16373 Hard Trivia Questions
16373 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
What is the term for preferential tariff treatment given to developing countries by developed nations?
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Generalized System of Preferences
What is the name of the agreement that created the World Trade Organization?
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Marrakesh Agreement
What is the name of the index that uses a geometric mean formula to adjust for substitution effects in consumer prices?
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Chained Consumer Price Index
Which price index excluding food and energy is closely watched by the Federal Reserve?
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Core PCE price index
What is the term for the unemployment rate that exists when the economy is at full employment, including frictional and structural factors?
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Natural rate of unemployment
Which investment bank became the first publicly traded Wall Street firm in 1970?
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Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette
Which investment bank was founded by Robert F. Greenhill in 1996?
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Greenhill & Co.
Which investment banking family financed the British war effort during the Napoleonic Wars?
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Rothschild family
What was the exact size of the 2008 TARP bailout program authorized by Congress?
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$700 billion
In 2005, which consumer goods company acquired the Gillette Company for $57 billion?
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Procter & Gamble
In 2016, which beer company acquired SABMiller for over $100 billion?
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Anheuser-Busch InBev
In 2006, which American medical device company acquired Guidant for $27 billion?
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Boston Scientific
In 1999, which British defence electronics company merged with British Aerospace to form BAE Systems?
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Marconi Electronic Systems
Which bank acquired BankAmerica in 1998 to form Bank of America?
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NationsBank
What was the first billion-dollar merger in US history, formed in 1901?
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U.S. Steel
In 2016, which Chinese company acquired the German robotics firm Kuka?
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Midea Group
What is the term for a merger between two companies of roughly equal size?
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Merger of equals
In 2014, which cable company did Comcast attempt to acquire for $45.2 billion?
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Time Warner Cable
What ratio is retained earnings divided by total assets, used in the Altman Z-score?
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Retained earnings to total assets
What ratio is calculated as return on equity multiplied by the retention ratio?
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Sustainable growth rate
What insurance ratio is (incurred losses plus expenses) divided by earned premiums?
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Combined ratio
What bank ratio is (interest income minus interest expense) divided by average earning assets?
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Net interest margin
What bankruptcy prediction model uses nine financial ratios to compute an O-score?
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Ohlson O-score