Bank of America
Bank of America delivers responsible growth through eight lines of business that are focused on Delivering One Company, Deepening Client Relationships, and Developing New Relationships. In scorekeeping, the number eight also refers to which defensive position on a baseball field?
Center field
According to their website, the Western Red Cedar Lumber Association believes that equity, diversity, and inclusion go hand in hand and works to identify and address systemic barriers embedded within policies and practices that inadvertently exclude individuals. The term “affirmative action” is a DEI policy that was first legally used in an executive order by this Democrat US president who was born in 1917?
John F. Kennedy
Peter and Andrew Kiewit founded their namesake construction company in 1884, the same year that which US president was elected to the first of his two non-consecutive terms in office?
Grover Cleveland
The Oregon Construction Contractors Board requires a written contract be provided for all construction work on residential structures exceeding $2,000. In Roman numerals, the number 2,000 bears a phonetic similarity to the name of this rap artist.
Eminem
Bank of America’s corporate headquarters is located in Charlotte, North Carolina, which is named after Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Also named in Charlotte’s honor was this New Jersey university, which was originally called The Queen’s College.
Rutgers University
Western Red Cedar is known for its biophilic quality which appeals to the innate human desire for connection to the natural world. If biophilia literally means “love of life”, what word refers to its opposite, the love of death?
Necrophilia
In 1927, the Kiewit Corporation built the state capitol building in this city, the westernmost capital city named after a US president.
Lincoln, Nebraska
Democratic Socialism, which aims for economic and social justice through democratic means, is a political philosophy held by many members of the Labour Party in the United Kingdom, a constitutional monarchy that consists of which four countries?
England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland
Current BofA CEO, Brian Moynihan, serves as the 22nd Chancellor of his alma mater, Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, whose alumni also includes this actor/director who starred in the NBC sitcom The Office.
John Krasinski
Western Red Cedar has been used for centuries, dating back to the Native Americans who first named it the “Tree of Life”, which is also the title of a 2011 experimental film written and directed by Terrence Malick that stars this actor as the father of Jack O’Brien, who’s played by Sean Penn.
Brad Pitt
According to Kiewit’s website, the company has designed and built some of most remarkable projects in North America, a continent that is widely known by American Indigenous peoples by what animal-inspired name?
Turtle Island
Under ORS law 701.081, all residential contractors must obtain a surety bond in the amount of $25,000 USD, which is roughly equivalent to 59,000 Zambian Kwacha, 3.5 million Sri Lankan rupee, or 84,000 of this biblical/modern-day Israeli currency.
Shekels
After suffering significant losses during the 1998 Russian financial crisis, BankAmerica, as it was then known, was acquired by NationsBank for $62 billion. 62 is also the international calling code for this Asian island nation which, with a population of 284 million, is the world’s 4th largest country.
Indonesia
The Western Red Cedar Lumber Association was established as the voice and advocate of the cedar industry in 1954, the same year that what new religious movement was founded in Los Angeles, California?
Church of Scientology
In 1999, Kiewit was part of a joint venture to build a $517 million ballpark for this Major League Baseball team, that, at the time, was majority owned by Nintendo of America.
Seattle Mariners
Key democratic socialist policies include universal healthcare, a robust welfare state, and tuition-free college, which would include this historically black Mississippi university where Deion Sanders was the head football coach for two seasons before departing for Colorado.
Jackson State
Along with JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo, Bank of America is one of the “Big Four” banking institutions of the United States, not to be confused with these current “Big Four” big tech companies.
Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, and Meta
Wood is the only major building material that is renewable, which is why North American forests have actually grown by 20% since 1970, the year in which the number one musical artist was the Jackson 5, comprised of these brothers.
Michael, Marlon, Tito, Jermaine, Jackie
In 1969, Kiewit began construction on the 63rd Street Tunnel between Manhattan and Queens, two of New York City’s five boroughs. What are the other three?
The Bronx, Brooklyn, Staten Island
Soccer, AKA socialist kickball, is the most popular sport in the world, and the English Premier League is the most-watched sports league in the world. Among the 20 clubs that currently compete in the Premier League, which perennially-dominant, high-earning clubs are known as the “Big Six”?
Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United, Manchester City, Tottenham Hotspur