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• Leonardo Da Vinci's Inventions

What type of armored vehicle did Leonardo da Vinci design with sloped plates and internal cannon?

Answer

Armored tank

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• Leonardo Da Vinci's Inventions

What name is given to Leonardo da Vinci’s helical machine intended to rise like a helicopter?

Answer

Aerial screw

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• Leonardo Da Vinci's Inventions

What Leonardo da Vinci design is widely known as the first practical parachute concept?

Answer

Pyramidal parachute

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• World's Stock Market Crashes

Which French company was at the center of the Mississippi Bubble, one of the major financial crashes of 1720?

Answer

Mississippi Company

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• World's Stock Market Crashes

Which Shanghai stock-market index reached its 2015 bubble peak on June 12 before China’s crash?

Answer

Shanghai Composite

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• World's Stock Market Crashes

In which year did the South Sea Bubble collapse after the South Sea Company’s shares soared in Britain?

Answer

1720

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• World's Stock Market Crashes

What was the name of the 1962 U.S. stock-market decline caused partly by fears over steel-price increases?

Answer

Kennedy Slide of 1962

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• World's Stock Market Crashes

Which British bank collapse was a major early event in the 2007–2008 financial crisis?

Answer

Northern Rock

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• World's Stock Market Crashes

Which 1997 currency devaluation helped trigger the Asian financial crisis and major stock-market falls?

Answer

Thai baht devaluation

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• World's Stock Market Crashes

During the 1929 Wall Street Crash, which U.S. president was in office when Black Tuesday struck?

Answer

Herbert Hoover

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• World's Stock Market Crashes

Which Japanese index was the main benchmark during the 1990s collapse of Japan's asset bubble?

Answer

Nikkei 225

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• World's Stock Market Crashes

Which index fell nearly 90% during Russia’s 1998 financial crisis?

Answer

RTS Index

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