2013 makes a big promise to be “the first PDF software you’ll actually like?”","Smallpdf"),
("In the 1970s, Charles Simonyi invented a word processing program called Bravo. Bravo is now considered one of the first types of what seven-word editing software that allows users to see content as it would appear when displayed on an interface, webpage, printed document, etc.?","What You See Is What You Get"),
("Which free desktop app by Sinew Software Systems securely stores passwords and other sensitive user data locally instead of on servers?","Enpass"),
("Hiro Protagonist is a hacker fighting the insidious influence of a virus that affects both computers and human beings in what 1992 sci-fi novel by Neal Stephenson?","Snow Crash"),
("Headquartered in LA, which global fintech company with a name that combines a color and a geometric term provides cloud-based financial management software to huge corporations like Costco, Netflix, and Google?","Blackline"),
("Which Adobe web design software sounds like something you’d use to code a page in your sleep, or a 1975 song by Gary Wright?","Dreamweaver"),
("In 2008, Texas Instruments introduced a single-board computer designed for hobbyists and as an educational tool for the development of open source software. The board is known as a ______ Board, with what canine word filling in the blank? (If you "snoop" on their website, you'll see many different models are currently available.)","Beagle"),
("A Content ______ System (CMS) is a “backend” software application that makes it easy for even non-designers to create and modify a website’s content.","Management"),
("It sounds like the software is headed to the gallows, but which term actually means that a piece of code is telling a computer what to do (like giving it instructions)?","Executable"),
("In 1979, Apple released its first spreadsheet computer program for the Apple II. What was the software called?","VisiCalc"),
("The name makes it sound like it’s cool and up on the times, but which popular Canadian accounting software for businesses has actually been around since 2003? (Hint: One of the founders, Mike McDermont, said he came up with the concept after he actually saved over an invoice he was filling out)","Freshbooks"),
("Before becoming CEO of AWS, which data visualization software company did Adam Selipsky help navigate its acquisition by Salesforce in 2019?","Tableau"),
("Which “edutainment” software publisher produced suites of games for PC and Mac in the ‘90s like “Thinkin’ Things,” “Millie’s Math House,” and “Imagination Express?”","Edmark"),
("The Atanasoff-Berry Computer, the world’s first electronic digital computer, was built during the 1930s in what U.S. state nicknamed the “Hawkeye State”?","Iowa"),
("What is the name of the software framework developed and maintained by Microsoft that was first built in the late 1990s and continues to primarily run on Windows machines with the C# language? Fun fact: this is a key piece of the Water Cooler Trivia stack.",".NET"),
("With revenue over $700 million in 2018 and more than 20 years in the education technology market, what is the name of the privately-held DC-based company which claims more than 17,000 schools and organizations in 100 countries as customers? The company's name is likely to remind you of something you'd find in a school.","Blackboard Inc"),
("Rami Malek won an Emmy playing brilliant but unstable cybersecurity expert and vigilante hacker Elliot Alderson on what USA Network series that aired from 2015 to 2019?","Mr. Robot"),
("LiMux was a project for migrating what huge Bavarian city from Windows to Linux?","Munich"),
("Meant to make programming easy for beginners, what Microsoft legacy product is a third-generation event-driven programming language that was first released in 1991?","Visual Basic"),
("Which type of “bomb” is a bit of code put into software that is set up to trigger a malicious function if certain conditions are met? For example, some computer worms were infamously designed to attack on certain dates, like Friday the 13th.","Logic"),
("You know those annoying "prove you're not a robot" tests that you have to take on websites sometimes? They're known as CAPTCHAs. And CAPTCHA is actually an acronym standing for "Completely Automated Public ______ test to tell Computers and Humans Apart." What surname fills in the blank?","Turing"),
("What company providing hosting for software development and distributed version control familiar to computer programmers is known for its iconic Octocat (part cat, part octopus) logo?","Github"),
("Led by President Alexander Lukashenko, what Eastern European nation passed a January 2023 law allowing piracy of software whose copyright holders are from "unfriendly nations?"","Belarus"),
("Unicode, the standard for character encoding used to represent multilingual text as binary, is the successor of what US encoding standard?","ASCII"),
("Represented by a white camera in a blue teardrop icon, what is the name of Google's video chat mobile app?","Duo"),
("Playing on the acronym CHEF, the Sakai Learning Management System was named for Hiroyuki Sakai, a star of what Japanese competition show set in Kitchen Stadium?","Iron Chef"),
("What “A” software is open source provisioning, configuration management , and application-deployment tool? It was originally authored by Michael DeHaan and given a stable release in July 2021.","Ansible"),
("What “n” is an informal term for software which is free for a trial period and thereafter frequently reminds the user to pay for it?","Nagware"),
("What is the Spain-headquartered software company, with annual revenue of more than $5.5 billion, that creates technology for travel searches, accommodation and transportation bookings, and more? The company shares its name with a famous composer’s middle name.","Amadeus"),
("Born in Bulgaria before attending Thomas Jefferson High School in Virginia and Stanford University in California, Vlad Tenev founded defunct trading company Celeris and then software company Chronos Research before eventually founding what still-functioning company in 2013?","Robinhood"),
("Launched in 1992 by a team at the University of Kansas, which text-based web browser shares a name with a wild cat?","Lynx"),
("Which free, open-source media player with a traffic cone desktop icon did you probably have on your computer circa 2001? (Hint: The original name was VideoLANClient, but that name didn’t stick as the software gained more capabilities)","VLC"),
("Vinod Khosla, a billionaire and founder of an eponymous venture capital firm, is also a cofounder of what company that created the Java programming language?","Sun Microsystems"),
("A full-time Apple employee from 1992 to 2019, what man became Apple's first Chief Design Officer in 2015?","Jony Ive"),
("Now owned by Serta Simmons, what mattress brand founded by two software engineers has a green ampersand in a circle in its logo?","Tuft & Needle"),
("What term is used for a piece of software, a particular kind of user interface, that guides a user through a series of well-defined steps to complete a task?","Wizard"),
("An early spreadsheet application that competed with Microsoft Excel was named after a flower in the family Nelumbonaceae. What was the name of this software that was acquired by IBM?","Lotus"),
("What is the name of the programming language maintained by Microsoft that is considered a "strict syntactical superset" of Javascript? The language was designed for developing large applications and it transcompiles into JavaScript.","TypeScript"),
("If you wanted to type up a “flawless” document in the 1980s or early 1990s, which Windows word processor would you use? (Hint: It was owned by Novell before being acquired by Corel in 1996, and your file would be saved in “.wpd” format)","WordPerfect"),
("What Microsoft software was originally released as Multi-Tool ______ in 1983, for Xenix systems? It did not use a talking paper clip at this time.","Microsoft Word"),
("Which discontinued spreadsheet program, originally written by Jonathan Sachs, peaked in popularity in the late 1980s after its release in January 1983? This spreadsheet program was the first computer software to use television consumer advertising.","Lotus 1-2-3"),
("Which type of software includes operating systems and utility programs, and is essentially the foundation you need to lay to be able to run other software on your machine—for example, applications?","System"),
("What competing real estate website with a seltzer-sounding name did Zillow buy in 2015 for $2.5bn in stock?","Trulia"),
("Founded in 2015, what company, which is named after something you'd find in an apiary, bills its main software product as "the #1 productivity platform for fast-moving teams?"","Hive"),
("What was the spooky name of the first computer worm, created in 1971, that could be defeated by the first antivirus software (aptly named Reaper)?","Creeper"),
("Often associated with the software development strategy of Agile, what is the software engineering practice that unifies software operations with software development?","DevOps"),
("What is the three-letter initialism for the markup language that was first formally spec'd by the World Wide Web Consortium in 1998 and is designed with goals of simplicity, generality, and usability across the internet?","XML"),
("What programming language developed by Larry Wall is associated with a camel, the image that appeared on the language's first printed programming manual back in 1991?","Perl"),
("What is the name of the 2012-founded San Francisco-based company that uses a spreadsheet-database hybrid in which features of a database are applied to a spreadsheet? Founded by Howie Liu, Andrew Ofstad, and Emmett Nicholas, the company widely shares its API for connecting other online services and has raised more than $300 million in funding (as of early 2021).","Airtable"),
("MPEG video-audio files get their name from the groups that were tasked with standardizing them. What is MPEG an acronym for?","Moving Picture Experts Group"),
("In 2009, the United States White House switched its website's CMS from a proprietary system to what popular "D" open-source CMS system that was initially released in 2001?","Drupal"),
("In what year did the first AWS (Amazon Web Services) service launch to the public? We'll give you credit if your response is within two years of the correct answer.","2004 (2002 - 2006 accepted)"),
("What is the name of the online service and iOS app used for over-the-air installation and testing of mobile applications on Apple devices? This program is owned by Apple and is frequently used for downloading and testing alpha and beta versions of apps.","TestFlight"),
("Applying to some apps written in C#, C++, Visual Basic, or Javascript, the abbreviation UWP stands for Universal WHAT Platform?","Windows"),
("Which database analytics software company has been in the game since 1979 and has a name that will make you think of ~1 trillion bytes?","Teradata"),
("What British woman is considered to have written the first ever piece of computer software, developing an algorithm for Charles Babbage’s theoretical Analytical Engine in the 1840s? She was the only child of George Gordon, Lord Byron, she is best known with an “L” last name.","Ada Lovelace"),
("Deeper Insights, Five AI, and Beyond Analysis are some of the top AI companies in what international city?","London"),
("What technology company found a surprise hit on its hands in early 2018 with a viral app comparing selfies to famous pieces of art?","Google"),
("In 2013, a software bug caused what financial technology company to erroneously credit customer Chris Reynold's account with 92 quadrillion dollars, although the error was quickly corrected?","PayPal"),
("In the original Sid Meier's Civilization, which country ironically had a leader that would be set to maximum aggression upon adoption of democracy due to a software bug? (NOTE: we want the COUNTRY, not the leader)","India"),
("The D_______ Free Software Guidelines, originally published in 1997 by Bruce Perens, are used to determine whether a software license is free or not. Fill in the blank, part of its namesake D_______ Project.","Debian"),
("Before the name Java, the coding language was known by what arboreal name that also has poignancy in the Pokemon universe?","Oak"),
("What "A" word important to software developers comes from a transliteration of the Arabic "al-Khwarizmi," a native of the area now known as Uzbekistan?","Algorithm"),
("Which financial software from Envestnet offers client features like Play Zone and is considered the most popular among advisors (at least in terms of market share by user—it was at 36% in 2021)?","MoneyGuidePro"),
("A demo of a game is an example of which type of software that lets users "try before they buy" (though only to a limited extent)?","Trialware"),
("What notorious Boston sports fan, formerly of ESPN, sold his most recent venture to Spotify in early 2020 to bolster their podcast business?","Bill Simmons"),
("Martin A. Goetz, a pioneer in the development of the commercial software industry, received the first patent for software from The United States Patent and Trademark Office in which 20th century decade?","1960s"),
("In 2000, a software engineer named Steve Gibson was the first person to describe what kind of software that steals personal information? (He defined it as any software that “employs a user’s Internet connection in the background [the so-called "backchannel"] without their knowledge or explicit permission” but the definition has expanded as technology has evolved)","Spyware"),
("Since 2016, the Sacramento Kings have been owned by what TIBCO Software founder and first person of Indian-descent to own an NBA team?","Vivek Ranadivé"),
("VLC media player is free, open-source software that was first developed by students in France in the mid-90s. After being retooled by a global group of contributors, it officially launched in 2001. It was originally called VideoLAN ______ (VLC).","Client"),
("Written in Python and used as an open-source workflow management platform, what is the name of the "ventilated" Apache-managed project started at Airbnb in 2014 and designed under the "configuration as code" principle?","Airflow"),
("What “C” cybersecurity, founded in Sunnyvale, CA in 2011, has a two word name that implies it can attack problems quickly across a variety of software? Its logo is a red hawk swooping in.","Crowdstrike"),
("What is the "sunny" parent company of InvestorInfo, PitchBook, and ByAllAccounts?","Morningstar"),
("What “P” software and database company was founded in 2014 by Navin Chaddha, and is owned by Pure Storage? Its name is a compound word of a parking place for boats and and a unit of physical effort with an “x” at the end.","Portworx"),
("In 1997, which Microsoft media player with custom visualizations, plug-ins, and cool skins hit the scene just in time to take advantage of the mp3 trend and soon became one of the most downloaded Windows applications ever?","Winamp"),
("In September 2020, the food delivery company Rappi raised an additional $150 million to further fund its expansion in what continent?","South America"),
("What is the five-letter name for the general-purpose programming language first released in 2004 that was designed to be concise and aimed to address criticisms of Java? This language was designed by Martin Odersky and is the language used as the basis for Apache Spark.","Scala"),
("Wazuh is a free, open source software for threat detection and integrity monitoring. Its logo resembles a coyote, and is made out of what color?","Blue"),
("Created in 2009 and based in Austin, Texas, what “A” software company helps optimize workplace productivity in the remote space by streamlining workflow and limiting distractions, keeping employees energetic?","ActivTrak"),
("What is the five-letter name of the London-based company that provides software for virtual events and raised *three* rounds of venture capital in 2020 totaling more than $170 million? The company grew from 5,000 to over 3 million users during the year.","Hopin"),
("What website design and implementation tool was founded by Bryant Chou, Sergie Magdalin, and Vlad Magdalin in 2012 and did not raise a series A fundraising round until 2019? However, when they raised that round of funding, it was a cash injection of more than $70 million.","Webflow"),
("What “Z” software company, opened in 2005 in Sunnyvale, California and acquired by BETSOL in 2018, contributes to many open source projects? Its name is reminiscent of the first name of the young star of the “Mamma Mia” films, with a Z replacing the first letter.","Zmanda"),
("Throughout the ‘90s and 2000s, some updated versions of Windows operating systems—for example, 98 and 11—had “SE” after them. What was SE short for?","Second Edition"),
("One of the most popular software programs for music notation and composition has what "S" name, after the man who many consider to be Finland's national composer?","Sibelius"),
("What’s the name of the plain-text version of a computer program that humans can read and (maybe) understand?","Source Code"),
("Which type of computer database supports storage of all data types, with specific attributes and methods for each individual item of data?","Object-oriented database"),
("What’s the name of the macOS released on October 24, 2022, that brought features like Stage Manager and updates to Messages to Macs? (Hint: It’s a place in California, too)","Ventura"),
("As documented in "The Zen of Python," the core philosophy of the open source programming language Python includes pithy aphorisms such as "Beautiful is better than ugly" and "Simple is better than complex." The final of these phrases is "Readability ______." What word fills in the blank?","Counts"),
("In 2017, Misys merged with D+H to form the third-largest financial services company in the world. Now providing its software and other products to more than 8,600 institutions globally, what’s the company’s name?","Finastra"),
("Software developers at Disney created Hyperion, a program to produce more realistic animated scenes by determining the correct angle and intensity of light and shadows, that is Disney’s in-house version of what type of software?","Renderer"),
("What “K” IT infrastructure technology company, based out of Armonk, New York, started as a spinoff of IBM? Its logo is its own name, spelled out in lowercase orange letters.","kyndryl"),
("Which French financial software startup with unicorn status bills itself (no pun intended) as “the future of payroll and HR?”","Payfit"),
("Developed by Dan Dennedy, what free and open-source video-editing program was first released in 2011 and can be used across platforms including FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, and Windows?","Shotcut"),
("What is the name of the Egypt-based software company that primarily offers a bug reporting tool with a "Shake to Send" feature? The company integrates with many other tools thought its SDK and raised $5 million in a Series A led by Accel in 2020.","Instabug"),
("What "R" ransomware, known for targeting large public-entity Microsoft systems, may install itself by way of the Trickbot Trojan malware?","Ryuk")