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100

Name any 2 people on FTI’s Corporate Leadership Team.

Steve Gunby, Ajay Sabherwal, Matthew Pachman, Holly Paul, Curtis Lu, Paul Linton, Jeffrey Amling, Mollie Hawkes

100

What is the percentage of households with broadband Internet subscription?

88% +/- 3% MOE

100

What is another way to write inner join in SQL?

Join

100

In the standard hierarchy of census geographies, which level is directly above “block groups” and below “counties”?

Census Tracts

100

What does “FCC” stand for?

Federal Communications Commission

200

Who are the two co-leads of FTI Delta, officially launched in 2023?

Luke Schaeffer and Victor Font

200

What are the three primary colors in TV transmission?

Red, Green, Blue

200

What does “SQL” and “RDBMS” stand for?

Structured Query Language, Relational database management system

200

As of the latest Census figures, which state is losing population at the fastest rate?

New York

200

Name any 3 of the 5 main categories the FCC helps regulate.

Radio, television, wire, satellite, or cable

300

Name one, or both, of the co-founders of FTI.

Dan Luczak and Joseph Reynolds

300

Who invented the cell phone?

Martin Cooper

300

Name any 3 platforms which can be used to write python code.

Jupyter, Spyder, Visual Studio, PyDev, Atom, IDLE, PyCharm, R, etc

300

DAILY DOUBLE

One important function of the US Census is to reapportion representatives to the 50 states within the House of Representatives. How many voting members currently sit in the House?

435

300

DAILY DOUBLE

How many commissioners direct the FCC and how are they chosen?

5. Appointed by the president and confirmed by the senate.

400

How many people are on the Board of Directors at FTI?

9

400

What does the WWW stand for and when was it invented?

World Wide Web, 1989

400

Creating a Pivot Table in Excel is essentially equivalent to calling which command in Python, R, and SQL?

Group By

400

What is the average travel time to work in minutes?

26.7 minutes (will accept +/- 5 minutes)

400

In what year did Congress pass the Communications Act, which abolished the Federal Radio Commission and transferred jurisdiction over radio licensing to a new Federal Communications Commission?

1934

500

Which musician and songwriter did FTI Consulting’s trial team provide trial technology for a copyright defense matter in a recent high-profile case?

Ed Sheeran

500

Broadband cable operators provide customers with high-speed data (HSD) connections to the Internet via their HFC networks using what standard?

Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS)

500

A nested “for” loop has a processing time proportional to which standard function?

Quadratic; Squared; O(n^2)

500

What is the ratio of men owned to women owned employer firms?

3:1

500

Which Supreme Court case, argued in 2011, centered around the concept of “corporate personhood” with regards to personal privacy and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)?

FCC vs. AT&T Inc.

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