NASAA
Not to be confused with the Aeronautics Organization, NASAA stands for this.
What is the North American Securities Administrators Association?
Citizen Kane director.
Who is Orson Welles?
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The national animal of Canada.
What is the beaver?
Any person or entity that engages in the business of buying and selling securities for its own account or on behalf of its customers.
What is a Broker-Dealer?
The name of Madison's university.
What is the University of Wisconsin-Madison?
The year NASAA was organized.
What is 1919?
A famous comedian and former SNL member.
Who is Chris Farley?
The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights are all stored here.
What is Fort Knox?
In a website browser, "WWW" stands for this.
What is World Wide Web?
Madison is home to this particular World Expo.
What is The World "Dairy" Expo?
The current number of NASAA members.
What is 68?
Author of Little House on the Prairie.
Who is Laura Ingles Wilder?
The first women to win a Nobel Prize.
Who is Marie Curie?
An AI application used to handle customer queries and improve customer support.
What is a chatbot or virtual assistant?
The building material of Madison's state capitol dome.
What is granite?
[ The dome of the state capitol is made entirely of granite, making it the largest granite dome in the world.]
When requesting to join a NASAA committee, you must fill out a CARF, which stands for this.
What is a Committee Assignment Request Form?
"Mr. Showmanship" Vegas performer.
The number of states the Appalachian Trail crosses.
What is 14?
The AI branch that focuses on understanding and generating human language.
On a per-capita basis, people in Madison buy more of these than anywhere else.
What are books?
The number of times NASAA's President has hailed from the state of Wisconsin.
What is five?
[1923 - Garfield S. Canright, Wisconsin; 1950 - Edward J. Samp , Wisconsin; 1979 - Jeffrey B. Bartell, Wisconsin; 2006 - Patricia D. Struck, Wisconsin; 2025 - Leslie Van Buskirk]
House mother on Facts of Life show.
Who is Charlotte Rae (Ms. Edna Garrett)?
A group of flamingos is called this.
What is a flamboyance?
Un reference to the internet, "URL" stands for this.
What is Uniform Resource Locator?
Madison's official city bird.
What is a pink flamingo?
[This choice was voted in 2009, as an homage to an infamous prank on Bascom Hill circa 1979]