Animals
The color of polar bear skin
What is black?
This agile framework divides work into time-boxed iterations of goals.
What is Scrum?
This Spanish speaking country is located in the Americas and is is composed of 32 states. It was home to the 6th largest city in the world between 1 AD to 500 AD
What is Mexico?
This vegetable is referenced in Shrek to describe ogres
What is an onion?
In 2012, Fitch became part of this parent company’s portfolio of financial information and analytics businesses
What is Hearst (The Hearst Corporation)?
These birds fly well enough but excel in water, where they can dive up to 200 ft below the surface.
What are puffins?
This predecessor to the Agile methodology is derided for - among other issues - an insufficient amount of client-developer communication, and separate build and testing phases
What is the Waterfall model?
This midwestern city has the largest city-block size in America, with blocks that are over 83% larger than the average block in Manhattan
What is Salt Lake City, Utah
This dish takes finely cut raw cabbage that has been fermented and is an extremely popular delicacy in Germany and Poland
What is sauerkraut?
This governance body at Fitch formally reviews and approves credit ratings to ensure consistency and independence.
What is the Rating Committee
This goat has a skeletal muscle disorder called myotonia congenita
What is a fainting goat?
The 6th principle of the agile manifesto states that "The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is..." this form of conversation.
What is face-to-face conversation?
The west African country that is home to over 500 reginal languages and roughly 1/5 of all Sub-Saharan Africans.
What is Nigeria?
This ice cream flavor is the number 1 ice cream flavor in America that is ordered by 27-30 percent of all orders
What is vanilla ice cream?
The “Fitch” in Fitch Ratings refers to this founder’s last name; give his full name.
Who is John Knowles Fitch?
A rhino's horn is composed of this material.
What is Keratin?
This agile methodology has roots in Toyota; and has developers pull in work intermittently, as capacity permits.
What is Kanban?
In 1992 this former Soviet satellite state - formed during the twilight of WWI - peacefully dissolved into 2 separate countries in 1992.
What is Czechoslovakia
This state in India is largely known for its vast selection of seafood as well as their prominence in their use of coconut in various dishes
What is Kerala?
This Fitch platform delivers credit research, ratings, and data to institutional clients via a subscription interface
What is Fitch Connect?
You can find upwards to 1 million of these critically endangered neotenic amphibians in in captivity. Extensive research has been done on their incredible regenerative abilities.
What is an axolotl?
This English-born software developer is one of 17 original members of the agile alliance, helped create the manifesto for Agile Software Development, and is known for popularizing the term "Dependency Injection"
Who is Martin Fowler?
This British territory in the Caribbean is the administrator for the ".ai" top-level domain, which earns the state a hefty 10% of it's GDP from registration fees.
What is Anguilla?
This Indian Delicacy is so popular that it is considered the national "dish" of Britain
What is Chicken Tikka Masala?
Fitch is known for pioneering this now-standard long-term credit rating scale using letter grades
What is the letter-grade credit rating scale (AAA to D)?