THe conTest

1. What is the main ingredient in a falafel?

• Lentils

• Broccoli

• Chickpeas

• Split peas

Answer explanation

Falafel is a deep-fried ball or patty-shaped fritter in Middle eastern cuisine made from ground chickpeas, broad beans, or both.

2. What is the highest-grossing Christmas holiday movie of all time?

• A Christmas Carol

• Elf

• The Grinch (film)

• Home Alone

Answer explanation

The Grinch (film) is a 2018 American computer-animated Christmas fantasy comedy film, grossing over $500 M. It is the third screen adaptation of the story, following the 1966 television special and the 2000 live-action featured length film.

3. The SAS SWAT package is available for all the following languages EXCEPT:

• Lua

• Go

• Python

• R

Answer explanation

No SWAT package for Go, at least not yet.

4. Which sea creature has three hearts?

• Shark

• Octopus

• Sting Ray

• Jellyfish

Answer explanation

An octopus has one heart that circulates blood around the body, while the other two pump it past the gills, to pick up oxygen. The octopus also has blue blood and 'mini brains' in each tentacle.

5. When using the Python SWAT package, the coding syntax closely resembles which Python package?

• SciKit-Learn

• Pandas

• Flask

• TensorFlow

Answer explanation

Pandas is the most popular and widely used Python library for data science. Code like you're in Python and SWAT translate the code into SAS-readable code for processing.

6. Who was the first woman to ever be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?

• Janis Joplin

• Diana Ross

• Aretha Franklin

• Carole King

Answer explanation

The first year of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 included 10 men and no women. Franklin was inducted the next year in 1987.

7. What does the acronym SWAT stand for?

• See Wonderful Analytic Treasures

• Scripting Wrapper for Analytics Transfer

• SAS Writing and Translation

• Sync What the Analysis Transposes

• Simple Wrapper for Analytic Transportation

Answer explanation

The Scripting Wrapper for Analytics Transfer package (try saying that five times fast =D ) is and interface to the SAS Cloud Analytic Services, or CAS engine.

8. In which city is the Juventus Football Club based?

• Manchester

• Turin

• Marseille

• Barcelona

• Milan

Answer explanation

Juventus Football Club, colloquially known as Juve, is a professional football club based in Turin, Piedmont, Italy, that competes in the Serie A, the top tier of the Italian football league system.

9. The SAS SWAT package is the base for several other SAS libraries on GitHub. These include all of the following EXCEPT:

• DLPy

• SASCTL

• PyPI

• CVPy

Answer explanation

PyPI is not a SAS library, it's a software repository. You can install all of the specialized SAS packages from PyPI, which is an abbreviation for the Python Package Index.

10. "Onze" is the french number for? (answers presented in roman numerals)

• XI

• IX

• XII

• VI

Answer explanation

Only one syllable in French, in English it is the smallest positive integer whose name has three syllables. It's also the highest number on Nigel Tufnel's amp in Spinal Tap.