2000s Nostalgia
Founded in 2008, these silicone bands came in unique shapes and colors and were often worn as wristbands.
First animal to be cloned from an adult cell.
Who is Dolly the Sheep?
The northern section of this beach is famously clothing optional, though the frigid Northern California ocean temps could make this an embarrassing endeavor for even the most well endowed men.
What is Baker beach?
The second deepest lake in the USA, which is one of the greatest places in the world in the winter but becomes completely pointless in the fall/summer.
What is Lake Tahoe?
This shape related expression means to return to a topic of discussion at a later time.
What is to Circle Back?
A video game console, released in 2006, that came with remotes that featured motion-tracking controls.
What was the Wii?
This U.S. fast food chain is credited with introducing the first drive-through window to the masses.
What is In-N-Out Burger (Red’s Giant Hamburger also accepted due to debate)?
Band known to be leaders of the psychedelic movement, known for improvisational live shows originating in San Francisco
What is the Grateful Dead?
This Japanese auto manufacturer used to make aircraft pre-WW2, but in recent history is known for it’s rally racing success, boxer engines, symmetrical awd, and granola people who drive 10 under the speed limit in the left lane and refuse to get over.
What is Subaru?
This phrase usually refers to 5pm in the recipient’s time zone or 11:59pm at certain toxic work environments.
What is End of Day (EoD)?
After releasing the iPod and iPod nano, Apple released an even smaller version of the iPod that didn’t have a screen.
What is the iPod Shuffle?
The smallest country in the world by both area and population
What is Vatican City?
San Francisco's name prior to being called San Francisco.
What is Yerba Buena.
This punctuation mark is used before a conjunction in a list of three or more items. Its use is a matter of style rather than a strict grammatical rule, though it is often used to prevent ambiguity and separates civilized folk from barbarians.
What is the Oxford Comma (also will accept the serial comma)?
The first word in this acronym unlocks a door. The acronym is most often used by useless senior management as a quantifiable, high level metric to track progress.
What is a Key Performance Indicator (KPI)?
This sci-fi phenomenon finished up its second trilogy series during the decade.
What is Star Wars?
Mammal with the longest gestation period?
What is the African Elephant (22 months)?
Body of water one must cross to visit Strawberry Hill in Golden Gate Park
What is Stow Lake?
This punk band from Berkeley has won 5 Grammys and is the only band to win both the MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year and the Grammy for Record of the Year with the same song. It is also the authors opinion, that they have the greatest three-album run in punk-rock history.
Who is Green Day?
This corporate word means to send a quick message and also is a horribly annoying sound.
What is ping?
This animated film won the first ever Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2001.
What is Shrek?
The name of the central protagonist in J.D. Salinger’s classic book The Catcher in the Rye.
Who is Holden Caulfield?
Type of bird that descended from escaped house pets and are now 'natives' of Telegraph Hill.
What are parrots?
A 20th-century, post-war American real estate developer, inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright, known for developing distinctive residential subdivisions of mid-century modern style tract housing in CA. (Hint: Many of his homes still stand on Gold Mine Dr down the street).
Who is Joseph Eichler?
This word represents the concept that two or more forces, agents, or people’s efforts produces a greater effect than the sum of their individual efforts. Often misused by management consultants (McKinsey dorks) wearing branded vests, eating slop bowls.
What is Synergy?