TRIVIA QUIZ
HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW ABOUT FINANCIAL HISTORY?
1. What crusading educator and brilliant
economist together led the Black
Cabinet during Franklin Delano
Roosevelt’s administration?
2. There is much debate about
the penny being removed from
circulation in the next few years. What
would be required for that to happen?
3. At what school did both Benjamin
Graham and his partner, David Dodd,
teach their security analysis classes?
4. John Law, the Scottish gambler and
economic theorist responsible for one
of history’s greatest financial bubbles,
can also be considered a little-known
founder of which US city?
5. Under which early US President’s
leadership did the government
distribute federal land grants for the
construction of roads and canals,
spending almost $3 million on
internal improvements?
6. Which three US Presidents were
impeached, resulting in varying
impacts on the financial markets?
7. Which was the only investment house
of the top 207 firms of the Ford Motor
Company IPO syndicate to be led by
a woman?
8. Which denomination of US currency is
the most commonly used within the
United States and represents about
23% of all currency in circulation?
9. What company made history in
September 2014 by becoming the
largest IPO on the New York Stock
Exchange?
10. Which US state introduced sales tax in
1921—12 years before 11 other states
followed suit?
1. Mary McLeod Bethune and Robert
Weaver 2. Congressional approval
3. Columbia University 4. New Orleans
5. James Monroe 6. Andrew Johnson, Bill
Clinton and Donald Trump 7. A.M. Kidder
8. $20 bill 9. Alibaba Group 10. West Virginia
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