Japan
NYT
BNI
Potpourri
100
The name of this popular Japanese dish
What is sushi?
100
Nikole Hannah-Jones, Wesley Morris and Clifford J. Levy all have won this distinguished honor.
What are Pulitzer Prizes?
100
The Yen and Dollar are standardized forms of what, often used to denote the value of a good or service
What is currency
100
This often 4-letter abbreviated protocol is the foundation for data communicated on the internet
What is Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)?
200
This traditional Japanese poem style uses the 5, 7, 5 pattern
What is a Haiku?
200
This Japanese company opened a store in the NYT building in May 2008 and is still there today
What is Muji?
200
VAT and GST are different types of this kind of revenue typically added to goods and services reported to the government.
What is tax revenue?
(VAT = Value Added Tax)
200
How many characters did Twitter originally restrict tweets to?
What is 140?
300
This dinosaur-inspired creature is recognized by Guinness World Records as the longest-running film franchise in history
What is Godzilla?
300
The Gray Lady shocked staffers in 1997 by making this change to it's printed publication?
What is color printing?
300
The two documents issued to collect payment from a customer. and proof of payment from a customer
What are invoices and receipts?
300
This is the only letter of the English Alphabet not to appear in any US-state name.
What is "Q?"
400
The volcano seen here is the highest mountain in Japan
What is Mount Fuji?
400
Will Shortz, the editor for the NYT crossword puzzle, is one of the only people to have this puzzling college degree
What is enigmatology?
400
This important accounting function is the only English word to contain three sets of double letters back-to-back-to-back
What is "Bookkeeping?"
400
This famous candy is also the Earth's galaxy
What is a Milky Way?
500
This movie featuring the unlikely friendship between a theater director and their driver won the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film in 2021
What is "Drive My Car?"
500
A term used to refer to a written mistake, the Times made this error on the issue number for more than 100 years
What is a typo?
(The NYT printed the wrong issue number between 1898 and 1999 because of a mathematical error).
500
The current BNI sprint naming convention
What are insects
500
This Western Asia country will host the FIFA World Cup in 2022
What is Qatar? (Or State of Qatar)