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100

This city is the capital of Arizona.

What is Phoenix?

100

Vanguard’s ownership model is unusual: Vanguard is owned by the Vanguard funds, and those funds are owned by this group.

Who are the fund’s investors?

100

The 2025 GRAMMY Song of the Year winner was what track? 

What is “Not Like Us” by Kendrick Lamar?

100

This film won Best Sound at the 2026 Oscars.

What is F1?

100

The first iPhone went on sale in the U.S. in this year.

What is 2007?

200

Arizona’s official state nickname is this.

What is “The Grand Canyon State”?

200

Vanguard manages more than this amount for investors.

What is more than $12 Trillion?

200

The 2025 Album of the Year award at the Grammys was awarded to this album. 

What is “Cowboy Carter” by Beyonce?

200

The Best Original Song winner at the 2026 Oscars was this song (from this animated film).

What is “Golden” from KPop Demon Hunters?

200

This storage term refers to about 1 billion bytes.

What is a gigabyte?

300

Arizona became the 48th state in this year.

What is 1912?

300

About how many investors does Vanguard serve (as stated in Vanguard’s company description)?

What is 50 million investors?

300

Pearl Jam, Nirvana, and Soundgarden all emerged from this U.S. music scene. 

What is the Seattle grunge scene?

300

 In Seinfeld, Jerry and friends regularly hang out at this diner.

What is Monk’s Café?

300

This open-source operating system uses a penguin named Tux as its mascot.

What is Linux?

400

State Farm Stadium previously had this name from 2006–2018.

What is University of Phoenix Stadium?

400

Internal resources describe Investor Choice as now including this many Vanguard U.S. equity index funds.

What is 32 funds?

400

“Despacito” became a worldwide hit in this year.

What is 2017?

400

In The Office, Michael Scott dates this HR representative.

Who is Holly Flax?

400

This law predicts that the number of transistors on a microchip doubles approximately every two years.

What is Moore’s Law?

500

Arizona is divided into this many counties.

What is 15?

500

Vanguard created the first index mutual fund for retail investors in 1976—today it’s known as this fund.

What is the Vanguard 500 Index Fund, previously known as the First Index Investment Trust?

500

This duo released the album “Random Access Memories” in 2013. 

Who is Daft Punk?

500

This actor plays both the voice of Rocket in Guardians of the Galaxy and starred in Silver Linings Playbook.

Who is Bradley Cooper?

500

This term refers to malicious software designed to harm a computer.

What is malware?

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