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100

(Nov 22) Which team member's blog would be titled: "Reading the green"? 

Who is Vik?

100

(Sept 22) Leon doesn't remember all the albums he bought in his youth, but from what he remembers, the first album was from this band with songwriter Michael Kenji Shinoda and lead vocalist Chester Bennington.

Who is Linkin Park?

100

(June 22) If you need someone to walk into a doorway at an unreasonably high clip, this person is your go-to.

Who is Josh?

100

(Nov 22) This movie is often the subject of our question of the day's, as it is Keyu's favorite, and Leon thinks it's a kids movie that is good for adults.

What is Zootopia?

100

(Dec 22) A lot of our team loves devices from this Singaporean-based multinational technology company located at the St James Power Station, across the island of Sentosa that terminated it's electric vehicle program in 2019 citing a lack of "commercial viability".

What is Dyson?

200

(Feb 22) This team member answered the question "what is a good piece of advice you've gotten" with "I don't listen to advice"

Who is Carol?

200

(July 22) This person was the only team member who did not select Christmas or Thanksgiving as their favorite holiday.

Who is Peter?

200

(Aug 22) This person's friends have assigned him the unfortunate super power of being able to "drive long distances".

Who is Sandeep?

200

(Nov 22) This person famously "never remembers the plots" of movies.

Who is Alpha?

200

This cloud gaming service developed was known in development as Project Stream, the service debuted through a closed beta in October 2018, and publicly launched in November 2019 is on Alpha's phone but he rarely ever uses it.

What is Google Stadia?

300

In another life, Keyu's profession may put her close to this athlete, referred to in his youth as "Kid Dynamite", and later "The Baddest Man on the Planet", who famously remarked, "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth."

Who is Mike Tyson?

300

(June 22) This deli-staple cheese is Sandeep's favorite, and was invented by Mexican Franciscan friars. Ojas will get it on his egg sandwiches with 3 eggs, avocado and jalapenos.

What is pepper jack? (Monterey jack works too as pepper jack is a derivative).

300

(Nov 22) Peter's college roommate stories are sometimes too good to be true, but nothing sticks out like his roommate who didn't go to class as he said he was this general name for criminals who plunder at sea.

What is a pirate?

300

(June 22) Ojas has never seen the Addams family, and when asked to pick a monster, chose this best friend and coworker of James P. Sullivan in one of Disney Pixar's seminal early 2000s films.

Who is Mike Wizowski?

300

(Nov 22) Black Friday is a big day for our company, but you wouldn't notice from this team member, who didn't buy anything - as they are an impulse buyer.

Who is Blake?

400
(Nov 22) This person isn't big on reddit, but is a big hackernews reader.

Who is Alpha?


400

(Nov 22) This center of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of that era, is considered by many academics to have been the birthplace of the Renaissance, and is which team member's favorite city? (Two part/city & person)

What is Florence? And who is Josh?

400

(Nov 22) Keyu loves all her trips but the most recent one is always her favorite. This country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the West Indies in the Atlantic, takes up 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area and is home to 88% of the archipelago's population. 

What is the Bahamas?

400

(Dec 22) A medicinal liquor made by monks and alchemists across Europe, particularly in southern Italy, Flanders and the Netherlands, to provide aqua vita from distillates of grapes and grains, became widespread after the 1688 Glorious Revolution led by William of Orange and subsequent import restrictions on French brandy and informs Josh's snobbery about this cocktail.

What is a martini?

400

(Dec 22) Sandeep has a lot of go-to gadgets, but he recently answered that he loves this device, based on a patented process in 1707 by ironmaster Abraham Darby and one of his workers James Thomas derived from the casting of brass pots. 

What is a Dutch oven?

500

(Nov 22) What is Blake's blog-topic of choice?

Auto Repair

500

(Oct 22) The 19th-century Chain Bridge connects the hilly Buda district with flat Pest, and Trinity Square is home to 13th-century Matthias Church and the turrets of the Fishermen’s Bastion, which offer sweeping views of this European city, which Carol believes is one of the most beautiful cities she's visited.

What is Budapest?

500

A statically typed, compiled programming language with memory safety, garbage collection, and structural typing, was created primarily as the designers shared a passionate distaste for C++ and was what Vik had to write in his worst job ever.

What is Go?

500

(Nov 22) This 1993 film used tons of fake snow, casting Brian Doyle-Murray as the mayor, and offered the main role to actors Tom Hanks and Michael Keaton before settling Brian's younger brother Bill as a narcissistic weatherman - a film that Blake would never get tired of.

What is Groundhog Day?

500

This species is one of the best represented theropods, lived throughout what is now western North America until the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event; the inflatable representation of the species was part of Leon's favorite halloween costume.

What is Tyrannosaurus Rex?