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Which character carries the One Ring to Mount Doom in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings?
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Frodo Baggins
Which World War I battle did J.R.R. Tolkien experience in 1916?
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Battle of the Somme
What date is celebrated as Bilbo and Frodo Baggins’s birthday in Tolkien’s world?
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22 September
Which company’s bankruptcy in September 2008 became the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history and intensified the global financial crisis?
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Lehman Brothers
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Which 1937 novel by J.R.R. Tolkien introduces Bilbo Baggins?
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The Hobbit
Which World War I battle did J.R.R. Tolkien experience in 1916?
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Battle of the Somme
On what date did Black Tuesday, the final major trading-day crash of 1929, occur?
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October 29, 1929
Which hedge fund’s collapse in 1998 became a major episode in the global market turmoil after Russia’s debt default?
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Long-Term Capital Management
What was the name of the 1973–1974 global stock-market decline linked to the oil crisis and stagflation?
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1973–1974 stock-market crash
Which French speculative bubble of 1720 centered on John Law’s Mississippi Company?
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Mississippi Bubble
Which 1720 bubble burst when shares of the South Sea Company collapsed in Britain?
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South Sea Bubble
Which Russian financial crisis included the August 1998 default on domestic debt?
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Russian financial crisis