Financial Terms
Expenses that you must pay to survive, such as rent, basic grocery food, and utilities, fall under this category.
What are needs?
If your gross pay is $500 and total tax deductions equal $80, this is your net take-home pay.
What is $420?
The live-action version of this classic 2002 animated Disney film about a Hawaiian girl and her blue alien pet reached theaters in 2025.
What is Lilo & Stitch?
This tech giant developed the Windows operating system and owns the Xbox gaming brand.
What is Microsoft?
This state is known as the Sunshine State and has Tallahassee as its capital.
What is Florida?
Items or services that are nice to have but not essential for survival—like video games or dining out—are called this.
What are wants?
If your standard hourly wage is $16 per hour, this is your overtime rate per hour. (time and a half usually)
What is $24 per hour?
This movie studio created famous animated films like Toy Story, Finding Nemo, and Inside Out.
What is Pixar?
This social network company changed its parent corporate name to Meta in 2021.
What is Facebook?
This massive natural satellite orbits Earth about once every 27 days.
What is the Moon?
This monthly spending plan lists your expected income and helps you track where your money goes.
What is a budget?
A restaurant server earns $10 per hour for 20 hours of work, plus $150 in tips. This is their total gross earnings for the week.
What is $350?
This artist performed the 2024 Super Bowl Halftime Show and is famous for hit songs like "Yeah!" and "OMG."
Who is Usher?
This AI-powered tool developed by Google was originally launched under the name "Bard."
What is Gemini?
A standard game of bowling consists of this number of frames per player.
What is 10?
This term refers to the total amount of money you earn before any taxes or deductions are taken out of your paycheck.
What is gross pay?
You earn $600 in gross pay, but $110 is withheld for taxes and $20 for insurance. This is your final net pay.
What is $470?
This famous Canadian rapper and singer was involved in a widely publicized 2024 rap conflict with Kendrick Lamar.
Who is Drake?
This satellite-based location network allows smartphone maps to calculate your exact geographic position.
What is GPS (Global Positioning System)?
This country in Europe is famous for its boot-like geographic shape on a map.
What is Italy?
This is the actual "take-home" pay you receive after all taxes and deductions have been subtracted from your earnings.
What is net pay?
If you earn an annual salary of $26,000 per year and are paid bi-weekly (26 times a year), this is your gross pay per paycheck.
What is $1,000?
This famous award show honors top achievements in the television industry each year.
What are the Emmy Awards (or Emmys)?
The practice of saving digital copies of your important files to an external drive or cloud service in case your device breaks is called this.
What is a backup?
In a fraction, when the numerator is larger than or equal to the denominator, it is called this type of fraction.
What is an improper fraction?
When a worker is paid a fixed total amount for the entire year regardless of how many hours they work, they are earning this.
What is a salary?
A food delivery driver earns $8 per hour for 15 hours of driving, plus $120 in customer tips. This is their gross pay.
What is $240?
This musician released the country-inspired album Cowboy Carter in 2024, featuring songs like "Texas Hold 'Em."
Who is Beyoncé?
A private connection setup that masks your IP address and encrypts your internet traffic on public Wi-Fi is known by these three letters.
What is a VPN (Virtual Private Network)?
In a fraction, the number written above the fraction bar is called this.
What is the numerator?
Expenses that stay the exact same amount every month, such as a car payment or regular rent, are called this.
What are fixed expenses?
You earn an annual salary of $52,000 per year. If you are paid weekly, this is your gross pay on each paycheck.
What is $1,000?
This long-running live late-night comedy sketch show on NBC premiered all the way back in 1975.
What is Saturday Night Live (SNL)?
Physical equipment used to connect multiple computers together and route internet traffic into a building is called this.
What is a router (or modem)?
Human lungs are the main organ in this body system responsible for breathing.
What is the respiratory system?
Expenses that change in cost from month to month, like your electric bill or grocery bill, are called this.
What are variable expenses?
If you earn a fixed monthly salary of $3,000 and put 5% into a retirement account each pay period, this amount goes to retirement.
What is $150?
This annual music and arts festival takes place over two weekends in Indio, California every spring.
What is Coachella?
The rate at which a computer monitor updates its image per second, usually measured in Hertz (Hz), is known by this term.
What is refresh rate?
This U.S. President was in office during the Civil War and issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Money you set aside in a dedicated account to cover unexpected costs, like car repairs or medical bills, is called this.
What is an emergency fund?
A construction worker earns $20 per hour and works 44 hours in a single week. This is their total gross pay.
What is $920? ($800 regular + $120 overtime)
This record-breaking Broadway musical created by Lin-Manuel Miranda uses hip-hop to tell the story of an American Founding Father.
What is Hamilton?
The private aerospace technology company founded by Elon Musk that manufactures reusable Falcon 9 rockets and operates Starlink is called this.
What is SpaceX?
This is the smallest continent on Earth by land area.
What is Australia?
Employers send this tax summary form to workers by January 31st, showing total wages earned and taxes paid over the previous year.
What is a W-2 form?
You earn $2,000 gross pay per pay period and decide to put 10% into a 401(k) retirement account. This is the dollar amount invested.
What is $200?
This prestigious international film festival held every spring in France awards the coveted Palme d'Or prize.
What is the Cannes Film Festival?
A secure digital system that records cryptocurrency transactions across a distributed network of computers is called this ledger technology.
What is a blockchain?
This English scientist developed three famous laws of motion and formulated the theory of universal gravity.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?