Technology
API stands for this
What is application programming interface?
This beverage company heavily influenced Santa's colourful attire
What is Coca Cola?
9 letter word is in CIBC's motto
What is ambitions? (Ambitions made real)
This is the next line in this song: This year, to save me from tears..
What is I'll give it to someone special?
In agile, these are units of measure for expressing an estimate of the overall effort required to fully implement a some work
What are story points?
The is the most popular language for machine learning
What is python?
This person wrote how the Grinch stole Christmas
Who is Dr. Seuss?
To the nearest 10th percent (10%, 20%....), CIBC's stock price increased by this much in the last year
What is 60%?
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas ____ in every store
What are toys?
This phrase is used when you want to revisit a topic later or want to avoid answering it now
What is circle back?
This piece of hardware is responsible for making calculations on the computer
What is the CPU (or GPU)?
This character with a rhyming name plays pranks on children leading up to Christmas Eve
Who is the elf on the shelf?
CIBC has this many branches (nearest thousand)
What is 1000?
These go in the 2 blanks: Oh-oh, all the lights are shining so brightly everywhere And the sound of ____ ____ fills the air
What is children's laughter?
This phrase describes an easy task and is associated with food
What is Low hanging Fruit?
These 3 technologies are the core of web development
What are HTML, JavaScript and CSS?
In home alone, the family travelled to this country
What is France?
This is the year CIBC was founded
What is 1961
These are of 3 of the reindeer in the song: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
Who are: (any 3) Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen and Rudolph?
Benefits of working together in an effective manner; usually categorized into cost and revenue
What is synergy?
Of these hexacodes one of them is closest to CIBC's logo? (no stealing this question)
1. 0000aa
2. 00aa00
3. aa0000
What is aa0000?
In Norse mythology, this festive plant was the one and only weakness of Baldur
What is mistletoe?
The CIBC logo features this shape that is also associated with military ranks
What is a chevron?
These go in the 2 blanks: Come on, it's lovely weather For a sleigh ride together with you. Giddy yap, giddy yap, ____ ____, Let's go, Let's look at the show
What is giddy yap?
Describing capacity while also being associated with the internet
What is bandwidth?
The correct order from fastest to slowest of the following: RAM, CPU register, CPU cache, SSD
What is CPU register, CPU cache, RAM then SSD?
In the movie Elf, starring Will Ferrell this was the Elf's (Will Ferrell's) name
What is Buddy?
As a CIBC employee in Canada, gifts you give to another employee should not exceed this aggregate value in a given year
What is $200?
These 2 words fill in the blank: There'll be parties for hosting Marshmallows for toasting And caroling out in the snow There'll be _____ _____ stories
What is scary ghost?
Associated with the kitchen, this phrase is used to deprioritize tasks for the time being
What is backburner?
In computer science, big O notation describes the asymptotic nature of the runtime of algorithms. What is the best case time complexity of bubble sort?
What is O(n)
What animal based material were the pines of the first artificial Christmas trees made out of?
What are (goose) feathers? ("what are feathers? is also acceptable")
This year Victor Dodig joined CIBC
What is 2005?
The next 2 words in this song: Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle ____ ____
What is bell rock? (the classic song is Jingle Bells with an S)
This is also a courtroom term to track a topic separately without derailing the current discussion
What is side bar?