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• New Year's Eve Celebrations

Which New Year's Eve tradition in Denmark involves jumping off a chair at midnight for good luck?

Answer

Jumping into the New Year

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• New Year's Eve Celebrations

Which American city holds the Rose Parade on New Year's Day, the morning after New Year's Eve?

Answer

Pasadena

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• New Year's Eve Celebrations

Which New Year's Eve event is held at Edinburgh Castle as part of Hogmanay?

Answer

Midnight fireworks

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• New Year's Eve Celebrations

Which Pacific island country includes Kiritimati, one of the world's earliest inhabited places to enter a new year?

Answer

Kiribati

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• Georgia O'Keeffe

Which New Mexico settlement contains Georgia O'Keeffe’s historic home and studio?

Answer

Abiquiú

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• Georgia O'Keeffe

In what year did the Whitney Museum present its first retrospective devoted to Georgia O'Keeffe?

Answer

1970

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• World's Stock Market Crashes

Which U.S. president created the Reconstruction Finance Corporation during the 1930s financial crisis?

Answer

Herbert Hoover

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• World's Stock Market Crashes

Which Thai currency decision marked the beginning of the 1997 Asian financial crisis and ensuing market crashes?

Answer

Baht devaluation

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• World's Stock Market Crashes

Approximately what percentage did the S&P 500 fall from its 2007 peak to its 2009 low during the global financial crisis?

Answer

56.8%

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• World's Stock Market Crashes

Which U.S. president signed the 1933 law that created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation after the banking panic?

Answer

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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• World's Stock Market Crashes

Which Japanese stock index fell from its 1989 peak during the crash of Japan's asset-price bubble?

Answer

Nikkei 225

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• World's Stock Market Crashes

On which date did the 1929 Wall Street Crash's largest one-day percentage fall occur, becoming known as Black Monday?

Answer

October 28, 1929

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