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100

This Cision-owned service allows companies to distribute press releases to news outlets globally.

What is PR Newswire?

100

This PR team member is usually not the economic buyer, but is often the primary day-to-day user of tools like Muck Rack for building lists, pitching journalists, and monitoring coverage.

What is a PR Coordinator?

100

A prospect says: “We already have a solution for that.”

What is "how are you currently using the tool / how is it working for you?"

100

PR teams often choose Muck Rack because this core platform feature is known for being more accurate and frequently updated than competitors.

What is the media database?

100

Which Muck Rack team member is an avid runner and has made it extremely difficult for us to keep up in our step challenge?

Who is Sydney Boardman?

200

Unlike Meltwater, Muck Rack sends pitches directly from this, improving email deliverability and avoiding spam filters.

What is your personal email inbox?

200

Which of the following roles typically falls outside Muck Rack’s core ICP for media intelligence tools:

External Relations, Media Relations, Internal Relations, or Public Relations?

What is Internal Relations?

200

A prospect says: “I’m not the person who makes decisions about tools like this.”

What is "Are you someone who uses the tool / can you point me in the right direction?"

200

Muck Rack was founded in this year Greg Galant and Lee Semel.

What is 2009?

200

Was Kristen’s hair up or down for her wedding?

TRICK QUESTION!! What is half up half down! 

300

Muck Rack often wins deals because its journalist database is more accurate, partly due to this unique factor.

What is journalists updating or maintaining their own profiles?

300

This PR leadership role is primarily responsible for developing the organization’s media strategy, guiding campaigns, and aligning PR initiatives with company goals.

What is the Director of PR?

300

A prospect says: “We're all set.”

What is "Totally fair - most of the teams I speak with already have something in place. Just out of curiosity, what are you currently using for media monitoring and journalist discovery?”

300

This NEW feature allows PR professionals to build complex Boolean search queries using natural language prompts, making it easier to track relevant media coverage.

What is AI search agent?

300

Who on our team is in a bowling league?

Who is Will Foohey?

400

This referral partner of Muck Rack offers comprehensive social listening and posting capabilities.

DOUBLE JEOPARDY if you can tell us who on our leadership team came from there.

Sprout Social

400

When a communications leader seeks budget approval from the C-suite for a PR platform, they most often must justify the investment using this business outcome.

What is ROI (return on investment)?

400

A prospect says: "We don’t have budget."

What is "“Got it. A lot of teams I talk to felt the same way initially until they saw how much time they were spending manually tracking coverage and building reports. Would it be worth a quick look so you have the info if budget opens later this year?”

400

Muck Rack’s media database extends beyond the United States to support global PR teams. Name any three of the 14 countries where the platform provides coverage. [not USA]

What is Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Mexico, Spain, India, Argentina, Chile

400

How many animals does Delaney have?

What is 6? 


and also who the heck put this as a question???

500

This Meltwater workflow pain point requires PR teams to manually write complex search logic to filter irrelevant coverage, often leading to noisy monitoring results.

What is Boolean search management?

500

In a B2B sales process, this term refers to the person who controls the budget and has the authority to approve the purchase.

Who is the Economic Buyer?

500

A prospect says: "We have an agency right now."

 What is “Many of our customers work with agencies. Media Intelligence Services can actually complement that by having our analysts monitor coverage, validate mentions, and build stakeholder-ready reports for leadership. That way your team and agency can focus on strategy and storytelling while we handle the monitoring and reporting lift.”

500

This NEW AI-powered feature automatically filters irrelevant coverage, detects sentiment, and tags articles so PR teams don’t have to manually clean up their reports.

What is Curation Engine?

500

This teammate was recently engaged in Febuary - congrats!

Who is Cassie!!