Finance
Charlie Munger called it "Bulls**t Earnings" — it's what CFOs love to quote because it conveniently ignores the boring stuff
What is Net Income?
In 2024, this Spanish teenager ended Djokovic's Wimbledon reign for the second year running — and still hasn't lost a Grand Slam final.
Who is Carlos Alcaraz?
He's been wearing the same sunglasses since 1987, lecturing world leaders about poverty, and fronting Ireland's most famous.....
Who is Bono?
In 2024, this pop star's tour was blamed for causing an actual seismic event in Edinburgh, a Swedish inflation spike, and a measurable bump in Singapore's GDP
Who is Taylor Swift?
In December 2024, this Syrian dictator fled after 24 years in power, ending his family's 54-year rule in just 11 days.
Who is Bashar al-Assad?
This financial sleight-of-hand lets a CEO boost EPS without selling a single extra widget — just hoover up your own shares and watch the magic happen.
What is a share buyback?
In 2024, this American sprinter won 100m Olympic gold by five-thousandths of a second — the closest finish in Games history — then spent 20 minutes posing like a Marvel superhero on the track.
Who is Noah Lyles?
This was Ireland’s highest denomination pre‑euro banknote.
What is £100?
This actor portrayed Tony Soprano.
Who is James Gandolfini?
In 2023, he had the worst long weekend in tech history: fired Friday, Microsoft-hired Sunday, reinstated Wednesday. Monday and Tuesday must have been fun.
Who is Sam Altman?
In M&A, this is the polite accounting term for "we paid way too much" — and every few years companies take massive write-downs to admit it. AOL-Time Warner took $99 billion of it in one go.
What is Goodwill?
This Irish county has won the most All‑Ireland senior football championships.
What is Kerry?
This Irish author's novels "Normal People" and "Conversations with Friends" both became hit BBC/Hulu series, filmed largely in Ireland and Italy.
Who is Sally Rooney?
This 2024 Netflix psychological thriller by Richard Gadd sparked an internet manhunt for the "real Martha," causing Netflix a legal nightmare.
What is "Baby Reindeer"?
In early 2024, this CEO became the first person ever to have a US president publicly threaten to break up his company, a European regulator fine his company €1.8 billion, AND his own employees protest him — all in the same week.
Who is Tim Cook? (Apple — DOJ antitrust suit + EU Spotify ruling + employee dissent)
In 2012, this JPMorgan trader nicknamed after a large mammal racked up $6.2 billion in losses on a single credit derivative bet — while Jamie Dimon infamously called it "a tempest in a teapot" the week before.
Who is the "London Whale"?
This country has won the Rugby World Cup the most times.
What is New Zealand?
This 2022 Martin McDonagh film about two feuding friends on a fictional Irish island earned 9 Oscar nominations but won zero.
What is "The Banshees of Inisherin"?
This 2024 FX/Hulu series about a power struggle in 1600s Japan won 18 Emmys — the most ever for a single season — and forced the entire industry to take subtitled TV seriously.
What is "Shōgun"?
In 2022, The Daily Star livestreamed this vegetable to see if it would outlast UK PM Liz Truss. It did — by several days.
What is a (head of) lettuce? 🥬
Introduced by Stern Stewart in the 1990s, this metric subtracts a capital charge from NOPAT to reveal whether a company is actually creating value or just shuffling shareholder money around in expensive circles.
What is Economic Value Added (EVA)?
At Paris 2024, this Turkish shooter went viral for winning silver with no special gear, one hand casually in his pocket, looking like a hitman.
Who is Yusuf Dikeç?
This Irish-born mathematician designed the first modern binary computing system.
Who is George Boole?
This 2023–24 Hollywood strike shut down global film and TV production and was driven largely by concerns over AI and streaming residuals.
What is the SAG‑AFTRA strike?
In his first 100 days of Term 2, our friendly beloved President slapped tariffs on this many countries and territories — a number so large it included an uninhabited island populated entirely by penguins.
What is ~185 countries/territories ?