Festive
Costa Rica & USA
IT & Technology
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100

This holiday beverage is often spiked and shares its name with a public resource that provides Orthologous Groups of Proteins.

What is egg-nog?

100

This phrase, meaning “pure life,” is commonly used in Costa Rica for hello, goodbye, and everything in between.

What is Pura Vida?

100

This acronym stands for the system that translates domain names into IP addresses.

What is DNS?

100

The Y2K bug was expected to cause global system failures

What is 2000?

100

This board game involves buying properties and ruining friendships.

What is Monopoly?

200

This December holiday is celebrated on December 26 in many countries, including the UK and Canada.

What is Boxing Day?

200

This U.S. state and Costa Rica share the same latitude range near the Tropics.

What is Hawaii?

200

This cloud computing model includes SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS.

What is cloud service models?

200

The first iPhone was released.

What is 2007?

200

This animal can sleep for up to 20 hours a day.

What is a cat?

300

In the song “12 Days of Christmas,” this many gifts are given in total.

What is 364?

300

Costa Rica abolished this in 1949, making it one of the world’s most stable democracies.

What is its military?

300

This programming language shares its name with a type of coffee.

What is Java?

300

Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched EC2.

What is 2006?

300

This everyday item was invented because someone was tired of pencils breaking.

What is the ballpoint pen?

400

This plant became a holiday tradition due to a Norse myth about resurrection and peace.

What is Mistletoe?

400

This U.S. tech hub city has a sister-city relationship with San José, Costa Rica.

What is San José, California?

400

This zero-trust security principle assumes no user or device should be trusted by default.

What is Never trust, always verify?

400

Microsoft officially ended support for Windows XP.

What is 2014?

400

This color does not exist in the visible light spectrum.

What is magenta?

500

This festive movie famously features the line, “I triple-dog dare you.”

What is A Christmas Story?

500

This U.S. state has the most active volcanoes.

What is Alaska?

500

This law regulates data privacy and applies to anyone processing data of EU residents.

What is GDPR?

500

ChatGPT was publicly released.

What is 2022?

500

This number is known as the only even prime

What is 2?