Everyday Math
You buy 3 t-shirts for $15 each and pay $5 for shipping. This is your total cost.
What is $50?
The plastic card linked directly to your checking account that deducts money immediately upon swipe or tap.
What is a debit card?
This synth-pop track by The Weeknd spent a record-shattering 90 consecutive weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
What is "Blinding Lights"?
The remote digital storage system that keeps your photos, documents, and backups accessible via the internet rather than local drives.
What is cloud storage (or The Cloud)?
The famous statue was a gifted to the United States by France in 1886.
What is the Statue of Liberty?
A $60 hoodie is marked 25% off. This is the dollar amount of your discount.
What is $15?
Setting up your employer's payroll to deposit your paycheck directly into your bank account electronically every payday.
What is direct deposit?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY - The hit video game adaptation show on Prime Video following Lucy, a Vault Dweller exploring a nuclear wasteland.
What is Fallout?
Fraudulent emails or messages designed to trick you into clicking malicious links or revealing private passwords.
What is phishing?
The official national currency of Japan.
What is the Yen?
You make $14 an hour. If you work 6 hours on Saturday and 4 hours on Sunday, this is your gross pay.
What is $140?
The official total amount of money available in your bank account at any given moment.
What is an account balance?
The annual personalized recap feature released every December by Spotify that breaks down your top artists and audio habits.
What is Spotify Wrapped?
A web browser record that stores small bits of data on your computer to remember your login info and site preferences.
What is a cookie?
The metallic element that makes up the inner core of planet Earth alongside nickel.
What is Iron?
A food bill comes to $80. To leave a 20% tip, this is the exact dollar amount you add.
What is $16?
A bank account intended for holding money long-term while earning interest on your balance.
What is a savings account?
The Apple TV+ thriller series set at Lumon Industries, where workers surgically split their work memories from their personal lives.
What is Severance?
The main circuit board inside a computer that connects the CPU, memory, and hard drives together.
What is a motherboard?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: The primary gas that makes up roughly 78% of Earth's atmosphere.
What is Nitrogen?
Store A sells a 6-pack of socks for $18. Store B sells a 10-pack of the same socks for $25. This store has the cheaper price per sock.
What is Store B ($2.50 vs $3.00)?
A formal bank agreement that links your savings account to your checking account to automatically cover transactions if your checking balance drops below zero.
What is overdraft protection?
The French electronic music duo behind Random Access Memories known for never having their real faces seen.
Who is Daft Punk?
Short for "Binary Digit," this is the smallest basic unit of digital data storage represented as a 0 or a 1.
What is a bit?
The largest organ of the human body by surface area and weight.
What is the skin?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY - You earn $600 a month. If you put 50% toward needs, 30% toward wants, and split the remaining amount equally between savings and investing, this is the dollar amount that goes into investing.
What is $60?
A monthly paper or digital summary provided by your bank showing every deposit, withdrawal, and fee made on your account.
What is a bank statement?
The critically acclaimed Hulu comedy series about teachers working in a Philadelphia public school.
What is Abbott Elementary?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY - The main processing chip inside a computer, often referred to as the "brain" of the device.
What is the CPU (Central Processing Unit)?
The Scandinavian nation whose capital city is Stockholm.
What is Sweden?
A dinner bill totals $120. With an 8% sales tax added, this is the total bill before adding tip.
What is $129.60?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY - The money paid to you by a bank for keeping your money in a savings account, expressed as a percentage.
What is interest?
FromSoftware's acclaimed 2022 dark fantasy RPG set in the Lands Between that won Game of the Year.
What is Elden Ring?
The term for converting human-readable data into scrambled, unreadable code to keep online messages secure.
What is encryption?
The vast South American nation home to the iconic Christ the Redeemer statue and the city of Rio de Janeiro.
What is Brazil?
You start with $400 cash. You spend $90 on groceries, earn $150 from a side job, pay a $50 subscription bill, and invest 1/3 of your remaining balance. This is your final cash balance.
What is $273.33?
The rate of return on a bank account over a full year, taking into account the effect of compounding interest.
What is APY (Annual Percentage Yield)?
The hit Hulu comedy series starring Selena Gomez, Steve Martin, and Martin Short as neighbors in a building.
What is Only Murders in the Building?
The network technology that routes high-speed data over thin strands of glass using light signals instead of copper wires.
What is Fiber-Optic Internet?
The natural process by which plants convert sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into oxygen and sugar.
What is photosynthesis?
You purchase a $20 shirt with an 8% sales tax. If you pay with a $50 bill, this is your exact change.
What is $28.40?
A fee charged by a bank or third-party owner when you use an ATM outside of your primary bank's network.
What is an out-of-network ATM fee?
The visionary director who helmed cinematic blockbusters like Inception, Interstellar, and Oppenheimer.
Who is Christopher Nolan?
Software created by cybercriminals to corrupt systems, steal personal data, or compromise network security.
What is malware (or a virus)?
The country with the largest land area in the world.
What is Russia?
You deposit $1,000 into an account earning 5% simple annual interest. This is your total account balance after 3 years.
What is $1,150?
The name of the waiting period before a deposited check gets verified by your bank and makes that the funds are available for you to use.
What is a check hold (or deposit hold)?
The satirical HBO dark comedy-drama series following the warring Roy family for control of Waystar RoyCo.
What is Succession?
The computer architecture component that temporarily stores frequently accessed data for ultra-fast retrieval by the processor.
What is CPU Cache?
The iconic red-and-white clock tower located at the north end of the Houses of Parliament in London.
What is Big Ben (or Elizabeth Tower)?