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100

Introductory Microeconomic Analysis and Policy.

What is ECON 102?

100

The current Speaker of the House.

Who is Nancy Pelosi

100

From 1947 to 2007 these downturns averaged about a year each; then the U.S. economy encountered a "great" one.

What are Recessions?

100

This movie in 2019 topped Avatar as the highest-grossing film of all time.

What is Avengers: Endgame?

100

The tiny piece at the end of a shoelace.

What is an aglet?

200

Intermediate Macroeconomic Analysis.

What is ECON 304?

200

The team that won the 2021 MLB World Series.

What is the Atlanta Braves?

200

An APR, or annual percentage rate, is a rate of this.

What is interest?

200

The Avenger other than Captain America was able to pick up Thor’s Mjolnir in the Marvel movies.

Who is Vision?

200

The first female Prime Minister of Great Britain.

Who is Margaret Thatcher?

300

Money and Banking.

What is ECON 351?

300

Facebook announced it is changing its corporate name to ..?.., though the Facebook app will retain its name.

What is Meta?

300

The decrease in marginal output of a production process as the amount of a single factor of production is incrementally increased, holding all other factors of production equal.

What is the Law of Diminishing Returns?

300

The first non-English-language film to win Best Picture at the Oscars.

What is Parasite?

300

This kind of bulb was once exchanged as a form of currency.

What are tulips?

400

Decision Making and Strategy in Economics.

What is ECON 402?

400

The remake of the epic science fiction film “..?..” topped the box office for the second week in a row.

What is Dune?

400

The current unemployment rate, as of October 2021.

What is 4.6%?

400

The only country artist to have a Top 20 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for six straight decades.

Who is Dolly Parton?

400

This chess piece can only move diagonally.

What are bishops?

500

Russian Economic History.

What is ECON 472N?

500

The Climate Accords the U.S. rejoined in January of 2021.

What is the Paris Climate Accords (or Paris Agreement).

500

This Brit wrote the book on economics: 1936's "The General Theory Of Employment, Interest and Money."

Who is John Maynard Keynes?

500

Taylor Swift named her debut country single after this singer.

Who is Tim McGraw?

500

This NFL team holds the record for the most Super Bowl appearances.

Who are the New England Patriots?