1. Of the 12 original stocks in the Dow
Jones Industrial Average, three had
“American” in their name, and two
had “US.” Can you name them?
2. Name the other seven stocks in the
original DJIA.
3. Gold is stored at Fort Knox. During
World War II, what other items were
kept there?
4. Who said, “The chief business of the
American people is business”?
5. What law created a new Consumer
Financial Protection Bureau in 2010?
6. What does it cost the government
to produce the following currencies:
Sacagawea dollar coin, the $100 bill
and the quarter, the $50 and $20 bills,
the $10 and $5 bills, the dime and the
nickel, the $1 bill and the penny?
7. Social Security presently has about
3.1 workers supporting each retiree.
When Social Security was first created,
how many workers supported each
retiree?
8. Who said, “Any man who has to ask
about the annual upkeep of a yacht
can’t afford one”?
9. What company, delisted from the
New York Stock Exchange after almost
a century on the Big Board, resumed
trading on the Exchange in 2010?
10. What responsibility was assigned to
the Bureau of Engraving and Printing
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in the early 1890s, decades after the
Bureau was created in 1862?
11. The modern estate tax, when enacted
in 1916, imposed a 10% tax on the
portions of estates above what level?
12. When did the New York Stock and
Exchange Board change its name to
the New York Stock Exchange?
13. Who said, “A national debt, if it is not
excessive, will be to us a national
blessing”?
14. What were the largest percentage
and point drops in the history of the
Dow Jones Industrial Average?
15. What financial institution’s logo
depicts a six-horse stagecoach?
16. When the 10 millionth Model T. Ford
rolled off Henry Ford’s assembly line
in 1925, how much did it cost?
17. Who wrote, “You have undertaken to
cheat me. I won’t sue you, for the law
is too slow. I’ll ruin you”?
18. The Computing-Tabulating-Recording
Company later became what company?
19. Among large sc