USAA Trivia
USAA was founded in what year?
1922
Raj Ghat is a memorial in Delhi, India composed in part of a black marble platform. To what man is this memorial dedicated?
Mahatma Gandhi
What does SQL stand for?
Structured Query Language
If you head directly south from San Diego, what border town resort will be the first city you hit in Mexico?
Tijuana
The smallest and shallowest of the world’s five oceans is this one.
Arctic Ocean
USAA was founded by a group of 25 officers in the United States ______________
Army
What best-selling 2001 novel begins with Piscine Patel, an adult Canadian, discussing his childhood in India and specifically focusing on his father's zoo in Pondicherry?
Life of Pi
What does the T stand for in OLTP.
Transactional
Found on its national flag as well as many other national symbols, what species of eagle is the official animal emblem of the country of Mexico?
Golden Eagle
Auckland, the chief port city of this country, was once its capital.
New Zealand
The USAA core values are …
Service, Loyalty, Honesty and Integrity
What northernmost region of India known by the Ancient Greeks as Kasperia eventually became an important center of Hinduism and Buddhism? The area is also the title of a Led Zeppelin song.
Kashmir
This is the process of organizing data into relational database tables in such a way that the results are always unambiguous and as intended.
Database Normalization
What is the longest river in Mexico?
Rio Grande
The city of Chiang Mai in this country is home to Baan Chang Elephant Park.
Thailand
USAA installed its first computer in what decade?
1950s (an IBM 650 computer which had max memory of 35 kilobytes, modern laptop with 16GB of memory has almost 500,000 times that.
Which language that starts with P is one of the main languages in India and Pakistan and has more than 113 million speakers?
Punjabi
NoSQL or non-relational databases are typically optimized for ____________
Queries or Speed
What “T” resort town on Mexico’s Caribbean coast is home to a 13th century walled Mayan archaeological site?
Tulum
How many countries are there in the United Kingdom?
Four
The first vehicle insured by USAA was what type?
Elcar manufactured by the Elkhart Carriage Company
Which city in India is the capital of Rajasthan and is nicknamed “the Pink City” because of the hue of most of its architecture, as well as “the Paris of India” given its many tourist attractions?
Jaipur
Name 2 of the four Vs of Big Data
Volume
Variety
Velocity
Veracity
When it was formed by the Mexica around 1325, what was the original name of what is now Mexico City?
Tenochtitlan
This Argentine region’s name is Spanish for “big feet,” perhaps because Spaniards saw natives who wore large boots.
Patagonia