Berkeley Trivia
The UC Berkeley mascot
Who is Oski?
The author of The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
Who is John Maynard Keynes?
The city with the headquarters of the United Nations
What is New York City?
The phrase coined by Adam Smith describing an economy's ability to self-correct imbalance
What is The Invisible Hand?
This movie had the famous line "Luke, I am your father"
What is Star Wars Episode 5 - The Empire Strikes Back?
The famous political movement that originated on the UC Berkeley Campus in the 1960s
What is the Free Speech Movement?
An economic state of limited competition, in which a market is shared by a small number of producers or sellers with some, but not total market power
What is an oligopoly?
The position after the speaker of the house in the US line of presidential secession
What is the Senate Pro Tempore?
Goods that have upward-sloping demand curves
What are giffen Goods or luxury goods?
The oldest Kardashian sister
Who is Kourtney Kardashian?
The number of UC Berkeley graduates and current or former faculty members who have received a Nobel Prize
What is 48?
The four components of Gross Domestic Product
Consumer spending, Investment spending, government spending, net extports
The number of voting members in Congress
What is 535?
The country with the greatest GDP per capita
What is Qatar?
The town of Roswell, NM was made famous in 1947 due to allegations that this phenomenon had occurred
What is a suspected UFO crash?
The number of undergraduates in the UC Berkeley Economics department
What is 1,300-1,500?
The strongest currency in the world relative to the dollar
What is the Bahraini Dinar?
Three of the five remaining countries who have a communist government
What are North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, China, and Cuba? (any three)
The three largest global stock exchanged in terms of market capitalization
What are the New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, and the Tokyo Stock Exchange?
The director of Us and Get Out
Who is Jordan Peele?
The undergraduate chair of the UC Berkeley Economics Department
The country with the highest welfare spending as a percentage of GDP
What is France?
The five permanent member countries of the United Nations Security Council
What are The United State, China, Russia, France, and the UK?
The type of unemployment that comes from the contraction phase of the business cycle
What is cyclical unemployment?
The most decorated Olympian ever with 28 Olympic medals
Who is Michael Phelps?