All Things Java by Hupfen

Champion(s):

GrubbC
festina lente


Runner(s)-Up:

HoH


Quiz Description

That's multiple kinds of Java: the island, the programming language, and good ol' coffee.

Full Results:

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1 GrubbC 393 98 15
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2 HoH 390 95 15
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3 ChengB 380 92 15
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4 ChernicoffS 368 89 15
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5 rwv37 329 85 15
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6 milton 285 82 15
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7 MBlumenfeld 278 79 15
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8 MercureT 270 76 15
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9 McClellanS 266 73 15
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10 Matto 261 70 15
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11 RichmondJ 258 67 15
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12 GoodmanDL 244 64 15
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13 BringMoreLegos 242 60 15
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14 rouquinne 238 57 15
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15 MoyseyC 234 53 15
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15 LeungT 234 53 15
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17 ZhangM 231 48 15
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18 BillPennington 229 45 15
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19 RabinK 225 42 15
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20 VenguswamyK 222 39 15
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21 GrahamJ 216 35 15
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22 Shosin 212 32 15
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23 akambour 210 29 15
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24 JCEurovision 182 26 15
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25 JudyD 175 23 15
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26 Eponine 167 20 15
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27 WeikleB 161 17 15
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28 DouglasLovesVixey 124 14 15
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29 JonesRW 108 10 00
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30 Vintsanity 101 7 15
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31 Vendy12 70 4 15
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32 AllardM 59 1 15
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Questions:

Java is the most populous island of what country?

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Indonesia

Java was developed at Sun Microsystems, and that company stayed responsible for its maintenance—meaning that, through acquisitions, this company now maintains the language.

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Oracle Corporation

The first-ever Starbucks location, a tourist destination itself, exists across the street from what Seattle tourist destination?

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Pike Place Market

The Java Man, discovered on the island, was one of the first skeletons discovered of what specific species? (Binomial nomenclature required.)

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Homo erectus

Java is designed to tidy up and release memory it knows is no longer being used, a process commonly known by what two-word term?

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Garbage collection

Brazil's large land area makes it easily the largest producer of coffee beans. What nation ranks second?

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Vietnam

By the time Dutch colonists arrived on the island, what religion did most Java residents practice?

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Islam

Many Java applications look similar, since they use what built-in graphics library that shares its name with a jazz style?

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Swing

Though the authenticity of the story is doubted, King Gustav III of what country supposedly ran an experiment on condemned twins to determine if coffee was dangerous?

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Sweden

The Dutch East India Company heavily exploited Java until the end of what 18th century year, when the company's charter finally expired?

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1799

The programming language JavaScript has nothing to do with the programming language Java. The name choice was seen as a marketing trick by what browser company as part of its battles with Microsoft?

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Netscape Communications

Kopi luwak is a type of coffee (produced on Java, among other places) that includes part-digested coffee cherries eaten and defecated by what animal?

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(Asian palm) Civet