HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW ABOUT FINANCIAL HISTORY?

1. Who was the first female CEO of a major American corporation?

2. What US commodity’ s annual production totals about $ 70 billion?

3. What renowned painter engaged in risk-free arbitrage of British government securities in the mid-1800s?

4. Which panic was forced upon the American people by the“ Free Silver” movement?

5. Which US President was New York’ s chief bank supervisor in 1848?

6. Who was the first woman director of a US public company?

7. Who joined the General Foods board in 1936, cementing her place among the first women to hold such a role at a major American corporation?

8. What stolen painting is on the cover of Peter Bernstein book, Against the Gods, about how the quantification of financial risk in the 1950s paved the way for modern risk management techniques?

9. What Wall Street figure and grandfather of Winston Churchill had a racetrack named after him in the Bronx, NY?

10. What pioneering executive and civic-minded leader’ s vision and contributions helped Coca-Cola become the global brand it is today?

1. Anna Bissell( Bissell Carpet Sweeper Company) 2. Corn 3. J. M. W. Turner 4. The Panic of 1893 5. Millard Fillmore 6. Clara Abbott( Abbott Labs) 7. Marjorie Merriweather Post 8. Rembrandt’ s Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee 9. Leonard Jerome 10. Lettie Pate Whitehead Evans www. MoAF. org | Fall 2025 | FINANCIAL HISTORY 43