Member Facts 1
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Decipher the Meme
Tech Mashup
Travelers Trivia
Wild Card
100
This team member once confidently walked into the wrong meeting, sat down, took notes for 20 minutes, and only realized when someone asked them to present.
Who is Barry Trippedover?
100
Well-known Saying:
Costs an Arm and a Leg
100
A developer pushes a fix for a bug. The bug disappears. Two new bugs appear. This phenomenon has a name in software engineering.
What is a regression?
100
The very first Travelers insurance policy was sold for this amount — a price that would barely buy you a piece of gum today.
What is two cents? (James Bolter paid 2¢ to insure his walk home from the post office in 1864)
100
A computer hacker is told the world he lives in isn't real, offered a choice between two pills, and spends the rest of the movie in a black trench coat.
What is The Matrix?
200
Legend has it this engineer has never once closed a browser tab. Their current open tab count is classified information but rumored to be in the hundreds.
Who is Tabitha Neverclosed?
200
Well-known Saying:
Living Under a Rock
200
The first computer "bug" was a real living thing — this is what it actually was, found in a relay of a Harvard computer in 1947.
What is a moth?
200
Travelers was founded in this year — the same year Abraham Lincoln was re-elected president.
What is 1864?
200
his is the year the iPhone was first introduced to the world — forever changing the way humans ignore each other at dinner.
What is 2007?
300
This person replies to every Slack message within 45 seconds — including ones sent at 11:47 PM on a Sunday. No one has ever confirmed they actually sleep.
Who is Insta Replyanova?
300
Countries/ Locations:
Madagascar
300
This programming language, despite being the butt of every developer joke, consistently ranks as one of the most used languages in the world and powers most of the web's backend.
What is JavaScript?
300
During World War II, Travelers underwrote insurance for this top-secret U.S. government program — the one that built the first atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
300
A man survives being stranded alone on a deserted island for years — and his most important emotional relationship is with a volleyball named Wilson.
What is Cast Away?
400
This team member has strong opinions about the correct way to load a dishwasher and has submitted what colleagues describe as a "surprisingly detailed Confluence page" about it.
Who is Gerald Properloading?
400
Countries/ Locations:
Taiwan
400
This acronym is the container orchestration platform that runs most modern cloud applications — including some right here at Travelers.
What is K8s? (Kubernetes)
400
Travelers wrote the first insurance policy for this milestone event in 1969 — one giant leap for insurance kind.
What is the Apollo 11 moon landing? (first spacecraft/astronaut insurance)
400
This beloved animated character spent 20+ seasons as a safety inspector at a nuclear power plant and never once caused a meltdown — which is more than can be said for most deploys on a Friday.
Who is Homer Simpson?
500
This engineer once spent an entire sprint standup explaining a solution, only to realize halfway through they were describing the problem they caused last sprint.
Who is Phil Déjà-Vukowski?
500
TV/ Movies:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
500
A developer's app works perfectly on their laptop but crashes immediately in production. The most likely culprit hiding in plain sight is this classic excuse.
What is "it works on my machine"?
500
The red umbrella first appeared in a Travelers newspaper advertisement in this decade — nearly a century before it became the official logo.
What is the 1870s?
500
This is the number of items on the average developer's "I'll refactor this later" list that actually get refactored.
What is zero?
600
TV/ Movies:
Home Alone