Amazonian Histories
This is the city Amazon is headquartered in.
What is Seattle?
This online pharmacy startup, founded in 2013, revolutionized medication management by pre-sorting pills into individual dose packets marked with date and time.
What is Pillpack?
This 1972 film features Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone delivering the iconic line "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse."
What is "The Godfather"?
This Hindu festival of lights typically falls in October or November and celebrates the triumph of light over darkness.
What is Diwali?
This British rock band's 1975 song "Bohemian Rhapsody" was notable for its operatic structure and lack of a traditional chorus, spending nine weeks at #1 in the UK.
Who is Queen?
Amazon's first foray into developing its own hardware in order to control customers' entire reading experience.
What is Kindle?
This retail giant entered the pharmacy business in 1988, disrupting traditional pharmacy pricing.
What is Walmart?
This mischievous boy of a character, living along the Mississippi River, tricks his friends into whitewashing a fence and witnesses a murder in a graveyard.
Who is Tom Sawyer?
This New Year celebration, also known as Spring Festival, involves 15 days of festivities ending with the Lantern Festival, where families reunite for dumplings and children receive red envelopes with money.
What is Lunar New Year?
This artist's signature backward-gliding dance move and single sequined glove became iconic symbols as their 1982 album became the best-selling album of all time, featuring hits like "Billie Jean" and "Beat It."
Who is Michael Jackson?
Amazon's original headquarters was located in this type of building.
What is a converted garage?
This nonprofit standards development organization develops and maintains the electronic data interchange standards that enable communication between healthcare entities for prescription processing.
What is NCPDP/National Council for Prescription Drug Programs?
This British author's seven-book fantasy series was adapted into eight films, with the final book split into two movies released in 2010 and 2011.
Who is J. K. Rowling?
This celebration from December 16 to 24 reenacts Mary and Joseph's search for lodging in Bethlehem through nightly processions ending with piñatas and ponche.
What is Las Posadas?
This 1969 music festival in upstate New York featured performances by Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and The Who, becoming a symbol of the counterculture movement.
What is Woodstock?
The first AWS service to ever launch.
What is SQS?
This pharmacy chain, founded in 1901 in Chicago, became the first to introduce the modern drugstore concept with a soda fountain.
What is Walgreens?
This 1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald novel has been adapted into films four times, most recently in 2013 starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
Who is the Great Gatsby?
This seven-day celebration from December 26 to January 1 was created in 1966 and focuses on seven principles including unity, self-determination, and creativity.
What is Kwanzaa?
This Seattle-based grunge band's 1991 album "Nevermind" brought alternative rock to mainstream audiences with the hit single "Smells Like Teen Spirit."
Who is Nirvana?
Amazon's most well-known first acquisition was this movie repository website.
What is IMDb?
This health information network, founded in 2001, operates the largest e-prescribing network in the United States, connecting doctors, pharmacies, and health plans to enable secure transmission of prescriptions and clinical information.
What is SureScripts?
This actor was so broke while writing their blockbuster screenplay that they sold their beloved bullmastiff Butkus for $40, then bought the dog back for $14,000 after the movie was greenlit.
Who is Sylvester Stallone?
These 13 mischievous troll brothers from Icelandic folklore visit children one by one in the 13 nights leading up to Christmas, leaving gifts for good children and rotten potatoes for naughty ones.
Who are the Yule Lads?
This Detroit record label, founded by Berry Gordy Jr. in 1959, launched the careers of The Supremes, The Temptations, and Stevie Wonder.
What is Motown?