Financial History Issue 112 (Winter 2015) | Page 41
HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW
ABOUT FINANCIAL HISTORY?
WALL STREET
WALKS
TRIVIAQUIZ
By Bob Shabazian
1. Who was the nation’s longestserving Secretary of the Treasury?
2. What salary was paid to John Adams
as the first Vice President of the US?
3. What executive action by President
Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939 gave
rise to the phrase “Franks-giving?”
4. In which month have nine of the
worst plunges (percentage-wise) of
the Dow Jones Industrial Average
occurred?
5. Who were the chairmen of the
New York Stock Exchange and the
American Stock Exchange at the
time of the October 19, 1987 stock
market crash?
6. What artist created the famous
“Charging Bull” sculpture in Lower
Manhattan?
7. Which two brothers once supplied
automobile components to the Ford
Motor Company and later formed
their own automobile company?
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9. What piece of legislation created
the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation (FDIC)?
10. What was the world’s first billiondollar corporation?
1. Albert Gallatin 2. $5,000 3. He moved
Thanksgiving forward by a week to lengthen
the Christmas shopping season. A few
years later, the idea was abandoned and
Thanksgiving was established as the fourth
Thursday in November. 4. October 5. John
J. Phelan Jr. at the NYSE and Arthur Levitt, Jr.
at the Amex 6. Arturo Di Modica 7. Horace
and John Dodge 8. The power to levy a tax
on income 9. The Banking Act of 1933
10. US Steel, formed in 1901 with
capitalization estimated at $1.4 billion
Wall Street Walks takes visitors through the historic capital
8. When the states ratified the 16th
amendment to the US Constitution
in 1913, what action did they give
the federal government authority
to take?
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