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100

This is the largest city in North America

What is Mexico City?

100

This infectious disease is the only one that has been eradicated

What is smallpox?

100

Before computers this popular technique used transparent layers on light tables to identify areas of overlap

What is sieve mapping?

100

Often pronounced “gooey”, GUI is short for what well-known three-word tech term?

What is Graphical User Interface?

100

This GRASPer's cat's name is indicative of his (terror) behavior and dog named after Red Sox player, Dustin Pedroia 

Who is Elizabeth Pembleton / Who are Max (full name Maximus Wreximus) & Dusty

200

This US state has the lowest population

What is Wyoming?

200

What was the name of the respiratory machine used to treat polio patients in the 1900s?

What is the Iron Lung

200

This US bureau was an early adopter of some of the core principles of GIS 

What is the US Census Bureau

200

This delicious computer term did web browser programmer Lou Montulli coin to refer to information that is sent from the browser to the web server. 

What is a cookie?

200

This GRASPer's dog is known for her ears

Who is Shannon Graham / Who is Cinder

300

These two states are the top corn-producing states?

Illinois and Iowa 

300

Hand sanitizer should have what percentage of alcohol to be effective against COVID-19?

What is 60%? 

300

What year did GIS Day originate?

What is 1999? 

300

This term is used for the most basic level or core of an operating system, responsible for resource allocation, file management and security? In a different context, this word can also mean the seed and hard husk of a cereal. 

What is a kernel?

300

This GRASPer's dog favorite toys are all unicorns. 

She’s got a favorite stuff unicorn, a favorite rubbery unicorn, and a favorite unicorn that squeaks. For some reason, she just seems to really like unicorns.

Who is Ben McKenzie / Who is Zelda

400

This country has the longest coastline in the world

What is Canada?

400

This disease comes from the tropical rain forests in the northern and western parts of Africa and is commonly mistaken for measles or chickenpox.

What is Monkeypox?

400

Landsat 9, the newest satellite from NASA and USGS, was launched in what year? 

What is 2021? 

400

While working at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center during the 1970s, computer scientist Larry Tesler coined these three common computer commands first used to edit documents on a word processor he co-created called Gypsy

What is cut, copy, paste?

400

This GRASPer's dog is nicknamed, "The Prince of Derpness" and is fostering a Doberman too 

Who is Melissa Smith / Who are Wagner & Fritz

500

D.C. is considered a "planned city" which makes some sense considering the avenues radiating out from rectangles that make up the core of the city. The architect and city planner was commissioned in 1791 by President Washington and was a man from what country?

What is France?

500

Give an example of a social determinant of health

What is Economic Stability, Healthcare access + quality, Community/Social context, Neighborhood/Environment; (More specific): employment, income, expenses, debt, medical bills, housing, transportation, safety, parks, playgrounds, literacy, language, child education, higher education, hunger, food, support systems, community engagement, anything relating to the broader topics listed first. 

500

Map projections always distort something, thus choosing the correct one for your use case is important. These are the four types of distortions

What is area, shape, distance, and direction? 

500

In 2005, Linus Torvalds created software for tracking changes on files in order to improve development of the Linux kernel. What is the three-letter name of this uber-popular software among developers?

What is Git?

500

This GRASPer's pet's names both start with the letter, "G". A leopard gecko named after a famous painter and an Australian Shepard/Pitbull mix who prefers to cuddle his bed instead of sleep on it

Who is Adonica Scott / Who are Ghost & Goya