Q 01/05

On Wall Street a rising market is a bull market, while a falling market is named after which animal?

A) Wolf

B) Stag

C) Hawk

D) Bear

Answer · why

D) Bear

Bear most likely comes from the proverb about selling the bearskin before catching the bear: London's 'bearskin jobbers' of the early 1700s sold share...

Q 02/05

Wall Street's 'blue chip' stocks take their name from the most valuable chip in which game?

A) Roulette

B) Poker

C) Blackjack

D) Craps

Answer · why

B) Poker

Poker's priciest chip was borrowed, the story goes, by a Wall Street Journal reporter for stocks trading at $200 or more, so the label first meant exp...

Q 03/05

The Dutch called Wall Street Het Cingel, a name shared with an Amsterdam canal that began as the city's what?

A) Moat

B) Sewer

C) Reservoir

D) Harbour

Answer · why

A) Moat

Moat: the Singel once ringed medieval Amsterdam's walls. New Amsterdam did have a Waal Straat, but it was the wharf street, now part of Pearl Street, ...

Q 04/05

In 1653 the Dutch built Wall Street's wall chiefly to keep out which European rival?

A) The French

B) The Spanish

C) The English

D) The Swedes

Answer · why

C) The English

The English attack feared from New England never came; when they finally took the town in 1664 they arrived by sea, and it surrendered to their warshi...

Q 05/05

Which Dutch colonial leader ordered the building of the wall that gave Wall Street its name?

A) Peter Stuyvesant

B) Henry Hudson

C) Willem Kieft

D) Peter Minuit

Answer · why

A) Peter Stuyvesant

Peter Stuyvesant called an emergency meeting in March 1653, and the order soon went out that the citizens, without exception, must turn out and work o...