Financial History Issue 114 (Summer 2015) | Page 41
Wall Street Walks takes visitors through the historic capital
of world finance — the one-square-mile of downtown Manhattan
known as “Wall Street.” Our visitors learn about people, places and
events comprising over 200 years of history, as they walk among
locations where it all happened.
• Regular public tours daily, except Sunday.
• Group and private tours available.
Proud walking tour partner of the Museum of American Finance.
CONTACT:
www.WallSreetWalks.com
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212-666-0175 (office)
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TRIVIAQUIZ
By Bob Shabazian
1. Who is quoted as saying, “in this
world nothing can be said to be
certain except death and taxes?”
2. What is the origin of the term “blue
chip stock”?
3. What technology company recently
replaced AT&T in the Dow Jones
Industrial Average?
4. What do the terms “sawbuck,”
“double sawbuck” and “fin” have
in common?
5. What made Robert J. Birnbaum’s
Wall Street career so unique?
6. An “inversion” refers to what
corporate action?
7. Warren Buffett, who has headed
Berkshire Hathaway for 50 years, is
believed to be the second longestserving chief executive of a US
public company. Who is the longestserving CEO?
8. What was the first bank on Wall
Street?
9. Who was Wall Street’s first insider
trader?
10. Who said, “Don’t try to buy at the
bottom and sell at the top. It can’t
be done except by liars?”
1. Benjamin Franklin in 1789. 2. It came
from the game of poker, where a blue
chip is considered the highest value.
3. Apple Inc. 4. All refer to US paper
currency: sawbuck ($10 bill), double
sawbuck ($20 bill) and fin ($5 bill). 5. He was
president of two major stock exchanges, first
serving as president of the American Stock
Exchange and later serving in the same
capacity at the New York Stock Exchange.
6. The merging or acquisition of a company
in a foreign country with a lower tax rate,
thus allowing money earned overseas to be
attributed to that company’s books without
paying additional US taxes. 7. Leslie Wexner,
the founder, chairman and CEO of L Brands.
He started his company in 1963 with a single
store in Ohio called The Limited. 8. The Bank
of New York (on the site now occupied by
the Museum of American Finance)
9. William Duer, in 1792. 10. Financier
and presidential adviser Bernard Baruch.
WALL STREET
WALKS
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