Markets
This Santa Clara-based bank experienced an run and was forced into receivership by the FDIC in March 2023
What is Silicon Valley Bank?
The beta of the market portfolio
What is 1?
This fraction represents is the probability of rolling a total of 8 on two six-sided die
What is 5/36?
Despite being over 60 years old, this language still runs a large portion of banking and government systems.
What is COBOL?
This place is the home of the Headless Horseman
What is Sleepy Hollow?
The 1-month % change in CPI for September 2025
What is 0.3?
The beta of the risk-free asset
What is 0?
A 12-inch pizza's area is larger than that of a 10-inch by this percentage
What is 44%?
The python program print('5' * 3 + '5') outputs this
What is '5555'?
The Laffer curve describes the relationship between the rate of this and the resulting revenue
What are taxes?
The most recent private valuation of OpenAI
What is $500 billion?
This is the "trashier" name to describe high yield bonds typically issued by companies with low credit ratings
What are junk bonds?
The probability the World Series is a sweep, assuming the outcome of each game is 50/50
What is 1/8 (12.5%)?
This functional programming language is a favorite of quant firm Jane Street
What is OCaml?
The age of Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett
What is 95?
The number of stocks in the S&P 500
This chapter of bankruptcy under the U.S. bankruptcy code allows a company to reorganize
What is 11?
With 6 different toys in a toybox, this is the number of possible sets of three toys
What is 20? (6*5*4/3!)
This is the worst-case time complexity of quicksort
What is O(n^2)?
The last year Halloween fell on a Friday
(not including this year)
When was 2014?
The current P/E ratio of the S&P 500 (+/- 2)
What is 31.9?
This was the first regulator of US depository institutions (banks), before the Fed & FDIC
What is the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)?
A standard 52-card deck has this many unique full houses
What is 3,744? (13 * 4) * (12 * 6)
The class of strings the regular expression /a(aa)*/ accepts
What are odd numbers of a's?
This is what the MySQL database is named for
What is the name of the its creator's daughter, My?