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What is the name of the Elvish script J.R.R. Tolkien created for writing many Middle-earth languages?
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Tengwar
Which Oxford college did J.R.R. Tolkien join as a professor in 1925?
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Pembroke College
What is the language spoken by the Ents called in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings?
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Entish
Which 2008 global crisis caused stock markets worldwide to plunge after the collapse of the U.S. housing bubble?
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Global financial crisis
Which 1893 U.S. financial panic followed the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad’s bankruptcy and caused a major stock-market crash?
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Panic of 1893
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Which Oxford college did J.R.R. Tolkien join as a professor in 1925?
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Pembroke College
Which 2008 global crisis caused stock markets worldwide to plunge after the collapse of the U.S. housing bubble?
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Global financial crisis
What was the 1720 French speculative bubble involving the Mississippi Company called?
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Mississippi Bubble
Which 2015 event saw China’s Shanghai Composite fall about 8.5% in one day?
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Black Monday (2015)
Which 1929 trading day preceded Black Tuesday and was called Black Thursday?
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October 24, 1929
Which 1987 crash saw Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index fall 46% in five days?
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Black Monday
Which 1962 U.S. market plunge is known by a name referring to President Kennedy?
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Kennedy Slide
Which 1989 crash in the United States followed the leveraged buyout of United Airlines being called off?
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Friday the 13th mini-crash