Insurance, Explained Badly
A company's ability to survive a one-in-200 year event that seems to happen every decade.
What is Solvency?
This animal has the strongest bite force of any living animal.
What is the Crocodile?
This country is home to the city of Machu Picchu.
What is Peru?
This disaster changed how the world thinks about luxury travel, safety, and unsinkable claims.
What is the Titanic?
This is the largest coral reef system on Earth.
What is the Great Barrier Reef?
This is the thing that makes people discover, too late, that covered and fully covered are not the same thing.
What is an Exclusion?
This mammal is the only one capable of true powered flight.
What is the Bat?
This country contains the world’s highest mountain, Mount Everest, on its border with China.
What is Nepal?
This barrier once split a city in two and later became famous for coming down in 1989.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This sea is so salty that people float with almost no effort.
This type of insurance existed centuries before automobiles were invented
What is Marine Insurance?
This animal can sleep with one half of its brain at a time.
What is a Dolphin?
This country is both a continent and a nation, and its capital is Canberra.
What is Australia?
This civilization’s writing was lost for centuries before the Rosetta Stone helped decode it.
Who were the ancient Egyptians?
This Chilean desert is so dry that some parts have gone decades without rain.
What is the Atacama Desert?
The insurance company paid claims resulting from both the sinking of the Titanic and the September 11 attacks.
What is the Lloyd's of London?
This bird can recognize itself in a mirror, a rare sign of self-awareness.
What is the Magpie?
This country is an island nation made up of more than 6,000 islands.
What is the Philippines?
This empire built a road network so extensive that later European highways often followed its routes.
What is the Roman Empire?
This is the largest island in the world that is not a continent.
What is Greenland?
This accounting standard replaced FAS 60, FAS 97, and FAS 120 for many US insurers.
What is Long-Duration Targeted Improvements (LDTI)?
This tiny creature can survive being frozen, dehydrated, and blasted by radiation and still recover.
What is a Tardigrade?
This country has more islands than any other nation on Earth.
What is Sweden?
This event was sparked by people storming a prison that held only a handful of prisoners.
What is the Storming of the Bastille?
This river system is so massive that parts of it create their own weather.
What is the Amazon River/Amazon Basin?