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100

This was the year that Purdue was founded.

What is 1869?

100

This person was the first female Chair of the Federal Reserve.

Who is Janet Yellen?

100

The name of one female professor in the economics department.

 Who is… (literally any woman professor)?

100

President Trump has imposed these high trade taxes on imports.

What are tariffs?

100

The first woman on the Supreme Court.

Who is Sandra Day O’Connor?


200

This famous astronaut received a C+ in his Calculus II course.

Who is Neil Armstrong?

200

This researcher was the most recent woman to receive a Nobel Prize for Economics.

Who is Claudia Goldin?

200

This is the name of one course Professor Melanie Fox teaches.

What is Econ 251 or Econ 252?

200

This country has launched an investigation into Google.

What is China?

200

 The first woman to serve as the Speaker of the House.

Who is Nancy Pelosi?

300

Purdue bought this famous pilot the plane they disappeared in.

Who is Amelia Earhart?

300

This amount of women have won the Nobel Prize for Economics.

What is 3?

300

This number is the number of female professors in the economics department according to the Purdue economics faculty website.

   What is 9?

300

This U.S. department is being threatened with budget cuts.

What is the U.S. Department of Education?

300

The first woman to go to the Moon.

Who is Christina Koch?

400

This now all-male dorm used to house women during the war.

What is Cary Quad?

400

The first woman to win a Nobel Prize in economics, Elinor Ostrom, received the honor in this year.

When is 2009?

400

This person is the Director of Undergraduate Programs in Economics.

Who is Professor Vargas?

400

This university is under fire after a Navy SEAL led a workout that hospitalized multiple lacrosse players.

What is Tufts University?

400

The first woman to receive a nobel prize.

 Who is Marie Skłodowska-Curie?

500

Purdue University President Owen died after drinking this.

What is embalming fluid?

500

This organization was named after the first African-American economist and aims to increase the representation of African American women in economics and related fields.

What is The Sadie Collective?

500

The names of two areas of interest Professor Carr (the WEC advisor) specializes in.

What is Crime, Public Economics, Public Policy?

500

The AI world is obsessed with this economic paradox.

What is Jevons Paradox?

Making something more efficient would only speed up the inevitable collapse of those resources.

500

The first woman to graduate from Purdue University.

Who is Eulora Miller Jennings?