CMU Professors
This current CMU Econ faculty member won the Economics Nobel Prize in 2004
Who is Finn Kydland?
The name of the founder of the Econ Research Club
What is Shlok Goyal?
These two people won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2020
Who are Robert Wilson and Paul Milgrom?
This donor to SCS has made more than $100,000 for every hour of his life (on average)
Who is Bill Gates?
Mac Miller’s sophomore album shares its name with this park in Pittsburgh
What is Blue Slide Park?
This professor teaches the course "Designing the Digitial Economy"
Who is Maryam Saeedi?
The ERC got pizza from this place in the 2019-2020 school year
What is Pizza Pronto/What is Vocellis? (both acceptable)
This type of tax policy is applied regardless of income, taking a larger percentage of earnings from lower-income households.
What is a regressive tax?
This CMU school housed the Econ department in 1970
The number of Super Bowls won by the Pittsburgh Steelers.
How many is 7?
This CMU economics professor got his bachelors, masters, and PhD at CMU
Who is John Gasper?
ERC monthly discussion papers have been selected from this journal more than any other journal
What is the Journal of Economic Perspectives?
This federal reserve policy provides more money to banks to loan
What is quantitative easing?
This movie’s prison break scene was filmed outside the Mellon Institute
What is The Dark Knight Rises?
This is the half-blood prince's patronus in the Harry Potter book series
What is a doe?
This CMU (not econ) professor pioneered the field of neuroeconomics
Who is George Loewenstein?
Pranay played this intramural sport in his freshman fall
What is flag football?
This country has the 2nd highest GDP per capita (in 2020)
What is Switzerland?
Donner House was built in this year
What is 1956?
Slugs have this many noses
How many is four?
This CMU Heinz professor led a project that successfully guesses social security numbers from publicly available information
Who is Alessandro Acquisti?
This was the ERC's 2019 summer reading book
What is Capital?
This all-time high US tax rate was the % tax at the highest income bracket during World War 2
What is 94%?
This CMU alumnus played the character Chuck McGill in the Breaking Bad prequel show Better Call Saul
Who is Michael McKean?
Name the song or artist for the song played in the movie Inception prior to the characters entering the dream state
What is Edith Piaf? / What is Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien?