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Before Zoom and Teams took over, Cisco's platform was THE go-to for video calls. Name it.
What is Webex?
Gen Z collectively lost it over this 2023 natural disaster season the hottest year ever recorded on Earth came from this recurring climate pattern.
What is El Niño?
Your phone screen, LED lights, and basically all modern tech run on this type of semiconductor material made from silicon.
What is a microchip (or integrated circuit)?
The iconic Olympic rings are this color, from left to right: Blue, Yellow, Black, Green, and...
What is Red?
Name the full form for the acronym "API" when software applications communicate with one another.
What is Application Programming Interface?
Cisco was founded the same year as the Apple Macintosh launched this year.
What is 1984?
The Amazon Rainforest, often called the "lungs of the Earth," spans mostly through this country.
What is Brazil?
When you microwave your lunch, electromagnetic radiation excites the molecules of this ubiquitous liquid.
What is water (H2O)?
Santa Clara hosted Super Bowl 60 in February 2026, where the Seattle Seahawks defeated the New England Patriots. Which Seahawks running back was named the MVP?
Who is Kenneth Walker III?
This term describes a startup company that has reached a private valuation of over 1 billion, a term coined by venture capitalist Aileen Lee.
What is a Unicorn?
Cisco's famous networking certification that engineers grind for often called the entry-level gold standard.
What is CCNA?
TikTok blew up with videos of tourists visiting this country, home to the Northern Lights AND geothermal hot springs.
What is Iceland?
In 1928, Alexander Fleming noticed mold had killed his bacteria cultures, accidentally discovering this life-saving medication.
What is penicillin?
This hit docuseries on Netflix brought international attention to Formula 1 racing, turning drivers into household names in the U.S.
What is Drive to Survive?
Before streaming, people rented physical discs from this company which ironically turned down a chance to buy Netflix for $50M.
What is Blockbuster?
Cisco's security division is one of the largest in the world. This 3-letter acronym describes the threat management system that monitors your network 24/7.
What is SOC (Security Operations Center)?
You'd need to dig through this many miles to reach Earth's center from the surface roughly the distance from LA to New York.
What is ~3,958 (4k) miles?
Black holes have a point of no return where not even light escapes. Name it.
What is the event horizon?
A legendary group of US superstars including LeBron, Steph, and KD teamed up in the 2024 Summer Olympics, reviving a moniker first used in 1992.
What is the Dream Team?
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What is the Redeem Team?
In 2010, the U.S. Air Force built a supercomputer called "Condor Cluster" by networking over 1,760 of these specific video game consoles together.
What is the PlayStation 3?
Name the Senior Vice President of Network Product Engineering at Cisco.
Who is Vinod Peris?
Scientists use this term for the mass extinction event currently underway, driven by human activity we're in the sixth one.
What is the Holocene (or sixth mass extinction)?
This is the speed of light in miles per second - a number so wild it makes your brain hurt.
What is ~186,000 miles per second?
Formula 1 driver Charles Leclerc sent his home nation into a frenzy by finally winning this prestigious, notoriously difficult Grand Prix in 2024.
What is the Monaco Grand Prix?
This mathematical law, coined in 1965, surmised that the number of transistors on a microchip would double roughly every two years.
What is Moore's Law?