Which date marked Lehman Brothers’ bankruptcy, a pivotal moment in the 2008 global stock-market crash?
Answer
September 15, 2008
73833 Intermediate Trivia Questions
73833 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
What trading mechanism was widely blamed for intensifying selling during the 1987 Black Monday crash?
Answer
Portfolio insurance
On what date did Japan’s Nikkei 225 reach its pre-bubble peak before the 1990s stock-market crash?
Answer
December 29, 1989
Which stock exchange was the first major Asian market to plunge during the worldwide Black Monday of 1987?
Answer
Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Which 1777 Revolutionary War campaign in New York is widely called the war’s turning point?
Answer
Saratoga campaign
Which 1867 purchase transferred Alaska from the Russian Empire to the United States?
Answer
Alaska Purchase
Which 1773 British law helped provoke the Boston Tea Party?
Answer
Tea Act
What title did Douglas MacArthur use when signing Japan’s surrender instrument in 1945?
Answer
Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers
What was the Allied ultimatum that Japan accepted before surrendering in World War II?
Answer
Potsdam Declaration
What water-powered machine did Leonardo da Vinci design to raise water?
Answer
Water screw
What mechanical worker did Leonardo da Vinci design that is often called a humanoid robot?
Answer
Mechanical knight
What transport machine did Leonardo da Vinci design with a spring-powered mechanism and three wheels?
Answer
Self-propelled cart
Which Pokémon game first gave the player Pikachu as the only starter?
Answer
Pokémon Yellow
What were the original Pokémon games called when they launched in Japan?
Answer
Pokémon Red and Green
Which 1952 book by C.S. Lewis developed from his BBC talks on Christianity?
Answer
Mere Christianity
Which organization did C.S. Lewis help found in Oxford in 1933?
Answer
The Inklings
What is the title of C.S. Lewis’s 1943 book arguing that moral education needs an objective basis?
Answer
The Abolition of Man
What is the name of C.S. Lewis’s Christian allegory published in 1933?
Answer
The Pilgrim’s Regress
Which allegorical novel by C.S. Lewis was published in 1956 as the final Narnia book?
Answer
The Last Battle
What is the name of the protagonist in the Pandora Hearts manga?
Answer
Oz Vessalius
Who wrote the Japanese manga series Pandora Hearts?
Answer
Jun Mochizuki
In Greek mythology, why did Zeus send Pandora to humanity?
Answer
To punish humanity
Which Greek god is said to have fashioned Pandora’s body from clay?
Answer
Hephaestus
What is the name of J.K. Rowling’s 2008 charity book about wizarding school tales?
Answer
The Tales of Beedle the Bard
In what year did J.K. Rowling receive an OBE?
Answer
2001