Category: Brain Teasers

What is the name of the New York Stock Exchange’s founding document?

Buttonwood Agreement
Virginia Plan
New York Securities Pact
Wall Street Pledge

The Answer: The correct answer is Buttonwood Agreement.

What famous investor wrote 1949’s “The Intelligent Investor”?

Benjamin Graham
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Benjamin Disraeli
George Soros

The Answer: The correct answer is Benjamin Graham.

What famous investor wrote 1949’s “The Intelligent Investor”?

Benjamin Graham
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Benjamin Disraeli
George Soros

The Answer: The correct answer is Benjamin Graham.

What marked the start of trading before the NYSE adopted a bell in 1903?

Chinese gong
Trumpet
Airhorn
Buzzer

The Answer: The correct answer is Chinese gong.

What invention allowed brokers on Wall Street to share stock prices?

Price pipe
Share tubes
AOL Instant Messaging
Stock ticker

The Answer: The correct answer is Stock ticker.

During which of the following events did the NYSE close?

1973 Oil embargo
1963 Kennedy assassination
1984 Olympics
1969 moon landing

The Answer: The correct answer is 1969 moon landing.

Which celebrity investor is nicknamed the “Oracle of Omaha”?

Carl Icahn
Warren Buffett
Bill Ackman
Peter Thiel

The Answer: The correct answer is Warren Buffett.

What term describes a period of overvalued web startups in the 1990s?

Tech Crunch
Echo Boom
Dotcom Bubble
Great Recession

The Answer: The correct answer is Dotcom Bubble.

How did Wall Street get its name?

An actual wall
A Native American word
An early British settler
An economic theory

The Answer: The correct answer is An actual wall.

What is the index that tracks the top 500 U.S. stocks?

Dow Jones
Nasdaq
S&P 500
Russell Midcap

The Answer: The correct answer is S&P 500.