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100

Centerpoint's headquarters tower in Downtown Houston sit at this specific street address.

What is 1111 Louisiana Street, Houston, TX, 77002?

100

In 1947, engineers working on the Harvard Mark II computer extracted an actual moth trapped inside Relay #70, popularizing this term for fixing software glitches.

What is "debugging" (or a bug)?

100

When Houston baseball fans visit Daikin Park, they cheer for this home team that brought home city World Series titles in 2017 and 2022.

Who are the Houston Astros?

100

Born and raised Houston's Third Ward, this global superstar released the genre-bending country project Cowboy Carter in 2024.

Who is Beyonce?
100

Rather than saying "I don't have time", busy professionals will claim they lack this telecommunications term describing data transfer limits.

What is bandwidth?

200

Centerpoint Energy trades on the New York Stock Exchange under this three-letter ticker symbol.

What is CNP?


200

This SQL Clause filters aggregate query results produced by a GROUP BY statement.

What is HAVING?

200

This massive shopping destination on Westheimer features over 400 stores, two hotels, and an indoor ice-skating rink beneath a glass atrium.

What is the Galleria?


200

This 2023 Warner Bros. summer blockbuster became the highest-grossing film of the year, sparking a viral double-feature craze called Barbenheimer.

What is Barbie?


200

You aren't just sending an email or dropping by someone's cube for a 30 second update; you are doing this physical baseball-related action.

What is touching base?

300
Unlike the rest of the lower 48 states that run on the Eastern or Western Interconnections, about 90% of Texas' electric load runs on this largely self-contained grid operator.

What is ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council of Texas)?

300

This popular ensemble machine learning algorithm constructs an array of decision trees at training time, outputting the mode or mean of individual trees to mitigate overfitting.

What is Random Forest?

300

Houston is the only major metropolitan city in the US that operates entirely without this municipal land use regulatory system.

What are zoning laws/ordinances?


300

On The Office, Jim Halpert repeatedly pranks his deskmate Dwight Schrute by encasing his stapler and office supplies in this dessert.

What is Jell-O?

300

When a team's project is over-engineered and impossible to deliver before the deadline, people will warn against doing this to a large body of water.

What is boiling the ocean?

400

Before the 2002 Texas electric market deregulation split generation, retail, and transmission, this Houston utility was called this.

What is Houston Lighting & Power (HL&P) ?

400

Named after an 18th-century English statistician and Presbyterian minister, this foundation theorem describes the probability of an event based on prior knowledge of related condition.

What is Bayes' Theorem?

400
This is the name of the Yellow tunnel area in the Houston Underground tunnel system that is where Centerpoint Energy is located on top of.

What are the S.Louisiana tunnels?

400

At the 2000 Grammy Awards, Jennifer Lopez wore an iconic green Versace gown whose unprecedented search volume directly led Google engineers to create this popular product.

What is Google Image Search?

400

Easy, quick-win projects that require almost zero budget or technical effort to demonstrate immediate value are referred to as this produce.

What is low-hanging fruit?
500

In 2019, Centerpoint Energy completed a major merger with this Indiana-based energy company, significantly expanding its Midwest footprint.

What is Vectren (Corporation)?

500

When evaluating a restoration time model, this regression metric penalizes large outlier estimation errors much more heavily than MAE because it squares the residuals first.

What is the Root Mean Squared Error?

500

Houston was founded in 1836 by these two New York real estate developer brothers who bought 6,642 acres along Buffalo Bayou.

Who are Augustus and John Allen?

500

In Netflix's record-breaking Korean survival drama Squid Game, 456-cash strapped players compete for this amount of prize money.

What is 45.6 billion won?

500

When a coworker asks a question explicitly answered in the email thread above, the corporate-sanctioned way to say "learn how to read above"- is this four-word opening.

What is "per my last email"?