Manulife Trivia
TechKnowledge
Minute to Win It
Brain Teasers
100

What year did Roy Gori become President and CEO?

2017

100

What is the time complexity on bubblesort?

On^2

100

Ready, Set, Draw

Each team has 1 min to draw the best interpretation of a car. Each member can only draw 1 line and then must pass the drawing to the next teammate 

100

You're in a cabin with no electricity. Come nightfall, you have a candle, a wood stove, and a gas lamp, but only one match. What do you light first?

The match

200

How many employees are currently working at Manulife?

More than 35,000

200

At what reputation do you gain the ability to downvote an answer on StackOverFlow?

125

200

Mummy Challenge. 

You have 2 mins to wrap one team member from head to toe in streamers. The best wrapping job gets the points
200

What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?

Short

300

What year did Manulife go public?

1999

300

Which organization invented SHA256?

NSA

300

This Blows

You have 2 mins to blow up a balloon and knock over as many plastic cups as you can using only the air in the balloon. 

300

I can be moved. I can be rolled. But nothing will I hold. I have no head, I have no eyes- yet I move all over the place. What am I?

A ball
400

What was the original name of Manulife (CA) in 1887?

The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company

400

Who created Linux?

Linus Torvalds

400

Noodling Around

Each player gets a piece of uncooked spaghetti to put in their mouth and has to pick up a piece of penne using only the noodle. The whole team has 3 mins to complete this challenge (relay style)

400

The letters of the word dormitory can be rearranged to produce a two-word phrase that describes a typical dormitory. What is that phrase?

Dirty room

500

Who was the original founder of todays "Manulife"?

Sir John A MacDonald

500

What kind of machine learning algorithm is clustering?

Unsupervised

500

Bob the Builder

Using ONLY the paper provided your team must make a freestanding tower in 5 mins. The team with the tallest tower wins the points!!

500

First I threw away the outside and cooked the inside, then I ate the outside and threw away the inside, what did I eat?

Corn on the cob.

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