Brain & World
If all countries suddenly closed their borders to trade, which economic measure would most immediately fall in most countries?
GDP ( GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT)
What movie features the quote: “I am inevitable”?
Avengers: Endgame
Who holds the NBA record for most career points?
LeBron James
What metric measures a company’s value excluding capital structure, commonly used in acquisitions?
Enterprise Value
What weighs more: 1 kg of steel or 1 kg of feathers?
Neither — they weigh the same
Which country has the largest population in the world (as of the 2020s)?
India
Which artist became the most streamed artist on Spotify in 2023?
Taylor Swift
What country has won the most FIFA World Cups?
BRAZIL
Bitcoin has a maximum supply of how many coins?
21 million
What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Light
What is the capital of New Zealand?
Wellington
Which female artist has won the most Grammy Awards in history?
Beyoncé
This athlete has won Grand Slams in three different decades.
Serena Williams
During the 2011 market crash, which industry performed the worst, and which asset class saw the largest inflows as investors fled risk?
Worst industry: Financials (especially European banks)
Most inflows: Gold
What do experts lose first in a crisis?
Confidence
A country has high GDP growth but falling GDP per capita. What must be happening?
Population is growing faster than output
This music video became the first ever to reach 1 billion views on YouTube.
Gangnam Style (PSY)
What boxer ended Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s amateur career?
Serafim Todorov
What does the NASDAQ acronym stand for?
National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations
What do people say they want, but panic when they get?
Volatility
What modern country contains the ancient region of Mesopotamia?
Iraq
Which actor is the only person to be nominated for an acting Oscar in every decade from the 1980s to the 2020s?
Meryl Streep
Who is the youngest Ballon d’Or winner in history?
Ronaldo Nazário (1997, age 21)
You short a call option.
The stock price rises far above the strike.
What is your maximum loss?
Unlimited
What ruins most group decisions without anyone noticing?
Ego