Money & Business Trivia
Famous companies and their founders, currencies, stock markets, scandals and the terms behind the financial news. This category covers how money works and the businesses that made it.
Type the company, the currency or the term yourself. Every question ends with a short fact from business history.
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- 96medium
- 90hard
What's covered
- Famous companies
- Founders
- Currencies
- Stock markets
- Corporate scandals
- Economics
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- easy
Which street in Lower Manhattan has become shorthand for the American financial industry as a whole?
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Wall Street
Wall Street took its name from an actual defensive wall built by Dutch colonists in the 17th century (a wooden stockade erected in 1653 along the northern edge of New Amsterdam).
- easy
What is the name of Coca-Cola's main rival in the cola market?
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Pepsi
The decades-long rivalry between the two soda giants became known as the 'Cola Wars,' peaking with Pepsi's blind taste-test ad campaign (the Pepsi Challenge), which launched in 1975.
- medium
What U.S. stock market index tracks 500 of the largest publicly traded companies in the country?
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S and P 500
The index was launched in 1957 by Standard and Poor's and is now the most widely watched benchmark for the U.S. stock market.
- medium
What investment bank's bankruptcy filing in September 2008 helped trigger the global financial crisis?
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Lehman Brothers
At $639 billion in assets, Lehman Brothers' collapse remains the largest bankruptcy filing in US history.
- hard
What is the name of the centuries-old London insurance market, not itself an insurance company, where independent underwriting syndicates share the risk on each policy?
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Lloyd's of London
Lloyd's began in a 17th-century London coffee house (Edward Lloyd's, first referenced in 1688) where sailors, ship captains, and merchants gathered to arrange marine insurance.
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