Potpourri
Ocampo-sphere
Feeling emojional
Zop-eration
OOOOEEEE He built that!
The Simpsons and Plants
100
Which country does Forrest Gump travel to as part of the All-American Ping-Pong Team?
China
100
Saul's dog is named Shinobi - the Japanese word for which type of fighter?
Ninja
100
Has Zach or Saul added more custom slackmojis?
Zach!
Saul - 81
Zach- 572
100
Zach responded this to Carlos when Carlos shared predators to scorpions after this former RT engineer posted a picture of one in his house. Which engineer had the scorpion problem?
Mitch!
100
Recently, Zach completed a full diagram of our system architecture. Which of the following does not have an elasticache redis bucket in us-east-1a/b?
A. Amplify
B. Insights
C. Intel
D. MQ
B. Insights
100
What is the common name of the plant is shown in this picture:
Monstera (Monstera deliciosa)
200
Taylor Swift recently announced an upcoming album titled "The Life of a" what profession?
Hint: You may find them working in cities like Vegas!
Showgirl
200
In September 2019, Saul was paid by sony. What was the amount of his settlement?
A. $0.30
B. $3.02
C. $30.20
D. $302.00
B. $3.02
200
The first simpsons emoji added by Zach is :doh: 
- how many emojis did he add before adding a simpsons emoji?
A. 0 - this was his first
B. 8
C. 23
D. 38
D. 38
Among the emojis he added before this are...
:oyyster:
:oyster-headbang: 
:little-caesars:
:hotpocket:
:dancing-doge:
200
What was Zach's response when he saw an image of the dog that won the 2024 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show?
A. "That dog is hideous"
B. "We were thinking about getting another puppy..."
C. "Cleo is cuter than that dog."
D. "I have puppy pajamas."
A. That dog is hideous
...but he does have puppy pajamas!
200
In 2024, while with Ultra Chicken, Saul updated our password login screen to reflect new compliance-based password requirements. What are our requirements for a password?
A. At least 1 number, one uppercase letter, 1 special character
B. At least 10 characters, 1 uppercase letter, 1 lowercase letter, 1 number
C. At least 8 characters, 1 uppercase letter, 1 lowercase letter, 1 special character, 1 number
D. At least 10 characters, 1 uppercase letter, 1 lowercase letter, 1 special character, 1 number
C
200
This "forgotten fruit" that was once enjoyed by historical figures like George Washington - what is it
Paw Paw
300
This soon-to-be Kennedy Center honoree with an alliterative name "will survive. For as long as (she) knows how to love."
Hint: her most famous track, quoted above, also backs the greatest scene in any sports movie. ever.
Gloria Gaynor
300
In 2019 Saul found this cat - what did he temporarily name her until she could find a good home?
Darkie 
300
The third emoji added by Saul was of this frozen breakfast treat owned by Kellanova (formerly the Kellogg Company). Flavors include Protein Strawberry Delight, Thick & Fluffy Cinnamon Brown Sugar, Chocolatey Chip Banana, and Homestyle.
Eggos! :leggo: 
300
In September 2019 Nate made this post and Zach's presentation was named "Stacks as [this animal]." What animal was it- interestingly, Steven's presentation was titled "Competitors as [that same animal]."
Cattle 
300
In 2022, Saul helped the Teenage Searchbags change Local Search Rank from having 3 metrics (green, yellow, red) to two (green, red). What range of ranked slots previously were assigned yellow hexes?
4-10
300
What is the name of the school bus driver in The Simpsons?
Otto Mann
400
Steff Veren's husband shares this first name with a former Yankee, dancer/singer/actress Julianne's brother, and the male lead from the Julia Stiles classic "Save the Last Dance."
What is her husband's first name?
Derek!
Also please know that the guy from save the last dance now looks like this, which is crazy since I could have sworn it's only been a year since that movie premiered
400
In 2019 Saul and Andrew had this exchange after Andrew posted a trailer for which Disney film?
The Lion King (live action)
400
When Lyle announced his wife was expecting their child, Zach responded with this emoji. What would you type to get this emoji?
hint :verb-age-name:
:dancing-baby-finn:
400
In 2021 Zach posted that he was working on a logo for his hot sauce. What is the name of his hot sauce company?
Hint: the opposite of white + the type of hat worn by a distinguished gentleman + what old mcdonald had eeee-iiii-eeee-iiii-ooooo
400
Earlier this year, Zach offered to demo the work he and DevOps were doing with Linkerd, the the only service mesh written in [what language]?
Rust
400
In the episode "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?" where Homer's half-brother, Herb Powell, tasks him with designing a car for the average American. What did he call this car?
The Homer
500
What is the name of the type of chemical bond formed by the sharing of electrons between atoms?
Covalent bond
500
In a 2019 discussion on pulled pork crockpot receipes, Saul attested "[This ingredient] over everything." Which ingredient does Saul consider fundamental when making pulled pork in a crockpot?
Dr. Pepper
500
Saul recently came out of slackmoji retirement when he added :ibizafinalboss: 
on August 7th. Before that, his most recent emoji was added January 25th, 2024 when he added pico the penguin 
, a character from which video game?
Star Citizen
500
On October 11th, 2019, Zach posted the below after which bot posted "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that" 22 times in the #club-rtx-team channel that day.
jenkins_reporter
500
In 2023, Zach and DevOps released a number of new commands to enhance the efficiency of our developer toolset. What command would you use if you wanted more info about usage for each?
rt help command
500
This active component of chili peppers is what makes them spicy
Capsaicin