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100

This model is used to calculate the present value of all future cashflows.

What is a DCF?

100

These three countries are the largest nuclear energy producers in the world.

What is France, US, and China?

100

This person is an Irish Dancer 

Who is Brigid?

100

President Trump's comments this weekend about this industry caused shares to plummet, along with key compromises that are expected to be made in the government shutdown.

What is healthcare / health insurance?

100

what is mercor's most recent valuation?

what is $10B.

200

A firm is 60% equity and 40% debt; Re=10%, Rd=5%, tax rate 25%. This is its WACC.

What is 7.5%?

200

The UN has this many SDGs.

what is 17?

200

This person sings Opera.

Who is Tanya?

200

This countries prices rose by 0.2% in October, ending a period of deflation and alsp beating expectations.

what is China?

200

Three bins are labeled “Plastic,” “Paper,” and “Mixed.” All labels are wrong. You may pull one item from one bin. How do you fix all labels?

Draw from the “Mixed” bin. Whatever you pull is that bin’s true label. Use deduction to relabel the other two (since all labels were wrong).

300

With a risk-free rate of 3%, beta of 1.2, and a market risk premium of 5%, this is the cost of equity.

What is 9%?

300

This year’s UN climate conference, COP30, is being held in this city and country in November 2025.

What is Belem, Brazil.

300

These are the two twins.

Maya and Maryam

300

An EU investigation into this industry led to changes in environmental claims after allegations of greenwashing.

What is airlines?

300

What's the output?

x = 1

def f(a=x, b=[]):

    b.append(a)

    return b

x = 2

print(f())

print(f(3))

print(f())

[1]

[1, 3]

[1, 3, 1]

400

10$ of depreciation; this is the impact on the 3 statements. Assume 25% Tax rate.

Income Statement:
EBIT ↓ 10 → Taxes ↓ 10 × T → Net income ↓ 10 × (1 − T)

Cash Flow Statement (indirect):
Start with NI ↓ 10 × (1 − T)
Add back non-cash depreciation +10
CFO ↑ 10 × T (the tax shield)

Balance Sheet:
Cash + 10 × T
PP&E (net) −10
Retained earnings − 10 × (1 − T)



400

The Inflation Reduction Act created this program that charges facilities a fee per ton of methane emissions.

What is the Methane Emissions Reduction Program (the methane fee)?

400

This SIG member was nearly arrested his freshman year for "bombing" his dorm.

what is cheed.

400

Researchers at KAUST discovered that a bacteria had enzymes capable of efficiently breaking down this specific type of plastic.

what is PET plastic?

400

name all 4 Teletubbies by name and color

Green Dipsy

Red Po

Yellow LaaLaa

Blue Tinky-Winky

500

When you plot credit spread (y-axis) against leverage like Debt/EV (x-axis), this shape describes the cost of debt.

What is the smile curve.
500

In 2024, the US produced an average of this many barrels of oil per day (answer in the range of 1 million) and the price is measured by this index.

What is 13.2 million and Brent/WTI?
500

How much cash does Vbans have on him right now (range of $20). [Vbans is banned from participating]

What is ____?

500

The ADP job report indicated that this many new jobs were added to private payrolls in october, range of 2000.

what is 42000

500

how many goals were scored in the 2022 World Cup? range of 14.

172