Holidays
Thanksgiving is followed by Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and this weekday named for a certain way to shop
What is Cyber Monday?
Will Smith starred in this film as a Marine fighter pilot helping humanity fight off an alien invasion
What is 'Independence Day'?
In 2021 one of these in Oregon covered 646 square miles & was causing dangerous pyrocumulus clouds
What is a fire?
The bank may offer this type of protection if your check exceeds the amount in your account (also in our CEO's recent announcement)
In October 2021, Facebook changed its company name to this, a term from Neal Stephenson's 1992 science fiction novel 'Snow Crash'.
What is Meta?
If Dec. 26 falls on a weekend, the public observance of this event in Britain takes place on the following Monday
What is Boxing Day?
You've gotta "love" the Christmas Eve scene in this movie where Andrew Lincoln declares his love to Keira Knightley
What is 'Love, Actually'?
On Nov. 28th, Israel closed its borders to all foreigners due to this new variant of coronavirus
What is Omicron?
The Fed says bigger banks can risk more because Uncle Sam won't let them go under, this 4-word principle
What is 'too big to fail'?
Apple has the App Store; this rival has Play
What is Google?
In 1999, New Hampshire was the last state to make this January event a paid state holiday
What is Martin Luther King Day?
He was the Greek god of dreams, and a character in a sci-fi movie series, the 4th of which will have its theatrical release just in time for this Christmas
Who is Morpheus?
Led by MVP Jorge Soler, this team won the 2021 World Series
What is Atlanta Braves?
Digital finance can be confusing, hence the addition of this word in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary for Bitcoin & the like
What is Cryptocurrency?
It is an interpreted high-level general-purpose programming language, first conceived by Guido van Rossum in the late 1980s; and the name for non-venomous flecked snakes proposed by Francois Marie Daudin in 1803.
What is Python?
In March 1762, the first recorded parade of this type was held in New York City by Irish soldiers serving in the British army
What is St. Patrick's Day?
The first of these Sundays was Jan. 15, 1967; the LV I (56th) will be Feb. 13, 2022
What is Super Bowl Sunday?
This man was the first person in history to take off in his own spaceship
Who is Richard Branson?
To sell stock at the current price, investors use a market order; to specify a price, it's this type of order
What is a Limit Order?
This company, founded by the richest person in the world, holds the record of the most number of satellites carried by a single rocket.
What is SpaceX?
The 1929 massacre of seven of Bugs Moran's guys: this day
What is Valentine's Day?
In "Groundhog Day," Bill Murray has this job; that's why he comes to see the groundhog
What is a weatherman?
After this number of years in power, Angela Merkel is to step down as the chancellor of Germany.
What is 16?
FDIC-insured banks will now protect deposits up to this amount, up from $100,000
What is $250,000?
Analyzing facial & speech patterns, soft biometrics signatures help combat these videos that can make someone appear to say things they've never spoken
What is Deepfakes?