Geo
This is the largest city in North America
What is Mexico City?
This infectious disease is the only one that has been eradicated
What is smallpox?
Before computers this popular technique used transparent layers on light tables to identify areas of overlap
What is sieve mapping?
Often pronounced “gooey”, GUI is short for what well-known three-word tech term?
What is Graphical User Interface?
This GRASPer's cat's name is indicative of his (terror) behavior and dog named after Red Sox player, Dustin Pedroia
Who is Elizabeth Pembleton / Who are Max (full name Maximus Wreximus) & Dusty
This US state has the lowest population
What is Wyoming?
What was the name of the respiratory machine used to treat polio patients in the 1900s?
What is the Iron Lung
This US bureau was an early adopter of some of the core principles of GIS
What is the US Census Bureau
This delicious computer term did web browser programmer Lou Montulli coin to refer to information that is sent from the browser to the web server.
What is a cookie?
This GRASPer's dog is known for her ears
Who is Shannon Graham / Who is Cinder
These two states are the top corn-producing states?
Illinois and Iowa
Hand sanitizer should have what percentage of alcohol to be effective against COVID-19?
What is 60%?
What year did GIS Day originate?
What is 1999?
This term is used for the most basic level or core of an operating system, responsible for resource allocation, file management and security? In a different context, this word can also mean the seed and hard husk of a cereal.
What is a kernel?
This GRASPer's dog favorite toys are all unicorns.
She’s got a favorite stuff unicorn, a favorite rubbery unicorn, and a favorite unicorn that squeaks. For some reason, she just seems to really like unicorns.
Who is Ben McKenzie / Who is Zelda
This country has the longest coastline in the world
What is Canada?
This disease comes from the tropical rain forests in the northern and western parts of Africa and is commonly mistaken for measles or chickenpox.
What is Monkeypox?
Landsat 9, the newest satellite from NASA and USGS, was launched in what year?
What is 2021?
While working at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center during the 1970s, computer scientist Larry Tesler coined these three common computer commands first used to edit documents on a word processor he co-created called Gypsy
What is cut, copy, paste?
This GRASPer's dog is nicknamed, "The Prince of Derpness" and is fostering a Doberman too
Who is Melissa Smith / Who are Wagner & Fritz
D.C. is considered a "planned city" which makes some sense considering the avenues radiating out from rectangles that make up the core of the city. The architect and city planner was commissioned in 1791 by President Washington and was a man from what country?
What is France?
Give an example of a social determinant of health
What is Economic Stability, Healthcare access + quality, Community/Social context, Neighborhood/Environment; (More specific): employment, income, expenses, debt, medical bills, housing, transportation, safety, parks, playgrounds, literacy, language, child education, higher education, hunger, food, support systems, community engagement, anything relating to the broader topics listed first.
Map projections always distort something, thus choosing the correct one for your use case is important. These are the four types of distortions
What is area, shape, distance, and direction?
In 2005, Linus Torvalds created software for tracking changes on files in order to improve development of the Linux kernel. What is the three-letter name of this uber-popular software among developers?
What is Git?
This GRASPer's pet's names both start with the letter, "G". A leopard gecko named after a famous painter and an Australian Shepard/Pitbull mix who prefers to cuddle his bed instead of sleep on it
Who is Adonica Scott / Who are Ghost & Goya