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Omnichannel @ Criteo
100

This world-famous US theme park opened for the first time in 1971

Disney World

100

Tragically, this actor made history in 2009 by becoming the first posthumous winner of the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for their role as a chaos-loving villian

Heath Ledger

100

The US received this rather large present from France in 1885

The Statue of Liberty

100

In statistics, what does n refer to?

A sample/sample size

100

Which field in our events tables can be used to identify offline events specifically?

site_type (site_type = 'instore')

200

This popular tourist destination is home to the second-largest coral reef system in the world

Cancun, Mexico

200

This 1975 monster movie is widely considered to be the first "summer blockbuster"

Jaws

200

More than 214 million people pass through this French railway station each year, making it the busiest in all of Europe

Gare du Nord

200

A z-score describes what about a value?

Its distance from the mean in terms of standard deviations

200

Criteo's attributed offline sales data has at least how many days of latency by design?

7 days

300

The name of this common summer garment was inspired by the first public nuclear bomb test

The bikini (named after Bikini Atoll)

300

This film about a theme park gone wrong relaunched a beloved franchise in 2015, becoming (I think) the highest-grossing summer blockbuster ever

Jurassic World

300

This French king held the crown for a grand total of 20 minutes in 1830

Louis XIX aka Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême

300
Where was SQL originally developed in the early 1970s?

IBM

300

This Criteo partner's omnichannel solutions includes their own unique user identifier, IdentityLink (aka RAMP ID)

LiveRamp

400

The first ever Shark Week kicked off on July 17th of which year?

1988

400

17% of the budget and 41% of shoot time was dedicated to the opening sequence of this Steven Spielberg film

Saving Private Ryan

400

Maxime Brunerie interrupted 2002 Bastille Day festivities in Paris by doing what?

Attempting to assassinate French president Jacques Chirac

400

The name of this parallel data processing model used in Hadoop originally referred to proprietary Google technology

MapReduce

400

After how many days following an offline sale can it no longer be ingested?

14 days

500

This country leads the world in terms of per capita ice cream consumption (7.5 gallons/year)

New Zealand

500

The four main writers of this smash-hit computer-animated film had previously worked together on Disney's Aladdin and MTV's Beavis and Butthead

Shrek

500

The Toussaint Rouge, or Red All-Saints' Day, marked the beginning of armed resistance to French rule in which conflict?

Algerian War, Algerian Revolution

500

Hive can be quite slow because MapReduce does what while executing a query?

Writes data to disk

500

How many PC7D sales at the partner level are required to use the Store Conversion optimizer?

100

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