Personal Finance
This is a term for a plan to spend and save money over a week / month / year.
What is a budget?
The name S&P stands for ______ named for combining a financial statistics firm and publishing company originally known for covering Railroads?
Saving and Paying
Standard and Poor's
Stocks and Profits
Squirrels and Porcupines
What is Standard & Poor's?
This country took home the 2026 FIFA World Cup
What is Spain?
This local landmark is the home of the author of the declaration of independence, father of UVA, and 3rd President Thomas Jefferson.
What is Monticello?
These tasty, yellow-skinned fruits are technically radioactive because they contain high amounts of potassium.
What is a banana?
This major purchase, often a person's first big savings goal, provides freedom and convenience but typically costs $5,000 or more.
What is a car?
Focusing in on the "Global" S&P operates 70 offices in this many countries.
12
35
57
What is 35?
This 2025 animated sequel about an animal-filled city made almost $2 billion dollars at the box office.
What is Zootopia 2?
S&P Global's office is only a block from this pedestrian-only street in downtown Charlottesville known for shops and live music
What is the Downtown Mall?
A single bolt of this weather phenomenon can heat the air around it to 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit, making it five times hotter than the surface of the sun.
What is lightning?
Retirement accounts such as IRAs and 401k offer this benefit not typically available in investment accounts.
What is tax-advantaged growth?
In the 1890s Charles Dow published this novel stock index still in use today as a benchmark of market performance?
- The Dow Jones Industrial Average
- NYSE
- NASDAQ
- The S&P 500
What is the Dow Jones Industrial Average?
Which musical artist below does NOT owe their stardom to TikTok?
- Ice Spice
- Charli XCX
- Lil Nas X
- Megan Thee Stallion
Who is Charli XCX?
Besides Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, the Charlottesville area was also the home of this person, the 5th President of the United States.
Who is James Monroe?
This incredibly smart, eight-legged ocean creature has blue blood, three hearts, and a donut-shaped brain.
What is an octopus?
This process, often emphasized for long term wealth creation, allows your savings to grow by earning interest on both the initial amount and the interest added over time.
What is compound interest?
Before becoming a part of S&P Global, this company headquartered in Charlottesville was purchased for $2.225 billion dollars.
- IHS Markit
- Platts
- SNL
- McGraw Hill Financial
What is SNL?
This is the most popular game console of all time, beating out the Nintendo Switch and Nintendo DS.
What is the PlayStation 2?
Founded over 200 years ago this organization is the largest employer in the city of Charlottesville.
What is the University of Virginia?
This bizarre, semi-aquatic Australian mammal has no stomach, sweated-out milk, and is one of the only mammals that can detect electricity to hunt underwater.
What is a platypus?