What was the name of the hedge fund whose 1998 collapse threatened global financial stability?
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Long-Term Capital Management
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What was the name of the hedge fund whose 1998 collapse threatened global financial stability?
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Long-Term Capital Management
What nickname was given to the 2010 U.S. stock-market plunge that lasted about 36 minutes?
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Flash Crash
What was the name of the 1989 Japanese stock-market peak’s wider speculative boom in shares and land?
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Japanese asset-price bubble
What was the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s first published poem, printed in 1911?
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The Battle of the Eastern Field
What is the name of the mountain where the One Ring is destroyed in Tolkien’s mythology?
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Mount Doom
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What was the name of the 1989 Japanese stock-market peak’s wider speculative boom in shares and land?
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Japanese asset-price bubble
What was the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s first published poem, printed in 1911?
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The Battle of the Eastern Field
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s first academic teaching post, which he began at the University of Leeds in 1920?
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Reader in English Language
Which Tolkien work was published posthumously in 1977 as a collection of Middle-earth legends?
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The Silmarillion
In which journal was Tolkien’s essay Leaf by Niggle first published in 1945?
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The Dublin Review