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100

The country that uses the blooming of Cherry Blossoms to indicate and celebrate the start of Spring.

What is Japan?

100

The full name for the acronym AEMP used widely across American Express; in fact there are 88 of them for the Blue Box.

What is American Express Management Policies?

100

The band played the first ever show at the new Las Vegas Sphere venue.

Who is U2?

100

Picture Clue: The name of this pictured fruit which is native to Mexico and Central America but is now grown all over the world.

What is dragon fruit?

100

The full name for the acronym API, which describes how computers and computer programs communicated.

What is Application Programming Interface?

200

The number of eyes that bees have.

What is 5?

200

The full name of the new working model Abby shared is being rolled out across Amex that centers around identifying 3-in-a-box leaders to jointly own customer outcomes, business results, and drive rapid decision making.

What is Value Co-Creation?

200

The artist that won a 2024 Grammy for Song of the Year for their hit "What was I made for" from the Barbie movie soundtrack.

Who is Billie Eilish?

200

The most commonly stolen food in the world.

What is cheese?

200

This global payments company launched new Smart Subscriptions offering that enables consumers to cancel, pause and resume subscriptions from a single hub.

What is MasterCard?

300

The name for a group of butterflies.

What is a kaleidoscope.

(I will also accept a swarm or flutter).

300

This is the name of the Enterprise Storage Platform that stores communication templates, which happens to share the name of the mythical creature that is half lion/half eagle.

What is Griffin?

300

The name for the speed at which a passage of music should be played (ranging from slow "Largo" to fastest "Allegro", "Presto".

What is Tempo?

300

The current Guinness World Record Holder for the World’s Spiciest Pepper is a pepper called Pepper X, grown by South Carolina grower Ed Currie.  This is the name of the chemical compound found in peppers that makes them spicy.

What is capsaicin?

300

This company recently pivoted their previous focus on electric cars to AI robots.

What is Apple?

400

It is estimated that up to 1 trillion of these insects will emerge from underground in the US this May as a result of a rare periodical species pattern to be seen this Spring.

What are cicadas?  or What is a cicada?

400

The name of the first female Vice President of American Express.

Who is Susan Couch?

(In 1975)

400

The name of this pictured musical instrument invented in 1761, which uses a series of glass bowls graduated in size to make musical tones using friction.  (Earn 1.5 points if you can also name who invented it :))

What is a glass armonica (or harmonica).  

Who is Ben Franklin.

400

This country is the world's largest exporter of coffee.

What is Brazil?

400

American Express was just named #4 on Fortunes 100 Top Companies to Work For List in 2024.  Name one of the other 4 companies in the top 5 spots.

What is either: 

#1 Hilton

#2 Cisco

#3 Nvidia

#5 Synchrony

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