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
What is the percentage of households with broadband Internet subscription?
88% +/- 3% MOE
What is another way to write inner join in SQL?
Join
In the standard hierarchy of census geographies, which level is directly above “block groups” and below “counties”?
Census Tracts
What does “FCC” stand for?
Federal Communications Commission
Who are the two co-leads of FTI Delta, officially launched in 2023?
Luke Schaeffer and Victor Font
What are the three primary colors in TV transmission?
Red, Green, Blue
What does “SQL” and “RDBMS” stand for?
Structured Query Language, Relational database management system
As of the latest Census figures, which state is losing population at the fastest rate?
New York
Name any 3 of the 5 main categories the FCC helps regulate.
Radio, television, wire, satellite, or cable
Name one, or both, of the co-founders of FTI.
Dan Luczak and Joseph Reynolds
Who invented the cell phone?
Martin Cooper
Name any 3 platforms which can be used to write python code.
Jupyter, Spyder, Visual Studio, PyDev, Atom, IDLE, PyCharm, R, etc
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
DAILY DOUBLE
How many commissioners direct the FCC and how are they chosen?
5. Appointed by the president and confirmed by the senate.
How many people are on the Board of Directors at FTI?
9
What does the WWW stand for and when was it invented?
World Wide Web, 1989
Creating a Pivot Table in Excel is essentially equivalent to calling which command in Python, R, and SQL?
Group By
What is the average travel time to work in minutes?
26.7 minutes (will accept +/- 5 minutes)
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
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
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)
A nested “for” loop has a processing time proportional to which standard function?
Quadratic; Squared; O(n^2)
What is the ratio of men owned to women owned employer firms?
3:1
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.