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A regional bank in San Francisco that lends to tech companies, which in March 2023 experienced the second largest bank failure in US history.

What is Silicon Valley Bank?

100

The young CEO of a failed crypto exchange, who was recently sentenced to 25 years in prison for fraud

Who is Sam Bankman-Fried?

100

The Johnson MBA club that CFT is affiliated with

What is FinTech at Cornell?

100

A model that is fed immense amounts of data for the purpose of general language generation

What is a large language model?

100

71^2

What is 5041?

200

An American online personal finance company and online bank that incentivizes users to fulfill their personal finance goals.

What is SoFi?

200

The recent ETF that has crossed $15 billion in total inflows as a result of the major cryptocurrency rally and has provided more market legitimacy to crypto as an asset.

What is the Blackrock Bitcoin ETF?

200

The semester CFT was founded

What is Spring 2022?
200

The measure of the volatility—or systematic risk—of a security or portfolio compared to the market as a whole

What is a beta?

200

The expected value of rolling 3 6-sided dice.

What is 10.5?
300

The operator of AliPay and one of the largest FinTech firms in the world.

What is Ant Group?

300
The $35 billion merger between two of the largest credit card companies in the US

What is the Capital One and Discovery merger?

300

The original name of business analysts

What is Long-Short Equity Analyst?

300

This famous tech CEO started his career on Wall Street working at DE Shaw and a fintech telecommunications startup before founding the company he is known for

Who is Jeff Bezos?

300

The sum of the infinite geometric series starting with 1 and factor 1/3.

What is 3/2?

400

An investment management firm known as being the pioneer for the use of mathematical models and statistical models in financial markets.

What is Renaissance Technologies?
400

The event next week that will half the total rewarded cryptocurrency to miners after successfully validating a block.

What is the bitcoin halving?

400

The founding president of CFT

Who is Darla Andoni?

400

Another name for trade floor, more commonly used when trading was done in-person

What are the pits?

400

We are playing a game of Russian Roulette, the revolver is a standard six shooter but there are only two bullets in the gun in consecutive chambers. After spinning the chambers, the first shot is a miss. 

Original question: probability that next shot is miss.

What is 3/4?

500

A major provider of technology solutions in the financial services industry primarily within payments and online banking.

What is Fiserv?

500

The company that has recently announced that it will release a US dollar stablecoin to challenge Tether and Circle

What is Ripple?

500

The first engineering subteams that CFT had

What is ASFT, Trading Integration, and Trading Strategy?

500

This former hedge fund manager who is known as "The Man Who Broke the Bank of England"

Who is George Soros?

500

The final number in the following sequence: 8, 13, 26, 61, 158, 433, ?

What is 1226?