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100

The tallest academic library in the world can be found on UMass campus bearing this name

What is the W.E.B. Dubois Library

100

Where supply meets demand, resulting in price stability

What is equilibrium
100

This musician's Eras Tour has been credited with boosting the economies of cities she performed in.

Who is Taylor Swift
100

The Chair of the Federal Reserve

Who is Jerome Powell

100

The capital of Jamaica

Where is Kingston
200

The current Chancellor of UMass Amherst since July 2023.

Who is Chancellor Javier Reyes
200

The enjoyment from "one more" unit of a good

What is marginal utility

200

This Beatles member wrote "Here Comes the Sun"

Who is George Harrison

200

Three of the US cities with Reserve banks

Where are: Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Richmond, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Dallas, and San Francisco (any three accepted)

200

This is the only rock that floats in water

What is pumice
300

Although today a wide variety of majors are offered at UMass Amherst, it started out as this type of school

What is an Agricultural school

(Massachusetts Agricultural College)

300

Factors outside the consumer and producer in a market can lead to these

What are externalities

300

Despite his status as a guitar legend, this song was Jimi Hendrix's only Top 40 hit

What is "All Along the Watchtower"

300

One of the main tools used in monetary policy, this term refers to the purchase and sale of securities by a central bank

What are open market operations

300

The number of teeth a tiger has

30

400

Name three economics professors at UMass

(Answers vary)

400

This index measures the size of companies relative to the size of the industry they are in and the amount of competitiveness. 

What is the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index

(Abbreviation for half credit, full name for full credit)

400

This song had the first music video to ever air on MTV.

What is "Video Killed the Radio Star"

400

A so called "unconventional" monetary policy where a central bank purchases government bonds or other  assets in order to stimulate economic activity - came into vogue after the 2008 recession

What is quantitative easing

400

The country outlined above

Where is Latvia

500

The number of gender-inclusive bathrooms in UMass non residential buildings (+/- 5%)

175-195 bathrooms

(185 on website)

500

The 4 principle conditions for which perfect competition is met.

What are: many buyers and sellers

homogeneous products

no barriers to entry and exit

perfect information about the price of a good

500

Freddie Mercury was born in which (now dissolved) state?

Where is Zanzibar

500

Set by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) this is the rate at which commercial banks borrow and lend their excess reserves to each other overnight.

What is the Federal Funds Rate

500

She was the first woman in space

Valentina Tereshkova