Microsoft
East Side
Seattle
New Campus
Misc
100
What is the name of a discontinued brand which included a line of portable media players and a music subscription service that started in 2006?
Zune
100
Which city is termed after the French words for "Beautiful view"?
Bellevue
100
This landmark, located between Ballard and Magnolia, helps move boats (and fish) between the Puget Sound and Lakes Union and Washington.
Ballard Locks
100
This recently opened structure is part of a partnership between Microsoft and local government to improve pedestrian and bike connectivity on campus.
520 Pedestrian Bridge
100
The ES' slogan.
ES is listening.
200
As of June 30th, 2024, what is the total number of Microsoft employees across the company?
- 188,000
- 208,000
- 228,000
- 258,000
228,000
200
There is a lot support and love for biking on the Eastside (and westside), which has earned a certain community the designation "Bicycle Capitol of the Northwest". Which town holds this nickname?
Redmond
200
This multi-use rail trail connects many neighborhoods in Seattle, going as far east as Bothell.
Burke-Gilman
200
This untraditional clean energy source helps power new campus.
Geothermal
200
Our org is now called Azure Edge + Platform (AEP). What was the previous name, whose acronym matches the name of a trigonometric function?
COSINE
300
What was the campaign slogan used in the Windows 95 launch starting in 1994?
- "Your potential. Our passion"
- "Where do you want to go today?"
- "Be what's next"
- "Empowering every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more"
"Where do you want to go today?"
300
Lake Sammamish is a freshwater lake east of Lake Washington stretching from Bothell to Marymoore park on its north end. How big is Lake Sammamish compared to Lake Washington?
- ¼ size
- ½ size
- 1/8 size
- 1/3 size
1/4 size
300
This short transit line was built as part of the 1962 World's Fair.
Seattle Center Monorail
300
Two artists Presten Singletary and David Franklin collaborated to create a series of 3 totems that serve as wayfinding beacons across the new campus. What animal is featured on these totems?
Raven
300
Windows was first released in 1985 as a graphical operating system shell for this OS.
MS-DOS
400
An older Microsoft logo used from 1982-1987 was a stylized "O" reminiscent of the hole of a floppy disk. What is a more popular name of this logo based on an employee campaign to save the logo from being retired?
Blibbet
400
Marymoor Park is home to Washington state's only Velodrome. What sport is this 400 meter track dedicated to?
(Track) cycling
400
This being from Nordic folklore is depicted in several types of media across the city.
Troll
400
New campus has an underground logistics tunnel system (allegedly) that is almost this long:
- 1/4 mile
- 1 mile
- 2 miles
- 4 miles
1 mile
400
Originally made for the office and server markets, Windows NT was made available to the average consumer with the release of this Windows version in the early 2000s.
Windows XP
500
Microsoft has been working on Windows for a long time, but its longest running software product is actually ___.
Microsoft Flight Simulator
500
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!!
Portal
500
Containing 388 steps, this staircase passes under i5 and is the longest in the city.
Howe Street Stairs
500
This pond, predating new campus' new construction, is home to 25+ year old Koi and is undergoing modernization efforts to improve the habitat for these animals.
Lake Bill
500
Roughly how many Gigs does OS repo contain?
> 300