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100

This financial statement shows a company’s assets, liabilities, and equity at a specific point in time.

What is a balance sheet?

100

These four core values guide Scholars of Finance members.

What are integrity, humility, excellence, and compassion?

100

This is the largest ocean on Earth.

What is the Pacific Ocean?

100

This social media platform is known for short-form video content and trends.

What is TikTok?

100

A farmer has 17 sheep, and all but 9 run away. How many remain?

What is 9?

200

This term describes the rate used to convert future cash flows into present value in a DCF model.

What is the discount rate?

200

This person is the CEO of SOF.

Who is Ross Overline?

200

There are this amount of regions in the United States.

What is 4? Northeast, Midwest, South, and West

200

This movie features the famous line: “I’m the king of the world!”

What is Titanic?

200

What gets wetter the more it dries?

What is a towel?

300

This financial metric measures a company’s profitability before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization.

What is EBITDA?

300

This event series invites professionals from finance firms to speak with members.

What is a speaker series?

300

This is the year that World War 2 ended.

What is 1945?

300

This singer released the album 1989 and is known for the Eras Tour.

Who is Taylor Swift?

300

The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?

What are footsteps?

400

This investment strategy involves borrowing money to increase potential returns.

What is leverage?

400

There are this number of university SoF Chapters.

What is 60+?

400

This country has the largest population in the world as of recent years.

What is India?

400

This HBO show follows the Roy family and their media empire.

What is Succession?

400

I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. What am I?

What is an echo?

500

This theory states that higher risk should lead to higher expected return.

What is the risk-return tradeoff?

500

This person is the VP of Finance & Operations for Stevens Chapter.

Who is Armaan?

500

This year the first human landed on the moon.

What is 1969?

500

This 2023 movie about a famous doll became one of the highest-grossing films of the year.

What is Barbie?

500

If you rearrange the letters of “listen,” you get this word.

What is silent?