Holiday Movies
Advantasure Facts
Holiday History Around the World
Holiday Misc.
Potpourri
100
The color of the Grinch.
What is green?
100
This is the name of Emergent Holding's giving campaign in which all employees are encouraged to give to their local Food banks.
What is the Caring and Sharing campaign?
100
This location in New York is well known throughout the United States for it's huge Christmas tree with a public ice skating rink in front.
What is Rockefeller Center?
100
In the Christmas carol, "We wish you a Merry Christmas", the carolers are pretty insistent they get this treat before leaving.
What is figgy pudding?
100
If a team's load at the end of a sprint is 40 and the team's velocity for that same sprint is 38, what is the acceptance percentage calculation for that sprint?
What is 38/40 = 95%
200
In "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer", this elf, named Hermey, really wanted to be this for a living?
What is a Dentist?
200
She is the President of Advantasure.
Who is Katie Guhr?
200
In India, Santa Claus delivers presents in this instead of a sleigh with reindeer.
What is a horse and cart.
200
In the popular christmas song, "The 12 Days of Christmas", this celebrated day is first day of the song start.
What is Christmas Day (December 25th)?
200
This is the next word in the pattern of work intake process.
Change Request, High Level Estimate, ___________
What is Design Level Estimate (DLE)?
300
The first name of "Scrooge" from the Charles Dickens novella, A Christmas Carol.
What is Ebenezer?
300
This is a popular way to "give a wow" for all the positive ways your co-workers go the extra mile.
What is an EMMY?
300
Noel means this in French.
What is Christmas?
300
These are the 3 things given to Jesus by the Wise Men. They are one of the main reasons we have the custom of giving and receiving presents at Christmas.
What are Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh
300
In the song “Frosty the Snowman,” this item brought Frosty to life.
What is an old silk hat?
400
This network was the first to air the classic Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer in 1964.
What is NBC.
400
Advantasure is a for-profit company under this division of BCBSM.
What is Emergent Holdings?
400
Sinterkklass (St. Nicholas) and Kerstman (Christmas Man) are the names used for Santa Claus in this country.
Where is The Netherlands.
400
This log was originally an entire tree, that was carefully chosen and brought into the house with great ceremony. The largest end of the log would be placed in the fire hearth and burned through the "Twelve Days of Christmas"
What is a Yule log.
400
This well used technology for off-shore workers is defined as the hosting of desktop environments on a central server. It is a form of desktop virtualization, as the specific desktop images run within virtual machines (VMs) and are delivered to end clients over a network.
What is Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
500
Tom Hanks is the notable actor playing the voice of the conductor in this movie.
What is The Polar Express?
500
These are the four strategic pillars to "Ignite the Advantage" introduced at the Town Hall in October 2020.
What are Serve, Impact, Strengthen, Thrive?
500
The custom of kissing under Mistletoe comes from this country.
What is England?
There was kissing under the mistletoe in the illustrations in the first book version of 'A Christmas Carol' published in 1843, and this might have helped to popularise kissing under the mistletoe. The original custom was that a berry was picked from the sprig of Mistletoe before the person could be kissed and when all the berries had gone, there could be no more kissing!
500
These songs are frequently sung during the Christmas holidays. The word for it actually means dance or a song of praise and joy.
What are carols?
500
This character said, “I passed through the seven levels of the Candy Cane forest, through the sea of swirly-twirly gumdrops, and then I walked through the Lincoln Tunnel.”
Who is Buddy the Elf? (Elf)