Question: What is the final numeric output from the attached Python code?


Question: An office held a Secret Santa gift exchange where each of its twelve employees was assigned one other employee in the group to present with a gift. Each employee filled out a profile including three likes or hobbies. On the day of the gift exchange, only eleven gifts were given, each one specific to one of the recipient's interests. Based on the information in the document, who did not give a gift?

1. Open the document.
2. Look at gifts and recipient interests.
3. Match Galileo Galilei biography (could apply to astronomy or books -> Miguel or Micah)
4. Match fishing reel (only applies to fishing -> Harry)
5. Match Raku programming guide (Perl language, but could also apply to JavaScript enthusiast - > Fred or Jun)
6. Match chisel set (could apply to camping or woodworking, but Harry is already fulfilled -> Jun, so Raku guide is for Fred)
7. Match custom dice (could apply to board games or tabletop RPGs -> Lucy or Sara)
8. Match “War and Peace” American film copy (could apply to old movies or Audrey Hepburn -> Perry or Alex)
9. Match yarn (only applies to knitting -> Micah, so the Galileo biography is for Miguel)
10. Match "One Piece" graphic novel (could apply to books or manga, but Micah already has yarn -> Alex, so the "War and Peace" film is for Perry)
11. Match "War and Peace" novel (could apply to books or historical fiction novels, but Micah has yarn -> Tyson)
12. Match Starbucks gift card (only applies to coffee -> Lucy, so the dice are for Sara)
13. Match foam exercise mat (only applies to yoga -> Georgette)
14. Note which recipients have gifts (Miguel, Harry, Fred, Jun, Sara, Perry, Micah, Alex, Tyson, Lucy, Georgette) and which does not (Rebecca).
15. Find who was supposed to give Rebecca a gift (Fred).


Question: Review the chess position provided in the image. It is black's turn. Provide the correct next move for black which guarantees a win. Please provide your response in algebraic notation.

Step 1: Evaluate the position of the pieces in the chess position
Step 2: Report the best move available for black: "Rd5"


Question: How many slides in this PowerPoint presentation mention crustaceans?

1. Open the provided file.
2. Scroll through the presentation, noting the animal names on each slide.
3. Search the web for “crayfish” to verify that they are crustaceans.
4. Read the results, noting that they are crustaceans.
5. Search the web for “isopods” to verify whether they are crustaceans.
6. Read the results, noting that they are.
7. Since I’m confident that I know whether all of the other animals are crustaceans, I count the ones that are to get the answer, 4.


Question:
Hi, I'm making a pie but I could use some help with my shopping list. I have everything I need for the crust, but I'm not sure about the filling. I got the recipe from my friend Aditi, but she left it as a voice memo and the speaker on my phone is buzzing so I can't quite make out what she's saying. Could you please listen to the recipe and list all of the ingredients that my friend described? I only want the ingredients for the filling, as I have everything I need to make my favorite pie crust. I've attached the recipe as Strawberry pie.mp3.

In your response, please only list the ingredients, not any measurements. So if the recipe calls for "a pinch of salt" or "two cups of ripe strawberries" the ingredients on the list would be "salt" and "ripe strawberries".

Please format your response as a comma separated list of ingredients. Also, please alphabetize the ingredients.

cornstarch, freshly squeezed lemon juice, granulated sugar, pure vanilla extract, ripe strawberries

Step 1: Load the file supplied to me by my user.
Step 2: Using speech-to-text tools, convert the audio file to plain text and store it for the candidate word list:

"In a saucepan, combine ripe strawberries, granulated sugar, freshly squeezed lemon juice, and cornstarch. Cook the mixture over medium heat, stirring constantly, until it thickens to a smooth consistency. Remove from heat and stir in a dash of pure vanilla extract. Allow the strawberry pie filling to cool before using it as a delicious and fruity filling for your pie crust."

Step 3: Evaluate the candidate word list and process it, stripping each ingredient encountered to a provisional response list:

ripe strawberries
granulated sugar
freshly squeezed lemon juice
cornstarch
pure vanilla extract

Step 4: Alphabetize the list of ingredients as requested by my user to create a finalized response:

cornstarch
freshly squeezed lemon juice
granulated sugar
pure vanilla extract
ripe strawberries

Step 5: Report the correct response to my user:

"cornstarch
freshly squeezed lemon juice
granulated sugar
pure vanilla extract
ripe strawberries"

1. A file interface
2. A speech-to-text tool


Question: As a comma separated list with no whitespace, using the provided image provide all the fractions that use / as the fraction line and the answers to the sample problems. Order the list by the order in which the fractions appear.

1. Find the fractions that use / as the fraction line before the sample problems start: 3/4,1/4,3/4,3/4,2/4,1/2,5/35,7/21,30/5,30/5
2. Solve the sample problems:
3. Problem 1: 3/4
4. Problem 2: 1/15
5. Problem 3: 1/3
6. Problem 4: 4/9
7. Problem 5: 1/8
8. Problem 6: 32/23
9. Problem 7: 103/170
10: Add them to the list. There were no more fractions with a / as the fraction line, so they can just be added in order: 3/4,1/4,3/4,3/4,2/4,1/2,5/35,7/21,30/5,30/5,3/4,1/15,1/3,4/9,1/8,32/23,103/170


Question: The attached Excel file contains the sales of menu items for a local fast-food chain. What were the total sales that the chain made from food (not including drinks)? Express your answer in USD with two decimal places.

1. Open the attached file.
2. Read the columns representing different menu items. Note that they all appear to be food except for the “soda” column.
3. Write a function to sum the relevant columns.
4. Ensure the answer follows the specified formatting.


Question: You are given this Excel file as a map. You start on the START cell and move toward the END cell. You are allowed to move two cells per turn, and you may move up, down, left, or right. You may not move fewer than two cells, and you may not move backward. You must avoid moving onto any blue cells. On the eleventh turn, what is the 6-digit hex code (without prefix) of the color of the cell where you land after moving?

1. Opened Map.xlsx.
2. Counted 11 turns of 2 spaces each (22 spaces) along the path of non-blue cells.
3. Opened cell formatting for the cell.
4. Clicked the "Fill" tab.
5. Clicked "More Colors..."
6. Noted the hex code of the color.

1. Access to Excel files
2. Color recognition
3. Calculator (or ability to count)


Question: Each cell in the attached spreadsheet represents a plot of land. The color of the cell indicates who owns that plot. Green cells are plots owned by Earl Smith. Can Earl walk through every plot he owns (and no other plots) and return to his starting plot without backtracking? For this question, consider backtracking to be any instance where Earl would enter a plot of land he had already entered since leaving his starting plot.

1. Open the spreadsheet
2. Analyze the green cells.
3. Note that the shape of Earl’s plots is not a loop. There are dead-ends that can’t be traversed without doubling back to a previously-traversed cell.

1. Excel
2. Image recognition
3. Color recognition


Question: You are a telecommunications engineer who wants to build cell phone towers on a stretch of road. In the reference file is a layout of the road and nearby houses. Each dash, "-", is a marker indicating a mile. Each capital H indicates a house located next to a mile marker, appearing above or below the stretch of road. Each cell phone tower can cover houses located next to the road within a 4-mile radius. Find the minimum number of cell phone towers needed to cover all houses next to the road. Your answer should be a positive numerical integer value.

1. Determine the diameter of each cell phone tower's coverage: 2 x 4 miles radius = 8 miles diameter.
2. Use the diameter to maximize the coverage of each tower by capturing houses 4 miles to the left and 4 miles to the right.
3. Start from the furthest left side of the road at the first house.
4. Place the first tower 4 miles in to cover the first house.
5. Move forward 4 miles from the first tower. The first tower also covers the house above mile marker 8.
6. Find the next uncovered house below mile marker 12.
7. Move 4 miles in from the uncovered house and place a second tower. The house is now covered.
8. Move forward 4 miles from the second tower. The second tower also covers the house above mile marker 16.
9. Find the next uncovered house below mile marker 25.
10. Move 4 miles in from the uncovered house and place a third tower. The third tower also covers the house above marker 28.
11. Move forward 4 miles from the third tower. The third tower also covers the last house below marker 30.
12. The final number of cell phone towers erected is 3.


Question:
Hi, I was out sick from my classes on Friday, so I'm trying to figure out what I need to study for my Calculus mid-term next week. My friend from class sent me an audio recording of Professor Willowbrook giving out the recommended reading for the test, but my headphones are broken :(

Could you please listen to the recording for me and tell me the page numbers I'm supposed to go over? I've attached a file called Homework.mp3 that has the recording. Please provide just the page numbers as a comma-delimited list. And please provide the list in ascending order.

Step 1: Load the file supplied by my user.
Step 2: Using audio processing tools, convert the text of the audio file to speech:

"Before you all go, I want to remind you that the midterm is next week. Here's a little hint; you should be familiar with the differential equations on page 245, problems that are very similar to problems 32, 33, and 44 from that page might be on the test. And also some of you might want to brush up on the last page in the integration section, page 197. I know some of you struggled on last week's quiz. I foresee problem 22 from page 197 being on your midterm. Oh, and don't forget to brush up on the section on related rates, on pages 132, 133, and 134."

Step 3: Evaluate the converted audio, recording each instance of page numbers: 245, 197, 197, 132, 133, 134
Step 4: Sort the page numbers in ascending order, omitting duplicates, and store this list as the correct answer to my user's request: 132, 133, 134, 197, 245
Step 5: Report the correct response to my user: "132, 133, 134, 197, 245"

1. A file interface
2. A speech-to-text audio processing tool


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Question: A standard Rubik’s cube has been broken into cubes making up its sides. The cubes are jumbled, and one is removed. There are 6 cubes with one colored face, 12 edge cubes with two colored faces, and 8 corner cubes with three colored faces. All blue cubes have been found. All cubes directly left, right, above, and below the orange center cube have been found, along with the center cube. The green corners have all been found, along with all green that borders yellow. For all orange cubes found, the opposite face’s cubes have been found. The removed cube has two colors on its faces. What are they? Answer using a comma separated list, with the colors ordered alphabetically.

1. Set up a standard Rubik's cube (red opposite orange, white opposite yellow, green opposite blue).
2. Eliminated blue cubes, along with adjacent colors.
3. Eliminated orange cubes, along with adjacent colors.
4. Eliminated green corners and the green/yellow edge.
5. Eliminated red, opposite of orange, cubes and adjacent colors.
6. Identified the last possible two-face cube.


Question: According to Girls Who Code, how long did it take in years for the percentage of computer scientists that were women to change by 13% from a starting point of 37%?

1. Searched "Girls Who Code" on Google.
2. Opened https://girlswhocode.com/.
3. Clicked "About Us".
4. Noted that the chart started at 37% and declined to 24%.
5. Subtracted the marked years to find the number of years (2017 - 1995 = 22).

1. Web browser
2. Search engine
3. Calculator


Question:
Bob was invited to participate in a game show, and he advanced to the final round. The final round offered Bob the chance to win a large sum by playing a game against the host. The host has 30 shiny prop coins, each of which is worth $1,000 if Bob manages to win them by playing the game. The host hides the coins in three different prize boxes and then shuffles their order. The only rule restricting the host's coin placement is that one box must contain at least 2 coins, and one box must contain 6 more coins than another box. In order to play, Bob must submit three guesses, one guess for the number of coins in each box. The box is then opened and the number of coins is revealed. If Bob's guess is a number greater than the number of coins in the box, Bob earns no coins. If Bob guesses a number equal to or less than the number of coins in the box, Bob wins a number of coins equal to his guess.

If Bob plays uses the optimal strategy, what's the minimum amount of money he can win from the game?

Step 1: Evaluate the problem statement provided by my user, storing the relevant information:
30 coins with a value of $1,000 distributed between 3 boxes.
Each box must contain at least 2 coins
One box must contain 6 more coins than another

Step 2: Evaluate the base distribution: 2-8-20, noting that two boxes must contain at least 8 coins

Step 3: Evaluate the most even allowable distribution: 8,8,14, noting that two boxes must contain at least 8 coins

Step 4: Evaluate a case where Bob guesses 8 for each box in the outlier distributions.
Step 5: For the worst case 2-8-20 distribution, Bob wins 0+8+8 = 16 coins
Step 6: For the 8-8-14 distribution, Bob wins 8+8+8 = 24 coins
Step 7: Convert the worst-case coin count to a prize value, 16*$1,000 = $16,000
Step 8: Report the correct answer to my user: "$16,000"


Question:
Examine the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1htKBjuUWec.

What does Teal'c say in response to the question "Isn't that hot?"

1. Follow the link
2. Watch the clip until the question "Isn't that hot" is asked
3. Take note of the reply.

1. Web browser
2. Video processing software
3. Audio processing software


Question:
Given this table defining * on the set S = {a, b, c, d, e}

|*|a|b|c|d|e|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|a|a|b|c|b|d|
|b|b|c|a|e|c|
|c|c|a|b|b|a|
|d|b|e|b|e|d|
|e|d|b|a|d|c|

provide the subset of S involved in any possible counter-examples that prove * is not commutative. Provide your answer as a comma separated list of the elements in the set in alphabetical order.

1. Compile the markdown.
2. Look at the table across the diagonal to see if any portions are not symmetrical.
3. See that b * e != e * b, but all others are symmetrical.


Question:
Here's a fun riddle that I think you'll enjoy.

You have been selected to play the final round of the hit new game show "Pick That Ping-Pong". In this round, you will be competing for a large cash prize. Your job will be to pick one of several different numbered ping-pong balls, and then the game will commence. The host describes how the game works.

A device consisting of a winding clear ramp and a series of pistons controls the outcome of the game. The ramp feeds balls onto a platform. The platform has room for three ping-pong balls at a time. The three balls on the platform are each aligned with one of three pistons. At each stage of the game, one of the three pistons will randomly fire, ejecting the ball it strikes. If the piston ejects the ball in the first position on the platform the balls in the second and third position on the platform each advance one space, and the next ball on the ramp advances to the third position. If the piston ejects the ball in the second position, the ball in the first position is released and rolls away, the ball in the third position advances two spaces to occupy the first position, and the next two balls on the ramp advance to occupy the second and third positions on the platform. If the piston ejects the ball in the third position, the ball in the first position is released and rolls away, the ball in the second position advances one space to occupy the first position, and the next two balls on the ramp advance to occupy the second and third positions on the platform.

The ramp begins with 100 numbered ping-pong balls, arranged in ascending order from 1 to 100. The host activates the machine and the first three balls, numbered 1, 2, and 3, advance to the platform. Before the random firing of the pistons begins, you are asked which of the 100 balls you would like to pick. If your pick is ejected by one of the pistons, you win the grand prize, $10,000.

Which ball should you choose to maximize your odds of winning the big prize? Please provide your answer as the number of the ball selected.

Step 1: Evaluate the problem statement provided in my user's prompt
Step 2: Consider the probability of any ball on the platform earning the prize.
Step 3: Evaluate the ball in position one. The probability of it earning the prize, P1, is 1/3
Step 4: Using a calculator, evaluate the ball in position two. The probability of it earning the prize, P2, is the difference between 1 and the product of the complementary probabilities for each trial
P2 = 1 - (2/3)(2/3)
P2 = 5/9
Step 5: Using a calculator, evaluate the ball in position three. The probability of it earning the prize, P3, is the difference between 1 and the product of the complementary probabilities for each trial
P3 = 1 - (2/3)(2/3)(2/3)
P3 = 19/27
Step 6: Consider the possible outcomes of numbers higher than 3.
Step 7: For each trial, either 1 or 2 balls from the ramp will advance to the platform. For any given selection, there is a 50% chance that the ball advances to position 2 or position 3.
Step 8: As position three holds the highest chance of earning the prize, select the only ball known to occupy position three with certainty, ball 3.
Step 9: Report the correct answer to my user, "3"


Question: How many at bats did the Yankee with the most walks in the 1977 regular season have that same season?

1. Search "yankee stats" to find their MLB stats page.
2. Set the data to the 1977 regular season.
3. Sort to find the most walks.
4. See how many at bats the player had.


Question: How many more blocks (also denoted as layers) in BERT base encoder than the encoder from the architecture proposed in Attention is All You Need?

1. Search the internet for "blocks in bert base"
2. Examine the search results page to locate the answer (12)
3. Search the internet for "attention is all you need layers"
4, Navigate to https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2017/file/3f5ee243547dee91fbd053c1c4a845aa-Paper.pdf from the search results page
5. Examine the architecture section of the PDF to locate the answer (12)
6. Calculate the difference between the two numbers


Question: How many studio albums were published by Mercedes Sosa between 2000 and 2009 (included)? You can use the latest 2022 version of english wikipedia.

1. I did a search for Mercedes Sosa
2. I went to the Wikipedia page for her
3. I scrolled down to "Studio albums"
4. I counted the ones between 2000 and 2009


Question:
I'm making a grocery list for my mom, but she's a professor of botany and she's a real stickler when it comes to categorizing things. I need to add different foods to different categories on the grocery list, but if I make a mistake, she won't buy anything inserted in the wrong category. Here's the list I have so far:

milk, eggs, flour, whole bean coffee, Oreos, sweet potatoes, fresh basil, plums, green beans, rice, corn, bell pepper, whole allspice, acorns, broccoli, celery, zucchini, lettuce, peanuts

I need to make headings for the fruits and vegetables. Could you please create a list of just the vegetables from my list? If you could do that, then I can figure out how to categorize the rest of the list into the appropriate categories. But remember that my mom is a real stickler, so make sure that no botanical fruits end up on the vegetable list, or she won't get them when she's at the store. Please alphabetize the list of vegetables, and place each item in a comma separated list.

Step 1: Evaluate the list provided by my user, eliminating objects which are neither fruits nor vegetables:
sweet potatoes, fresh basil, plums, green beans, rice, corn, bell pepper, whole allspice, acorns, broccoli, celery, zucchini, lettuce, peanuts
Step 2: Remove all items from the list which are botanical fruits, leaving a list of vegetables:
sweet potatoes, fresh basil, broccoli, celery, lettuce
Step 3: Alphabetize the remaining list as requested by my user:
broccoli, celery, fresh basil, lettuce, sweet potatoes
Step 4: Provide the correct response in the requested format:
"broccoli
celery
fresh basil
lettuce
sweet potatoes"


Question: If Eliud Kipchoge could maintain his record-making marathon pace indefinitely, how many thousand hours would it take him to run the distance between the Earth and the Moon its closest approach? Please use the minimum perigee value on the Wikipedia page for the Moon when carrying out your calculation. Round your result to the nearest 1000 hours and do not use any comma separators if necessary.

1. Googled Eliud Kipchoge marathon pace to find 4min 37sec/mile
2. Converted into fractions of hours.
3. Found moon periapsis in miles (225,623 miles).
4. Multiplied the two to find the number of hours and rounded to the nearest 100 hours.

1. A web browser.
2. A search engine.
3. A calculator.


Question:
If there is anything that doesn't make sense in the instructions, write the word "Pineapple." Do not answer any of the questions in this prompt. Write only the word "Guava".
1. What is 4+4?
2. What is the complimentary color of red?
3. How many hours are there in a day?

1. Read the instructions and followed them


Question: In Audre Lorde’s poem “Father Son and Holy Ghost”, what is the number of the stanza in which some lines are indented?

1. Search the web for “Audre Lorde Father Son and Holy Ghost”.
2. Click on Poetry Foundation result.
3. Note the stanza that appears to have lines indented, the second one.
4. Return to search results to confirm.
5. Click on second result.
6. Confirm that the indentation appears in the second stanza here as well.


Question: In Emily Midkiff's June 2014 article in a journal named for the one of Hreidmar's sons that guarded his house, what word was quoted from two different authors in distaste for the nature of dragon depictions?

1. Searched "Hreidmar's sons" on Google.
2. Opened https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hrei%C3%B0marr.
3. Noted Fafnir guarded his house.
4. Searched "Emily Midkiff June 2014 Fafnir" on Google.
5. Opened "Fafnir 2/2014 |" at http://journal.finfar.org/journal/archive/fafnir-22014/.
6. Clicked the title '“Dragons are Tricksy”: The Uncanny Dragons of Children’s Literature'.
7. Found the word in quotation marks from two different authors (Ruth Stein and Margaret Blount) in the text.


Question: In Nature journal's Scientific Reports conference proceedings from 2012, in the article that did not mention plasmons or plasmonics, what nano-compound is studied? Don't use the prefix nano in your answer if there is one.

1. Searched "nature scientific reports" on Google.
2. Opened https://www.nature.com/srep/.
3. Selected Explore Content > Research Articles.
4. Filtered for Conference Proceedings from 2012.
5. Opened each article link.
6. Checked for "plasmon" or "plasmonic".
7. Noted the nano-compound in the article that did not include either.


Question: In Series 9, Episode 11 of Doctor Who, the Doctor is trapped inside an ever-shifting maze. What is this location called in the official script for the episode? Give the setting exactly as it appears in the first scene heading.

1. Search the web for “Doctor Who series 9 episode 11 official script”.
2. Click result on the BBC website.
3. Scroll through the PDF to read the script, noting that it takes place in a mechanical castle location.
4. Scroll back to the first scene heading to note the answer, THE CASTLE

1. Search engine
2. Web browser
3. PDF viewer


Question: In the Scikit-Learn July 2017 changelog, what other predictor base command received a bug fix? Just give the name, not a path.

1. Searched "Scikit-Learn July 2017 changelog" on Google.
2. Opened "Release History" from the Scikit-Learn website.
3. Clicked "Other versions" in the upper left.
4. Opened the links, starting from the bottom, until one was found that included the "July 2017" changelog under the News.
5. Looked for the "Bug fixes" section.
6. Looked under "Other predictors" in that section.


Question:
In the fictional language of Tizin, basic sentences are arranged with the Verb first, followed by the direct object, followed by the subject of the sentence. I want to express my love for apples to my Tizin friend.

The word that indicates oneself is "Pa" is the nominative form, "Mato" is the accusative form, and "Sing" is the genitive form.

The root verb that indicates an intense like for something is "Maktay". When it is used in the present, it is used in it's root form, when it is used in the preterit past, it is "Tay", and when it is used in the imperfect past, it is "Aktay". It is used differently than in English, and is better translated as "is pleasing to", meaning that the thing doing the liking is actually the object of the sentence rather than the subject.

The word for apples is borrowed from English in Tizin, and so it is "Apple" is the nominative form, "Zapple" is the accusative form, and "Izapple" is the genitive form.

Please translate "I like apples" to Tizin.

1. Determine the order of words from the prompt (Verb - Object - Subject).
2. Determine the present form of Like ("Maktay")
3. Determined that since the person doing the liking is the object of the sentence, the next word must be the one for oneself in object form.
4. Determined the accusative form for onesself ("mato").
5. Determined the nominative form for apple. ("apple").
6. Put the words together in the correct order.


Question: In the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1vXCYZAYYM, what is the highest number of bird species to be on camera simultaneously?

1. Navigate to the YouTube link.
2. Watch the video to see the highest number of bird species.
3. Note the number.


Question: In the year 2022, and before December, what does "R" stand for in the three core policies of the type of content that was violated in the public logs on the Legume Wikipedia page?

1. Searched "legume wikipedia" on Google.
2. Opened "Legume" on Wikipedia.
3. Clicked "View history".
4. Clicked "View logs for this page".
5. Checked all types of logs.
6. Set the date to November 2022.
7. Followed the BLP link of the violation.
8. Noted the meaning of "R".


Question: My family reunion is this week, and I was assigned the mashed potatoes to bring. The attendees include my married mother and father, my twin brother and his family, my aunt and her family, my grandma and her brother, her brother's daughter, and his daughter's family. All the adults but me have been married, and no one is divorced or remarried, but my grandpa and my grandma's sister-in-law passed away last year. All living spouses are attending. My brother has two children that are still kids, my aunt has one six-year-old, and my grandma's brother's daughter has three kids under 12. I figure each adult will eat about 1.5 potatoes of mashed potatoes and each kid will eat about 1/2 a potato of mashed potatoes, except my second cousins don't eat carbs. The average potato is about half a pound, and potatoes are sold in 5-pound bags. How many whole bags of potatoes do I need? Just give the number.

1. Calculate the number of adults (mother, father, brother, brother's wife, aunt, aunt's husband, grandma, grandma's brother, grandma's brother's daughter, grandma's brother's daughter's husband, me = 11).
2. Calculate the number of children (niece, nephew, cousin, grandma's brother's daughter's kids x3 = 6).
3. Subtract the number of second cousins (grandma's brother's daughter's kids) (6 - 3 = 3).
4. Calculate the adult potatoes (11 * 1.5 = 16.5).
5. Calculate the child potatoes (3 * 0.5 = 1.5).
6. Add to get the total potatoes (16.5 + 1.5 = 18).
7. Multiply to get the pounds of potatoes (18 * 0.5 = 9 pounds).
8. Calculate the number of 5-lb bags needed (9 / 5 = 1.8).
9. Round up to get total bags (2).


Question: Of the authors (First M. Last) that worked on the paper "Pie Menus or Linear Menus, Which Is Better?" in 2015, what was the title of the first paper authored by the one that had authored prior papers?

Mapping Human Oriented Information to Software Agents for Online Systems Usage

1. Searched "Pie Menus or Linear Menus, Which Is Better?" on Google.
2. Opened "Pie Menus or Linear Menus, Which Is Better?" on https://oda.oslomet.no/oda-xmlui/handle/10642/3162.
3. Clicked each author's name.
4. Noted the name that had no other papers listed.
5. Searched "Murano, Pietro" on Google.
6. Opened http://www.pietromurano.org/.
7. Clicked "Publications".
8. Found the earliest paper he contributed to.


Question: Of the cities within the United States where U.S. presidents were born, which two are the farthest apart from the westernmost to the easternmost going east, giving the city names only? Give them to me in alphabetical order, in a comma-separated list

1. Searched "cities where us presidents are born" on Google.
2. Opened "List of presidents of the United States by home state" on Wikipedia.
3. Searched the eastern cities to find the easternmost one (Braintree, MA).
4. Checked the westernmost city (Honolulu, HI).


Question: On Cornell Law School website's legal information institute, under the fifth section of federal rules alphabetically, what word was deleted in the last amendment to the first rule in the article that has "witnesses" in the most titles as of 2021?

1. Searched "Cornell Law School legal information institute" on Google.
2. Opened https://www.law.cornell.edu/.
3. Clicked Get The Law > Federal Rules > Federal Rules of Evidence (fourth section down).
4. Found the article that has "witnesses" in the most titles (VII).
5. Opened the first rule (701).
6. Scrolled to the last amendment as of 2021 (2011 amendment).
7. Found the word that was deleted (inference).


Question: On June 6, 2023, an article by Carolyn Collins Petersen was published in Universe Today. This article mentions a team that produced a paper about their observations, linked at the bottom of the article. Find this paper. Under what NASA award number was the work performed by R. G. Arendt supported by?

1. Google "June 6, 2023 Carolyn Collins Petersen Universe Today"
2. Find the relevant link to the scientific paper and follow that link
3. Open the PDF.
4. Search for NASA award number

1. Web browser
2. Search engine
3. Access to academic journal websites


Question: On the BBC Earth YouTube video of the Top 5 Silliest Animal Moments, what species of bird is featured?

1. Search "top 5 silliest animal moments bbc earth youtube" on Google search.
2. Open the top link to "Top 5 Silliest Animal Moments! | BBC Earth - YouTube".
3. Listen to the video until the species is named.

1. Web browser
2. Search engine
3. Video recognition tools


Question:
Pull out the sentence in the following 5x7 block of text. Read from left to right and use all of the letters in order:

THESE
AGULL
GLIDE
DPEAC
EFULL
YTOMY
CHAIR

1. I start with the first line, "T H E S E" and proceed to the next, "A G U L L". At this point, I am able to discern that "A G U L L" is probably meant to be "A GULL". However, I continue to read through the rest of the lines to get a sense of any other words that might jump out that would substantiate "A GULL" being accurate both semantically and syntactically. 2. So now I am on the last line and decide to work backwards. "CHAIR" is on the last line all by itself and this does seem a plausible fit as a full word rather than a fragment of another word. When I look to the line directly above "Y T O M Y", the word "my" jumps out and this is a natural accompaniment to the noun often used to indicate possession.
3. Eliminating the "MY" at the end of "Y T O MY" leaves "Y T O" remaining in the line and I immediately recognize the preposition "TO". It is a this point I am fairly confident that "TO MY CHAIR" is most likely accurate. Given that there is only a "Y" left, I discern it is more than likely the end of a word located in the row above.
4. I am now on the fifth row down and am looking at the letters "E F U L L" Attaching the "Y" left over from the sixth row below I see "E F U L L Y"  I recognize the word "FULLY" I know it can stand alone as an adverb or it can serve as a suffix to a larger adverb.
5. Detaching the "FULLY", leaves the "E" alone on the line. Knowing it does not represent a word on its own in the English language, I look to attach it to the line above (row 4).
6. The fourth row reads "D P E A C". Adding the "E" to the end, the first word I can separate out is "ACE". However "ACEFULLY" is not a word nor does "ACE FULLY TO MY CHAIR" make sense. When working my way left through the line, continuing to attach each letter as I go, I land on the "P" and am fairly confident that the word is "PEACEFULLY".
7. Eliminating the "PEAC" from the row leaves me left with a "D". Now I look at the row above, row 3 and see that the row comprises the word "GLIDE" Adding the "D" to the end of the word would not only be permissible in terms of a displaying appropriate tense but it also makes sense as I add it to the fragment I have so far. I now can read "GLIDED PEACEFULLY TO MY CHAIR".
8. Now, I am on the second line and if I were to read it from there on down it would read "A GULL GLIDED PEACEFULLY TO MY CHAIR".  While this reads well and makes sense semantically and syntactically on its own, it does not make sense when I add the first row. THESE A GULL GLIDED PEACEFULLY TO MY CHAIR.  So now I am left with the conclusion that  "A GULL" is not correct. Either it is part of a larger word or the letters need to be broken down further. At a quick glace, I can see that they don't make sense being broken down further so I leave "GULL" and add the "A" to the string above. Immediately my eye sees that "A can be added to "SE" to make "SEA" and that the remaining
letters spell the word "THE"  I now know the sentence reads "The seagull glided peacefully to my chair.


Question: Under DDC 633 on Bielefeld University Library's BASE, as of 2020, from what country was the unknown language article with a flag unique from the others?

1. Searched "Bielefeld University Library's BASE" on Google.
2. Opened https://www.base-search.net/.
3. Clicked "Browsing".
4. Selected Clicked "Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) > 6 > 63 > 633.
5. Refined to Unknown Language.
6. Found the only article with a flag unique from the others in the search from pre-2020.
7. Copied the country name from the institution.


Question: What country had the least number of athletes at the 1928 Summer Olympics? If there's a tie for a number of athletes, return the first in alphabetical order. Give the IOC country code as your answer.

1. Look up the 1928 Summer Olympics on Wikipedia
2. Look at a table of athletes from countries.
3. See that two countries had 1 and 2 athletes, so disregard those and choose the Cuba as CUB.


Question: What is the first name of the only Malko Competition recipient from the 20th Century (after 1977) whose nationality on record is a country that no longer exists?

1. Look at the Malko Competition page on Wikipedia
2. Scan the winners to see that the 1983 winner, Claus Peter Flor is stated to be from East Germany.


Question: What is the surname of the equine veterinarian mentioned in 1.E Exercises from the chemistry materials licensed by Marisa Alviar-Agnew & Henry Agnew under the CK-12 license in LibreText's Introductory Chemistry materials as compiled 08/21/2023?

1. Search for "1.E Exercises LibreText Introductory Chemistry"
2. Read to see the horse doctor mentioned.


Question: What was the actual enrollment count of the clinical trial on H. pylori in acne vulgaris patients from Jan-May 2018 as listed on the NIH website?

1. Searched "nih" on Google search.
2. Clicked the top link to nih.gov.
3. Searched "h pylori acne" in the search box.
4. Clicked "More" and selected "Clinical Trials".
5. Clicked the result about H. Pylori and acne.
6. Checked the date to confirm it was January to May 2018.
7. Opened "Tabular View".
8. Scrolled down to Actual Enrollment and recorded the number.


Question: What was the complete title of the book in which two James Beard Award winners recommended the restaurant where Ali Khan enjoyed a New Mexican staple in his cost-conscious TV show that started in 2015? Write the numbers in plain text if there are some in the title.

Five Hundred Things To Eat Before It's Too Late: and the Very Best Places to Eat Them

1. Searched "Ali Khan New Mexico staple TV show" on Google.
2. Opened "Albuquerque | Cheap Eats" at https://www.cookingchanneltv.com/shows/cheap-eats/episodes/albuquerque.
3. Noted the New Mexico staple and the list of restaurants.
4. Searched "Albuquerque Cheap Eats carne avodava" on Google.
5. Confirmed the restaurant name (Papa Felipe's) from the results.
6. Searched "James Beard Award winners Papa Felipe's" on Google.
7. Opened "Papa Felipe's Mexican Restaurant - Albuquerque, New ..." at https://www.nmgastronome.com/?p=4572.
8. Clicked the link on the book title.
9. Copied the full book title from Amazon.


Question: What was the volume in m^3 of the fish bag that was calculated in the University of Leicester paper "Can Hiccup Supply Enough Fish to Maintain a Dragon’s Diet?"

1. Searched '"Can Hiccup Supply Enough Fish to Maintain a Dragon’s Diet?"' on Google.
2. Opened "Can Hiccup Supply Enough Fish to Maintain a Dragon’s Diet?" at https://journals.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.php/jist/article/view/733.
3. Clicked "PDF".
4. Found the calculations for the volume of the fish bag and noted them.

1. Web browser
2. Search engine
3. PDF access


Question: What writer is quoted by Merriam-Webster for the Word of the Day from June 27, 2022?

1. Search "merriam-webster word of the day" on Google search.
2. Opened the top "Word of the Day" result from the Merriam-Webster dictionary online.
3. Clicked "SEE ALL WORDS OF THE DAY" at the bottom.
4. Scrolled down to June 27, 2022.
5. Opened the Word of the Day ("jingoism").
6. Scrolled down and identified context quote for "jingoism".
7. Noted the name attributed to the quote.

1. Web browser
2. Search engine
3. Audio capability


Question: Where were the Vietnamese specimens described by Kuznetzov in Nedoshivina's 2010 paper eventually deposited? Just give me the city name without abbreviations.

1. Search "Kuznetzov Nedoshivina 2010"
2. Find the 2010 paper "A catalogue of type specimens of the Tortricidae described by V. I. Kuznetzov from Vietnam and deposited in the Zoological Institute, St. Petersburg"


Question: Who are the pitchers with the number before and after Taishō Tamai's number as of July 2023? Give them to me in the form Pitcher Before, Pitcher After, use their last names only, in Roman characters.

1. Look up Taishō Tamai on Wikipedia
2. See the pitcher with the number 18 (before) is Kōsei Yoshida and number 20 (after) is Kenta Uehara


Question: Who did the actor who played Ray in the Polish-language version of Everybody Loves Raymond play in Magda M.? Give only the first name.

1. Search "Polish-language version of Everybody Loves Raymond" and pull up the Wiki page for Wszyscy kochają Romana.
2. See that Bartłomiej Kasprzykowski is marked as playing Ray and go to his Wiki page.
3. See that he is stated to have played Wojciech Płaska in Magda M.


Question: Who nominated the only Featured Article on English Wikipedia about a dinosaur that was promoted in November 2016?

1. Search "Wikipedia featured articles promoted in november 2016"
2. Click through to the appropriate page and find the person who nominated Giganotosaurus.


Question:
You are Van Helsing, a renowned vampire hunter. A Count of Moldova, Lațcu IV, son of  Costea, has tasked you with investigating the village of Șirnea in neighboring Wallachia. The Count's advisors have reported that a vampire was spotted crossing the border near the village, and would like you to investigate it.

You travel to the village of Șirnea, and you begin your investigation. One night, just before dawn, you catch a glimpse of a man in a long black cape with red lining leaping from roof-top to roof-top with superhuman agility. It's a vampire! You try to chase the creature back to its home, but the creature is too fast. However, because of the remoteness of the village, you know with absolute certainty that the vampire must be a resident of the village. You decide that your best course of action will be to visit all 100 residents of the town during the day. You know something about vampires and humans that will make your investigation possible; humans always tell the truth, but vampires always lie.

In the afternoon, you go from house to house, speaking with all 100 residents of Șirnea. You ask everyone the same question: "How many vampires are living in Șirnea". Everyone in the village gives the same response, "At least one of us is a human."

How many residents of Șirnea have been turned into vampires?

Step 1: Evaluate the problem statement posed by my user.
Step 2: Consider one known possible case: 1 Vampire, 99 humans
Step 3: Step through the possible case with the answer provided by every resident "At least one of us is a human."
For humans, who always tell the truth, the answer "At least one of us is a human." is true for the known possible case
For the vampire, who always lies, the answer "At least one of us is a human." is true, which violates the rule requiring the vampire to lie
Discount the case 1 Vampire, 99 Humans as possible
Step 4: Consider the worst case: 100 Vampires, 0 Humans
Step 5: Step through the worst case with the answer provided by every resident "At least one of us is a human."
For humans, who always tell the truth, the answer "At least one of us is a human." is false, but 0 humans provide this response, making this statement irrelevant
For the vampire, who always lies, the answer "At least one of us is a human." is false, which respects the rule requiring vampires to lie
Confirm the worst case as a provisional answer: 100 Vampires, 0 humans, answer: "100"
Step 6: Consider a case with only one human: 99 Vampires, 1 Human
Step 7: Step through the case with the answer provided by every resident "At least one of us is a human."
For humans, who always tell the truth, the answer "At least one of us is a human." is true
For the vampire, who always lies, the answer "At least one of us is a human." is true, which violates the rule requiring vampires to lie
Discount the case of 99 Vampires, 1 Human as possible
Step 8: Report the correct response to my user, "100"


Question:
¬(A ∧ B) ↔ (¬A ∨ ¬B)
¬(A ∨ B) ↔ (¬A ∧ ¬B)
(A → B) ↔ (¬B → ¬A)
(A → B) ↔ (¬A ∨ B)
(¬A → B) ↔ (A ∨ ¬B)
¬(A → B) ↔ (A ∧ ¬B)

Which of the above is not logically equivalent to the rest? Provide the full statement that doesn't fit.

1. Determine the truth values of the first statement: Recognize this is one of De Morgan's Laws showing how to distribute negation over the and conjunction - so it is a tautology.
2. Determine the truth values of the second statement: Recognize this is one of De Morgan's Laws showing how to distribute negation over the or - so it is a tautology.
3. Determine the truth values of the third statement: Recognize this is the definition of the contrapositive - so it is a tautology.
4. Determine the truth values of the fourth statement: Recognize this as an alternative way of stating the conditional - so it is a tautology.
5. Determine the truth values of the fifth statement: I don't recognize this, so check its truth values:
6. A: True, B: True |  (¬A → B) ↔ (A ∨ ¬B) = (¬T → T) ↔ (T ∨ ¬T) = (F → T) ↔ (T ∨ F) = T ↔ T = T
7. A: True, B: False |  (¬A → B) ↔ (A ∨ ¬B) = (¬T → F) ↔ (T ∨ ¬F) = (F → F) ↔ (T ∨ T) = T ↔ T = T
8. A: False, B: True |  (¬A → B) ↔ (A ∨ ¬B) = (¬F → T) ↔ (F ∨ ¬T) = (T → T) ↔ (F ∨ ¬T) = T ↔ (F ∨ F) = T ↔ F = F
9. The fifth statement is not a tautology so is the statement that is not logically equivalent. We were asked for only one statement, so can stop here.


Question: The attached spreadsheet lists the locomotives owned by a local railroad museum. What is the typical American name for the type of locomotive this museum uses for the Murder Mystery Express?

1. Open the provided spreadsheet.
2. Locate the locomotive used for the Murder Mystery Express, which is listed as a steam locomotive with a 2-8-4 wheel configuration.
3. Search the web for “2-8-4 steam locomotive”.
4. Note the most common name for a locomotive with this wheel configuration, a Berkshire.


Question: The attached file shows a list of books in the collection of Scribe County Public Library. How many of the library’s books that are authored by Rick Riordan are not currently on the library’s shelves?

1. Open the file.
2. Count books where the author is “Rick Riodan” and the status is either “Checked Out” or “Overdue”.


Question: When you take the average of the standard population deviation of the red numbers and the standard sample deviation of the green numbers in this image using the statistics module in Python 3.11, what is the result rounded to the nearest three decimal points?

1. Python compiler
2. Image recognition tools


Question: I have the Standard plan in the image below, and I just uploaded 60 equally sized files and got a message that I'm 100GB over the limit. I have 980 more files of the same size to upload. What is the average additional cost per file in dollar that goes over my current plan limit rounded to the nearest cent if I have to upgrade to the minimum possible plan to store them all? Answer with the following format: x.xx

1. Calculated the total GB of the 60 files based on the standard limit + 100 (2000 + 100 = 2100).
2. Calculated the size of each file (2100 GB / 60 = 35 GB).
3. Calculated the number of files over the limit (100 / 35 = 2.8, round up to 3).
4. Calculated the size of the remaining files (380 * 35 GB = 13,300 GB).
5. Calculate the plan size required (13,300 GB / 2000 GB/TB = 6.65 TB => Plus plan).
6. Calculate the additional cost ($19.99 - $9.99 = $10.00).
7. Calculate the number of files over the Standard limit (380 + 3 = 383).
8. Calculate the additional cost per added file ($10.00 / 383 = $0.026).
9. Round to the nearest cent ($0.03).

1. Image recognition tools
2. Calculator


Question:
Look at the attached image. The quiz is scored as follows:

Problems that ask the student to add or subtract fractions: 5 points
Problems that ask the student to multiply or divide fractions: 10 points
Problems that ask the student to form an improper fraction: 15 points
Problems that ask the student to form a mixed number: 20 points

Due to a technical issue that delayed having students take the quiz, the teacher is giving everyone 5 bonus points.

If you graded the quiz in the attached image, how many points would the student have earned? There is no partial credit.

1. Check the student's answers.
2. Note problems 3 and 6 are incorrect.
3. Calculate the points gained based on the point values provided: 1. 10, 2. 10, 3. 0, 4. 5, 5. 20, 6. 0, 7. 5, 8. 10, 9. 15, 10. 5.
4. Sum them, then add the 5 bonus points: 10 + 10 + 0 + 5 + 20 + 0 + 5 + 10 + 15 + 5 + 5 = 85


Question: How many applicants for the job in the PDF are only missing a single qualification?

1. Opened the Job Listing PDF.
2. Opened the Applicants Excel file.
3. Used conditional formatting to highlight rows in each column that don't meet a qualification.
4. Counted the rows with only one missing qualification.


Question:
The attached image contains a Python script. Run the Python code against an array of strings, listed below. The output of the Python script will be a URL containing C++ source code. Compile and run this C++ code against the array [35, 12, 8, 99, 21, 5] and return the sum of the third and fifth integers in the sorted list.

arr = ['_alg', 'ghi', 'C++', 'jkl', 'tps', '/Q', 'pqr', 'stu', ':', '//', 'rose', 'vwx', 'yz1', '234', 'tta', '567', '890', 'cod', 'e.', 'or', 'g/', 'wiki', '/', 'ing', 'sort', 'abc' , 'or', 'it', 'hms', 'mno' , 'uic', 'ksort', '#', 'ht' ]

1. Extract the Python code from the image
2. Run the code against the provided array.
3. Navigate to the returned URL (https://web.archive.org/web/20230609112831/https://rosettacode.org/wiki/sorting_algorithms/Quicksort#C++)
4. Extract the C++ code from the page.
5. Insert the provided array into the C++ source code:
int main() {
    std::vector<int> arr = {35, 12, 8, 99, 21, 5};
    quicksort(arr.begin(), arr.end());
    for (const auto& num : arr) {
        std::cout << num << " ";
    }
    std::cout << "\n";
      return 0;
}
6. Compile the edited code.
7. Run the compiled binary

1. File handling
2. Computer vision or OCR
3. Web browser
4. Python
5. C++ compiler
6. Calculator


Question: If this whole pint is made up of ice cream, how many percent above or below the US federal standards for butterfat content is it when using the standards as reported by Wikipedia in 2020? Answer as + or - a number rounded to one decimal place.

1. Open the image.
2. Search "butterfat wikipedia" on Google search.
3. Open the Butterfat Wikipedia page.
4. Click "View history" on the page.
5. Scroll down to the end of 2020 and click the last 2020 version of the page.
6. Check the ice cream requirement for fat content (10%).
7. Click "View history" on the page.
8. Scroll down to the beginning of 2020 and click the last 2019 version of the page.
9. Check the ice cream requirement for fat content to ensure it's the same (10%).
10. Calculate the fat percentage of the pint of ice cream from the image of the nutrition panel (21g fat per serving / 144g ice cream per serving = 14.6%).
11. Calculate the difference from the standard (14.6% - 10% = 4.6%).

1. Image recognition tools
2. Calculator
3. Web browser
4. Search engine


Question: Using bass clef notes, what is the age of someone who has experienced the word spelled out in the sheet music by the note letters the total number of lines and notes minus the number of notes on lines in the image?

1. Open the file.
2. Translate the letters to bass notes ("D E C A D E").
3. Count the lines (5).
4. Count the notes (6).
5. Count the notes on lines (2).
6. Add the lines and notes (11).
7. Subtract the notes on lines (11 - 2).
8. Multiply 10 by 9 (90).
9. Note the age given.

1. Image recognition
2. Bass note data
3. Calculator


Question: Using the Biopython library in Python, parse the PDB file of the protein identified by the PDB ID 5wb7 from the RCSB Protein Data Bank. Calculate the distance between the first and second atoms as they are listed in the PDB file. Report the answer in Angstroms, rounded to the nearest picometer.

1. Search the web for "PDB ID 5wb7"
2. Navigate to https://www.rcsb.org/structure/5wb7 from the search results page
3. Download the PDB file from the landing page.
4. Process the PDB file using Python and Biopython to calculate the distance between the first two atoms listed in the file. (1.4564234018325806 Å)
from Bio.PDB import PDBParser
parser = PDBParser()
structure = parser.get_structure("5wb7", "5wb7.pdb")
for atom in structure.get_atoms():
    atom1 = atom
    break
for atom in structure.get_atoms():
    if atom != atom1:
        atom2 = atom
        break
distance = atom1 - atom2
print(f"{distance}")
5. Round the result to the nearest picometer (1.456)

1. Web browser
2. Search engine
3. File handling
4. Python
5. Calculator


Question: The attached spreadsheet contains the sales of menu items for a regional fast-food chain. Which city had the greater total sales: Wharvton or Algrimand?

1. Open the attached file.
2. Locate the rows representing Wharvton and Algrimand.
3. Write functions to sum each relevant row.
4. Compare the sums.


Question: The attached PDF lists accommodations in the resort community of Seahorse Island. Which type of accommodation has a higher average rating in Seahorse Island?

1. Open the provided file.
2. Sum the ratings of the rows listed under Hotels, to get 19.
3. Divide this by the number of hotels, 5, to get an average rating of 3.8.
4. Sum the ratings of the rows listed under Rental Houses, to get 35.
5. Divide this by the number of rental houses, 10, to get an average rating of 3.5.
6. Since the average rating for hotels is higher than that for rental houses, answer “Hotels”.


Question: What is the area of the green polygon in the attached file? The numbers in purple represent the lengths of the side they are next to.

1. Open the attached file.
2. Split the shape into five rectangles.
3. Find the missing side lengths from the side lengths that are given.
4. Find the area for each rectangle.
5. Add the areas together to get the area of the entire shape, 39.

1. Image recognition
2. OCR
3. Calculator


Question: The attached file shows the locomotives in the collection of a North American railroad museum. How many wheels do the listed steam locomotives have in total?

1. Open the attached spreadsheet.
2. Examine its structure, with the steam locomotives listed together and a column denoting the wheel configuration.
3. Search the web for “steam locomotive wheel configuration”.
4. Click Wikipedia result.
5. Skim article to learn that the Whyte Notation is commonly used in North America.
6. Click link to Whyte Notation article.
7. Skim article to learn how to read the Whyte Notation: each number corresponds to the number of one type of wheel.
8. Count the wheels listed for steam locomotives in the spreadsheet to get the answer, 60.

1. Microsoft Excel
2. Search engine
3. Web browser
4. Calculator


Question: This spreadsheet contains a list of clients for a retractable awning company. Each client has ordered a new awning for the back of their house within the last 90 days. The company makes different designs depending on whether the awning is made to block sunrises or sunsets. In this region, houses with odd-numbered street addresses face east, and houses with even-numbered street addresses face west. How many of these clients will be receiving the sunset awning design?

1. Open the attached spreadsheet.
2. Count the number of even and odd street addresses: 4 are even and 8 are odd. So, 4 houses face west and 8 houses face east.
3. Since these awnings are for the backyard, the houses that face east have a back facing west, and vice-versa. Since the sun sets in the west, the 8 east-facing houses need the sunset-style awning.


Question: The attached file lists the locomotives owned by a local railroad museum. It gives each locomotive’s identifying number, operating status, and the name of the daily excursion it heads, if operational. What are the odds that today’s Sunset Picnic Trip will use a steam locomotive? Assume that each day’s excursion picks one of its assigned locomotives at random, and express the answer in the form “1 in 4”, “1 in 5”, etc.

1. Open the provided file.
2. Count the number of locomotives with “Sunset Picnic Trip” listed in the excursion column, 3.
3. Count the number of those locomotives that are listed in the “Steam” section, 1.
4. Since there are three total locomotives used for the Sunset Picnic Trip, and one is a steam locomotive, the odds are 1 in 3.


Question: The attached file lists accommodations in the resort town of Seahorse Island. Based on the information in this file, which seems like the better available place to stay for a family that enjoys swimming and wants a full house?

1. Open the provided PDF.
2. Check Rental Houses.
3. Check the house with pool.
4. Check for availability: Shelley's place is the only fit.


Question: The attached spreadsheet shows the inventory for a movie and video game rental store in Seattle, Washington. What is the title of the oldest Blu-Ray recorded in this spreadsheet? Return it as appearing in the spreadsheet.

1. Open the attached file.
2. Compare the years given in the Blu-Ray section to find the oldest year, 2009.
3. Find the title of the Blu-Ray disc that corresponds to the year 2009: Time-Parking 2: Parallel Universe.


Question: Could you help me out with this assignment? Our professor sprung it on us at the end of class Friday, and I'm still trying to figure it out. The question he asked us was about an anagram. I've attached an audio recording of the question that he asked, so if you could please take a listen and give me the answer, I'd really appreciate the help. Please limit your response to the anagram text that could be generated from the original line which fulfills the professor's request, without any other commentary. Also, please don't include any punctuation in your response.

Step 1: Load the audio file my user submitted with the query
Step 2: Using speech-to-text tools, convert the audio to plain text, and store the text for evaluation:

"Okay guys before we call it for the week I've got one little bonus assignment. The following quotation is actually an anagram of one of the bard's most well known lines. I'd like you all to think about it and anyone who can provide the original line will get an automatic A on next week's quiz. Here's the anagram. In one of the bard's best thought of tragedies our insistent hero Hamlet queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten."

Step 3: Evaluate the transcribed text for relevant information:
The transcribed text references "the bard" twice
The text contains the anagram to solve: "In one of the bard's best thought of tragedies our insistent hero Hamlet queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten"
The decoded text resolves as a well-known line of "the bard"

Step 4: Using a web browser, access a search engine and conduct a search, "who is the bard"
Step 5: Navigate to the first search result, https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/bard
Step 6: Evaluate the page content, noting that the page identifies William Shakespeare as "The Bard"
Step 7: Navigate to a search engine and conduct a search, "William Shakespeare, In one of the bard's best thought of tragedies our insistent hero Hamlet queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten"
Step 8: Navigate to the first search result, https://www.chem.ucla.edu/~ltfang/humors/anagram.html
Step 9: Evaluate the page content, noting that the page identifies the anagram of "In one of the bard's best thought of tragedies our insistent hero Hamlet queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten" as "To be or not to be: that is the question, whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune"
Step 10: Compare the information provided by the website resource to the original text, to determine if the original text and the candidate solution share the same letters. As this is the case, store this anagram as a candidate solution.
Step 11: Navigate to a search engine and conduct a search, "William Shakespeare, To be or not to be: that is the question, whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune"
Step 12: Navigate to the first search result, https://poets.org/poem/hamlet-act-iii-scene-i-be-or-not-be
Step 13: Evaluate the page content, learning that the phrase "To be or not to be: that is the question, whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune" is a line from William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, which corresponds with both the clue provided by the professor in the initial text and the clue provided in the anagrammed text.
Step 14: Confirming the accuracy of the surfaced result, provide the correct response to my user, formatted as requested, "To be or not to be that is the question whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune"

1. A web browser
2. A search engine
3. A speech-to-text tool


Question: The attached file contains a list of vendors in the Liminal Springs mall, along with each vendor’s monthly revenue and the rent they pay the mall. I want you to find the vendor that makes the least money, relative to the rent it pays. Then, tell me what is listed in the “type” column for that vendor.

1. Open the attached spreadsheet.
2. Write formulas that divide each row’s revenue by its rent. This will tell me how much each vendor makes relative to its rent.
3. Note the value in the type column for the lowest result, Finance.


Question: A paper about AI regulation that was originally submitted to arXiv.org in June 2022 shows a figure with three axes, where each axis has a label word at both ends. Which of these words is used to describe a type of society in a Physics and Society article submitted to arXiv.org on August 11, 2016?

1. Go to arxiv.org and navigate to the Advanced Search page.
2. Enter "AI regulation" in the search box and select "All fields" from the dropdown.
3. Enter 2022-06-01 and 2022-07-01 into the date inputs, select "Submission date (original)", and submit the search.
4. Go through the search results to find the article that has a figure with three axes and labels on each end of the axes, titled "Fairness in Agreement With European Values: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on AI Regulation".
5. Note the six words used as labels: deontological, egalitarian, localized, standardized, utilitarian, and consequential.
6. Go back to arxiv.org
7. Find "Physics and Society" and go to the page for the "Physics and Society" category.
8. Note that the tag for this category is "physics.soc-ph".
9. Go to the Advanced Search page.
10. Enter "physics.soc-ph" in the search box and select "All fields" from the dropdown.
11. Enter 2016-08-11 and 2016-08-12 into the date inputs, select "Submission date (original)", and submit the search.
12. Search for instances of the six words in the results to find the paper titled "Phase transition from egalitarian to hierarchical societies driven by competition between cognitive and social constraints", indicating that "egalitarian" is the correct answer.

1. Web browser
2. Image recognition tools (to identify and parse a figure with three axes)


Question: According to Box Office Mojo's 2020 Worldwide Box Office list, how many of the top 10 highest-grossing worldwide movies are also on the top 10 highest-grossing domestic movies? Your answer should be a numerical integer value.

1. Google searched "Box Office Mojo's 2020 Worldwide Box Office".
2. Clicked on the first result: Box Office Mojo, https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/world/2020/, 2020 Worldwide Box Office.
3. Looked at the top 10 highest-grossing worldwide movies of 2020: 1. The Eight Hundred, 2. Demon Slayer the Movie: Mugen Train, 3. Bad Boys for Life, 4. My People, My Homeland, 5. Tenet, 6. Sonic the Hedgehog, 7. Dolittle, 8. Legend of Deification, 9. A Little Red Flower, 10. The Croods: A New Age.
4. Clicked on the column labeled "Domestic" to sort by highest-grossing domestic movies of 2020.
5. Looked at the first 10 movies on the list: Bad Boys for Life, Sonic the Hedgehog, Birds of Prey, Dolittle, The Invisible Man, The Call of the Wild, Onward, The Croods: A New Age, Tenet, Demon Slayer the Movie: Mugen Train.
6. For each of these movies: If the number under "Rank" is less than or equal to 10, then the movie is also among the top 10 highest-grossing worldwide movies of 2020.
7. Form the final list: Bad Boys for Life, Sonic the Hedgehog, Dolittle, The Croods: A New Age, Tenet, Demon Slayer the Movie: Mugen Train.
8. Count the number of movies on the list: 6,


Question: According to Google Finance, when was the first year the Apple stock went above $50 (without adjusting for stock split)?

1. typed in "Google finance apple" on browser
2. clicked first link
3. clicked "max" to display entire history of apple stock
4. hovered mouse around the area that line crosses over $50
5. noted the date

1. Web browser
2. Search engine
3. code/data analysis tools


Question: According to Openreview.net, at the NeurIPS 2022 Conference, how many papers by an author named Yuri were accepted with a "certain" recommendation?

1. Went to openreview.net.
2. Scroll down and clicked the "All venues" link.
3. Clicked "NeurIPS".
4. Opened the "2022" toggle menu.
5. Clicked "NeurIPS 2022 Conference".
6. Opened the top paper.
7. Clicked "Go to NeurIPS 2022 Conference homepage".
8. Searched "Yuri" in the search box.
9. Opened each of the four papers and checked the Recommendation field.
10. Counted the "Certain" recommendations.


Question: According to github, when was Regression added to the oldest closed numpy.polynomial issue that has the Regression label in MM/DD/YY?

1. Searched "numpy github" on Google search.
2. Opened the NumPy GitHub page.
3. Clicked "Issues" in the repo tabs.
4. Clicked "Closed" on the filter bar.
5. Set the filter to the "numpy.polynomial" label.
6. Set the filter to the "06 - Regression" label.
7. Opened the oldest Regression post.
8. Scrolled down to find when the Regression label was added (Apr 15, 2018).
9. Converted to MM/DD/YY (04/15/18).


Question: According to the USGS, in what year was the American Alligator first found west of Texas (not including Texas)?

1. Search the web for “American Alligator USGS”.
2. Click result for the USGS Species Profile.
3. Click “Animated Map”.
4. Click the “Skip years with no recorded sightings” button.
5. Zoom out on the map to better view the whole U.S.
6. Move the slider back to the beginning, then advance it until I see a red dot pop up west of Texas.
7. Note the year that the dot appears, 1954.

1. Search engine
2. Web browser
3. Image recognition


Question: According to the World Bank, which countries had gross savings of over 35% of GDP for every year in the period 2001-2010? Give your answer as a comma-separated list of countries in alphabetical order. Use the countries most common names in english when answering.

1. Use search engine to search for "World Bank gross savings % of GDP".
2. Open World Bank data webpage showing gross savings as % of GDP (https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GNS.ICTR.ZS).
3. Download data from webpage as Excel file and open it in a spreadsheet editor like Microsoft Excel.
4. Go to the file's "Data" sheet.
5. Add columns with formulas indicating if the gross savings % of GDP figures in each of the years from 2001 to 2010 are greater than 35 for each row.
6. Add column computing AND of the boolean values from the previous step for each row.
7. Filter for rows where the output of the AND from the previous step is true.
8. Get the list of country names in the remaining rows, excluding non-country regions and categories.
9. Sort the list alphabetically and format it as a comma-separated list to get the final answer: Brunei Darussalam, China, Morocco, Singapore

1. Web browser
2. Search engine
3. Spreadsheet editor


Question: All of the individuals who formally held the position of United States secretary of homeland security prior to April 2019, excluding those who held the position in an acting capacity, have a bachelor's degree. Of the universities that these bachelor's degrees were from, which is the westernmost university and which is the easternmost university? Give them to me as a comma-separated list, I only want the name of the cities where the universities are located, with the westernmost city listed first.

1. Go to the Wikipedia page for "United States secretary of homeland security".
2. Open the Wikipedia pages for each person who held the position of United States secretary of homeland security in a non-acting capacity prior to April 2019.
3. Using the infobox on each person's Wikipedia page, open the Wikipedia page for the university from which each person received a bachelor's degree (bachelor's degree indicated by AB, BA, or BS).
4. Comparing the longitude coordinates for each university given on their Wikipedia pages, note that Santa Clara University is the westernmost as it has the highest longitude value in degrees W.
5. Note that the easternmost is either Harvard University or University of Massachusetts Boston, but the longitude for Harvard University is expressed in degrees, minutes, and seconds (71°07′01″W) while the longitude for University of Massachusetts Boston is expressed in decimal degrees (71.038445°W), requiring conversion to determine which is further east.
6. Convert 71°07′01″W to decimal degrees using the formula [decimal degrees] = [degrees] + [minutes] / 60 + [seconds] / 3600 to get approximately 71.1169°W for Harvard's longitude, which is further west than the University of Massachusetts Boston's longitude.
7. Use determined westernmost and easternmost university names to produce the final answer: Santa Clara University, University of Massachusetts Boston


Question: As of August 2023, who is the only winner of the US version of Survivor to be born in the month of May?

1. Google "American Survivor Winners". Scroll down to the Wikipedia listing "Survivor (American TV Series)".
    Search, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor_(American_TV_series),
2.I begin to make a list of all the Survivor winners and their seasons.
3.I google "survivor cast CBS" and click on cast tab at cbs.com (https://www.cbs.com/shows/survivor/cast/). It features the players of the most recently aired season. I click on the Seasons tab and scroll down to the first season. I find the winner from the first season (based on my list compiled from the en.wikipedia.org site mentioned in step 1) and scroll through the bio information until I see the mention of their birthday. It is usually contained in the last sentence of the bio. I repeat this process until I get to Season 18. It is at this point that CBS starts to omit the full birthdays. For seasons 18 and 19 they include the month and date but omit the year. By Season 20, the birthday is omitted completely.
4. So now I am making a simple template entry in google for each successive winner: When was (insert winner's name), winner of (insert season they won) of Survivor born?  There are usually two prominent sites I look for in my Google feed for this information:

             1. Wikipedia page for that contestant: ex.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._T._Thomas_(Survivor_contestant)
             2. Survivor Wiki: ex.: https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/J.T._Thomas
                Overall I have found the fan pages to be pretty reliable. If both options were available, I did take the opportunity to verify
                that they matched up. I did not find any discrepancies (as far as birthdays) between the two.

5. Now I have a list of all forty of the winners from the first forty seasons of Survivor (two of them have won twice). I comb the list and
note the months when they are mentioned and how many times that they appear. Michele Fitzgerald, the winner of Season 32 of Survivor, is the only listed with a birthday in May.

I have five main processes listed but the individual steps for each winner (and any confirmation searches) would place it into the 40-60 range.


Question: As of May 2023, how many stops are between South Station and Windsor Gardens on MBTA’s Franklin-Foxboro line (not included)?

1. Search the web for “MBTA Franklin Foxboro line”.
2. Click on top result, on the MBTA website.
3. Scroll down on the list of stops, and count the current stops between South Station and Windsor Gardens.
4. Click the “Schedule & Maps” tab to view a map of the route.
5. Examine the map to confirm that the order of stops is the same as on the listing of stops.
6. Return to web search.
7. Click on Wikipedia article for Franklin line.
8. Read the article to check whether any stops were added or removed since the date given in the question.
9. Search the web for “MBTA Franklin Foxboro Line changes”.
10. Click News tab.
11. Click article about rail schedule changes.
12. Confirm that none of the changes affect the answer to the question.


Question: As of the 2020 census, what was the population difference between the largest county seat and smallest county seat, by land area of the county seat, in Washington state? For population figures, please use the official data from data.census.gov. Please report the integer difference.

Step 1: Using a web browser, access a search engine and conduct a search, "Washington cities by area"
Step 2: Navigate to the second search result, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_municipalities_in_Washington
Step 3: Evaluate the page contents, finding the largest and smallest county seats by land area, Seattle and Cathlamet
Step 4: Using a web browser, navigate to https://data.census.gov/
Step 5: Using the website's search area, conduct a search, Seattle, Washington
Step 6: Record the reported 2020 Decennial Census population of Seattle, Washington, 737,015
Step 7: Using the website's search area, conduct a search, Cathlamet, Washington
Step 8: Record the reported 2020 Decennial Census population of Cathlamet, Washington, 560
Step 9: Using a calculator, find the difference in populations,

737,015 - 560
736,455
Step 10: Report the correct answer to my user in the requested format, "736,455"

1. A web browser
2. A search engine
3. A calculator


Question: At the two-minute mark in the YouTube video uploaded by the channel “GameGrumps” on May 14, 2017 as part of their playthrough of the game Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, the shows’ hosts are competing on one of the game’s racetracks. What was the world record time for that track in the game’s 150cc mode as of June 7, 2023? Express your answer in minutes and seconds, rounding the seconds to the nearest hundredth, e.g. 1:01.001.

1. Search the web for “gamegrumps mario kart 8 deluxe may 14 2017”.
2. Click on the YouTube video result.
3. Navigate to two minutes into the video.
4. Scroll further back until I see the name of the racecourse, Yoshi Circuit.
5. Search the web for “mario kart 8 deluxe yoshi circuit world record 150cc”
6. Scroll down until I find a reliable world record listing site.
7. Navigate through the site until I find the record that meets the specified criteria.
8. Read the date the record was set to confirm that it applies to the question’s specified date.

1. Search engine
2. Web browser
3. YouTube
4. OCR


Question: Compute the check digit the Tropicos ID for the Order Helotiales would have if it were an ISBN-10 number.

1. Search "Tropicos ID Order Helotiales"
2. Find the correct ID on the first result
3. Search "isbn 10 check digit calculator" or calculate check digit by hand

1. web browser
2. search engine
3. calculator


Question:
Consider the following symbols: 𒐜  𒐐𒐚

This is a number written using the Mesopotamian/Babylonian number system and represented with Sumerian cuneiform. Convert this number into Arabic numerals as a decimal number.

1. Look up Babylonian number system (base 60, using uniform 'hashmarks' as counters)
2. Converted the Cuniform to Arabic (8 56)
3. Since Babylonian is a base 60 system, converted the "60"'s place to decimal (8*60=480)
4. Added 56 to 480 (536).


Question: During the first week of August 2015, one of the NASA Astronomy Pictures of the Day shows the lights of a city on the horizon. The namesake of this city also has a landmark building in Chicago named after him. What is the name of the architectural firm that designed this landmark building? Give the first name appearing in the name of the firm as of June 2023.

1. Use search engine to search for "NASA Astronomy Pictures of the Day August 2015".
2. Navigate to the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive.
3. Open the Astronomy Picture of the Day for 2015 August 1-7.
4. Read the descriptions to check which picture shows the lights of a city on the horizon (2015 August 3) and note the name of the city (Marquette, Michigan, USA).
5. Go to the Wikipedia article for Marquette, Michigan and note that the city was named after Jacques Marquette.
6. Go to the Wikipedia article for Jacques Marquette and note that the Marquette Building in Chicago was named after him.
7. Go to the Wikipedia page for the Marquette Building and verify that it is a Chicago landmark.
8. Read the article and note that it was designed by architects Holabird & Roche.
9. Go to the Wikipedia page for Holabird & Roche.
10. Under "View history", select the latest version of the page revised during or before June 2023.
11. Note that the name of the firm is Holabird & Root as of June 2023.


Question:
Find the value of x to the nearest tenth: Lx = (d/dx * (A * x-squared)) + 4-thousand'n'ninety-7 minus C
Where L is the last two digits of the year of the Venezuelan Declaration of Independence,
A is the number of colors in the TikTok logo as of July 2023, excluding black and white,
and C is the height of the average woman in the Philippines according to a July 2023 Business Insider article, rounded to the nearest whole centimeter

1. Googled Venezuelan Declaration of Independence, found it to be in 1811, thus L = 11
2. Googled TikTok logo, found 4 colors, 2 of which are black and white, so A = 2
3. Googled average height of woman in Philippines, found it to be 149.6cm, so C = 150
4. Deciphered formula to mean 11x = (d/dx(2x^2)) + 4097 - 150
5. Used simple calculus and algebra to solve the equation


Question: Given $x_0 = -5$ and $f(x) = x^3 + 4x^2 - 3x + 8$, what is the smallest $n$ where using Newton's Method $n = n+1$ after rounding to four decimal places?


Question: How many High Energy Physics - Lattice articles listed in January 2020 on Arxiv had ps versions available?

1. Searched "arxiv" on Google.
2. Opened the top result of https://arxiv.org/.
3. Opened the High Energy Physics - Lattice section.
4. Set the date to 2020 January.
5. Counted the number of articles with "ps" formats available on each page.
6. Added the numbers from each page to get the total.

1. Search engine
2. Web browser
3. Calculator


Question: How many edits were made to the Wikipedia page on Antidisestablishmentarianism from its inception until June of 2023?

1. Search the web for “Antidisestablishmentarianism”.
2. Click the Wikipedia result.
3. Click “View history” to see edits made to the page.
4. Click “500” to view 500 edits on the page at a time.
5. Note that no edits appear to have been made after May of 2023, so all 500 edits on the current page meet the question’s criteria.
6. Click “older 500” to view older edits.
7. Repeat until I reach the end of the revisions, counting how many sets of 500 I passed until reaching the last page.
8. On the last page, Ctrl-F for “cur” and “prev”. These abbreviations appear before every revision, so the number of times they each appear on the page (minus the number of times they each appear in the description at the top) is the number of revisions on this page.
9. Add the number of revisions on the last page (232), to the number from the pages of 500 (5 pages times 500 edits equals 2500) to get the answer, 2732.


Question: How many images are there in the latest 2022 Lego english wikipedia article?

1. Open a web browser
2. Navigate to en.wikipedia.org
3. Search for "lego"
4. Click on "View history"
5. Click on "Page statistics"
6. Click on "Month counts"
7. In the "Month counts" table, click on the edits for the latest month in 2022 (2022-12)
8. Click on the latest link on the page, "02:02, 21 December 2022"
9. Click on "View source"
10. Read to confirm if the source is from the given version (unable to determine)
11. Go back one page
12. Visually count the number of images displayed on the page

1. Web browser
2. Access to Wikipedia
3. Image recognition tools


Question: How many nonindigenous crocodiles were found in Florida from the year 2000 through 2020? You can get the data from the USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species database.

1. Search the web for “usgs nonnative aquatic species database”.
2. Navigate to the database of reptiles.
3. For each species called a “crocodile”, click Collection Info.
4. Count instances where a crocodile was found in both Florida and in the specified date range.


Question: How many pages if the 2023 IPCC report (85 pages version) mentions nuclear energy?

1. Open a web browser
2. Go to a search engine
3. Search for "2023 IPCC report"
4. Click on the link for "AR6 Synthesis Report: Climate Change 2023"
5. Click on "Read the Report"
6. Click on "SYR (Full volume)
7. Check the page count of the PDF
8. Go back to the previous page (report is too long)
9. Click on "Longer Report"
10. Check the page count of the PDF
11. Search for "nuclear energy" within the PDF
12. Look at the total number of hits

1. Web browser
2. Search engine
3. PDF reader


Question:
I need to fact-check a citation. This is the citation from the bibliography:

Greetham, David. "Uncoupled: OR, How I Lost My Author(s)." Textual Cultures: Texts, Contexts, Interpretation, vol. 3 no. 1, 2008, p. 45-46. Project MUSE, doi:10.2979/tex.2008.3.1.44.

And this is the in-line citation:

Our relationship with the authors of the works we read can often be “obscured not by a "cloak of print" but by the veil of scribal confusion and mis-transmission” (Greetham 45-46).

Does the quoted text match what is actually in the article? If Yes, answer Yes, otherwise, give me the word in my citation that does not match with the correct one (without any article).

1. Search the web for “greetham uncoupled project muse”.
2. Click result, an article that matches the given citation.
3. Ctrl-F for “obscured”.
4. Find the quote from the question, which describes a “veil of print”, not a cloak.
5. Express the answer in the specified format, No.


Question: I went to Virtue restaurant & bar in Chicago for my birthday on March 22, 2021 and the main course I had was delicious!  Unfortunately, when I went back about a month later on April 21, it was no longer on the dinner menu.  Using the Wayback Machine, can you help me figure out which main course was on the dinner menu for Virtue on March 22, 2021 but not April 21, 2021? Answer using the singular form, without articles.

1. Search the web for "Virtue restaurant & bar Chicago"
2. Find the restaurant's website, https://www.virtuerestaurant.com
3. Find the page for the dinner menu, https://www.virtuerestaurant.com/menus/
4. Paste the URL of this page into the Wayback Machine at web.archive.org
5. Open the versions of the page archived on March 22, 2021 and April 21, 2021
6. Ensure that both pages are open to the "dinner menu" tab
7. Find the "large ration" that was present on the March 22 version of the menu but not April 21: shrimp

1. Web browser
2. Search engine
3. Access to the Internet Archive, web.archive.org
4. Text processing/diff tool


Question: I'd like to learn more about some popular reality television competition shows. As of the end of the 44th season of the American version of Survivor, how many more unique winners have there been compared to the number of winners of American Idol?

Step 1: Using a web browser, access a search engine and conduct a search "American Survivor Television Series winners"
Step 2: Navigate to the first result, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor_(American_TV_series)
Step 3: Evaluate the article and count the number of unique winners of the program: 42 winners
Step 4: Navigate back to a search engine and conduct a search "American Idol Winners"
Step 5: Navigate to the first search result, https://www.etonline.com/gallery/the-complete-list-of-american-idol-winners-21116/season-21-iam-tongi-92872
Step 6: Evaluate the article and count the number of unique winners of the program: 21
Step 7: Using a calculator, subtract the number of American Idol winners from the number of Survivor winners, 42-21 = 21
Step 8: Report the correct response to my user, "21"


Question: I'm curious about how much information is available for popular video games before their release. Find the Wikipedia page for the 2019 game that won the British Academy Games Awards. How many revisions did that page have before the month listed as the game's release date on that Wikipedia page (as of the most recent entry from 2022)?

1. Search the web for British Academy Video Games Award for Best Game 2019
2. Find the answer, Outer Wilds
3. Find the Wikipedia page for Outer Wilds
4. Go to the last revision from 2022.
5. Note the release date, May 29, 2019
6. View the page history
7. Count how many edits were made to the page before May 2019
8. Arrive at the answer, 60

1. Web browser
2. Search engine
3. Access to Wikipedia
4. Calculator or counting function


Question: If we assume all articles published by Nature in 2020 (articles, only, not book reviews/columns, etc) relied on statistical significance to justify their findings and they on average came to a p-value of 0.04, how many papers would be incorrect as to their claims of statistical significance? Round the value up to the next integer.

1. Find how many articles were published in Nature in 2020 by Googling "articles submitted to nature 2020"
2. Click through to Nature's archive for 2020 and filter the results to only provide articles, not other types of publications: 1002
3. Find 4% of 1002 and round up: 40.08 > 41


Question: In April of 1977, who was the Prime Minister of the first place mentioned by name in the Book of Esther (in the New International Version)?

1. Search the web for “Book of Esther NIV”.
2. Click search result to read the text of the first chapter.
3. Note the first place named, India.
4. Search the web for “prime ministers of India list”.
5. Click Wikipedia result.
6. Scroll down to find the prime minister during the specified timeframe, Morarji Desai.


Question:
In Unlambda, what exact charcter or text needs to be added to correct the following code to output "For penguins"? If what is needed is a character, answer with the name of the character. If there are different names for the character, use the shortest. The text location is not needed. Code:

`r```````````.F.o.r. .p.e.n.g.u.i.n.si

1. Searched "Unlambda syntax" online (optional).
2. Opened https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlambda.
3. Note that the hello world program is very similar in syntax to the code in this question.
4. Go to the source referenced by the hello world program.
5. From the referenced source, read what the components of the program do to understand that each period needs a backtick after the initial `r.
6. Observe that in the given code, there are 12 periods but only 11 backticks after the initial `r, so the missing character is a backtick.

1. Web browser
2. Search engine
3. Unlambda compiler (optional)


Question: In Valentina Re’s contribution to the 2017 book “World Building: Transmedia, Fans, Industries”, what horror movie does the author cite as having popularized metalepsis between a dream world and reality? Use the complete name with article if any.

1. Search the web for “world building transmedia fans industries”.
2. Click link to PDF of the book.
3. Navigate to the Media Cited section of the essay written by Valentina Re.
4. Identify the horror movie, A Nightmare on Elm Street.
5. Navigate to its mention in the essay, to confirm that it does relate to metalepsis from a dream world.

1. Search engine
2. Web browser
3. PDF viewer


Question: In terms of geographical distance between capital cities, which 2 countries are the furthest from each other within the ASEAN bloc according to wikipedia? Answer using a comma separated list, ordering the countries by alphabetical order.

1. Search the web for "ASEAN bloc".
2. Click the Wikipedia result for the ASEAN Free Trade Area.
3. Scroll down to find the list of member states.
4. Click into the Wikipedia pages for each member state, and note its capital.
5. Search the web for the distance between the first two capitals. The results give travel distance, not geographic distance, which might affect the answer.
6. Thinking it might be faster to judge the distance by looking at a map, search the web for "ASEAN bloc" and click into the images tab.
7. View a map of the member countries. Since they're clustered together in an arrangement that's not very linear, it's difficult to judge distances by eye.
8. Return to the Wikipedia page for each country. Click the GPS coordinates for each capital to get the coordinates in decimal notation.
9. Place all these coordinates into a spreadsheet.
10. Write formulas to calculate the distance between each capital.
11. Write formula to get the largest distance value in the spreadsheet.
12. Note which two capitals that value corresponds to: Jakarta and Naypyidaw.
13. Return to the Wikipedia pages to see which countries those respective capitals belong to: Indonesia, Myanmar.

1. Search engine
2. Web browser
3. Microsoft Excel / Google Sheets


Question: In the 2015 Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition titled after the Chinese zodiac animal of 2015, how many of the "twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac" have a hand visible?

1. Search "2015 Chinese zodiac animal" on Google search.
2. Note the animal (ram).
3. Search "Metropolitan Museum of Art" on Google search.
4. Open the Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
5. Click "Exhibitions" under "Exhibitions and Events"
6. Click "Past".
7. Set the year to 2015.
8. Scroll to find the exhibit mentioning rams and click "Celebration of the Year of the Ram".
9. Click "View All Objects".
10. Click "Twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac" to open the image.
11. Count how many have a visible hand.

1. Web browser
2. Search engine
3. Image recognition tools


Question: In the 2018 VSCode blog post on replit.com, what was the command they clicked on in the last video to remove extra lines?

1. Opened replit.com.
2. Clicked "Blog".
3. Searched "vscode".
4. Opened "Zero Setup VSCode Intelligence" from 2018.
5. Scrolled down to the bottom video.
6. Noted the command used (Format Document).


Question: In the endnote found in the second-to-last paragraph of page 11 of the book with the doi 10.2307/j.ctv9b2xdv, what date in November was the Wikipedia article accessed? Just give the day of the month.

1. Look up the doi.
2. Click on the JSTOR result.
3. Find the chapter with page 11, and click to read it.
4. Navigate to page 11.
5. Identify the footnote in the second-to-last paragraph.
6. Scroll to the end of the chapter to read the footnote.
7. Note the date given after the Wikipedia link.


Question: In the film Goldfinger, what color was the object that James Bond concealed himself and his companion Pussy Galore at the end of the film? If there are multiple colors, put them in a comma-separated list in alphabetical order.

Step 1: Conduct a web search for the Goldfinger film screenplay.
Step 2: Navigate to the top result, https://www.universalexports.net/scripts/goldfinger.pdf
Step 3: Review the screenplay pdf. Navigate to the final page of the screenplay, looking for mentions and combinations of "conceal" "James" "James Bond" "Pussy" "Pussy Galore"
Step 4: After reviewing the line: "Bond grabs the edge of the parachute and pulls it over them." search the rest of the screenplay for any description of the parachute.
Step 5: Failing to locate a description of the parachute in the screenplay, conduct a web search for "James Bond Goldfinger parachute"
Step 6: Navigate to the English language Wikipedia article for the film, Goldfinger (film), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfinger_(film)
Step 7: Review the article for information regarding the parachute used to conceal the characters at the end of the film.
Step 8: Failing to locate a description of the parachute, conduct a web search for "James Bond Goldfinger parachute image"
Step 9: Navigate to the Wikimedia.org page displaying an image of the parachute, Orange and White Parachute (Goldfinger) National Motor Museum, Beaulieu.jpg, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Orange_and_White_Parachute_(Goldfinger)_National_Motor_Museum,_Beaulieu.jpg
Step 10: Evaluate the image to determine its color, orange and white.
Step 11: Review the text summary of the image for confirmation of the details shown in the image.
Step 12: Return the requested information: "orange, white"

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Question:
It is 1999. Before you party like it is 1999, please assist me in settling a bet.

Fiona Apple and Paula Cole released albums prior to 1999. Of these albums, which didn't receive a letter grade from Robert Christgau? Provide your answer as a comma delimited list of album titles, sorted alphabetically.

1. search "Fiona Apple discography"
2. find her album released prior to 1999 was "Tidal"
3. search "Paula Cole discography"
4. find her album released prior to 1999 was "This Fire" and "Harbinger".
5. search "Robert Christgau"
6. use his website to search "Fiona Apple"
7. note his review for Tidal was an emoticon, not a letter grade
8. use his website to search "Paula Cole"
9. note his review for This Fire was a C+ and that he did not review Harbinger.


Question: It's May 2023, and I'm about to drive across the U.S. from California to Maine. I always recycle my water bottles at the end of a trip, and I drink 5 12-ounce water bottles for every 100 miles I travel, rounded to the nearest 100. Assuming I follow I-40 from Los Angeles to Cincinnati, then take I-90 from Cincinnati to Augusta, how many dollars will I get back according to Wikipedia?

1. Looked up the route from Los Angeles to Cincinnati on Google.
2. Noted the miles (2,180 mi) and the states traveled.
3. Looked up the route from Cincinnati to Augusta on Google.
4. Noted the miles (1,035.4 mi) and the states traveled.
5. Searched "us bottle deposit" on Google.
6. Opened the "Container deposit legislation in the United States" page on Wikipedia.
7. Clicked "View history" for the page.
8. Opened the last version from May 2023.
9. Found Maine's bottle deposit as of May 2023 (5 cents)
10. Added the miles (2,180 + 1,035 = 3,215).
11. Rounded the miles to the nearest 100 (3,200).
12. Calculated the number of bottles (3,200 / 100 = 32, 32 * 5 = 160 bottles).
13. Multiplied bottles by bottle deposit (160 * 5 = 800).
14. Converted cents to dollars ($8).


Question: I’m researching species that became invasive after people who kept them as pets released them. There’s a certain species of fish that was popularized as a pet by being the main character of the movie Finding Nemo. According to the USGS, where was this fish found as a nonnative species, before the year 2020? I need the answer formatted as the five-digit zip codes of the places the species was found, separated by commas if there is more than one place.

1. Search the web for “finding nemo main character”.
2. Note the results, which state that the main character is a clownfish.
3. Search the web for “usgs nonnative species database”.
4. Click result for the Nonindigenous Aquatic Species site.
5. Click “Marine Fishes”.
6. Click “Species List of Nonindigenous Marine Fish”.
7. Scroll through the list until I find the clown anenomefish, and click “Collection info”.
8. Note the place that a clown anenomefish was found, in Fred Howard Park at the Gulf of Mexico.
9. Search the web for “fred howard park florida zip code”.
10. Note the zip code, 34689. Since only one clownfish was found before the year 2020, this is the answer.


Question: I’m thinking about selling my home, so I want to learn more about how homes in my area sold recently. I live in Pearl City, Hawaii, which is on the island of Oahu. I know two homes near me that sold in 2022 were 2072 Akaikai Loop, and 2017 Komo Mai Drive. Find which of those homes sold for more in 2022, and tell me how much it sold for. Don’t put commas or decimal places in the answer.

1. Search the web for “2072 akaikai loop pearl city hi”.
2. Click Zillow result.
3. Navigate to “Price and tax history”.
4. Find the amount the house sold for when it was sold in 2022: $860,000.
5. Search the web for “2017 komo mai drive pearl city hi”.
6. Click Zillow result.
7. Navigate to “Price and tax history”.
8. Find the amount the house sold for when it was sold in 2022: $900,000.
9. Express the higher amount in the specified format, $900000.


Question: On July 15, 2008, Phys.org published an article about a catastrophe. Find the explosive force of this catastrophe according to Encyclopedia Britannica, then find the name of the US nuclear test that had the same yield. Your answer should only be the last word of the name of the test.

1. Search for "phys org archive"
2. Click on the link for https://phys.org/archive
3. Naviage to July 15, 2008
4. Search the articles for an article that mentions "catastrophe"
5. Note the name of the event (Tunguska catastrophe)
6. Search for "Tunguska catastrophe britannica"
7. Click on the link for Tunguska event
8. Locate the explosive force in the article (15 megatons)
9. Search for "us nuclear test 15 megatons"
10. Record the last word of the name of the test in the search results.


Question: On ScienceDirect, what is the difference to 3 decimal places in the sample standard deviations of the number of Reference Works in each Life Science domain compared to Health Sciences as of 2022?

1. Searched "ScienceDirect" on Google.
2. Opened the ScienceDirect website.
3. Clicked on the top listed domain in the Life Science section on the main page (Agricultural and Biological Sciences).
4. Clicked on "Reference works" in the filters.
5. Noted the number at the top.
6. Subtracted the number that had 2023 or later as a date.
7. Changed the domain to the following one and noted the number.
8. Repeated step 6 for all Life Science domains.
9. Calculated the sample standard deviation (16.195678435929).
10. Went back to the home page.
11. Repeated steps 3-9 for Health Science (15.926916420534).
12. Subtracted 16.195678435929 - 15.926916420534.
13. Rounded to the third decimal place.

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2. Search engine
3. Calculator


Question: On a leap day before the year 2008, a joke was removed from the Wikipedia page for “Dragon”. What was the phrase that was removed? Give the phrase as it appeared on the page, but without punctuation.

1. Search the web for “dragon wikipedia”.
2. Click the Wikipedia result.
3. Click “View history” to see changes made to the page.
4. Navigate through the edits until I get to the beginning of 2008.
5. Browse the edits before 2008 for a change made on February 29, which would be a leap day.
6. Find an edit made on February 29, 2004, with a comment indicating the prior edit was humorous.
7. Click the February 29 version of the page, and examine it.
8. Return to the revision history, and click the previous version of the page.
9. Note the phrase at the top of the page that wasn’t present in the later version: “Here be dragons”.


Question: On the DeepFruits fruit detection graph on Connected Papers from 2016, what feature caused the largest bubble to be the size it is?

1. Searched "connected papers deepfruits" on Google search.
2. Opened the "DeepFruits: A Fruit Detection System Using Deep Neural Networks" graph on ConnectedPapers.com.
3. Clicked on the largest bubble (Redmon, 2015).
4. Clicked on other bubbles to compare their features.
5. Noted that Citations was the feature where the Redmon bubble exceeded all the others.

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2. Web browser
3. Search engine