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Investing 201
Potpourri
200

The Insurance Commission of this state predominates regulation of the Life Insurance Industry.

What is New York?

200

This fraudulent email scheme attempts to induce recipients to reveal personal information, passwords or other sensitive information.

What is Phishing?

200

Invented in 1933, an American auto worker invented this crosshead screw - whose benefit lied in its self-centering property.  By 1940, 85% of all screws produced were from his design.

Who is Henry Phillips?

200

This term describes a security that may be difficult to sell at fair market value due to small or limited pool of buyers.

What is illiquid?


200

In November 1602, SebastiƔn Vizcaƭno was sent to map the California coast arriving aboard this appropriately named flagship vessel.

What is the San Diego?

400

This regulatory body was created in 1934 in response the great depression.

What is the SEC?

400

This term refers to hackers' successful penetration of an organization's information security defenses.

What is a breach? 

400

In the mid 20th century, American oil workers would secretly pour a little vodka into their orange juice and, in the absence of a spoon, they would stir their drinks with this tool.

What is a Screwdriver?

400

This is an agreement between two parties to buy or sell an asset at specified price on a given date.

What is a future? (forward)

400

This hugely popular daily online word game gives players six chances to guess a randomly selected 5-letter word. 

What is Wordle?

600

This standard requires Advisors to place the interests of their clients before their own.

What is Fiduciary?

600

This two-word term refers to efforts to take advantage of seniors.

What is elder abuse?

600

In 1858, John Landis Mason revolutionized food preservation technology with this type of jar top which made for a much safer bacterial barrier for canning purposes.

What is a Screw top?

600

FX is an abbreviation for this type of transaction.

What is Foreign Exchange?

600

NASA launched this space telescope on 12/25/2021 and it has already delivered stunning images of the cosmos.

What is the James Webb Space Telescope?

800

This Wall Street reform act named for two senators was passed in response to the financial crisis of 2007-8.

What is Dodd-Frank?

800

This term refers to a method of protecting information by converting it into a secret code which can later be restored to its original form.

What is Encryption?

800

This breaking ball is designed to move in the opposite direction every other breaking pitch and is one of the rarest pitches thrown in baseball.

What is a Screwball?

800

A method of acquiring a company using a significant amount of borrowed money to meet the cost of acquisition.  

What is a leveraged buyout?

800

The unicorn is the national animal of this country.

What is Scotland?

1000

In 2022 this Wall Street firm agreed to pay a fine of $200M for failure supervise communications on unapproved messaging platforms.

What is Morgan Stanley?

1000

This term refers to software designed to infect a system or network for the purpose of disrupting normal operations or stealing data.

What is malware? (will accept virus or trojan)

1000

This phrase is used mostly to humorously show that you disagree with someone, or as an acknowledgement that someone has just made a joke at your expense.

What is Screw you?

1000

This illegal activity led to the imprisonment of the fictional raider, Gordon Gecko, in the 1987 film Wall Street.

What is insider trading? (will also accept securities fraud)

1000

At less than two-tenths of a square mile this is smallest country in the world.

What is Vatican City?