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100

In what year did ESRI release the first commercial GIS product, ARC / INFO?

What is 1981?

100

What does “Carte”, mean in French?

What is map?

100

Who was known as the father of GIS?

Who is Roger Tomlinson?

100

In what movie franchise, is the hero frequently found using maps to find ancient world artifacts, which he feels, "belong in a museum."?

What is Indiana Jones?

100

What license level do we have at JLL for ArcGIS Pro?

What is Basic?

200

Which US Bureau was an early adopter of some of the core principles of GIS?

What is the U.S. Census Bureau?

200

What does the shortcut "Ctrl + T" do?

What is open the attribute table?

200

In 1969, who founded the Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.?

Who is Jack Dangermond?

200

GIS was used to determine the direction destructive lava will flow in what film?

What is Volcano?

200

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What is Happy GIS Day!?

300

Before computers what popular technique used transparent layers on light tables to identify areas of overlap?

What is sieve mapping?

300

What are conic, cylindrical, and planar?

What are projections?

300

Who is the founder of OpenStreetMap, the project that started large-scale Open Source movement in the Geo industry?

Who is Steve Coast?

300

What film features a GIS Developer as a prominent character in a mocumentary about vampires?

What is What We Do in the Shadows?

300

What year did Blackbird receive its patent?

What is 2018?

400

What machine, introduced to resolve the processing of large quantities of information eventually became the modern database?

What is tabulating machine?

400

What does the ArcGIS Pro layout shortcut "ctrl + shift + L" do?

What is lock or unlock all items on the same hierarchical level in the Contents pane ?

400

Who was the owner of Keyhole, Inc. that was acquired by Google to create a foundation for their mapping efforts?

Who is Brian McClendon?

400

What movie features a duo studying maps on a road trip to sell auto parts to save his late father's auto parts-tycoon business?

What is Tommy Boy?

400

Where does Blackbird get it's name?

What is the military jet, Blackbird?

500

What university created the first research center for spatial analysis and visualization?

What is Harvard University?

500

What are Append, Buffer, Dissolve, Intersect, Union, and Clip?

What are the most commonly used geoprocessing tools?

500

What icon of environmental conservation and sustainability helps communities and governments in Africa to plan, monitor, and protect chimpanzee populations?

Who is Jane Goodall? 

500

What iconic rom-com from the late 90's film intro features a 3D map of Manhattan Island?

What is You've Got Mail?

500

Where does the term dashboard come from?

What is horse drawn carriage / a protective board that prevented the driver from being splashed with dirt "dashed-up" from the horses' hooves?

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