Famous Quotes
British/American History
Red Teaming
Cognitive Biases
Logical Fallacies
100

Who said " “No plan of operations extends with certainty beyond the first encounter with the enemy’s main strength.” or Today it reads, “no plan survives contact with the enemy” 

Who was Helmuth von Moltke

100

What state was Jennie Spencer-Churchill from originally?  

What is New York

100

What tool would a red teamer be using if they : 

1. Plan to turn weaker opposition into better support

2. Want to understand all the players in and out of the ring?

3. Wanted to understand their level of influence?

What is: Influencer Engineering

100

The bias that shows the first thing you judge influences your judgement of all that follows? 

What is the Anchoring Bias

100

The mistaken belief that future probabilities are altered by past events

What is The Gamblers Fallacy

200

Who said “By Challenging our assumptions, we can guard against cognitive bias and groupthink"

Who is Bryce Hoffman

200

Who was the American love interest that caused Edward the VIII to abdicate his throne ?  

Who Was Wallace Simpson

200

Watch One, Do one, Lead one is what learning model Red Team Thinking uses? 

What is the Mayo Clinic Model 

200

The Bias where you have the tendency to underestimate our weaknesses, overestimate our abilities, and exaggerate our chances of accurately predicting the future.


What is the Optimism Bias

200

What Fallacy says we are more likely to believe something is true if others around us already believe its true.

What is the Bandwagon effect

300

"Leadership is having a compelling vision, a comprehensive plan, relentless implementation, and talented people working together."

Who is Alan Mulally

300

What Treaty ended the War of the American Revolution?   

What was The Treaty of Paris

300

Who is the Godfather of the Premortem Analysis? 

Who is Gary Klein

300

What Bias where we give more credence to information that supports what we already believe. ? 

What is Confirmation Bias? 

300

What is our tendency to ignore troubling data or disconfirming evidence.


What is The Ostrich Effect

400

"If Everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking" 

General George Patton

400

Which American officer switched sides and fought for the british, making his name an epithet for a traitor in the united states

Who was Benedict Arnold

400

What Rule used by Red Teamers to encourage open discussion is the following: "participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed."

What is The Chatham House Rule

400

What Heuristic is when Information we are already aware of tends to have more credence.




What is the Availability Heuristic

400

What fallacy causes people to ignore general information and focus on specific, but less meaningful, information - particularly when it supports what we want to believe.


What is the Base Rate Fallacy

500

“Business men go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot bring themselves to change. One sees them all about - men who do not know that yesterday is past, and who woke up this morning with last year's ideas. - ”


Who was Henry Ford

500

Who was the ground commander for the DDay invasion? 

Who was Bernard Montgomery

500

What is the Red Team Thinking Creed? 

What is:

1. We embrace Hard Truths

2. we confront comfortable lies

3. We challenge as necessary, 

 but always in a constructive and collegial 

manner.

500

What Effect states the tendency to believe that we have more — or less — control over outcomes than we actually do.


What is the Illusions of control:

500

The tendency of planners and forecasters to rely on best-case scenarios.


What is The Planning Fallacy