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Students looking to boost a borderline GPA often ask teachers for this optional coursework beyond the standard syllabus.
What is extra credit?
This city replaced Milledgeville as the state capital in 1868 and has retained the designation ever since.
What is Atlanta?
This is the year that co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin officially filed the incorporation papers in California shortly after receiving their initial $100,000 investment check from Sun Microsystems co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim.
What is 1998?
Though launched in August 2020 to rival TikTok, this short-form video feature's estimated 140 to 200 billion daily plays still trail the 200 billion daily views racked up by YouTube Shorts.
What is Meta (Instagram) Reels?
This Google acronym that refers to Western Hemisphere territory is the same as this engineering-focused government agency that has hubs in Houston, Texas and Cape Canaveral, Florida.
What is N.A.S.A.?
No taco shells here: either 'hard' or 'soft', this two-word financial evaluation reviews your borrowing history before a major loan approval.
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This city has the most land square mileage inside its city limits at 228 sq mi.
What is Chicago?
The year that Google completed its IPO, offering an initial share price of $85 to investors.
What is 2004?
In 2014, this e-commerce powerhouse acquired the video game streaming platform Twitch for roughly $970 million after Google's negotiations to buy it for YouTube failed.
What is Amazon?
This federal watchdog regulates Wall Street and protects investors, but in college athletics, it's the powerhouse collegiate sports conference home to the Tennessee Volunteers and Georgia Bulldogs.
What is the S.E.C.?
In 1950, Diners Club introduced the first universal version of this payment device, originally made of cardboard before switching to plastic.
What is a credit card?
This city has the lowest metro population out of the three, coming in around 4.6 million inhabitants.
What is San Francisco?
Just under two years after its founding, YouTube was acquired by Google for $1.65 billion in stock during this calendar year.
What is 2006?
Originally developed internally under the code name "Project Red Dog" before launching in 2010, this enterprise platform now serves as the primary cloud infrastructure rival to Google Cloud and AWS.
What is Microsoft Azure?
Long before neural networks made headlines, this 2001 NBA MVP—known as "The Answer" and simply "A.I."—crossed up defenders and famously ranted about "practice."
Who is Allen Iverson?
The WGA determines this official attribution on a movie poster, often designated with "Screenplay by" or "Story by."
What is a writing credit?
Of the six major professional sports leagues, this city had a team win the most recent league championship.
What is San Francisco?
This is the year that Sundar Pichai became CEO of Google (different from the year he became CEO of Alphabet Inc.).
What is 2015?
In 1998, after meeting Stanford PhD students Larry Page and Sergey Brin through angel investor Ram Shriram, this tech giant founder wrote a personal $250,000 check to become one of Google's earliest seed investors.
Who is Jeff Bezos?
Network engineers visit this facility shorthand to monitor server racks, while Batman and Superman call its fictional superhero publishing house home.
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Under cap-and-trade systems, businesses purchase this tradable permit representing the elimination of one metric ton of greenhouse gas emissions.
What is a carbon credit?
This city was the setting for Erik Larson's novel "The Devil in the White City", which follows serial killer H.H. Holmes' murderous schemes at the 1893 World's Fair.
What is Chicago?
This is the year that Yahoo attempted to acquire Google at a price of $3 billion (Larry and Sergey declined and countered with a $5 billion price tag).
What is 2002?
From its launch in 1994 until moving to YouTube in 2023, the out-of-market sports package NFL Sunday Ticket was exclusively distributed to U.S. homes by this satellite provider.
What is DirecTV?
The acronym for this corporate governance law shares its three-letter shorthand with the footwear-inspired nicknames of two major league baseball teams.
What is the Sarbanes-Oxley Act?