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100

This South Carolina city was the HUB for some of the most famous pirates in the world.

What is Charleston

100

This animal is known to sunbathe on the banks the data center pond at MNK.

What is an alligator.

100

Google was founded in what year.

What is 1998

100
This was Google's first designed and built data center.

What is DLS.

100

Which building houses two antique cannons that are operational?

What is B1.

200

This pirate was known for lighting slow-burning fuses in his beard as a scare tactic.

Who is Blackbeard.

200

This bird flew into HV lines knocking out the site's power for ~10 seconds.

What is a blue heron.

200

In which Alphabet senior executive's garage was Google's first office located?

Who is Susan Wojcicki. 

200

GDC owns and operates this many data centers world wide?

What is 23.

200

Until recently this team was prohibited from using Golf Karts and similar vehicles because of an incident that left a Kawasaki Mule totaled.

What is the HwOps Team.

300

22 of this pirate's crew were hanged in Charleston in 1718.

Who is Stede Bonnet

300

This South Carolina Governor was in office when the data center held its grand opening.

Who is Governor Mark Sanford
300

Google's Technology Czar Urs Hölzle is known for only wearing socks that are this color.

What is red.

300

Before GDC designed and built its first YAWN sites, data storage was housed in this unconventional way.

What is in shipping containers.

300

This building was the back drop for Google's official 2017 April Fool's joke.

What is MNK 5B.

400

Blackbeard was also known to many under this name.

Who is Edward Teach.

400

The current member of our MNK team is the Googler that has been at MNK the longest and since the site first broke ground.

Who is Marvin.

400

Google's first official servers were constructed largely using this popular children's toy.

What are Legos.

400

The acronym "YAWN" is still used by GDC and stands for what? 

What is "Yet Another WillPower Name."
400

Other than the HUB, this building on the MNK campus is constructed without an elevator.

The MNK B3.

500

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South Carolina's most famous pirates include Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet and this infamous female pirate. 



Who is Anne Bonney

500

This external outreach project started at MNK was later used as a model for the company program called "Grow With Google."

What is Googlefest.

500

Known as the first "official" Google Dog and for whom the current dog policy was written, Yoshka was this dog breed.

What is Leonberger.

500

These data centers are listed in the book "In the Plex" by author Steven Levy?

LNR, MNK and DLS.

500

This is the number of posted speed limits on campus.

What is 4. 5, 10, 15 and 25mph.

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