Financial History Issue 130 (Summer 2019) | Page 42
TRIVIA QUIZ
HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW ABOUT FINANCIAL HISTORY?
1. What was the first and only bank run
by Black women in the United States?
2. What is the NYSE-listed Minnesota
Mining and Manufacturing Company
better known as?
3. What banker and editor of
The Economist is known as
“the Greatest Victorian”?
4. What legislation attempted to
regulate small sum lending in the
early 20th century?
5. What bank president was the most
powerful Black woman in the financial
industry in the 1920s?
6. What bank served Irish immigrants
for generations before demutualizing
in 1986?
7. What 19th century Wall Street broker
was nicknamed the “Dark Prince” of
Wall Street?
8. What word was recently misspelled
on more than 46 million of Australia’s
new $50 bank notes?
9. How many times does “The United
States of America” appear on a
$100 bill?
10. What first lady has appeared multiple
times on paper money?
1. The St. Luke Bank in Richmond, Virginia
2. 3M 3. Walter Bagehot 4. The Uniform
Small Loan Law 5. Maggie Lena Walker
6. Emigrant Savings Bank 7. Jeremiah
Hamilton 8. Responsibility 9. 12 times
10. Martha Washington
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