Azure
Pokemon
Football-specifcally 2010 onwards
Films within james lifetime
Random factosaurus
100

In Azure, this model allows you to provision, configure, and manage resources using templates written in JSON.


/other team can steal

Azure Resource Manager (ARM)

100

This Bug/Flying Pokémon is the final evolution of Weedle and learns the move Twineedle, which is strong against Psychic-types.

/x3 points

Beedrill

100

Under Pep Guardiola in the early 2010s, this player often played as a “false nine” despite being listed as a winger.

Lionel messi

100

This 2010 film directed by Tom Hooper won Best Picture at the Oscars and starred Colin Firth as King George VI.

The kings speech

100

This U.S. town shares its name with a bodily act and is located in Pennsylvania

Intercourse

200

This Azure service provides on-demand, event-driven code execution and automatically scales without managing infrastructure.

Azure functions

200

This Pokémon only evolves when traded, making it one of the few Gen 1 species that can't evolve through leveling up alone.

Machoke 

Will also accept graveler, kadabra and haunter

200

This midfielder was instrumental in Real Madrid’s Champions League three-peat and won the Ballon d’Or in 2018

Luke modric

200

Who is known for films like Inception and Interstellar, this director is celebrated for his use of practical effects and non-linear storytelling

Christopher Nolan

200

This British monarch reportedly traveled with a personal supply of blood — just in case.

Queen Elizabeth 2

300

This fully managed Azure service allows you to build, deploy, and operationalize machine learning models at scale.


/x2 points

Azure machine learning

300

Among the original 150, this Pokémon has the highest base Special stat (before Special was split into Sp. Atk and Sp. Def).


Other team can steal

Mewtwo

300

In 2019, Ajax’s breakout star Frenkie de Jong agreed to join this club despite interest from PSG and Man City

Barcelona

300

This 2016 coming-of-age film from director Barry Jenkins won Best Picture after a famous Oscars envelope mix-up


Other team gets points if wrong

Moonlight

300

In 2006, a man legally changed his name to "Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk And The Flash Combined." He worked in this very normal profession, what was it? 

Music teacher

400

This Azure service provides identity governance, conditional access policies, and single sign-on for applications.

Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)?

(Bonus points if they mention it's becoming part of Microsoft Entra)

400

This Gen 1 Pokémon is the only one that could learn Sky Attack via TM43 in Red/Blue.

Moltres

400

This national team knocked out Germany in the 2018 World Cup group stage and advanced to the Round of 16


/x2 points

Mexico

400

In Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), this screenwriter crafted a mind-bending story about memory and heartbreak

Charlie kaufman

400

Nicolas Cage once bought this type of haunted object, reportedly to ward off bad vibes — and possibly the IRS.

Haunted mansion

500

This service allows you to run containerized applications in a fully managed Kubernetes environment in Azure

[If wrong other team get your points]

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

500

In Pokémon Red/Blue, this Pokémon could only be obtained by using the in-game fossil restoration mechanic at Cinnabar Island’s lab.

Omanyte or Kabuto? (Bonus if they specify one depending on the fossil chosen — Helix = Omanyte, Dome = Kabuto

500

During Antonio Conte’s 2016–17 Premier League-winning season with Chelsea, this player was converted to a right wing-back in the 3–4–3 system

Victor moses

500

This South Korean film made history in 2020 by winning the Oscar for Best Picture, becoming the first non-English-language film to do so

Parasite

500

There’s a village in Norway where it’s illegal to do this... because the sun never rises there for months at a time.

die (as in, be buried — the ground is too frozen for graves)

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