History
Year that the United States of America formally declared independence
What is 1776?
This downward-sloping line represents consumers' decisions on purchasing based on the aggregate price level of the economy
What is aggregate demand?
Widely referred to as the "father of modern macroeconomics"
Who is John Maynard Keynes?
The most coveted award a film can aim for, given out to several different categories on a yearly basis.
What is an Oscar?
Artist with the highest average monthly listeners on Spotify for the last year
The Axis powers was a coalition of Germany, Italy, and ____
What is Japan?
A tax imposed on imports from foreign countries
What is a tariff?
Phrase coined by Adam Smith, which refers to the unseen force that moves the economy toward the most efficient use of resources
What is the Invisible Hand?
2015 Pixar animated movie which follows the personified emotions of a teenage girl navigating moving to a new school
What is "Inside Out?"
Viral phenomenon which ironically combined the two largest movies of 2023, which happened to release on the same day.
What is Barbenheimer?
US President who established the Federal Reserve
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This is the primary lever through which the United States central bank conducts monetary policy
What is the Federal Funds Rate?
Winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics, and authors of "Why Nations Fail"
Who are Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson, and Simon Johnson
Film based on a genre-defining 20th century sci fi book, featuring desert planets, alien species, and riveting intergalactic geopolitics.
What is "Dune?"
(Star Wars is acceptable too, if you're uncultured)
What is the "Rat Pack?"
Joint-stock company which traded in the Indian Ocean region from 1600 to 1874
What is the British East India Company?
An econometric method that compares the changes in outcomes over time between a population that received a treatment and a population that did not.
What is difference-in-differences?
Author whose seminal works laid the foundation for the Austrian School of Economics
Who is Ludwig von Mises?
Name of Davy Jones' ship in 2006's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
What is the Flying Dutchman?
Network of trade routes that connected Asia, the Middle East, and the Western world from the second century BCE until the mid-15th century
What is the Silk Road?
The marginal productivity of capital the following production function:
y=AK^\alphaL^(1-\alpha)
What is
1980 book written by Milton and Rose Friedman, which was later adapted into a popular 10 part mini-series on PBS
What is "Free to Choose"
This actor played the Nobel Award-winning economist and mathematician Johnathan Nash in an Oscar-winning 2001 masterpiece
Who is Russell Crowe
The 2nd highest grossing reality tv show.
What is America's Got Talent?