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) www.MoAF.org  |  Summer 2017  |  FINANCIAL HISTORY  39