Geography
This is the closest state by distance to Salt Lake City, the border being only ~80 miles away.
What is Wyoming?
Large sculpture of an oceanic creature emerging from the street near 9th and 9th
What is a whale
The United States purchased Alaska from this country in 1867
What is Russia?
The tiny basic building block of all matter in the Universe
What is an atom
This investment vehicle pools money from many investors to purchase a diversified portfolio of stocks, bonds, or other securities.
What is a Mutual Fund?
This landlocked Himalayan country is home to Mount Everest - the world’s highest peak - which lies along its border with China.
What is Nepal?
The name of the above-ground railway system used for transportation in SLC
What is the Trax
This Greek city-state was known for its militaristic society and training of soldiers.
What is Sparta?
This planet in our Solar System is 100x the gravity of Earth
What is Jupiter
This stock market index tracks 30 large publicly traded U.S. companies.
What is the Dow Jones Industrial Average?
This California peak, rising to about 14,505 feet in the Sierra Nevada range, is the highest mountain in the contiguous United States.
What is Mt Whitney?
Brigham Young famously said this upon seeing Salt Lake City for the first time.
What is "This is the place"
Marcus Goldman founded the prestigious financial institution "Goldman Sachs" in this year - hint: 18XX.
What is 1869?
This field of Physics is the study of bizarre behavior of matter at the smallest scales known to man.
What is Quantum Mechanics
This strategy involves selling borrowed shares with the expectation of buying them back at a lower price.
"Shorting"/Short-Selling
This African country has more pyramids than Egypt.
What is Sudan?
This tiny animal is one of the few animal species to call the Great Salt Lake home
What are Brine Shrimp
This king of the British Empire ruled during the American Revolution - double points if you get which number he is (I-VI)
Who is King George III?
This element is the most abundant element in Earth's atmosphere, composing 78% of the air we breathe
What is Nitrogen
This formula, commonly known by an acronym, calculates a company’s blended cost of equity and debt financing.
small hint, here's the written formula: (E/V×Re)+(D/V×Rd×(1−T))(E/V \times Re) + (D/V \times Rd \times (1 - T))(E/V×Re)+(D/V×Rd×(1−T))
What is WACC/Weighted Average Cost of Capital?
This country has the highest population density in the world - hint, it starts with an "M"
What is Monaco?
This famous art of sculpture by Robert Smithson lives year-round in the Great Salt Lake and is large enough to be photographed from space.
What is the Spiral Jetty
World War II started in this year with the German invasion of ___
What is the Sep 1, 1939 invasion of Poland
This enzyme extends the ends of chromosomes, preventing loss of genetic information during replication and is highly active in cancer cells.
What are telomeres?
This risk measure evaluates a stock’s sensitivity to market movements and is a key input in CAPM.
What is beta?