Time
Money
Finances
Grammar
Anything Goes
100
A top time-saving invention which allows us to heat up food faster than a conventional stove.
What is a microwave oven?
100
In economics, it is money in the physical form of currency, such as banknotes and coins.
What is cash?
100
A financial institution that accepts deposits from the public and creates credit.
What is a bank?
100
The preposition used with the present perfect + a period of time to talk about the duration of an unfinished time.
What is "for"?
100
September 27, 1821, with the triumphant entrance of Iturbide to Mexico city.
When was Mexico declared independent?
200
A portable object that tells time and can be kept in one's pocket.
What is a pocket watch?
200
A bag used to carry personal items and money; usually worn by women as an accessory.
What is a purse?
200
In finance, it is the lending of money by one or more individuals and organizations to other individuals, organizations etc. The recipient (i.e. the borrower) incurs a debt, and is usually liable to pay interest on that debt until it is repaid, and also to repay the principal amount borrowed.
What is a loan?
200
The adverb of time used with the present perfect + a point in time to talk about unfinished time; in this case, from a definite past time until now.
What is "since"?
200
An English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor who is best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.
Who is JRR Tolkien?
300
The mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, reckoned from midnight. English speakers often use it as a synonym for Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
What is GMT?
300
A payment method issued to users to enable them to pay a merchant for goods and services based on the user's promise to pay the bank the same amount plus the other agreed charges (interest).
What is a credit card?
300
A different kind of bank which works on the principle of giving small loans to people who have very little money. It started in Bangladesh in 1976.
What is the Grameen Bank?
300
The adverb used to talk about something that has not happened but will probably happen soon.
What is "yet"?
300
The founder, CEO, and lead designer of SpaceX; co-founder, CEO, and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; and co-founder and CEO of Neuralink.
Who is Elon Musk?
400
The physiological condition which results from alterations to the body's circadian rhythms caused by rapid long-distance transmeridian (east-west or west-east) travel.
What is jet lag?
400
The lowest remuneration that employers can legally pay their workers. Equivalently, it is the price floor below which workers may not sell their work.
What is a minimum wage?
400
The founder of the Grameen Bank, in Bangladesh.
Who is Muhammad Yunus?
400
The adverb used to emphasize something that has happened before now.
What is "already"?
400
What is Palacio de Bellas Artes?
500
The Swiss company which introduced internet time so that people on the internet would all use the same time.
Who is Swatch?
500
In economics, it is a sustained increase in the price of goods and services in an economy over a period of time. When the price level rises, each unit of currency buys fewer goods and services; consequently, it reflects a reduction in the purchasing power per unit of money.
What is inflation?
500
The legal status of a person or company that cannot repay debts to creditors. It is usually the result of an economic crisis or financial mismanagement.
What is bankruptcy?
500
The tense which refers to an action or state that either occurred at an indefinite time in the past (e.g., we have talked before) or began in the past and continued to the present time (e.g., he has grown impatient over the last hour). This tense is formed by have/has + the past participle.
What is the present perfect?
500
An American filmmaker and entrepreneur. He is best known as the creator of the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises.
Who is George Lucas?