HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW ABOUT FINANCIAL HISTORY?

1. Who was the first president of the Bank of the United States?

2. Which company completed the construction of New York’ s newest skyscraper in October 2025?

3. Which two Gilded Age financiers had warrants issued for their arrest in connection with the battle for the Erie Railway in 1868?

4. What American company’ s 1970 bankruptcy signaled the end of the conglomerates era?

5. What former Assistant Treasury Secretary caused the nation’ s first panic in 1792?

6. Which US President’ s father was one of J. P. Morgan’ s subject matter experts for the syndicated loan to the reorganized Philadelphia and Reading Railroad?

7. What are the only two companies currently classified as industrial conglomerates in the S & P 500?

8. What was the earliest colonial coinage, minted by the Massachusetts Bay Colony beginning in 1652?

9. Where in New York City can the façade of the Second Branch Bank of the United States currently be found?

10. What 1886 NYC mayoral candidate advocated for a single tax on land to raise revenue and expand real estate ownership?

1. Thomas Willing 2. JPMorgan Chase 3. Jay Gould and James“ Jubilee Jim” Fisk 4. The Penn Central 5. William Duer 6. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 7. 3M and Honeywell 8. Pine tree shilling 9. The Metropolitan Museum of Art 10. Henry George

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