The DIGHUMLetter Quiz

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DIGHUMLetter | January 2021

QUIZ: "Guess who?"

How many clues do you need to guess this famous person who by many is considered “the father of the computer”?

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Clue #1

Using this clue, you score 10 points.

Clue #1

This person was born in 1791 in London and died in 1871.

Clue #2

Using this clue, you score 7 points.

Clue #2

This person was an English polymath. A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, originating the concept of a digital programmable computer.

Clue #3

Using this clue, you score 4 points.

Clue #3

This person is credited with inventing the first mechanical computer, the Difference Engine.

Clue #4

Using this clue, you score 2 points.

Clue #4

This person's concept of Analytical Engine contains all the essential ideas of modern computers.

Clue #5

Using this clue, you only score 1 point.

Clue #5

This person shares their first name with the heir apparent to the British throne, the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II.

DIGHUMLetter | November 2020

QUIZ: "Guess who!"

How many clues do you need to guess this famous computer scientist who in 2004 was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his pioneering work?

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Clue #1

Using this clue, you score 10 points.

Clue #1

This person was born on June 8, 1955 in London, England.

Clue #2

Using this clue, you score 7 points.

Clue #2

This person is a Professorial Fellow of Computer Science at the University of Oxford and a professor at MIT.

Clue #3

Using this clue, you score 4 points.

Clue #3

This person was named in Time magazine's list of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th century and has received a number of other accolades for his invention.

Clue #4

Using this clue, you score 2 points.

Clue #4

This person proposed an information management system in 1989, then implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol client and server.

Clue #5

Using this clue, you only score 1 point.

Clue #5

This person is best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web.

DIGHUMLetter | June 2020

QUIZ: "Guess who?"

Famous Danish photographer and film director known as the first movie pioneer in Denmark.

Who is …

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Clue #1

Using this clue, you score 10 points.

Clue #1

This person was born in 1866 and died in 1931.

Clue #2

Using this clue, you score 7 points.

Clue #2

This person was a Danish photographer and film director and began making documentary films in 1897.

Clue #3

Using this clue, you score 4 points.

Clue #3

In the beginning of 1897, this person shot the first Danish film — a one-minute sequence called Kørsel med Grønlandske Hunde (Traveling with Greenlandic Dogs).

Clue #4

Using this clue, you score 2 points.

Clue #4

This person's first name is the most common in Denmark (January 2020)

Clue #5

Using this clue, you only score 1 point.

Clue #5

Watch this person's recording of Sct. Clemensbro, Aarhus from 1901

DIGHUMLetter | April 2020

QUIZ: "Guess who!"

How many clues do you need to guess this DH person?

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Clue #1

Using this clue, you score 10 points.

Clue #1

This person was born 1950 in Sondrio, Italy.

Clue #2

Using this clue, you score 7 points.

Clue #2

This person is an Italian literary historian and theorist.

Clue #3

Using this clue, you score 4 points.

Clue #3

This person co-founded the Stanford Literary Lab in 2010 (the concept of a humanities "lab" was new at the time).

Clue #4

Using this clue, you score 2 points.

Clue #4

This person is known for taking the "longue durée" view of literature – looking at the temporal trends in dozens or even hundreds of years of literary history.

Clue #5

Using this clue, you only score 1 point.

Clue #5

This person has coined the widely used term "distant reading".

DIGHUMLetter | February 2020

QUIZ: "Who said it?"

How many clues do you need to guess the person behind this quote?

Do you know already? Awesome, then you get the full 12 points! If not, see how many of the five clues below it takes you to figure it out.

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"To program is to understand"

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Clue #1

Using this clue, you score 10 points.

Clue #1

This person was born in 1926.

Clue #2

Using this clue, you score 7 points.

Clue #2

This person was a computer scientist, programming language pioneer and politician.

Clue #3

Using this clue, you score 4 points.

Clue #3

This person was known as a pioneer of participatory design and the “Scandinavian school of systems development”.

Clue #4

Using this clue, you score 2 points.

Clue #4

This person is known for co-inventing object-oriented programming and the programming language SIMULA in the 1960s.

Clue #5

Using this clue, you only score 1 point.

Clue #5

This person was professor in Aarhus (1975-1976) and was born in Oslo, Norway.

DIGHUMLetter | December 2019

QUIZ: "Who said it?"

How many clues do you need to guess the person behind this quote?

Do you know already? Awesome, then you get the full 12 points! If not, see how many of the five clues below it takes you to figure it out.

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"The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves."

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Clue #1

Using this clue, you score 10 points.

Clue #1

This person was born in 1894 in Columbia, Missouri, U.S.

Clue #2

Using this clue, you score 7 points.

Clue #2

This person was a mathematician and philosopher and worked as a professor of mathematics at MIT.

Clue #3

Using this clue, you score 4 points.

Clue #3

This person was an early researcher in stochastic and mathematical noise processes.

Clue #4

Using this clue, you score 2 points.

Clue #4

This person is credited as one of the first to theorize that all intelligent behavior was the result of feedback mechanisms (an early step towards modern AI)

Clue #5

Using this clue, you only score 1 point.

Clue #5

This person is considered the originator of cybernetics, a formalization of the notion of feedback.

DIGHUMLetter | October 2019

QUIZ: "Who said it?"

How many clues do you need to guess the person behind this quote?

Do you know already? Awesome, then you get the full 12 points! If not, see how many of the five clues below it takes you to figure it out.

Psst … Need help? Check out the right answer here.

"That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal - as time will show"

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Clue #1

Using this clue, you score 10 points.

Clue #1

This person was born in 1815 in London, England.

Clue #2

Using this clue, you score 7 points.

Clue #2

This person was a mathematician and writer, sometimes known as one of the world's first “computer programmers”.

Clue #3

Using this clue, you score 4 points.

Clue #3

This person was the only legitimate child of poet Lord Byron and Lady Byron.

Clue #4

Using this clue, you score 2 points.

Clue #4

This person is known for their work on Charles Babbage’s “Analytical Engine” and is regarded the first to recognise the full potential of “computing machines” beyond pure calculation.