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200

In Qunicy, the first location of this donuts chain opened.

What is Dunkin'?

200

The Lechmere Viaduct carries the MBTA's "E" Green Line over this body of water, between Downtown Boston and Cambridge.

What is the Charles River?

200

Future Android flagship phones will be forced to have this feature, due to a Snapdragon chip that "achieves staggering multi-gigabit speeds".

What is 5G?

200

Insource did not start with all three practices, rather the first practice was this.

What is the Finance practice?

200

This Massachusetts Senator, who graduated from Boston University's School of Law, became the first African American popularly elected to the Senate. He is also the namesake for one of our clients!

Who is Edward W. Brooke?

400

After a major protest during the American Revolution, this act was considered unpatriotic, leading to coffee becoming the preferred drink in the US.

What is drinking tea?

400

In the summer of 1896, this location, just north of Boston, became the first public beach in the United States.

What is Revere Beach?

400

Yum! This dessert, filled with apples, cherries, and more, became the last code name for an Android OS named after a dessert.

What is pie?

400

This person, who once worked at an Indian Reservation in South Dakota, is the IT department's newest hire.

Who is TJ Lynch?

400

This client's missions is to empower teachers to take leadership over key policy issues that advance equity, opportunity, and student success.

What is Teach Plus?

600

This monument stands on Breed's Hill to commemorate this Revolutionary War battle.

What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?

600

This green attraction at the Boston Common stood 45 feet tall last year.

What is the Boston Christmas Tree?

600

With a physical write lock switch, this compact media comes in both capacities and classes.

What are SD cards?

600
Out of the current IT staff's first names, these two letters tie as the most frequent first letter.

J (James Lee, James Spellman, Jami, Jethro, and Jose).

M (Marcia, Marco, Matt Feetham, Matt Mone, and Michael)

600

The subtitle in this client's logo is "Food Heals". It's website contains recipes such as tomato soup, Brussels sprouts, and weeknight bean chili.

What is Community Servings?

800

!!! Daily Double !!!


In July of 2015, Boston withdrew it's bid to hold this summer event, which would have occurred nearly a decade later.

What is the 2024 Summer Olympics?

800

The Longwood Medical area hosts the Wentworth Institute of Technology, the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and this prestigious university's Medical School Campus.

What is Harvard?

800
This file system, implemented in Apple devices starting in 2017, replaced a file system that was in place since 1998.

What is the Apple File System (APFS)?

800

Before getting into IT, this employee's previous profession was a floral designer.

Who is Drew Clough?

800

This biotech client in Cambridge focuses on pre-clinical and clinical research.

What is the Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute?

1000

In 1975, this Amtrak route began service between Chicago's Union Station and Boston's South Station.

What is the Lake Shore Limited?

1000

John F. Kennedy was born in this Norfolk County town, isolated from the rest of the county by several Boston neighborhoods.

What is Brookline?

1000

Cloudflare maintains this DNS resolver address, one that is quite easy for people to remember!

What is 1.1.1.1?

1000

This number was Russell's age when he started Insource's IT practice.

What is 24?

1000

This client is, according to their website, the "leading authority on U.S inner city economies and the businesses that thrive there".

What is the Initiative For A Competitive Inner City (ICIC)?