Food & Drink
This creamy Middle Eastern spread blends chickpeas, tahini, lemon juice, and garlic, and is often eaten with pita.
What is Hummus?
This Northern European country’s December vibe is so associated with candles, wool socks, and board games that its word for “coziness” became a global lifestyle trend.
What is Denmark?
This deployment strategy, named after two colors, runs old and new versions of a service in parallel, routing traffic gradually to reduce risk during releases.
What is a blue‑green deployment (accept: blue/green)?
This language term refers to a word that is spelled the same forward and backward, like “level” or “radar.”
What is a palindrome?
In Scrum, this short statement describes why the Sprint is valuable and provides a single focus for the team, even though the exact scope may change.
What is the Sprint Goal?
This fermented beverage made from tea, sugar, and a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast became a global wellness trend in the 2010s.
What is Kombucha?
This Canadian city is known for its December “Cavalcade of Lights,” where thousands of lights and a big public skating rink surround City Hall.
What is Toronto?
This concept, often compared to treating servers like a herd instead of pets, describes automatically replacing failed instances instead of manually fixing them.
What is immutable infrastructure (accept: cattle, not pets)?
This word describes a phrase whose literal meaning is different from its intended meaning, like “kick the bucket.”
What is an idiom?
This concept, sometimes expressed as a checklist, sets a shared understanding of quality so that everyone agrees when a backlog item is truly finished.
What is the Definition of Done?
This Italian dish shares its name with a word meaning “little worms” in Italian, even though it is just a type of pasta.
What is Spaghetti?
This small European country turns its capital into “Winter Wonders,” with projections on a medieval square, a sound-and-light show, and stalls serving fries and waffles.
What is Belgium? (capital: Brussels)
This three-letter metric, relevant for large AI workloads, measures how many operations a system can perform per second and is often used when sizing GPU clusters.
What are FLOPS (floating point operations per second)?
This type of word, like “Google” used as a verb, comes from a brand name that becomes the generic term for a whole category.
What is a genericized trademark?
his metric, often displayed as a chart, tracks how quickly a team is completing work over time, and is used to forecast how much can be delivered in future Sprints.
What is velocity (accept: a velocity/burndown chart)?
This Japanese word describes the savory “fifth taste” found in foods rich in glutamates, like soy sauce and Parmesan cheese.
Waht is Umami?
In this country, December is peak summer, and the unofficial tradition of “barbie on the beach” clashes amusingly with imported images of snowmen and reindeer.
What is Australia?
This Kubernetes concept, inspired by control theory, continuously adjusts the actual state of clusters and workloads to match a declarative configuration, rather than running one-off scripts.
What is a reconciliation loop (accept: declarative reconciliation / controller loop)?
This figure of speech presents an apparent contradiction, as in “deafening silence” or “jumbo shrimp.”
What is an oxymoron?
This Agile practice contains the amount of work happening at the same time to reduce context switching and reveal bottlenecks, and is often visualized on a Kanban board.
What is limiting WIP (work in progress)?
This spicy compound found in chili peppers triggers heat receptors in your mouth and is measured on the Scoville scale.
What is Capsaicin?
In this U.S. city, the “ZooLights” tradition covers a large urban zoo with millions of LEDs, while another December night event at the nearby botanical garden features illuminated cactus and desert plants.
What is Phoenix?
This Git-centric delivery model lets teams represent entire environments, including Kubernetes and cloud infra, as code that continuously reconciles actual state with the desired state stored in a repo.
What is GitOps?
This linguistic term refers to a word that has entered a language from another language without translation, like “karaoke,” “tsunami,” or “kindergarten.”
What is a loanword?
This Agile anti-pattern occurs when teams plan Sprints as if scope is fixed and must all be delivered, turning Sprints into mini-waterfalls instead of embracing negotiation and adaptability.
What is committing to a fixed scope Sprint (accept: mini-waterfall Sprints / treating Sprints as fixed-scope projects)?