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FOC TRIVIA
100
This band rose to meteoric fame in the 1990s with the album Dookie.
Who is Green Day
100
These devices replace traditional platter disks, are non-mechanical, and can read/write data much faster than platter disks (hard disks).
What are SSDs (or NVMe's)
100
A flavorite type of vittles, preferred by an application engineer on Phulcrum.
What is liver and onions (or shallots)
100
This famous novel featured East & West Egg, the Valley of Ashes, the man who fixed the 1919 World Series, and spawned a 1974 film starring Robert Redford.
What is The Great Gatsby
100
This FOC company wasn't always known as Amrock.
What is Title Source
200
This artist has a song with an intriguing acronym that has absolutely nothing to do with Wireless Access Points.
Who is Cardi B
200
If you want reliable and fast in-home networking, you really should consider investing in this.
What is Ubiquiti UniFi
200
An often-used expression is resplendent and _________ to ________.
What is Engineered to Amaze
200
Many people believe with the state of the world, we are quickly turning into this George Orwell novel.
What is 1984
200
If you're hankering for a cool pair if sneakers or a Louis-Vuitton handbag, a good site to check out is this.
What is StockX
300
This German electronic group used pocket calculators to produce some of the notes heard in several of their songs.
Who is Kraftwerk
300
These dial-up meeting places were popular in the 1980s and early 1990s, but quickly fell by the wayside once the World Wide Web started taking over in the mid-to-late 1990s.
What are BBSes (Bulletin Board Systems)
300
This midtown Detroit eatery and inebriatorium is a favorite by a couple Software Services application engineers, one of whom is on Fulcrum and the other on Holocron.
What is Founders Brewing Company
300
What novel was referenced in the Big Bang Theory episode The Nerdvana Annihiliation?
What is The Time Machine
300
Quicken Loans was headquartered in this Detroit suburb until 2010, when it moved its headquarters back downtown.
What is Livonia
400
This longtime friend of Bob Seger and Silver Bullet Band member passed away earlier this year.
Who is Alto Reed
400
Because of significantly increased interest in cryptocurrency mining and the Covid pandemic, these computer components are difficult to find (at a fair price).
What are GPUs/graphics cards
400
A Software Services application engineer is celebrating the big 21 next week. (We need to help them celebrate.)
Who is Raymond Weaver
400
This Rudyard Kipling novel featured a mongoose who protected his family from king cobra snakes.
What is Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
400
On April 1, 2016, Dan Gilbert sent out an April Fools email announcing that One Campus Martius would be renamed to this.
What is the Quandong Building
500
What is Tears Don't Fall by Bullet for My Valentine
500
This protocol is a part of the HDMI specification to mitigate copyright infringement of high-definition content.
What is HDCP
500
On this very day, 15 years ago, this FOC team member and his then fiancée went to the altar.
Who are Matt and Sheila Sawyer
500
This 1959 novel by Pat Frank featured a nuclear holocaust and how a small town in Florida dealt with the aftermath.
What is Alas, Babylon
500
This was the RKT IPO price.
What is $18 (per share)