Mercer Capital's RIA Holiday Quiz Question Title * 1. Contact Information Name Email Address Question Title * 2. Much like last year, market performance in 2021 largely hinged upon news of the Coronavirus, variants, and vaccine rollout. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, which pandemic/epidemic caused the largest market crash? SARS outbreak of 2003 Spanish Flu of 1918 The 1793 Philadelphia Yellow Fever Epidemic Question Title * 3. 2021 may be remembered as the year of ‘Meme Trades’ – where an army of retail traders took viral, speculative bets on financially struggling companies leading to meteoric rallies. Which meme stock had the best 2021 YTD price return (From Jan 4, 2021 to Dec 17, 2021)? AMC Blackberry GameStop Question Title * 4. In 2021, the US QE experiment reached unprecedented highs. What country was the first to officially pursue quantitative easing? The United Kingdom Argentina Japan Question Title * 5. How many IPOs were there in 2021 globally? 1560 2388 235 Question Title * 6. The world of finance went meta in 2021, with both crypto and federal reserve money printing challenging the idea of money. Perhaps the most existential moment in the finance world was the $1.2 million sale of an NFT JPEG of a cartoon rock. While 2021 might have been the year when NFT’s went mainstream, when was the first NFT minted? 2020 2014 1994 Question Title * 7. In November 2021, inflation hit a 39 year high of 6.8% while the Christmas Price Index jumped 5.7% (the largest since 2013). In response to the no-longer transitory inflation, the federal reserve has begun tapering its purchases of mortgage-backed securities and in December signaled three rate hikes for 2022. After the Fed’s initial two months of emergency purchasing at the start of the pandemic, how much debt did the Fed purchase on average per month throughout the second half of 2020 through November 2021? $20 billion $75 billion $120 billon Question Title * 8. What was the first U.S. stock exchange? The New York Stock Exchange The Philadelphia Stock Exchange The Boston Stock Exchange Question Title * 9. In 2021, the Crypto market topped $1 trillion in market cap and by year end reached highs above $3 trillion, slightly less than 1/3 of the market cap of gold. As Crypto became more mainstream what percent of institutional investors held crypto assets in 2021? ~50% ~25% ~5% Question Title * 10. Who was the longest serving Chair of the Federal Reserve? Arthur F. Burns Alan Greenspan William McChesney Martin Jr. Question Title * 11. Who is the first person to reach $300 billion in net worth? Jeff Bezos Elon Musk Mark Zuckerberg Done
