Economics
An increase in goods and prices over time.
What is inflation?
The term for a paid message designed to persuade people to buy a product/service.
What is an advertisement?
This video-sharing app, known as Douyin in China, became a global phenomenon for short-form mobile videos.
What is TikTok?
This American president resigned in 1974 after the Watergate scandal revealed a cover-up connected to a break-in at Democratic Party headquarters.
Who is Richard Nixon?
This fast-food chain is famous for the Big Mac and the Golden Arches.
What is McDonalds?
The value of the next-best alternative you give up when making a decision.
What is opportunity cost?
The foundational framework of marketing, showing how a business brings a product to a market.
HINT- "4 _'s"
What are the 4 P's?
Named after a 10th-century Scandinavian king, this wireless technology allows electronic devices to communicate over short distances.
What is Bluetooth?
This actor was involved in the infamous 2022 Oscars incident in which he walked onstage and slapped presenter Chris Rock.
Who is Will Smith?
This YouTuber became famous for elaborate challenges, huge cash prizes, and videos involving extreme competitions.
Who is MrBeast?
When the government collects more in tax revenue than it spends.
What is a budget surplus?
This 3-letter acronym represents the practice of designing a website architecture to rank higher in organic search engine results.
What is SEO (Search Engine Optimization)?
This open-source operating system, symbolized by a penguin named Tux, powers the vast majority of the world's web servers.
What is Linux?
This 1990s American political scandal centered on a White House intern and President Bill Clinton, eventually leading to impeachment proceedings.
What is the Lewinsky scandal?
This filmmaker is well known for directing hit movies like Interstellar, Oppenheimer, Dunkirk, and more.
What the Fed does to encourage borrowing and stimulate economic activity.
What is lowering interest rates?
What is the term for the percentage of people who click an advertisement after seeing it?
Click-through rate (CTR).
Unlike traditional computing that uses bits (0s and 1s), this futuristic computing method uses "qubits" that can exist in a state of superposition.
What is quantum computing?
This pharmaceutical executive became known as “Pharma Bro” after his company raised the price of a life-saving medication called Daraprim by more than 5,000% overnight.
Who is Martin Shkreli?
This 1997 film features a romance aboard a doomed ocean liner and won 11 Academy Awards.
What is Titanic?
The economic term for why Amazon is able to deliver goods for faster and cheaper than your local clothing store.
What is economies of scale?
This marketing strategy involves selling two or more products together for one combined price, often lower than buying each separately.
What is product bundling?
This type of cyberattack involves criminals sending fraudulent emails or messages to trick people into revealing passwords or financial information.
What is phishing?
This 2008 financial scandal involved a financier who deceived investors for decades by using money from new investors to pay existing clients.
Who is Bernie Madoff?
The name of Rachel's daughter on the TV show, Friends.
Who is Emma?