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These four letters usually represent a person who is responsible for designing and creating plans for construction of new facilities for TDS.

What is Outside Plant Engineer? (OSPE)

100

This TDS equipment is usually buried or on poles and was the primary delivery method of Internet to TDS customers for most of the past 25 years. 

What is a copper cable?


100

Sparkling wine sold under the name Champagne must come from this region in Northeast France?

What is Champagne?

100

This is the state animal of Wisconsin.

What is a Badger? 

100

"Cause if you liked it then you should have put a ring on it" is a famous song lyric by this 32-time Grammy award winning artist.

Who is Beyonce?

200

These 3 Letters represent a person who is resposible for facilitating and monitoring all teams progress on TDS projects from start to finish.

What is a Manager -Project Implementation?

200

This legally binding document would be required, if an anchor from a TDS telephone pole went down onto private property.

What is an easement?

200

This state is named after Thomas West whose title was Baron De La Warr.

What is Delaware?

200

This animal is the Florida State animal.

What is a Panther?

200

This film was Disney's first animated feature and was released in 1937.

What is Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs

300

This 4 Letter Acronym is used to usually reference a person who oversee's the construction and building of new projects once they have completed the ROW and OSPE phases. 

What is an OSPC?

300

This Railroad company, who recently had a derailment in Ohio, requires extensive permitting for crossing their tracks.

Who is Norfolk Southern?

300

Canada's Swan river empties into this lake.

What is Swan Lake?

300

This is the Illinois state animal.

What is a White - Tailed Deer?

300

This actor voices the cowboy named Woody in the animated movie about toys coming to life. 

Who is Tom Hanks?

400

This acronym describes a team of people who are responsible for acquiring necessary agreements to attach TDS facilities to telephone poles.

What is COLO?

400

This is a hydrologic feature that our construction crews often encounter while burying cable. They require our equipment to go very deep in order to avoid them and often require special permitting.

what is a drain/creek/stream bed?

400

This gemstone is basically an onyx with alternating bands of sard & other minerals.

What is sardonyx?

400

This is the New York State Bird.

What is an Eastern Bluebird?

400

This year's Super Bowl Halftime show featured an earth-shattering performance by this female artist, who's song "we found love" is the second best-selling female single of all time behind Madonna's "into the Groove".

Who is Rihanna?

500

This 2-letter acronym represents the team that facilitates all invoice payments and check requests.

 What is AP (Accounts Payable)?

500

This entity, owned by TDS, is the legal entity to which a permit should technically be listed under.

What is a company?
500

The town that became Orlando Florida was founded in 1850 by Aaron Jernigan & was given this 1-word name.

What is Jernigan?

500

This is the Wisconsin State Fish.

What is a Muskee?

500

This was the first animated Character to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 

Who is Mickey Mouse.