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The Actuarial Life
The Manu-life
Current Events
Potpourri
Before & After
100
The CIA's equivalent of the SOA's FSA
What is FCIA? FICA (Fellow, Institut canadien des actuaires) is also acceptable.
100
In April of 2004, Manulife's merger with this company became official
What is John Hancock?
100
In December, this Russian President announced his bid for reelection in 2018
Who is Vladimir Putin?
100
Rolling Stone ranked this psychedelic rock icon and Purple Haze writer as the greatest guitarist of all time
Who is Jimi Hendrix?
100
The star of Top Gun and Jerry Maguire automatically controlling the speed of a vehicle
What is Tom Cruise Control?
200
The syllabus for this preliminary exam develops the candidate's knowledge of the fundamental probability tools for quantitatively assessing risk
What is Exam P?
200
The current president and Chief Executive Officer of Manulife hails from this "down under" country
What is Australia?
200
In January of this year, it was announced that this country would march together with the host nation under a unification flag during the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics
What is North Korea?
200
This Emmy award winning Hulu series starring Elisabeth Moss is based on a dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood
What is The Handmaid's Tale? (Also, it is filmed in Toronto, Hamilton, and Cambridge)
200
A classic Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks rom-com set in the Pacific Northwest featuring an NFL team as its supporting cast
What is Sleepless in Seattle Seahawks?
300
The designation referred to as CERA stands for this kind of Enterprise Risk Analyst
What is Chartered?
300
In 1887, this first Prime Minister of Canada was elected as the first President of Manulife
Who is John A. Macdonald?
300
In December, this company bought 21st Century Fox’s entertainment assets in a deal worth more than $52 billion in stock
What is Walt Disney?
300
This athlete has won the most tennis Grand Slam singles titles of all time
Who is Serena Williams? Williams has won 23. Margaret Court is also acceptable (she has won 24, but only 11 during the Open Era where professionals were allowed to compete.) Roger Federer has won 19 (potentially 20 by the end of this week.)
300
An unlucky feline symbol who changed his name to Yusuf Islam after converting to the Muslim faith
What is a Black Cat Stevens?
400
The basis for the original one of these actuarial tools came from a 1662 study in which John Graunt showed that there were predictable patterns of longevity and death in a defined group (or cohort) of people, despite the uncertainty about the mortality of any one individual
What is a Life or Mortality Table?
400
In 2012, Manulife Cambodia was opened with headquarters in this capital city
What is Phnom Penh?
400
In October, this region of Spain approved an independence referendum
What is Catalonia?
400
This is the newest country in the world
What is South Sudan?
400
The historical event featuring the owner of the Dallas Mavericks in tense Cold War era negotiations with JFK, Castro, and Khrushchev
What is the Mark Cuban Missile Crisis?
500
This ancient civilization was the first to mention the concept of insurance in written law
What is Babylon? (Or what is Mesopotamia?) The first written insurance policy appeared in ancient times on a Babylonian obelisk monument with the code of King Hammurabi carved into it. The "Hammurabi Code" was one of the first forms of written laws. These ancient laws offered basic insurance in that a debtor didn't have to pay back his loans if some personal catastrophe made it impossible (disability, death, flooding, etc.).
500
Now a major offshore insurance and reinsurance hub, Manulife's first policy sold outside of Canada was issued here
What is Bermuda?
500
In November, an eruption warning for Mount Agung was issued for this Indonesia island
What is Bali?
500
Bourbon or Rye whiskey, Angostura bitters, a sugar cube, and a few dashes of water are listed as the official ingredients in this Don Draper cocktail of choice
What is an Old Fashioned?
500
Two video game plumbers who may or may not have conspired to kill their own father in Nintendo's take on a Dostoevsky classic
Who are the (Super) Mario Brothers Karamazov?