Financial History Issue 122 (Summer 2017) | Page 41
WALL STREET
WALKS
HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW
ABOUT FINANCIAL HISTORY?
TRIVIA QUIZ
1. Who is considered the financier of
the American Revolution?
2. What historical business leader and
philanthropist said, “I believe that
every right implies a responsibility;
every opportunity, an obligation;
every possession, a duty.”
3. In what year was “In God We Trust”
added to US paper money?
4. Who invented the first stock ticker
in 1863?
5. How many times can you fold a
dollar bill back and forth before it
tears?
6. What is the world’s heaviest
currency?
7. The 1951 US silver half dollar
features two Black Americans. One is
George Washington Carver. Who is
the other?
8. Who vetoed the third Bank of the
United States?
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.
9. Who said, “A national debt, if it is not
excessive, will be to us a national
blessing?”
10. What city housed the nation’s first
bank?
• Regular public tours daily, except Sunday.
• Group and private tours available.
Proud walking tour partner of the Museum of American Finance.
1. Robert Morris 2. John D. Rockefeller
3. 1957 4. Edward A. Calahan
5. Approximately 4,000 times
6. The Rai stone, found on the Island
of Yap, which can weigh up to 7.6 tons
7. Booker T. Washington 8. President
John Tyler 9. Alexander Hamilton
10. Philadelphia
CONTACT:
www.WallStreetWalks.com
tours@wallstreetwalks.com
212-666-0175 (office)
212-209-3370 (ticket hotline)
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