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This person had 12 cats at once growing up
Who is Jen?
The name of the main villian in "The Nightmare Before Christmas"
Who is Oogie Boogie?
This Medtronic AAA device was one of the first aortic endografts ever released. Note the outdated design features, most notably a semi-continuous nitinol frame...although the distal limbs are scalloped!
What is AneuRx?
This early logo concept failed to get a seal of approval from this team
Who are Navion LSA?
The French term for a wine waiter
What is sommelier?
This person lived in Japan for five years growing up
Who is Josh?
According to Buddy, these are an elf's four main food groups
What are Candy, Candy Canes, Candy Corn, and Syrup?!
This device, Medtronic's first AAA device with discrete nitinol rings, also had a connecting bar feature which was intended to provide columnar strength to the stent graft
What is Talent AAA?
This logo's team was also penned the "flying spaghetti monster" in some circles
Who are TAAA?
After you swirl the wine, look for the rivulets that slide down the inside of the glass; they're called tears or these, which usually mean the wine is full-bodied
What are legs?
This person fashioned a mullet (and tie for work) at one point in my life...and also a large 'James Hetfield' mustache to compliment the mullet...and wielded a six string axe to complete the picture (and played hard rock in a band)
Who is Mark?
DAILY DOUBLE
What are John McClane's undershirts?
A primary objective of this iteration project was to address higher than desired limb occlusion rates in the current system. It's marketing slogan was "We've taken a winning idea and given it new legs"
What is Endurant IIs
Pigs flew when this logo's team gained CE Mark approval in 2016
Who are EPGIE (or Endurant Parallel Graft Indication Expansion)?
At the Paris Wine Tasting of 1976, also known as the Judgment of Paris, California shocked the world by sweeping the competition. Chateau Montelena won the white group and this winery won the red group.
What is Stag's Leap Wine Cellars?
This person has been rescued by Search & Rescue
Who is Ben?
Celebrants speak their mind to the other celebrants in this Festivus ritual, as popularized by "Seinfeld"
What is The Airing of Grievances?
DAILY DOUBLE
What is Xcellerant?
This logo's defining feature conveyed this team's name, also reminiscent of the projects unique patient inclusion criteria
Who are Short Neck?
A district in Tuscany lent its name to this wine which comes in a straw-covered flask
What is Chianti?
This person played violin since they were 4 and performed semi-professionally in highschool
Who is Ray?
What Ralphie wants for Christmas in "A Christmas Story" (full descriptive name)
What is a Red Ryder Carbine Action, 200-shot, range model air rifle? (must get 7 of 9 words to be correct)
Medtronic Aortic got it's roots when it acquired this company, which itself had recently merged with World Medical
Who is Arterial Vascular Engineering Inc (or AVE)?
This logo belonged to this Aortic extracurricular event.
What is the Ragnar?
A magnum of wine equals 2 standard bottles of wine; yes but you can really have a party with the size named for this Babylonian king--by the way, it's the equivalent of 20 standard bottles
What is a Nebuchadnezzar?