30 questions across 4 rounds. Click to reveal. Round 1 is the lesson content — Rounds 2–4 are general knowledge to keep things spicy. No scoring, just honest self-checking.
15 questions on what we covered in the deck. If you can answer these, the lesson stuck.
.md stand for?Markdown. A lightweight formatting syntax used to style plain text. Platforms like GitHub automatically render Markdown into formatted HTML when you view a .md file.
The root directory — the very top level of the project folder. This is where GitHub (and most platforms) automatically look for it to display on the repo's home page.
README?To make it stand out visually in a directory listing. In older systems, files sorted alphabetically with capitals appearing first — so README would always sit at the top, screaming "open me first."
Any three of these are correct:
— Title (clear project name)
— Description (what it does, in 1–2 sentences)
— Installation (how to set it up)
— Usage (how to run it, with examples)
A single hash followed by a space: # Heading 1
Each additional hash decreases the heading level: ## for H2, ### for H3, all the way down to ###### for H6.
Wrap the text in double asterisks: **bold text**
For italic, use single asterisks: *italic text*. For both, use triple: ***bold italic***.
[link text](https://example.com)
Square brackets hold the visible text, parentheses hold the URL. For images, prefix with an exclamation mark: 
False. READMEs are equally valuable for personal projects, internal company tools, freelance client work, and even private experiments. Future You will thank Past You for writing one.
Any two of:
— Screenshots showing the UI
— Animated GIFs demonstrating features
— Code blocks with copy-paste examples
— Badges for status, version, build, license
— Diagrams for architecture or flow
A small image — usually rectangular — that displays project metadata at a glance. Common badges show build status, version number, code coverage, license type, or downloads.
Most are generated from shields.io, which lets you create custom or live-updating badges for free.
A README is a single file giving a high-level overview — what, why, and how to start.
A wiki is multi-page documentation for deeper topics: detailed guides, API references, troubleshooting, FAQs.
During. Writing it as you build forces clearer thinking and stops the dreaded "I'll do it later" (which becomes never).
Some developers even write the README first — known as README-driven development — to define what they're actually trying to build before writing any code.
Because the README is often the first and only thing they read before deciding whether to look at the code. A polished README signals:
— Communication skills
— Attention to detail
— Professionalism
— Care about the developer experience of others
It tells other people what they're legally allowed to do with your code — use it, modify it, redistribute it, sell it, or some combination.
Common licenses: MIT (permissive), Apache 2.0 (permissive + patent protection), GPL (copyleft, must remain open).
Not writing one. Closely followed by writing one and never updating it.
An outdated README is arguably worse than no README — it actively misleads people. If you change how the project installs, runs, or behaves, update the README in the same commit.
A bit of history about the world that made the web. Five questions to stretch your brain in a different direction.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, working at CERN (the European Organisation for Nuclear Research) in Switzerland.
He wrote the original proposal in 1989, and the first website went live in 1991.
HTTP stand for?HyperText Transfer Protocol.
It's the language browsers and servers use to talk to each other. The S in HTTPS stands for Secure — the same protocol, encrypted.
BackRub. Named for its method of analysing the web's back-links — which pages link to which — to rank importance.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin renamed it Google in 1997, a play on googol (the number 1 followed by 100 zeros).
NCSA Mosaic, developed at the University of Illinois.
Before Mosaic, images had to open in a separate window. Mosaic's team went on to create Netscape Navigator, which dominated the 1990s browser wars.
https://example.com/path, what is the part before the colon called?The scheme (sometimes called the protocol).
Common schemes: https, http, mailto, ftp, file. The scheme tells your browser how to fetch what comes after.
A bit of everything. Pub-quiz classics — geography, science, art, and one for the animal lovers.
206.
Babies are born with around 270 — many fuse together as we grow. More than half of all your bones live in your hands and feet.
Jupiter. Big enough to fit every other planet inside it — twice over.
Its Great Red Spot is a storm wider than Earth, and it's been raging for at least 350 years.
Leonardo da Vinci, between roughly 1503 and 1519.
It lives in the Louvre in Paris, behind bulletproof glass. The painting is surprisingly small — about 77 cm tall.
Au — from the Latin aurum, meaning "shining dawn."
Many element symbols come from Latin names: Fe for iron (ferrum), Pb for lead (plumbum), Na for sodium (natrium).
The bat. Flying squirrels and sugar gliders only glide — bats actually fly, with powered, flapping wings.
There are over 1,400 species, making up roughly a fifth of all mammal species on Earth.
Home turf. Five questions about the country you're sitting in and the city you're sitting in right now.
The Swan River. Named in 1697 by Dutch explorer Willem de Vlamingh, after the black swans he saw on it — the first Europeans had ever seen.
The Whadjuk Noongar name is Derbarl Yerrigan.
1 January 1901. The six colonies — including Western Australia — joined to form the Commonwealth of Australia.
WA was the last to vote yes, joining only after a referendum the year before.
The Dingo Fence (also called the Dog Fence). Around 5,614 km long, stretching from Queensland through NSW into South Australia.
It was built to keep dingoes out of fertile sheep grazing country in the south-east. It's roughly twice the length of the Great Wall of China's main run.
The Bell Tower (sometimes called the Swan Bell Tower).
It houses the bells of St Martin-in-the-Fields, London — gifted to WA for Australia's bicentenary in 1988. Some of those bells date back to the 14th century.
Two hours. Perth is on AWST (UTC+8), Sydney is on AEST (UTC+10).
When the eastern states switch to daylight saving in October, the gap widens to three hours — which is why every Perth dev knows to double-check meeting times with the east coast.
You've revealed all 30 answers across 4 rounds. Now write a great README for your next project — and remember: write it as you build, not after. (And if anyone asks who painted the Mona Lisa, you've got that covered too.)