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100

This code name was given to an attack observed by DroidGuard in 2019 where users abused a McDonald's promotion to get 10k free hamburgers.

What is Hamburgler?

100

This database is Google's version of a "Most Wanted" list.

What is the KO DB?

100

This Greek goddess gives her name to identifiers for accounts at Google.

Who is Gaia?

100

This first computer game was created in 1972 and involved two players hitting a ball back and forth.

What is Pong?

100

This blue fish is Nemo's friend and constantly asking questions?

Who is "Dory"?

200

This self-help book about communication skills shares the same name as a musical comedy film and was the first book read by the Guards Book Club.

What is Pitch Perfect?

200

This animal makes a recurring appareance on Trust Model slides?

What is an owl?
200

This Greek god of war is also a anti-abuse platform.

Who is Ares?

200

This magical instrument plays a beautiful melody that can teleport heroes to different places.

What is an Ocarina?

200

This common denominator for "Cupcake, Donut, Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb and Icrea Cream Sandwich" is not a bakery.

What are Android Releases?

300

This famous cartoon cat is featured on the 4th floor of tower A as pixel art.

What is Nyan Cat?

300

This reindeer from Santa Clau's reindeer team is responsible for the biggest headaches in BULK scaled abuse?

 Who is Dasher?

300

This God, also know as Ganesha, shares his name with Alphabet's canonical service for membership management.

Who is Ganpati?

300

This robot boy was created in 1963 by a scientist to replace his dead son.

Who is Astro Boy?

300

This Google perk is also the original name of the Google search engine given to it by the founders.

What is a BackRub?

400

This award was given in 2018 to a launch by the Guards team that saved 182 TB of cellular traffic per day worldwide.

What is Perfy?

400

This iterative numerical method's name is a combination of the name of a Google team and one of its TLs.

What is Gauss-Seidel?

400

This species will either assimilate you (resistance is futile), or manage your clusters.

Who is Borg?

400

This brave and rapid character collects rings and fights an evil doctor with an egg head?

Who is Sonic?

400

This Spanish expression means "tasty" and is also a good place to go for lunch.

What is "Sabroso"?

500

This nutty ice cream flavour has repeatedly ranked in the top 3 favourite flavours of the Guards team.

What is pistachio?

500

This system remembers all the bad days you had while commenting on YT videos?

What is Grads Labels?

500

This German expression describes a device used to limit a horses field of view - or the visibility specs in google3.

What is "Scheuklappen"?

500

This meteorogical expression - originally the name of the first episode of a successful series - became synonmous to describe a lurkying and upcoming threat.

What is "Winter is coming"?

500

These actors made a joint appareance after "Wedding Crashers" in a stellar movie about a great company.

Who are Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson?

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