Boston Brainteasers
Coding Code-ables
City Hall Cartography
Team Trivia
100

This Boston Museum was the subject of a famous and still-unsolved art heist in 1990

What is the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum?

100

Used to display data on a map, these are one of the most commonly-used parts of Arc-GIS

What is a feature layer?

100

Facing the Boston Public Market, this entrance to City Hall is formally known as the _______ Entrance

What is the Hanover St. Entrance?

100

As the team has matured, use of this prefix has dropped out of fashion

What is "Citywide"?
200

This famous silversmith lived on North Square in the North End

Who was Paul Revere?

200

In SQL, WHERE is to SELECT as HAVING is to _____?

What is GROUP BY?

200

Part of a design quirk, these floors can only be accessed via one bank of elevators

What are the 4th and 5th floors?

200

Socially distancing before it was cool, this team member has the fewest neighbors

Who is Courtney?

300

Killed outside the Old State House, he later became an icon of the anti-slavery movement

Who is Crispus Attucks?

300

Used to create dashboards in R, this package has been the bane of Albert's existence

What is R-Shiny?

300

This Department occupies the 7th Floor office at the furthest point from 703

What is Public Works?

300

This individual is the 4th-longest serving member of the Analytics Team

Who is Maria?

400

43 miles in length and still unfinished, this linear park lets residents enjoy one of Boston's biggest assets

What is the Harborwalk?

400

This term, used a lot by engineering, is a fancy way of saying "Grab my changes"

What is a Pull Request?

400

This department is the only department whose offices are on the East side of the Mezzanine

What is the Assessing Department?

400

After Massachusetts, the greatest number of Analytics Team members hail from this state

What is Florida?

500

Built in 1661, it is the oldest surviving house in Boston

What is the James Blake House?

500

This database extension allows me to manipulate spatial data using SQL

What is PostGIS?

500

Socially isolating ahead of it's time, this floor of city hall has the fewest resident departments

What is the 9th floor?

500

These team members have each held 3 different positions within the team

Who are Sam & Stef