Peculiar Culture Pt. II
Origin Story
Brand recognition 101
We're programmed to achieve
Pop Culture
200

Your manager's manager is otherwise known as this.

What is skip-level (manager)?

200

Amazon bought this upscale supermarket chain in 2017.

What is Whole Foods (Market)?

200

'I'm loving it' is the slogan for this fast food restaurant, the world's largest restaurant chain by revenue.

What is McDonald's?

200

This queue is a load-balancing tool for tenured CCMs and an onboarding tool for new hire CCMs.

What is Big Sky (queue)?
200

This TV show recently announced it would be ending after 20 totally unscripted seasons

What is Keeping Up with the Kardashians?

400

Want to acknowledge your peers, congratulate them on milestones, or thank them for their hard work? Send them one of these!

What is an Accolade?

400

In 2009, Amazon bought this online shoe retailer in an all-stock deal worth nearly $900 million.

What is Zappos?

400

In their slogan, M&Ms claimed that their product does this and doesn't do that.

What is 'melts in your mouth, not in your hand?'

400

This program launches the Ads business in new markets (its acronym is also the Roman Numeral #9).

What is International Expansion?

400

This Scientology practicing actor has never won an Oscar despite being nominated 3 times.

Who is Tom Cruise?

600

This Australian-inspired term is used for an employee who left Amazon and later returned.

What is boomerang?

600

It was this year when Amazon first started selling books online.

What is 1994?

600

This Procter & Gamble grocery brand created the memorable 'Once you pop, you can't stop' slogan.

What is Pringles?

600

Due to the increase in streaming activity and poor ad diversity across our supply, the CCS org has launched this initiative to provide viewing customers with more advertising selection while also driving incremental ad revenue.

What is (OTT) Go Big, Go Fast?

600

This celebrity has made more money from her baby product company than she ever did from her acting career.

Who is Jessica Alba?

800

It's this goal in Amazon's mission statement that makes us so obsessed.

What is: (We seek to be) Earth’s most customer-centric company.

800

In 2002, Amazon started this currently booming business, which provided data on website popularity, Internet traffic patterns and other statistics for marketers and developers.

What is Amazon Web Services (AWS)?

800

This utterly pervasive ad campaign launched in 1993, inspiring a series of mustache portraits.

What is Got Milk?

800

This Sr Program Manager took over the Creative Effectiveness Program when Michaela Schulz went on maternity leave.

Who is Jamie Russo?

800

This is the highest grossing film of Will Smith's career

What is Aladdin?

1000

It's Amazon's version of Reddit - a site that crowdsources answers for FAQ.

What is Merlin?

1000

In 1997, Amazon goes public, opening at this dollar amount per share for a valuation of $300 million.

What is $18?

1000

A red button generates this slogan response for all your office supply needs.

What is 'that was easy'?

1000

The goal of this program is to remove the distinction between the managed service entity type and the self service entity type within the Amazon DSP. 

What is OneDSP?

1000

This action movie actor's real name is Mark Sinclair

Who is Vin Diesel?