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What is Ferris Bueller's Day Off?
In this 1986 film, the title character pretends to be Abe Froman the "Sausage King of Chicago."
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Who is Madonna?
Female pop star born in Bay City, Michigan in 1958 who holds the title of the wealthiest woman in the music business.
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Who is Tim Kelly?
A Lockton Producer Member who, in his spare time, breeds and raises elite polo ponies.
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What is Alliant Insurance Services?
A major US insurance broker which is expected to teeter on the edge of oblivion as a result of the COVID 19 crisis and way too much leverage.
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What is the US Dollar sign?
The origin of this symbol was the currency known as Spanish "Pieces of Eight."
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What is the Shawshank Redemption?
A 1994 film which has, for many years, been the number one highest rated film of all time by users of the Internet Movie Database.
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Who is Pete Best?
Drummer of the Beatles from 1960 to 1962.
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What is 1966?
The year Lockton was founded.
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What is the "safe word" used when Ann Abercrombie becomes too ribald and inappropriate with her remarks?
Baseball
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Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
The heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary who was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip in 1914 thereby triggering the First World War.
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What is the Brady Bunch?
This television show, which ran on Friday nights from 1969 to 1974, has been appropriated recently to describe the group view of multiple participant videoconferences
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Who is Merle Haggard?
Country music star who was in the "audience" when Johnny Cash performed Folsom Prison Blues at the San Quentin State Prison in 1960.
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Who is Bryan Norton?
A Lockton Producer Member who has twice made the cut in the British Open and was recently admitted as a member of the Kansas Golf Hall of Fame.
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What is the University of Kansas?
This University's basketball team is recognized with six national championships: three in the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, two as a result of a bunch of guys in New York sitting around a table drinking in the 1920s, and one as a result of completing a season as the unanimous number one team in the Country in all possible rankings.
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What is the Liberty Bell?
American symbol which cracked the first time it was used - extended warranty anyone?
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What is Rocky?
1976 Oscar Winner for Best Picture starring, in an Oscar nominated supporting actor role, the actor who played "The Penguin" in the Batman television series.
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What is Antonio Salieri?
Italian composer who was the rival of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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Who is Jeff Carey?
A Lockton Kansas City Unit Leader who was a member of the 2002 University of Kansas Final Four men's basketball team.
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What is Kansas City?
This metropolitan statistical area had approximately the same population as the Dallas and Denver metropolitan statistical areas in 1972.
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What is a pangolin?
Tasty Asian mammal considered as the possible means of transmission of the coronavirus from bats to humans.
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What is the Breakfast Club?
1985 film in which actor Anthony Michael Hall remarks, "Chicks can't hold da smoke, dat's what it is."
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Who is Michael Jackson?
Deceased pop star who, in 1985 purchased the publishing rights to the entire Beatles song catalogue.
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Who is Tim Ryan?
This Lockton COO completed an Iron Man competition in 2019.
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How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
A woodchuck would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
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What is a hectare?
A unit of area equal to 10,000 square meters.
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