Giving College Students $100 If They Can Answer THIS Question

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We went to Hack the North, Canada's largest hackathon, to ask tech trivia questions to hackers for a chance to win $100.
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0:00 Intro
0:38 Contestants
1:05 Question 1
4:37 Question 2
8:21 Question 3
10:25 Question 4
14:59 snack table b-roll
#techtrivia
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[@lotfiholmes6397]

- Can I get a hint? - It starts with an 's'.

[@IT_T_]

i got it when only start read comments, thanks! 🤣

[@socb5642]

Right 😂😂😂 that was funny

[@Zutraxi]

"I learned this last year" is so accurate. No one ever remembers anything after they crammed for their exams. Getting help from a student one year ahead, was about as helpful as asking someone a year behind you.

[@akebu6]

So true, we always just cram to pass and not remember

[@socb5642]

So what is the point if we forget

[@Zutraxi]

@@socb5642 a degree that you can use to make your resume shine, as a proof that you can handle stress and problem solving while cramming. Because that is what working is.

[@DHTGK]

@42 It's mainly the fact that you have a background. Someone who learned about something like fourier transformation in their degree, and hopefully passed, will have a way easier time relearning and applying it on their job. Of course this means that someone without a degree also can do this, but a degree is a sort of guarantee that you will eventually know what to do once you're learning on the job.

[@mtndewcodealbino2755]

Tech Mr. Beast?

[@JustinZhang]

Best trivia contest i've ever done, no cap 🧢 Thanks for the money :)

[@nicholast]

CONGRATS ON WINNING

[@jeffzhang8849]

Yo when are we getting a collab

[@johannabonana5306]

LMAO that sponsor transition was amazing.

[@formationdev]

👏

[@minnie-piano3969]

I like how the last question was more about pokemon knowledge than tech

[@samuelbakes2763]

Really happy to see Erlang get some screen time

[@SolomonUcko]

Someone should make a chart of how many times each programming language was named for question 2

[@uncertaintytoworldpeace3650]

How many times each programming language was named for question 2: Once: zig, Matlab, Swift, Kotlin, VBS, assembly, B, R, PHP, HafLang or halflang?, smalltalk, pascal, rocket, SQL, HTML, Julia Twice: Erlang, typescript 4*: rust 5*: C# 6*: ruby, go 7*: C 8*: C++, JavaScript, Java 9*: Python

[@NoChillAustin]

You should really post more, I love your content!!

[@nicholast]

More content coming soon 👀

[@NoChillAustin]

@@nicholast let's gooooo

[@Taskiierr]

@@nicholast Yesss

[@uncertaintytoworldpeace3650]

How many times each programming language was named for question 2: Once: zig, Matlab, Swift, Kotlin, VBS, assembly, B, R, PHP, HafLang or halflang?, smalltalk, pascal, rocket, SQL, HTML, Julia Twice: Erlang, typescript 4*: rust 5*: C# 6*: ruby, go 7*: C 8*: C++, JavaScript, Java 9*: Python

[@raymondchen7084]

Nicely done Nick!

[@QuentinBishopYoutube]

Nice vid - was playing along but I totally messed up on the last one 😂

[@nick.galusha7788]

Ah man. I was 3/4 on this one. The one I missed was the third one. I said Google instead of apple. It was fun to follow along with the video though

[@vitraabhi4992]

When you are too much dependent on stack overflow

[@immythic8351]

The way you introduced the sponsor was smooth xD

[@formationdev]

💯

[@jonathanbatt3391]

I hate math and know nothing about cs besides discord bots and copy and pasting them into python but I’m determined to go to school and master a understanding in cs because of your hackathon video ❤

[@frogiwthoutahat]

lol

[@natashajchen]

woah hack the north was basically an unofficial Nicholas T. meet & greet

[@nicholast]

Nah it was a Natasha J. Chen meet and greet 😮

[@murk959]

Dude I was there and even talked to you at night Didn't know you were vlogging there too!

[@jojo42069]

What a good video. Enjoyed it a lot

[@steffliot3788]

dudee he asked the question(8 programming language) and snap my sequence was same as the lady at 4:53 what a coincidence 💀

[@ollyvukaphi]

Great video…also learnt a think or 2🇿🇦

[@stormpxie]

bro your videos are always funny and interesting

[@nicholast]

glad you enjoy them :)

[@KinzaSheikhOfficial]

I played along, can't believe it but I am actually eligible for those 100 bucks

[@NathanLuMax]

Ayyyyy love the new style!

[@el1398]

I thought i saw you haha! man... I wish I made wloo.. do you think you can talk about making friends in uni etc and / or what you think you would have done differently etc if you went to another uni

[@its-nathan]

why do the second winner the guy that was on the stairs looks like JOMA TECH?!😅

[@tinybloom2973]

The citadel intern got slammed by the sql question, rough

[@viridiantelamon]

Great Video! :D

[@beckettchun3882]

Yes dude, man is a celebrity

[@BrianAriyo]

Fire video Nich!!

[@nicholast]

thanks brian :)

[@ayushacharya4778]

most people pronounce sql as sequel so they might heard that before and they were confused about s and said sequential. this might be the reason most people saif sequential query language🤣

[@vyomvartak8212]

14:15 someone hug that man 😾

[@MiSt3300]

Lol there had to be at least one person who mentioned 'html and css' as a programming language. But at least they mentioned Julia (;

[@winterbird4069]

Another banger video 😎😎

[@hanznathanpo]

Are you coming to HTN again this year?

[@IT_T_]

Wow, really positiv video, thank you!

[@Reelix]

All easy except for Question 3 - It's hard to tell if it would be Google or Apple on the spot.

[@kevinsgong]

I LIKE THIS NEW TYPE OF CONTENT fun as fuck to watch

[@nicholast]

LETS GOO

[@nang88]

Love to see it

[@brnzhng]

snack table b-roll

[@nicholast]

So many snacks 🤤

[@agrihonoberjorn1612]

Snack table b roll

[@Loachie90]

I mentioned COBOL for Q2 😬

[@SmokingCrop]

9:20 Facebook... they are not even close.. 360 billion vs 2220 billion

[@prakashsiriki6842]

That hint 🤣🤣

[@jonnyskybrockett8844]

Bro these questions were FREEE

[@augustusexe9029]

Nice video!

[@techguyz839]

man , i would have definitely flipped up the 3rd one. i guessed google. but the rest i got it ; )

[@mukundyadav6913]

I see nick, I click

[@CaliburPANDAs]

Dude wears a ETH global shirt, doesn't mention Solidity 😅😅 7:15

[@ProPrav]

1:43 Speed Clone 💀

[@InvisibleOpey]

Wholesome content

[@kevinlu5481]

I'm surprised apple had so much money considering they do nothing useful

[@abrahamadugna5894]

So underrated

[@francol5518]

That's a lot of money bro😂 it's funny to play tho.

[@francol5518]

i'm so glad someone sponsored you to make the video 05:10

[@Lofen]

Why did so many people say Erlang, that was unexpected

[@EpicMeatTime]

Come to Montreal and meet us with FryingPan

[@benjamincrew1949]

Haven't watched the video yet and didn't look it up. It stands for Standard Query Language. Can I still get the money? :P

[@davidwu3106]

Wait was this filmed at E10?

[@nicholast]

E11 actually

[@rotteegher39]

*Name programming laguages* Me: Does Machine Code counts?

[@BreannaQuan]

u have to include me in the next one

[@matsut2004]

Anyone mentioned COBOL as a programming language?😛😛😛

[@maganhassan2627]

A wild mirah appeared!

[@biglegs]

Nobody said lua 😢

[@Pathos_p]

For people who are like me and know older pokemon too well but not from the newer gens, here's a hard mode version of the last question which one is a programming language lol dartrix idris meltan dottler rellor

[@loopy5893]

They shut down my study spot😠😠😠

[@Flangobeast]

Come back!

[@kithenry]

That 's' hint for sql 😅😅😅

[@Mia-ek1jp]

Where qre u

[@itsjfrizzy]

Good to see you, Nick!!! Also, have you been working out, bro? 💪

[@nicholast]

Maybe just a little :)

[@itsjfrizzy]

@@nicholast I see you, man! Making good progress. Keep being strong and healthy!

[@kaihatkeinenaccount]

The last one was hard

[@nicholast]

nah ppl just don't know their pokemon smh

[@gitikaaa]

STRUCTURED QUERY LANGUAGE Y’ALL 😭

[@Smeehe__]

How did so many people not get that? Lol.

[@memelord2581]

That guy in purshe t shirt should change the people he hangout with he definitely dont want to him

[@mctv2-randomness355]

Yooo my favourite youtuber

[@nicholast]

Ur my favourite youtuber

[@brnzhng]

lol I just rewatched that video 😂

[@MatttKelly]

No one used whitespace as one of their languages? are you really a programmer?

[@AdamWong]

GOAT

[@onyxsolace5398]

the number of people that got this wrong lowkey boosted my ego lol, they must be freshman or in a separate career path otherwise no way you cant get this right

[@nirajkhatiwada6696]

Did she say SQL?

[@brnzhng]

🔥🔥🔥

[@mr.nobody4159]

#Joey

[@leschymero9724]

This is what Top Schools in USA would look like of they didn't discriminate against Asians

[@angelatang5708]

HARUUUUUUUUUU

[@BrooklynSwaggBoi]

What does SQL stand for? Female: Can I have a hint? Hint: it starts with S 😂

[@shravani2922]

The only reason this video didnt blow up is because you showed each question for too long. Attention span is very low for gen z I guess nearly 12 secs, so people wont wait long to see the next question and skip. The might have affected the youtube algo to show this video

[@DanOhCaptainDaniel]

This is fake

[@chowtuk]

those questions are boring

[@virno69420]

Shameful exclusion of any HolyC mentions. 😡 seek enlightenment friends 🙏