Protolabs
Manufacturing
Minnesota
Software Quality
Miscellaneous
100
It was Protolabs first service line
What is Injection Molding?
100
This country has the highest manufacturing output in the world.
What is China?
100
This is the Minnesota state bird
What is the Common Loon?
100
When a new feature or code change is introduced, this process involves re-running tests to ensure that the change hasn't broken any existing functionality.
What is "Regression Testing"?
100
What is "Rhiannon"?
200
It is the year Protolabs was founded
What is 1999?
200
This region is centered in the Great Lakes and Mid Atlantic regions of the United States and formed the industrial heartland of the US between the late 19th century and late 20th century.
What is the "Rust Belt"?
(Steel Belt or Factory belt also accepted)
200
This is Minnesota's third largest city
What is Rochester?
200
This was the first widely used high-level programming language; developed by IBM in 1957 for complex mathematical calculations.
What is "FORTRAN"?
200
This is the most visited country in the world (by tourists).
What is France?
300
He is the founder of Protolabs
Who is Larry Lukis?
300
This company popularized "mass production" in the late 1910's and 1920's.
What is the Ford Motor Company?
300
This exceedingly famous singer-songwriter was born in Duluth and grew up in Hibbing.
Who is Bob Dylan?
300
When testing beyond the normal operational capacity to see how the system behaves under extreme conditions.
What is "stress testing"?
(Load testing also accepted)
300
The name for the tiny metal or plastic tube at the end of a shoelace is this.
What is an "aglet"?
400
This was Protolabs first acquisition
What is FineLine Prototyping Inc.?
400
This is a method of manufacturing goods aimed primarily at reducing times within the production system as well as response times from suppliers and customers.
What is Lean Manufacturing?
(Just-in-time also accepted)
400
This is the highest natural point in Minnesota
What is Eagle mountain?
400
This git command rewrites history by applying commits from one branch on top of another, resulting in a linear and cleaner commit history.
What is "git rebase"?
400
The city of Pompeii was destroyed in 79 CE due to the eruption of this volcano.
What is "Mount Vesuvius"?
500
This was the year the Maple Plain headquarters finished construction
What happened in 2016?
500
Developed by American engineer Bill Smith while working at Motorola in 1986, this is a set of techniques and tools for process improvement that derives it's name from a reference to the fraction of a normal curve that lies within six standard deviations of the mean, used to represent a defect rate.
What is "Six Sigma"?
(also accept Lean Six Sigma)
500
This is the number of fortune 500 companies headquarted in Minnesota
What is 17?
500
This principle states that preventing defects is more effective and less costly than detecting and fixing them after they have occurred.
What is "prevention over inspection"?
500
The chemical element with the symbol Pb is more commonly known as this.
What is "lead"?
(NOT Peanut Butter!)