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What are the 2 companies that make up BNYM.

What is The Bank of New York and Mellon Financial?

100

What the animal depicted in the Firefox logo.

What is a Red Panda?

100

I'm the color blind CEO and founder of an app that was first used to connect college students in a social network.

Who is Mark Zuckerberg?

100

I'm what you create when you want to collate tables together to create a set of data attributes and only provide read access to.

What is a View?

100

Agile was formally launched in 2001 when 17 technologists drafted the.

What is the Agile Manifesto?

200

What is the name of Saket Sharma's predecessor.

Who is Suresh Kumar?

200

The first Apple Logo featured the famous gravity scholar.

Who is Sir Isaac Newton?

200

I kept my ownership in DOS which was the basis for IBM to enter the PC market in the 1980s.

Who is Bill Gates and Paul Allen?

200

I'm a precompiled set of Transact-SQT statements that can perform iterative conditional and set-based logic on the data in your DB.

What is a stored procedure?

200

I'm a short, time-boxed period when a scrum team works to complete a set amount of work .

What is a sprint?

300

I was the founder of The Bank of New York.

Who is Alexander Hamilton?

300

Google rents these to mow their lawns.

What is goats?

300

I'm the person that will colonize the moon with my electric cars.

Who is Elon Musk?

300

I'm used to collate data from one table with another with a where clause which brings together data from 2 tables that relate to each other.

What is a Join statement?

300

I'm a event timeboxed to a maximum of three hours for a one-month Sprint. For shorter Sprints, the event is usually shorter, which happens at the conclusion of a sprint.

What is a Retrospective?

400

I founded what would be named Mellon Financial.

Who is Thomas Mellon?

400

My name is the first commercial computer with a Graphical User Interface and a mouse.

What is The Apple Lisa?

400

I'm the Navy Rear Admiral woman who's contributions to early computer programming led to the development of COBOL.

Who is Grace Hopper?

400

I'm created on a table to increase the speed of searching and returning a data result.

What is a Index?

400

I'm a body of work that can be broken down into specific task (called User Stories) based on the needs of customers or end-users.

What is an Epic?

500

This was the year that The Bank of New York and Mellon Financial merged.

What is 2007?

500

My condition because I'm afraid of Technology.

What is Technophobia?

500

I'm the English mathematician woman who was referred to as the 'prophet of the computer age.    She’s best known for her work on Charles Babbage’s proposed mechanical general-purpose computer and is believed to be the first person who recognized that the computer can do things beyond calculations and created the first algorithm for it.

Who is Ada Lovelace?

500

I am the language used to create database objects used to store and manage data .

What is DDL or Data Definition Language?

500

I'm a framework that grow out of Agile to help expand and grow beyond a single team approach.

What is Scaled Agile?