New York
Economics
Bloomberg
Mike Bloomberg
Riddles
100

This iconic gift from France arrived in New York Harbor in 1885 and was officially dedicated the following year.

What is the Statue of Liberty?

100

💵⬆️📉

What is inflation?

100

This signature Bloomberg product revolutionized financial data access with its analytics and news integration.

What is the Bloomberg Terminal?

100

Before founding Bloomberg L.P. in 1981, Michael Bloomberg was a general partner at this investment bank.

What is Salomon Brothers?

100

You measure my life in hours and I serve you by expiring. I’m quick when I’m thin and slow when I’m fat. What am I?

What is a candle?

200

Before becoming Times Square, this area of Manhattan was originally named after a newspaper.

What is Longacre Square?

200

🛒📈💸

What is consumer demand?

200

Bloomberg employees worldwide often refer to the company’s collaborative, open-desk environment as part of this unique culture.

What is the “transparent” or “open office” culture?

200

Bloomberg’s founder served as mayor of New York City for this number of consecutive terms.

What are three terms?

200

A man pushes his car to a hotel and tells the owner he’s bankrupt. What happened?

He’s playing Monopoly.

300

The “Met” referred to in New York culture could mean one of two major institutions — name both.

What are the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Opera?

300

🐂📈 vs 🐻📉

What are bull and bear markets?

300

This Bloomberg analytics function, accessed by typing two letters, helps users evaluate a company’s financial health at a glance.

What is FA (Financial Analysis)?

300

Bloomberg donated more than $1 billion to this Ivy League university, where he earned his engineering degree.

What is Johns Hopkins University?

300

What 8-letter word can have a letter taken away and still make a word, all the way down to one letter?

What is “starting”? (starting → staring → string → sting → sing → sin → in → I)

400

This small triangular public plaza at Broadway, Fifth Avenue, and 23rd Street is home to one of New York’s most photographed buildings.  

What is the Flatiron Building?

400

📉📉📉💀

What is a market crash?

400

Bloomberg’s ESG and sustainability data trace back to this 2009 acquisition of a carbon data analytics firm.

What is New Energy Finance (BNEF)?

400

In 2018, he became the United Nations’ Special Envoy for this global cause.

What is climate action (or climate change initiatives)?

400

What has cities with no people, rivers with no water, and forests with no trees, yet is used for navigation?

What is a map?

500

The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge connects these two boroughs.

What are Brooklyn and Staten Island?

500

🪙🌐📱

What is cryptocurrency (or digital currency)?

500

Bloomberg’s first product was launched in 1982 under this name before becoming the Terminal we know today.

What is the Market Master terminal?

500

This personal motto of Mike Bloomberg reflects his lifelong approach to business, philanthropy, and governance: “In God we trust, all others bring ____.”

What is data?

500

I fly without wings. I cry without eyes. Wherever I go, darkness flies. What am I?

What is a cloud?

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