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"Legos"
100
Our last ________ featured Bob Poole, an Emmy Award-winning cinematographer and a National Geographic wildlife conservationist.
What is Explorer Classroom?
100
The acronym "CMS" stands for this.
What is Content Management System?
100
"At 3:45 P.M. 66 years ago on September 9, 1947 Grace Murray Hopper recorded the first ___________ in her log book as she worked on the Harvard Mark II. The problem was traced to a moth stuck between a relay in the machine, which Hopper duly taped into the Mark II's log book with an explanation that would become an everlasting characterization of technical issues.
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What is a computer bug?
100
This ever-growing suite of reusable, highly designed elements are the building blocks for producing webpages efficiently and elegantly.
What is the component library?
200
Pathfinder, Voyager, Pioneer, and Scout represent named editions of this NGS vehicle for exploration and learning
What is Explorer Magazine?
200
This designed, interactive “shell” is used to test how a site may perform before development resources are committed to the project.
What is a prototype?
200
This Digital Team member is JJ Abrams' Doppleganger
Who is Andrew Rasner?
200
Name this component:
What is the Media Wall?
300
Paul Salopek is currently hunting for sheep trophies and lost luggage in ______.
Where is Kyrgyzstan?
300
UXers use _______ to embody real-world examples of our end users and build experiences based on our users’ needs, not what we think they want.
What are personas?
300
This Project recently won a MIN Award for best redesign
What is Out of Eden Walk?
300
True or False - every .Org webpage has to include the page title component.
What is False?
400
This Education site content type is currently featuring Fredrick Law Olmsted, well-known for designing Central Park, born April 26, 1822.
What is This Day in National Geographic History?
400
The science of organizing information in order to help people understand their digital environment and how to find what they’re looking for is known as this.
What is information architecture (IA)?
400
This Digital Team member's previous team included the Hulk, Thor, Iron Man, and Spider-Man.
Who is Ellen Butters?
400
During the last digital demo, teams created their own pages using various webpage elements. The faux-page that won the popular vote was entitled ______.
What is "Why you should not have a pet rhino?"
500
This featured species is considered critically endangered by the IUCN. However it is still commonly eaten and is exported to food markets in neighbouring China. One recent expedition in Burma searched for the species in its habitat for 400 hours with specially trained dogs and five volunteers, and only found five.
What is the Burmese Star Tortoise?
500
Society’s CMS platform shares its name with this Quinton Terrantino movie character
What is Django?
500
This popular 1970's comedy group inspired the name of the programming language that is used for our website.
What is Monty Python?
500
There are currently this many components available in the library.
What is twenty-five?