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This American athlete who excelled in track & field won four gold medals at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin
Who is Jesse Owens?
PG&E implements these types of temporary power cuts to protect the electricity grid when demand is extremely high
What are rolling blackouts?
This type of point often precedes each item in a list — it's not a weapon
What is a bullet point?
The Oracle at this Greek city was a priestess who spoke prophecies on behalf of the gods
What is Delphi?
Benjamin Franklin famously wrote "nothing is certain but death and ___", these mandatory contributions to the government
What are taxes?
Stanford University has an agreement with Microsoft to provide Excel and other Office applications, collectively called this — every day of the year
What is Microsoft 365?
In 1906 the smokestack of the Stanford Power House collapsed and killed staff member Otto Gerdes during this type of seismic event
What is an earthquake?
Like most colleges, the Stanford University grading system uses this metric to represent letter grades as a numerical equivalent
What is a grade point average?
Stanford University and other wealthy colleges will have endowment earnings taxed at this rate beginning 2026
What is 8 percent?
This Japanese bullet train whose name in English means "new trunk line" can travel up to 200 mph
What is Shinkansen?
Oroville Dam is the largest source of this type of renewable energy in California
What is hydroelectric?
Violations of the California Vehicle Code can result in points recorded on this document maintained by the Department of Motor Vehicles
What is a driving record?
Investment guru Warren Buffett has been nicknamed "the Oracle of" this Nebraska city where he was born
What is Omaha?
The name of this branch of economics is a combination of econo- with this other word from the Greek for "to measure"
What is econometrics?
This Microsoft Excel calculation option enables looping formulas to converge on a number — again & again & again...
What is iterative calculation?
The Stanford Central Energy Facility reduces the need for electricity from the grid by storing thermal energy in this liquid substance
What is water?
In what has been called the 'Greatest Upset Ever', in 2007 the underdog Stanford Cardinal beat this southern California football team by one point, 24-23
Who are the USC Trojans?
The Stanfords attended these types of meetings to try and communicate with their dead son, Leland Junior — perhaps he suggested building the university
What is a séance?
The speed of supersonic aircraft can be measured using this ratio of an object's velocity to the speed of sound
What is a Mach number?
Diablo Canyon Power Plant is the last remaining ___ power plant in California & may close in 2030
What is nuclear?
In Cartesian geometry, the origin point at which both the x-axis and y-axis meet has these coordinates
What are (0, 0)?
In "The Matrix" films, this main character is guided by the Oracle — at least when she's not busy baking cookies or smoking cigarettes
Who is Neo?
The accounting equation, Assets – Liabilities = Owner's Equity, can be expanded by including these two terms related to income and costs
What are revenues and expenses?