BLS
This survey provides information on the nation's labor force including data on the employed, unemployed, and those not in the labor force.
What is the Current Population Survey (CPS)?
This is the official flower of Washington D.C.
What is the American Beauty Rose?
This Game of Thrones prequel opens 172 years before the birth of Daenerys Targaryen.
What is The House of the Dragon?
These are the three types of resources.
What are capital, human, and natural resources?
This is the only continent with no active volcanoes.
What is Australia?
This state created the first bureau of labor statistics in the world in 1869.
What is Massachusetts?
This is the number of electoral votes the District of Columbia receives for presidential elections.
What is three?
In The Princess Diaries, Mia Thermopolis finds out that she is the crown princess of this (fictional) country.
What is Genovia?
This institution is responsible for managing a country's currency, money supply, and interest rates.
What is the central bank?
This is the first name shared by bestselling authors Delinsky, Tuchman and Kingsolver.
(Hint: Kingsolver wrote Demon Copperhead, a previous book club pick).
What is Barbara?
This woman was the first female commissioner of BLS. Originally appointed by Jimmy Carter, she served from May 1979 to December 1991.
Who is Janet L. Norwood?
This man designed the layout for the city of Washington D.C.
Who is Pierre "Peter" Charles L'Enfant?
This catchphrase of Ed McMahon was uttered with creepy efficiency in The Shining.
What is "Here's Johnny"?
Name an economic transaction that is not included in the GDP.
What is pollution, leisure, or drug dealing?
This word for a friend comes from the Latin for "with whom you would eat bread".
What is a companion?
In this decade, the BLS served as an independent department before being incorporated into the Department of Commerce and Labor.
What is the 1890s?
This former MLB team relocated to Washington D.C. and became the Nationals.
Who are the Montreal Expos?
The license plate ECT0-1 appears in movies featuring this title team.
Who are the Ghostbusters?
This curve shows income inequality.
What is the Lorenz curve?
In 1817, Congress divided a territory that became these two states, which are practically mirror images of each other.
What are Mississippi and Alabama?
In this year, BLS first began its collection of the consumer expenditure survey. (+-1 year accepted)
What is 1888?
This is the number of exterior columns on the Lincoln Memorial. This number represents the number of states at the time of Lincoln's death.
What is 36?
"Why Love" and "World Within My Room" are two songs from this Broadway show that won the 2025 Tony for best musical.
What is Maybe Happy Endng?
This is the demand when the percentage change in the price exceeds the percentage change in quantity demanded.
What is inelastic?
In his teens, this Pittsburgh "pickle king" was running a business to supply grocers with fresh produce.
Who is Henry Heinz?