89685 Intermediate Trivia Questions
89685 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
Which institution, established in 1935, is Argentina’s central bank?
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Banco Central de la República Argentina
Which institution is Finland’s central bank, founded in 1811 and headquartered in Helsinki?
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Bank of Finland
Which institution is the central bank of Fiji and manages the country’s monetary policy?
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Reserve Bank of Fiji
Which central bank was founded in 1925 as Chile’s first independent monetary authority?
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Central Bank of Chile
Which central bank was founded in 1930 to manage Turkey’s monetary policy?
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Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey
Which central bank was established in 1934 under New Zealand’s Reserve Bank Act?
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Reserve Bank of New Zealand
What was the first product made by the H. J. Heinz Company when it began in 1869?
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Prepared horseradish
Which chewing-gum brand was first scanned with a Universal Product Code in 1974?
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Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit
What was the original company name of Sony when it was founded in Tokyo in 1946?
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Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo
Which company operates AliExpress, the international online retail marketplace?
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Alibaba Group
What was Groupon originally called when it began in 2008?
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The Point
What was the first product purchased in a secure online retail transaction, reported in 1994 by NetMarket?
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Sting’s Ten Summoner’s Tales CD
Which film studio did Amazon acquire in 2022 for $8.45 billion, gaining the James Bond franchise?
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
On what date did Black Friday, the 1869 U.S. gold-market crash, occur?
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September 24, 1869
Which trading strategy was widely blamed for intensifying the 1987 global stock-market crash?
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Portfolio insurance
Which company’s failure helped trigger the Panic of 1893 in the United States?
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Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
Which financier coordinated the private rescue effort during the Panic of 1907?
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J. P. Morgan
Which 1998 crisis followed Russia's default and contributed to the rescue of Long-Term Capital Management?
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Russian financial crisis
What was the 1994 Mexican currency crisis commonly called in financial markets?
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Tequila crisis
Which coin, first minted in 1741, was widely used in international trade and named for Empress Maria Theresa?
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Maria Theresa thaler
Which silver coin became the main trade currency of the Spanish Empire in the Americas?
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Spanish dollar
Which country became the first to officially adopt the gold standard in 1821?
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United Kingdom
Which Swedish institution, founded in 1668, is often called the world’s oldest central bank?
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Sveriges Riksbank