WALL-STREET.COM FINANCIAL QUIZES -- ANSWERS
Section 1 -- U. S. Exchanges Past and Present 1. NYSE facade. 2. Consolidated Stock Exchange, NYC, circa 1900. 3. Corn Exchange, New York City. 4. Cotton Exchange, New York City. 5. Merchants Exchange, San Francisco. 6. Corn Exchange, Rochester. 7. New York Produce Exchange. 8. NYSE 9. Corn Exchange Nat'l. Bank Building, Philadelphia 10. New Orleans Sugar Exchange, 1900. 11. Produce Exchange Bank, New York City 12. Exchange Place, New Orleans 13. A Trading Floor. 14. Chicago Board of Trade. Section 2 -- Global Exchanges Past and Present 1. Merchants Exchange, Perugia. 2. Board of Trade, Lyons. 3. Brussels, Belgium, Bourse, 1893. 4. Bank of England, English Stk.Excg., Interior, 1850. 5. Borso, Naples, Italy. 6. Corn Exchange, Grassmarket, Edinburgh. 7. Berlin Stock Exchange. 8. Saltmarket Exchange, Glasgow. 9. Dragon Tower Exchange, Denmark. 10. Coal and Corn Exchanges, London. 11. Paris Bourse 12. Copenhagen Exchange. 13. Threadneedle Street financial district (Bank of England with Royal Exchg.) 14. Royal Exchange, Edinburgh 15. Bourse, Mailand, Italy. 16. Kuwait Stock Exchange. 17. New York Stock Exchange. 18. Royal Exchange of London. Section 3 -- U. S. Financial History 1. Smoking Ruins of Merchant Exchange, December 1835. 2. Circa 1943, NYSE Control Room. 3. Trading under Buttonwood tree in NY. Predecessor to US stock exchanges. 4. WPA Workers during '30's depression. 5. Buying WWII Defense Savings Bonds, 1943. 6. Allies' Day 1934 Ticker Tape Parade. NY, Fifth Ave. 7. Old New York Stock Exchange 8. Washington arrives at foot of Wall Street in 1789 for inauguration. 9. Wall Street in 1674. 10. Curb Brokers on Broad St., NY, 1918 (predecessor to AMEX). 11. Wall Street in 1870's. 12. Trinity Church at end of Wall Street, 1930. 13. New York Stock Exchange Floor 14. Contemporary Quotes - Commodities 15. NYSE 1908. 16. Continental Currency, Revolutionary Era 17. Printing Money, circa 1940. 18. Confederate Money. 19. 1884 Wall Street Panic 20. WWI Troops Camp by the SubTreasury and USPO 21. Hoover Administration: 1929 crash, Dawes Reconstruction Finance Corp., 1930 war debt moratorium, etc. 22. Construction of Equitable Bldg. causes 1916 Zoning Regulation. 23. Federal Reserve created 1913, Board meets 1914. 24.1883 Statue of George Washington placed at Sub-Treasury Bldg. (Natl.Memorial since 1955) on site of his inauguration at old City Hall. Section 4 -- US Domestic Economy Editorial Cartoons 1. Regarding the Anti-Trust Clayton Act. 2. The Wailing Wall (1930's depression?) 3. Wall Street shears the Ford ram. 4. John D. Rockefeller. 5. Elisha Roosevelt sicketh the bears on the Bad Boys of Wall Street. 6. J. P. Morgan 7. Free tade vs market protected by tariff. 8. Exciting announcements by oil company produce huge demand for stock. 9. Thomas Nast, US Economy "Now pull him over the falls, and see if he can reach the point again." 10. The country takes congress to to task for not fixing faulty tax laws leading to waste. 11. "Downfall of Mother Bank". Andrew Jackson. Nicholas Biddle. 12. 1874. Banks holding money creating inflation. 13. circa 1921 Campbell's tomato soup ad. 14. 1800s, Senator Quay's position on the sugar question as defined by himself. 15. Squeezing the trusts as Roosevelt watches. Section 5 -- Global Economy Editorial Cartoons These are not really "answers", but are the captions.
1. The Ugly King. 2. The Ugly American. 3. The Ugly Kaiser. 4. Our money is leaving the US for England! 5. Our money is leaving England for the US! 6. Our money is leaving the US for Europe! 7. The French working man is carrying the debt load. 8. The British subject is carrying the debt load. 9. The Spanish citizen is carrying the debt load 10. England and the US work together. 11. England and Germany confer. 12. The US and Mexico blame each other 13. British fiscal policy 14. British policy toward free trade. 15. British business policy 16. The US controlling South America. 17. Mexican bank holiday. 18. France laundering German Marks. Section 6 -- Money, Mints and Treasuries Around the World 1. Belgian Coin, Viking Coin Brazilian Coin 2. China Mint 3. British 10 Pence, Tudor Coin, Ancient Persia 4. Flattening Gold Bar 5. Finnish Coin, Mexico 10 Pesos, 1252 Gold Florin 6. Hanibal and Elephant, Russia 1776 Imperial Catherine, East Indian Rupee 7. Berlin Royal Teasury 8. 1814 Napoeonic Lira, Ruble, Anglo Saxon Coin 9. Nepalese Treasury 10. First US Mint 11. Drachma, Venetian Ducat, Henri IV France 12. 1990 English Mint 13. Greek Coin, Old Cambodian Coin, 1500s China 14. Constantinople Treasury 15. German Coin 1775 America Coin, Monaco Coin 16. Kremlin Palace Treasury 17. Philip II of Macedonia, Piece of 8, Polish Coin 18. Wall Street Old Sub-Treasury 19. Yen Side 1, Yen Side 2, 1600s Queen Christina of Sweeden 20. York Coin, Vietnamese Coin, Theodoric Coin 21. Paris Mint 22. Display at Worlds Fair 23. Inside A Vault 24. Treasury of Atreus 25. South African Coin, Roman Coin, New Zealand Coin, Mexican Coin, Head of Charlemagne, Head of Perseus, 1150 Jereusalem Amorium I, Head of Simon Bolivar, 1900 French 100 Francs, Medieval French Coin, Shekel 26. First and Philadephia Mints 27. Numbering and Sealing Press