The CIS department and the Student Chapter of the ACM hosted the 1st Annual CS Jeopardy tournament on October 6th, 2004. Three teams went head-to-head: a faculty team of Dr. Hyatt and Dr. Sprague, a grad student team of Vijay Velusamy and Francisco Hernandez, and a mixed team of Dr. Bryant and Vetria Byrd.
Special thanks to all of those faculty, staff, students and ACM members who helped write questions, put together the Jeopardy presentation, set up the refreshments and all of the other hard work that went into presenting this great event.
Questions
A list of all of the questions from this contest can be obtained below, arranged by round and category:
Round 1:
High Performance
Computing
Round 1:
Programming Languages
Round 1:
Software Engineering
Round 1:
Theory
Round 2:
Acronyms
Round 2:
Department Trivia
Round 2:
Famous Quotations
Round 2:
History
Results
1st Place: Francisco Hernandez and Vijay Velusamy
2nd Place: Dr. Bob Hyatt and Dr. Alan Sprague
3rd Place: Dr. Barrett Bryant and Vetria Byrd
Photos
Below are various photos taken throughout the contest.
 Dr. Gray presides over the event as the teams prepare for the start. |
 The mixed team took the early lead by dominating the Programming Languages category. |
 Dr. Hyatt and Dr. Sprague mounted a faculty team comeback with a strong showing in the Theory category. |
 The questions only got harder in the second round... |
 The audience ponders a particularly hard question. |
 But in the end, staging a remarkable comeback, the graduate student team takes top prize! |