5th Grade Trivia
In biology, this is credited as the "powerhouse" of the cell.
What are mitochondria?
In 2025, this day was dubbed "Liberation Day" following the announcement of global tariffs.
When is April 2, 2025?
This is the full name of "J.P. Morgan."
Who is "John Pierpont" Morgan?
This Greek letter is sometimes referred to as "time decay" in options.
What is Theta?
This is the firm where Fabio Mire works.
What is Apollo?
This is the gas that plants absorb from the atmosphere.
What is carbon dioxide (CO2)?
This was the first year of the Great Depression.
When is 1929?
These are the three founders of KKR. (Last names acceptable).
Who are Henry KRAVIS, George ROBERTS, and Jerome KOHLBERG?
These are the "Magnificent 7" companies.
What are Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Tesla?
These are the four firms where our directors worked last summer.
What are A&M, JP Morgan, RBC, and Truist?
These are the four faces on Mount Rushmore.
Who are George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln?
This is the percentage crash of the Dow Jones Industrial Average during the 1987 Black Monday event... (Answer within 0.5 percentage points).
What is 22.6%?
This is the university from which Jamie Dimon received his undergraduate diploma.
What is Tufts University?
This is what "N.A.S.D.A.Q." stands for.
What is the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations?
These are the nine names of the previous three WSSP Executive Boards.
Who are Tess Patton, Austin Elberg, Jake Hays, Spencer Angell, Lawson Lundstedt, Addison Porch, Prarthana Magon, David Wassef, and Ben Taylor?
This is the year the U.S. Constitution was ratified.
When is 1788?
This is the nickname given to the years after the Japanese price bubble popped, causing a lengthy period of economic stagnation in Japan from roughly 1991 - 2003.
What are "the Lost Decades"?
He is known as "The Man Who Broke the Bank of England" for his short position during Black Wednesday.
Who is George Soros?
This is the type of order that gives a broker the instruction to buy or sell a current position if the price reaches a specific level, aiming to limit losses.
What is a "stop-loss" order?
This is the year Jeff Welter graduated from the University of Arizona (undergraduate).
When is 2005?
Measuring over 4,100 miles, this is the longest river in the world.
What is the Nile River?
Packaged with pools of credit default swaps rather than cash bonds, these highly leveraged financial instruments exacerbated the domino effect of the Great Recession.
What is a synthetic collateralized debt obligation? (Synthetic CDO).
His past experiences include: Morgan Stanley M&A, partner at Duquesne Family Office, and member of the Fed's Board of Governors.
Who is Kevin Warsh?
This is the current yield of the 10-year Treasury... (To the second decimal place).
What is 4.97%?
This is the class size of the Class of 2016 graduates from WSSP. (How many scholars graduated in the first class?)
What are 6 scholars?