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Riveting inventions
'Back' to Back
'Up and up
Silicon Valley speak
Mixed bag
100

THISIS4D is whose car plate at Rubrik?

Mike T

100

This space saving multi-'fold' furniture was invented in SF

Murphy Bed

100

To flip your view or assertion on something

Backtrack

100

The most valued company of the year 2000 and our city has a special connection

Cisco is named after San Francisco

100

Colloquially referred to as "immigration delay disease", this condition reported first in a Bangladeshi family, causes problems in official documents due to the absence of something

Adermatoglyphia - missing fingerprints

200

What is our 52 week high/low ratio?

2.5x

200

This engineering marvel built to rival the Eiffel Tower was first presented at the Chicago World Fair of 1893

Ferris Wheel

200
An honest respectable member of any community

Upstanding

200

OpenAI, Bytedance, SpaceX, Anthropic, Databricks, Strips form a ~complete set as...

Hectocorns

200

Editor of skateboard magazine, Big Brother in the 1990s coined this portmanteau term that refers to the sort of relationships that develops between skaters who spend a great deal of time together

Bromance

300

Which was the first year we were named in a Gartner MQ?

2017

300

This every day stationery was invented out of a project that did the exact opposite of what was intended, marked as a failure for 10 years

Post-it

300

An ode to former times

Throwback

300

This daily SF phenomenon was named after a giant from the movie Big Fish - misunderstood and feared, but actually just lonely.

Karl The Fog

300

Radical inclusion, Gifting, Decommoditification, Radical self-reliance, Radical self-expression, Communal Effort, Civi Responsibility, Leave no trace, Participation and Immediacy. Where would you finda this charter?

Burning Man

400

How many patents has Rubrik filed / been granted?

274 / 156!

400
Kyoei Mutual Fire and Marine Insurance Co came up with this unique insurance policy in 1982. Often these policies also cover hitting someone with a ball etc. Japanese statisticians say there there are 10,000 such occurrences every year and insurers estimate chance at 1:10,700. What is this policy for?

Hole in one

400

When you wrap a 30 page deck in an exec sum, you...

Up level

400

Rubrik on rubrik is an example of this term that essentially means testing your own product before rolling it out 

Dogfooding

400

The name for a popular wireless technology was inspired by a 10th-century Viking king known for uniting its tribes?

Bluetooth

500

Before it was known as Rubrik, the company operated under this different name.

ScaleData

500

Founded by couple Maureen and Tony Wheeler in 1972 when they embarked on an overland trip through Europe and Asia to Australia following the route of Oxford and Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition. The company name of this travel staple originates from the misheard lyrics of this song written by Matthew Moore:
Once while traveling across the sky / This x y caught my eye

Lonely Planet

500

Whitney Houston to Chaka Khan; Sheryl Crow to Michael Jackson; John Legend to Kanye West

Backup singer
500

This is the first recorded attestation of this two word phrase "Dies with only pets near - Attended in death only by her canary and pet cats, the body of Miss Fallie Pearce, aged 60, was found in her tiny, humble home on Mason Street in San Francisco, lost in a X Y of lofty apartment houses"

Concrete Jungle

500

This penultimate award was born out of someone reading their own obituary due to a misreported death of their twin

Nobel Prize

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