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100

What SPEX stands for

Stern Political Economy Exchange

100

First US president

Who is George Washington?
100

Chairman of the Federal Reserve

Who is Kevin Warsh?

100

This Wall Street firm collapsed in 2008 and is often cited as triggering the global financial crisis

What is Lehman Brothers?

100

This US state is the only one with a non-rectangular flag

What is Ohio?

200

Fifteen ICC clubs not including SPEX

  • Actuarial Society  
  • Asian Leadership Initiative  
  • Beta Alpha Psi  
  • BlackGen Capital  
  • Blockchain & Fintech Club  
  • Business Analytics Club  
  • Capital Markets Club  
  • Climate & Energy Club  
  • Economic Development Group  
  • Entrepreneurial Exchange Group  
  • Finance Society  
  • International Business Association  
  • Investment Analysis Group  
  • Luxury and Retail Association  
  • Management Consulting Group  
  • Marketing Society  
  • Middle East Business Association  
  • Net Impact  
  • Phi Chi Theta  
  • Pride Corp  
  • Private Equity Group  
  • Quantitative Finance Society  
  • Scholars of Finance  
  • Special Situations Investing Group  
  • Stern Accounting Society  
  • Stern Business and Law Association  
  • Stern Capital Management  
  • Stern Jewish Business Association  
  • Stern Political Economy Exchange (SPEX)  
  • Stern Real Estate Group  
  • Stern Sports Society  
  • Stern Tisch Entertainment Business Association  
  • Strategic Venture Society  
  • Supporting Excellence and Advocating Diversity  
  • Undergraduate Latin American Business Association  
  • Undergraduate Stern Women in Business
200

Current Speaker of the House

Who is Mike Johnson?

200

Current target Fed Funds Rate

What is 3.75-4.00%?

200

The three institutions who can issue bonds

Who are the Federal government, companies, and municipalities?

200

The four shapes of McDonald's chicken nuggets

What are the boot, the bell, the bone, and the ball?

300

The year NYU was founded

What is 1831?

300

The three main stakeholders who acquired TikTok in the US

Who are Oracle, MGX, and Silver Lake?

300

Formula for calculating GDP

What is GDP = C + I + G + (X - M)?

300

The three main valuation methods

What are precedent transactions, comps, and intrinsic value?

300

The meter equivalent for one foot

0.3048 meters

400

The US House of Reps district representing NYU

What is District 10?
400

Name all five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.

What is China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States?

400

The change in US private employment reported by ADP in January

What is +22,000?

400

The value of $100 in 6 months if the annual risk free rate is 5%

What is $97.56?

400

Long before making video games, this Japanese company began producing playing cards in Kyoto in 1889.

What is Nintendo?

500

Number of study away locations NYU has

What is 16?

500

If no presidential candidate wins an Electoral College majority, this chamber chooses the president, with each state delegation receiving one vote.

What is the U.S. House of Representatives?

500

When an economy operates below its potential GDP, this term describes the difference between actual and full-employment output.

What is the output gap?
500

Using CAPM, a stock has a beta of 1.5, the risk-free rate is 4%, and the expected market return is 10%. Its expected return is this percentage.

What is 13%? Calculation: 4% + 1.5 × (10% − 4%). 

500

This European country shares its longest land border with Brazil.

What is France?

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