USAA Trivia
India Trivia
Data Engineering
Mexico Trivia
World Geography
100

USAA was founded in what year?

1922

100

Raj Ghat is a memorial in Delhi, India composed in part of a black marble platform. To what man is this memorial dedicated?

Mahatma Gandhi

100

What does SQL stand for?

Structured Query Language

100

If you head directly south from San Diego, what border town resort will be the first city you hit in Mexico?

Tijuana

100

The smallest and shallowest of the world’s five oceans is this one.

Arctic Ocean

200

USAA was founded by a group of 25 officers in the United States ______________

Army

200

What best-selling 2001 novel begins with Piscine Patel, an adult Canadian, discussing his childhood in India and specifically focusing on his father's zoo in Pondicherry?

Life of Pi

200

What does the T stand for in OLTP.

Transactional

200

Found on its national flag as well as many other national symbols, what species of eagle is the official animal emblem of the country of Mexico?

Golden Eagle

200

Auckland, the chief port city of this country, was once its capital.

New Zealand

300

The USAA core values are …

Service, Loyalty, Honesty and Integrity

300

What northernmost region of India known by the Ancient Greeks as Kasperia eventually became an important center of Hinduism and Buddhism? The area is also the title of a Led Zeppelin song.

Kashmir

300

This is the process of organizing data into relational database tables in such a way that the results are always unambiguous and as intended.

Database Normalization

300

What is the longest river in Mexico?

Rio Grande

300

The city of Chiang Mai in this country is home to Baan Chang Elephant Park.

Thailand

400

USAA installed its first computer in what decade?

1950s (an IBM 650 computer which had max memory of 35 kilobytes, modern laptop with 16GB of memory has almost 500,000 times that.

400

Which language that starts with P is one of the main languages in India and Pakistan and has more than 113 million speakers?

Punjabi

400

NoSQL or non-relational databases are typically optimized for ____________

Queries or Speed 

400

What “T” resort town on Mexico’s Caribbean coast is home to a 13th century walled Mayan archaeological site?

Tulum

400

How many countries are there in the United Kingdom?

Four


500

The first vehicle insured by USAA was what type?

Elcar manufactured by the Elkhart Carriage Company

500

Which city in India is the capital of Rajasthan and is nicknamed “the Pink City” because of the hue of most of its architecture, as well as “the Paris of India” given its many tourist attractions?

Jaipur

500

Name 2 of the four Vs of Big Data

Volume

Variety

Velocity

Veracity

500

When it was formed by the Mexica around 1325, what was the original name of what is now Mexico City?

Tenochtitlan

500

This Argentine region’s name is Spanish for “big feet,” perhaps because Spaniards saw natives who wore large boots.

Patagonia