FINANCE
According to Urban Dictionary: Someone who desperately wants to be rich and will always talk about stocks and other finance garbage.
What is "Finance Bro"?
This RSM Associate Professor of Marketing Management, with a PhD in Psychology from Stanford, researches the emotional and neural drivers behind consumer decision making.
Who is Alexander Genevsky?
This economic policy, rolled out by the US in early 2025, triggered the biggest single day drop in global markets since the 2020 COVID crash, wiping trillions off stock exchanges worldwide.
What are Trump's tariffs?
This film follows a scientist who built the world's most destructive weapon in a secret desert city, only to be put on trial by the same government that ordered him to build it.
What is Oppenheimer?
Finish the lyrics: “Say you can’t sleep, baby I know…”
(Hint: by Sabrina Carpenter)
“That’s that me espresso”?
The world's first official stock exchange was founded in this city in 1602.
What is Amsterdam?
Known as a “citizen of the world,” this Dutch philosopher became one of Europe’s most influential Renaissance intellectuals.
Who is Desiderius Erasmus? / Who is Erasmus?
This viral meme audio features a calm, cheerful voiceover insisting everything is wonderful while increasingly catastrophic disasters unfold on screen.
What is "Nothing beats a Jet2 holiday"?
This movie, starring Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling and Steve Carell, dramatized how a group of outsiders predicted and profited from the 2008 housing market collapse.
What is The Big Short?
This 2024 rap beef produced the diss track "Not Like Us," which went on to be performed live at the Super Bowl halftime show by its winner.
What is the Kendrick Lamar vs. Drake beef?
At its peak in March 2000, this tech-heavy stock exchange index hit 5,048 points before crashing nearly 80%, wiping out trillions in investor wealth and marking the burst of the dot-com bubble.
What is the NASDAQ?
This municipal monument on Campus Woudestein has been in use since 1968 and is infamous among students for its never ending construction.
What is Tinbergen Building?
This band's concert went viral when their kiss cam accidentally exposed a CEO's affair.
What is Coldplay?
This Pixar character, voiced by Samuel L. Jackson, became a viral meme after his iconic line "Honey, where is my super suit?!"
Who is Frozone?
This Travis Scott song got fans jumping so hard at Rome's Circus Maximus that earthquake monitoring equipment picked it up as a 1.3 magnitude earthquake.
What is FE!N?
This financial term refers to the additional return an investor demands for holding a risky asset over a risk free one, and is a cornerstone concept in portfolio theory.
What is the risk premium?
This Erasmus School of Economics alumnus, now a professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business, won the 2021 Nobel Prize for his work on causal relationships and policy evaluation.
Who is Guido Imbens?
This AI tool, released in early 2025, stunned the tech world by matching or outperforming leading US models at a fraction of the cost.
What is DeepSeek?
This comedy features a man who discovers his entire life is a television show watched by millions, yet somehow the most unrealistic part is that nobody spoiled the ending.
What is The Truman Show?
Finish the lyrics: “Ey, titi me preguntó…”
(Hint: by Bad Bunny)
"...si tengo mucha novia"
This Dutch speculative craze in the 1630s, involving exotic bulbs, is considered one of history's first recorded asset bubbles.
What is Tulip Mania?
Before adopting the Erasmus name in 1973, the university operated under this Dutch name.
What is Nederlandse Economische Hogeschool (NEH)?
This “brainrot Italian” AI character saying nonsense phrases like “tralalero tralala” flooded TikTok edits in early 2025.
Who is Bombardino Crocodilo?
This film's production team actually planted and harvested a 500 acre cornfield, and filmed on real Icelandic glaciers.
What is interstellar?
This Chris Stapleton song compares a lover's sweetness and warmth to a Southern spirit aged in oak barrels.
What is Tennessee Whiskey?