689 World's Stock Market Crashes Trivia Questions with Answers
689 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
What event triggered the Panic of 1873 after the Vienna Stock Exchange crash?
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The collapse of the Jay Cooke & Company bank
Which U.S. stock-market crash began after the Dow Jones peaked in January 1973?
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1973–1974 stock market crash
Which New York trust company’s failure intensified the Panic of 1907?
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Knickerbocker Trust Company
Which 1997 market crash in Hong Kong followed the handover of sovereignty from Britain to China?
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1997 Hong Kong stock-market crash
Which British stock-market crash in 1720 followed the collapse of the South Sea Company?
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South Sea Bubble
What name is given to the 1997 stock-market crash that began in Thailand and spread across East Asia?
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Asian financial crisis
Which stock exchange saw the largest one-day percentage fall during the global Black Monday crash of 1987?
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Hong Kong Stock Exchange
During China’s 2015 stock-market crash, which benchmark index fell about 8.5% on August 24?
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Shanghai Composite
During the Panic of 1907, which New York trust company’s collapse intensified the stock-market crash?
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Knickerbocker Trust Company
On what date did the worldwide stock-market crash known as Black Monday begin?
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October 19, 1987
Which investment firm failed in 1998 after losses linked to Russian debt and caused a major hedge-fund crisis?
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Long-Term Capital Management
Which company’s collapse in 1720 helped define France’s Mississippi Bubble?
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Mississippi Company
What was the name of Hong Kong’s severe stock-market crash in October 1987?
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Black Monday
Which U.S. president was in office during the Panic of 1907?
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Theodore Roosevelt
Which 1998 Russian debt default and currency collapse helped trigger the failure of Long-Term Capital Management?
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Russian financial crisis
Which 1989 Japanese asset-price collapse followed the bursting of a major stock and real-estate bubble?
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Japanese asset price bubble
What was the nickname of the rapid U.S. market collapse on May 6, 2010?
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Flash Crash
Which U.S. technology index peaked in March 2000 before the dot-com crash?
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Nasdaq Composite
Which 1720 British company became the namesake of a famous speculative bubble and collapse?
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South Sea Company
What date is known as Black Thursday, the opening day of the 1929 Wall Street crash?
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October 24, 1929
Which hedge fund’s near-collapse intensified market turmoil during the 1998 global financial crisis?
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Long-Term Capital Management
On what date did Japan’s Nikkei 225 reach its pre-crash record high?
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December 29, 1989
Which U.S. technology index lost about 78% from its March 2000 peak during the dot-com crash?
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Nasdaq Composite
Which U.S. stock-market crash followed the failure of Jay Cooke & Company in 1873?
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Panic of 1873
Which speculative bubble burst in London in 1720, causing a famous early stock-market crash?
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South Sea Bubble