Stranger than Fiction
Botanically speaking, this popular yellow fruit is a berry, while strawberries are not true berries.
What is a banana?
This ECCOer’s first job involved working with chemicals as a laboratory technician.
Who is Sherryl Roach?
This office location was the proud winner of the May 2026 Battle of the Offices Puzzle Challenge.
What is 180 Wellington?
These two enduring symbols in RBC’s familiar logo represent strength and authority, and the bank’s worldwide presence.
What are the lion and the globe?
This is the only number whose English spelling has the same number of letters as its value.
What is four?
This country’s national flag is the only national flag in the world that is not rectangular or square.
What is Nepal?
These ECCOers were the proud winners of the first ever ECCO & SE Summer Social Tug of War tournament.
Who are Betty, Bhanu, Milos and Marco?
As explained at the ECT Knowledge Exchange, when a control does not address the risk it was designed to mitigate, this aspect of the control is failing.
What is Design Effectiveness?
Before becoming the Royal Bank of Canada, the bank operated under this original name.
What is the Merchants’ Bank of Halifax?
This number of sides gives a standard STOP sign its distinctive shape.
What is 8?
This mammal has fingerprints so similar to humans’ that they can be difficult to distinguish under a microscope.
What is a koala?
This ECCOer was the lucky winner of the Bingo activity draw at the last ECCO & SE Town Hall in June 2026.
Who is Faye Xu?
This ECCO sub team's objective is to strengthen RBC’s ability to deliver strategic change consistently, efficiently, and with greater confidence, providing common practices, insights and tools to elevate enterprise delivery outcomes.
What is the EPMGO?
In 1920, RBC opened a branch in this European capital to serve Canadians who remained in Europe after the First World War.
What is Paris?
This word describes a word or phrase that reads the same forward and backward, such as "level" and "noon".
What is a palindrome?
This species of jellyfish is famous for its ability to revert to an earlier life stage, potentially restarting its life cycle.
What is the immortal jellyfish?
Until the age of 18, this ECCOer never lived in the same country for more than 3 years in a row.
Who is Asli Kizikli?
When describing the evolution of the Enterprise 1LOD Operational Risk Report at the Practice Management Knowledge Exchange, this real-life location was used by the presenters as an analogy throughout.
What is a hospital?
In 1891, RBC’s first recorded donation of $250 went to a relief fund following this type of disaster in Nova Scotia.
What is a mine accident?
This is the number of bits in one byte in modern computing.
What is 8?
A year on this dwarf planet lasts approximately 248 Earth years.
what is Pluto?
This ECCOer has been married 5 times, including once by the Pope.
Who is Stephen Irlam?
This Enterprise Program was featured in the “Projects in Action” segment of the Strategic Execution Knowledge Exchange in August 2026.
What is the FCAML Transformation Program?
First published in 1920 as a business publication, this RBC publication eventually covered topics such as science, philosophy, history and Canadian culture. At its height, it circulated about 650,000 copies a month.
What is the RBC Letter?
This occupation-related word contains three consecutive pairs of double letters.
What is bookkeeper?