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What is iPhone
This device introduced at MacWorld combined a touchscreen, music player, internet capabilities, and mobile phone
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What is LIBOR
This international rate benchmark is scheduled to be phased out by 2021 in favor of Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR)
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What is Graphical user interface (GUI)
A form of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and audio indicator
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What is Rocky Mountains
Pike’s Peak is situated in which mountain range
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What is Apple
This company was founded on April 1, 1976 in Cupertino, CA and is leading electronics innovator.
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What is Bitcoin
A cryptocurrency invented in 2008 by an unknown person or group of people using the Satoshi Nakamoto
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What is New York Stock Exchange
An American stock exchange at 11 Wall Street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City
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What is telephone
Alexander Graham Bell is credited with inventing and patenting the first practical _____?
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What is Himalayas
Mount Everest is part of which mountain range
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What is Amazon
This company started as an online marketplace for books but soon expanded to sell electronics, software, video games, apparel, furniture, food, toys, and jewelry
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What is Crew-1 Dragon or “Resilience”
In May 2020, SpaceX was able to launch a crewed capsule from American soil after a nine-year hiatus. What is the name of the capsule?
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What is options
Financial instruments that are derivatives based on the value of underlying securities such as stock
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What is Assembly Line or Henry Ford production system
In 1913 at the Ford manufacturing plant in Highland Park, Henry Ford helped implement this method in production of the Model T
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What is Ring (Rim) of Fire or Circum-Pacific Belt
A major area in the basin of the Pacific Ocean where many earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur
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What is Uber
This company provides a cost-saving platform that matched car owners with empty seats to customers going to the same destination and is a pioneer in the development of self-driving cars
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What is Maglev
A system of train transportation that uses two sets of magnets: one set to repel and push the train up off the track, and another set to move the elevated train ahead, taking advantage of the lack of friction
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What is Bretton Woods Agreement / System
This gold standard helped global currency markets after World War II
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What is Velcro
A fastener consisting of two components: a lineal fabric strip with tiny hooks that could "mate" with another fabric strip with smaller loops, attaching temporarily, until pulled apart
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What is Gobi Desert
A large desert in East Asia covering Northern and Northeastern China
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What is Robinhood
This FinTech company is the pioneered in offering to consumers commission free stock trading
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What is International Monetary Fund (IMF)
- An international organization, headquartered in Washington, D.C., consisting of 190 countries working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world while periodically depending on the World Bank for its resources
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What is Colorado
At 1,450 miles long, the ______ River is the sixth longest in the nation, passing through seven states and two nations.
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What is Alphabet Inc
In August 2015, Google announced plans to reorganize its various interests as a conglomerate. What is the name of the conglomerate?
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