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100

This type of market structure has many buyers and sellers and identical products.

What is perfect competition?

100

This type of interest earns “interest on interest.”

What is compound interest?

100

This K-pop group released the record-breaking song Dynamite in 2020.

Who is BTS?

100

This planet is known as the “Red Planet.”

What is Mars?

100

This Roman numeral represents the number 50.

What is L?

200

This term refers to the cost of the next best alternative you give up when making a choice.

What is opportunity cost?

200

This term describes a period when stock prices are falling by 20% or more.

What is a bear market?

200

In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, this character wields a hammer called Mjolnir.

Who is Thor?

200

This chemical element has the symbol “Na.”

What is sodium?

200

This mathematical concept describes a sequence where each term is the sum of the two preceding terms.

What is the Fibonacci sequence?

300

This paradox describes a situation where individual rational decisions lead to a collectively worse outcome, often used in environmental economics.

What is the tragedy of the commons?

300

The practice of spreading investments across different assets to reduce risk is called this.

What is diversification?

300

This 2021 video game lets players solve mysteries in a spaceship crew while identifying an imposter.

What is Among Us?

300

This mathematical constant is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter.

What is pi (π)?

300

Rearrange the letters of “LISTEN” to get a word that describes something you should be when you're in a library.

What is SILENT?

400

The curve showing the maximum combination of two goods an economy can produce given its resources is called this.

What is the production possibilities frontier (PPF)?

400

This type of bond pays interest only at maturity rather than periodically.

What is a zero-coupon bond?

400

This director is known for visually complex films like Inception, Interstellar, and Tenet.

Who is Christopher Nolan?

400

This rare natural phenomenon occurs when the moon passes directly between the Earth and Sun.

What is a total solar eclipse?

400

This mathematical concept describes a sequence where each term is the sum of the two preceding terms.

What is the Fibonacci sequence?

500

Arrogant

someone who thinks they are better than others

500

This option strategy involves simultaneously buying a call and a put on the same asset with the same strike price.

What is a straddle?

500

This Japanese animated film by Makoto Shinkai focuses on two teenagers mysteriously switching bodies across distant towns.

What is Your Name (Kimi no Na wa)

500

This city is the only one located on two continents.

What is Istanbul?

500

This famous paradox involves a cat that is simultaneously alive and dead.

What is Schrödinger’s cat?