How well do you know Wall Street?  Find out with our trivia quiz, which even stumped me.  The answers appear at the bottom.

  1. How many stocks make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average?
  2. A legacy of inventor Alexander Graham Bell, this company was forced to divest itself of many of its local companies. What is this stock?
  3. Is AT&T in the Dow Jones Industrial Average?
  4. The Dow Jones performed best under what three presidents?
  5. The Dow Jones performed worst under what three presidents?
  6. The name of the difference between the price you can buy versus sell a security.
  7. Who is known as the “Oracle of Omaha?”
  8. What did buyers want to own in the bubble of 1637 in the Netherlands?
  9. When did the price of gold reach its all-time high?
  10. What was the first company on the NYSE?
  11. What year did the Dow Jones first close over 10,000?
  12. What year did the Dow Jones first close over 20,000?
  13. Which Dow Jones stock has been there since the very beginning?
  14. What is the first name of the person that founded Dow Jones & Company?
  15. What is the largest company by market capitalization today?
  16. How often would you place trades using the Dogs of the Dow strategy?

 

Answers:  1: The Dow is the oldest stock market average (1896) and it contains 30 stocks.  2:  AT&T Corp.  3: No, AT&T was removed from the Dow to make room for Apple.  4: The Dow performed best under Calvin Coolidge, gaining 251.7%.  This was during the roaring 20s.  The Dow gained 226.6% under Bill Clinton and 196.7% under FDR.  5: The Dow lost 82.8% under Herbert Hoover.  It lost 22.3% under George W. Bush and lost 16.5% under Richard Nixon.  6: The bid-to-ask spread. 7: Warren Buffett.  8: Tulips.  9: In 2011 gold reached its high price of $1,905.10 per ounce.  10: Bank of New York, created by Alexander Hamilton.  11. 1999, with the anniversary occurring last week.  12: 2017.  13: General Electric.  14: Charles.  15: Apple, with a market cap of $754 billion.  16: Once a year at the start.

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