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MISCELLANEOUS Q1. Hotel Help: You've been sent across the country and put up in a Super 8 before your day at corporate headquarters. As you settle into your bed, you phone the front desk and ask that they jostle you from your slumber at 6 a.m. sharp. What's the name of this once common hotel courtesy? Modern equivalent: smartphone alarm.

MISCELLANEOUS Q2. Time Technology: You arrive at the office just before 7 a.m., and slide your time card in. KA-CHUNK. This mechanical maven that helped track your time was known as a _______ clock, perhaps named that because sometimes it felt like the work day was hitting you right in the face. What word fills in the blank? Modern equivalent: BambooHR

MISCELLANEOUS Q3. Baseball Brews: You pour yourself a "cup of ambition" from the glass carafe that's already half scorched from an hour on the burner. Yankee star Joe DiMaggio was a long-time spokesperson for what formal brand of these automatic drip-brew kitchen gadgets? Modern Equivalent: Keurig

MISCELLANEOUS Q4. Needing Notes: Skimming the latest pink paper memo, you nearly collide with your manager: “Update the quarterly sales figures for the afternoon meeting,” she says. “And revise the specs on the ProFax 1000. Get that to marketing.” You take out your small, spiral-bound pad and jot down notes in shorthand. These pads with a vertical line down the center are known by what five-letter name, shorthand for the occupation of the people using them? Modern Equivalent: Microsoft OneNote

SCIENCE & TECH Q5. IBM Innovations: Back at your desk, your IBM Selectric hums to life. Its typeball spins with each keystroke, clicking and clacking out letters with precision. What type of office machine was the Selectric? Modern Equivalent: Wireless keyboard

MISCELLANEOUS Q6. Circular Contacts: Before finishing the updates, you need a key detail from your top client. You look up the client on a rotating index card file used for storing business contacts. By what brand name were these rotary card files called? Modern Equivalent: LinkedIn

MISCELLANEOUS Q7. Paper Products: You try the client’s number, but it rings unanswered. You return to your Selectric and load a fresh sheet of paper. Beneath it, you slip in a sheet of what type of paper that will create a duplicate for your boss. Modern Equivalent: CC'ing an email

SCIENCE & TECH Q8. Wireless Wearables: For lunch, you step out with the latest electronic leash: a tiny gadget clipped to your belt. Just as you unwrap your egg salad sandwich, the device chirps and flashes Ron’s number from marketing. So much for that three-martini lunch. What were these early wireless devices that received and displayed alphanumeric messages called? Modern Equivalent: Text message

MISCELLANEOUS Q9. Dispenser Discussion: At 2:30, it’s time for your afternoon break room escape. A haze of cigarette smoke floats under the fluorescent lights. A half-eaten donut rests beside a stack of used paper cone cups and you walk toward what freestanding beverage dispenser with a 5-gallon jug? Employees used to gather at these bastions of office culture to chit-chat. Modern Equivalent: Stanley Stainless Steel Tumbler

MISCELLANEOUS Q10. Relaxed Requirements: With Thursday winding down and the weekend in sight, you kick off your shoes under your desk. Tomorrow you'll get to skip the business attire completely in favor of more comfortable clothing. What were these relaxed work attire days commonly called? Modern Equivalent: Remote work in your pajamas

TIEBREAKER Computer Costs: Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) developed groundbreaking tech like the graphical user interface (GUI), the computer mouse, and Ethernet. However, the Macintosh 128K made the GUI mainstream and sold for how much (USD, before taxes) in 1984?

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