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100
Has a twin sister.
Who is Matt DiSipio?
100
A mythical creature that is the namesake of a Braze querying service
What is the Loch Ness monster? (or, What is Nessie?)
100
The state in which Braze was incorporated.
Where is Delaware?
100
This Danish author wrote the story "The Little Mermaid," a statue of which can be found in Copenhagen.
Who is Hans Christian Anderson?
100
The company that spearheaded the creation of the floppy disk.
What is IBM?
200
A famous M&A dog named after a Game of Thrones actor.
Who is Maisie Jo?
200
The number of offices Braze has.
What is 7?
200
This country, which contains the westernmost point in Europe, also boasts delicious Pastéis de Nata.
Where is Portugal?
200
The 23 year old poet who read her poem "The Hill We Climb" at the inauguration of Joe Biden on January 20, 2021, and is the youngest poet to read at a presidential inauguration in United States history.
Who is Amanda Gorman?
200
An autoregressive language model that uses deep learning to produce human-like text, this technology created by OpenAI has been hailed as the world's most powerful language model ever.
What is GPT-3?
300
Team member with the longest tenure.
Who is Marion Nammack?
300
The official date of Braze's founding.
When is July 11, 2011?
300
The last World's Fair on US soil took place in this city in 1984, and unfortunately proved to be financially ruinous for the organizers, which lead Congress to pass a law banning any federal funds from being spend on World’s Fairs in 1999.
Where is New Orleans?
300
In mathematics, the term for a certain kind of approximation of an integral by a finite sum.
What is a Riemann Sum?
300
The designer and implementor of the original Unix operating system
Who is Ken Thompson?
400
Functionality from the old grid that was not incorporated into the new grid.
What is the minimap?
400
Number of custom slack emojis Braze employees have collectively made, rounded to the nearest thousand.
What is 6000?
400
The iconic Bliss default background for Windows XP was taken in this county and state.
Where is Sonoma County, California?
400
President FDR gave a speech in which he coined the famous phrase, "a day which will live in infamy." The date this refers to.
When is December 7, 1941?
400
Two Ph.D. students developed the PageRank algorithm to build a search engine called BackRub in the 1990's. What were their names?
Who are Larry Page and Sergey Brin?
500
Number of tickets in our M&A and Core Messaging backlogs, including bugs, rounded to the nearest hundred.
What is 500?
500
When logging into an SDM console, this message often appears: "We can speak and think only of what exists. And what exists is uncreated and imperishable for it is whole and unchanging and complete." The Greek philosopher known for this quote.
Who is Parmenides?
500
Our last sprint was named after Viennoiseries -- their country of origin.
What is Austria?
500
A form of singing which involves repeated and rapid changes of pitch between the low-pitch chest register and the high-pitch head register or falsetto.
What is yodeling?
500
A very simple programming task, used in software developer job interviews, to determine whether the job candidate can actually write code. It goes like this: "Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for multiples of three print [omitted], for multiples of five print [omitted]..."
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