Trivia

Can you imagine a world where you live out your greatest dream? Be whoever, and do anything? Well, that is the world Ernest Cline thought up, the Oasis, a virtual world created by James Halliday. What inspired Cline to write this book? In the novel Ready Player One the creator of the Oasis, James Halliday, closely resembles the author in interests, belongings, and even behavior. It is almost as if Cline bases Halliday off himself. Also, the entire novel revolves around 80’s pop culture. It is…

ideas about how it was developed. A lot of the costumes and and sprites were from outside resources and we created by us. At the end of our program we included data lists to ask questions to our sprites so they could compete with each other in the trivia game. discussion of extensions, improvements, of changes to the program that you think reasonable Improvements: Some possible improvements or extensions that could be added to the program is the ending. There could have been more added to each…

all of these cases of incredible memory like Daniel or Kim Peek who inspired the 1988 academy award winning movie Rain Man. He was a savant who could not use logic or reasoning but any trivia fact or math problem he would be able to do. “Members of the audience had been invited to try to stump him with obscure trivia (anything but “logic or reasoning questions.” (181) It taught me that a person can excel in one area and not be able to do one area at all. When I was a kid I thought that people…

Doug Swieteck life is horrible. His father is abusive and his brother doesn’t care about him. Doug received a New York Yankees baseball cap worn by Joe Pepitone. It was signed by the hall of fame. His brother Lucas stole his cap and now Doug can’t find it. Later in the week Lucas gets drafted into the Army and goes off to Vietnam, then his dad loses his job so they must move to a poorer neighbor up the state of Long Island. It's a small town called Marysville. Before Doug leaves his friend gives…

Introduction This lesson’s goal is to enhance the understanding of the effects of the Civil War within the U.S. amongst the African and Native communities, which can provide further understanding of events after the war. Standard 7.4.4.19.3 Regional tensions around economic development, slavery, territorial expansion and governance resulted in a Civil War and a period of Reconstruction that led to the abolition of slavery, a more powerful federal government, a renewed push into indigenous…

said. “Popular wisdom tells you not to change something that’s working. Instead of incrementally changing QuizUp — which is a very successful game — we’re really going back to the drawing board.” Perhaps QuizUp’s fairy-tale rise to the top of the trivia heap has something to do with his stomach for risk. It’s an against-the-odds story that wouldn’t look out of place on the big screen. In 2012, Fridriksson was close to bankrupt. A former TV presenter, he had completed an MBA at the prestigious…

Ever since 1975, when Samoas were introduced as the new addition to the Girl Scout Cookies, they have grown to have a special place in customers' hearts (Girl Scout Cookie Timeline and Trivia). The cookies have the perfect combination of chocolate, coconut, and caramel, all mixed together to form one delicious, as well as nutritional, cookie. Because of this, they are an American favorite, helping boost the sales Girl Scouts make every season. Samoas may have not been one of the original cookies…

Cricking) is developing a comprehensive fan engagement and sports analytics platform to help fans follow their favorite team(s) and player(s) via personalized content, engage and interact socially during live games via play-by-play prediction, social trivia, motion sensor games that will help the company develop behavioral analytics. Fanisko offers fan engagement platform as a service(SaaS) and strategic solutions to clubs, leagues, college teams, sports foundations and pro athletes to help…

unflattering terms, without the soft focus and belabored sentiment our culture has lead us to expect. The slow death of someone you love is sometimes horrible, and this story never denies that, or the way your mind escapes from that horror and focuses on trivia. While the writing may be self-conscious, it isn't pretending to be anything else, and the wonder is that Eggers is willing to accept everything that comes into his head, regardless…

When I was in Sixth grade, I was a part of the interscholastic academic pentathlon. In this competition we had trivia questions and both team and solo work. I remember we would have study groups and random sessions with the coaches to study together and to get used to what we were really in for. We met every Wednesday after school to study, we used tests and questions from past years to get the best feel for what we were going into so we wouldn’t go into the competition and be blindsided by…