17.03 Quiz

Ke Huy Quan recently won an Oscar for best supporting actor for the movie Everything Everywhere All at Once. His acting career started in the 80s with which movie?

• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

• Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

• The Goonies

• Back to the Future Part II

The term ... was used to refer to a medieval or Renaissance toilet, and is still commonly used today. Which word is it?

• Trench

• Crock pot

• Toilet

• Wardrobe

What programming language is Minecraft written in?

• Python

• Java

• JavaScript

• C++

Speaking generically of Java, sorting a list in Java can be done using Collections.sort(), which has the following type signature:

static <T extends Comparable<? super T>> void sort(List<T> list)

Which statement(s) are correct?

• If a class that extends T is comparable with itself, list can be sorted

• If T is comparable with itself, list can be sorted

• If List extends Comparable, list can be sorted

• If T extends a class that is comparable with itself, list can be sorted

Sir Christopher Lee is widely known for his acting, especially for his roles as Saruman from Lord of the Rings and Count Dooku from Star Wars. What has he also done in his career?

• Metal singer

• Jazz dancer

• Fantasy writer

• Landscape painter

On Tuesday, an American drone was hit by a Russian fighter jet. Which type of plane was it?

• Su-34

• F-15C

• Su-27

• F-35A

You may have heard of a "murder of crows", but what is a collective noun for a group of ravens?

• A confusion of ravens

• A commotion of ravens

• A conspiracy of ravens

• A chattering of ravens

If a machine learning model is overfitting, according to the bias-variance tradeoff, it has:

• Low bias

  Low variance

• Low bias

  High variance

• High bias

  Low variance

• High bias

  High variance