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The discount factor for one year when the interest rate is 5%.

What is 1/1.05≈0.9521

100

These massive stone structures outside Cairo were built as royal tombs and are the most famous symbols of Ancient Egypt.

What are the Pyramids of Giza?

100
This is the month and year Anna and Yves met 

What is Dec 2018?

100

This ancient port city, south of Beirut, is famously associated with the Phoenicians and the color purple.

What is Tyre?

100

This is the name of our tour guide for the Pyramids of Giza.

Who is Jasmine?

200

The portfolio that minimizes variance for a given expected return and lies on the efficient frontier.

What is the tangency (mean–variance optimal) portfolio?

200

This desert valley near Luxor contains the tombs of New Kingdom pharaohs, including the most famous boy king.

What is the Valley of the Kings?

200

This is where the Choueifatys and Fadels had their first vacation trip.

Where is the amalfi coast?

200

These two dishes frequently eaten in Lebanon are actually of Egyptian origin

What are Molokhia, and Ful medames?

200

This is the name of the author of the Black Swan.

Who is Nassim Taleb?

300

The value of a stock with a $2 dividend next year, a discount rate of 10%, and a constant growth rate of 5%.

What is $40?

300

The Great Pyramid at Giza is attributed to this pharaoh, whose reign helped consolidate centralized state power through monumental architecture.

Who is Khufu?

300

This is the political figure Joseph shook hands with at an entrepreneur's summit.

Who is Macron?

300

By population size, these five cities consistently rank as Lebanon’s largest urban centers in order.

What are Beirut, Tripoli, Sidon, Tyre, and Zahle?

300

This is the name of the prediction market startup co-founded by a Lebanese entrepreneur.

What is Kalshi?

400

A trading strategy that borrows in a low-interest-rate currency and invests in a high-interest-rate currency to earn the yield spread.

What is the carry trade?

400

Tutankhamun ruled during this dynasty, shortly after Egypt’s brief experiment with monotheism under Akhenaten.

What is the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt?

400

This is the full name of the island where Gabriel and Hala are getting married.

What is Fernando de Noronha?

400

In Arabic, these are the four symbols found in a standard deck of playing cards.

What are قلوب، ألماس، بستوني، وسباتي?

400

This is a Lebanese political figure who in 2015 admitted to hiding Stig Bergling, a Swedish spy who had escaped prison after being convicted of selling secrets to the Soviet Union in Lebanon.

Who is Walid Jumblatt? 

500

The duration-based approximation for the percentage price change of a bond with duration 5 when yields rise by 1%

What is about −5%?

500

The tomb of Tutankhamun was found unusually intact largely because it was accidentally buried beneath debris from the construction of this later ruler’s tomb.

Who is Ramesses VI?

500

This is the sum of the ages of all guests of Kemet.

What is 410 years?

500

Although Baalbek is best known for its Roman temples, the site was already sacred long before Rome and was active during this same broad era in Egypt’s history.

What is the New Kingdom period?

500

This approximate quantity of water measured in billion cubic meters per year was allocated to Egypt under the 1959 Nile Waters Agreement.

What is 55.5 billion cubic meters?

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