1.

No lie: Burger Kings in Russia briefly launched a cryptocurrency

named after what signature burger?

Answer: Whopper

2. While researching cruddy point-of-sale systems, Penn roommates

Andrew Kortina and Iqram Magdon-Ismail created what V-word
mobile payment service?

Answer: Venmo

3. It’s rare for a privately held startup to make it big and be worth more
than $1 billion USD. What magical name did Aileen Lee give to
companies that have achieved this feat?

Answer: Unicorns

4. You can use it to power your car in the real world, but in the fintech
world, the term is used when talking about transaction fees in the
Ethereum network.

Answer: Gas

5. A fintech company that offers optimization of companies’ financial

operational challenges is Fly______. Fill in the one word “W” blank,
also a word for metal drawn out into a thin, flexible thread.

Answer: Flywire

6. Though its CEO has described fintech company Chime as a

"transaction-based, process-based business model", in May 2021,
California regulators ruled that the company had to stop referring to
itself as what?

Answer: A Bank

7. What “S” Financial Technologies company was founded in 2014, with

headquarters in San Francisco, CA? It shares its name with the site
of transmission of electrical nerve impulses between two neurons.

Answer: Synapse

8. In 2021, which Central American country became the first country to

recognize cryptocurrency as legal tender?
 Answer: El Salvador

9. Based out of Boston, MA, what multinational financial institution

offers managed stock accounts for its clients? Its logo is a light
shining on top of a pyramid, and its name is a word meaning
faithfulness.

Answer: Fidelity investments

10. Referring to efforts to verify identity, suitability, and risk in a

business relationship, the fintech abbreviation KYC stands for "know
your WHAT?"

Answer: customer

11. What cryptocurrency created by Billy Markus and Jackson

Palmer features the face of a Shiba Inu, and uses the same currency
symbol as the South Vietnamese dong?

Answer: Dogecoin

12. Mehndi is a form of body art and temporary skin decoration that
originated in ancient India and is still popular today in many countries
on the Indian subcontinent. The practice uses a pasted made from
the leaves of what plant?

Answer: Henna

13. Not related to ask.com, Thazhmon and Sherwin Gandhi

founded a Fintech company that shares what J-name with a P.G.
Wodehouse butler character?

Answer: Jeeves

14. Meaning a digital system for recording the transaction of assets

in which the transactions and their details are recorded in multiple
places at the same time, the abbreviation DLT stands for "digital
WHAT technology?"

Answer: Ledger

15. In 2022, Credit Kudos, a credit evaluation tool for lenders

based out of the UK, was purchased by what technology giant with a
fruit-based name?
 Answer: Apple

16. Like sifting for gold, data ______ means searching through a
trove of data to look for “nuggets” of information that could help you
predict trends.

Answer: Mining

17. What mythical term was first popularized in 2013 by venture

capitalist Aileen Lee to describe a startup with a market valuation of
more than $1 billion?

Answer: Unicorn

18. What American “c”ompany, founded by Brian Armstrong and

Fred Ehrsam with headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, is a
cryptocurrency exchange platform?

Answer: Coinbase

19. Originally named clearXchange, what mobile payment service

is more commonly identified by its purple square icon containing a “Z”
with a vertical line drawn through the letter?

Answer: Zelle

20. BigPay, a fintech company offers a money app attached to a

card that can be used anywhere in the world, as well as simplifying
bank statements, is based out of what Southeast Asian nation, with
capital Kuala Lumpur?

Answer: Malaysia

21. What “S” FinTech company offers loans for immigrants and
underserved populations? It is also the name of an upright pole, often
used in a pair, that allows the user to walk high above the ground.

Answer: Stilt

22. In 2022, fintech startup Oura partnered with which luxury

fashion brand to bring you a $950 fitness tracking ring that is certified
bling?

Answer: Gucci
23. With its nose all up in the Börse, the DAX is a stock index
based in what Western European superpower?

Answer: Germany / Deutschland

24. What “S” Irish payment processing and application

programming company shares its name with a narrow band of color
on a surface, often colored different than its surroundings?

Answer: Stripe

25. Which service can you turn to for low-cost, human-free help
with investments?

Answer: Robo-advisor

26. ______ finance—or DeFi for short—uses blockchain tech and

smart contracts to avoid the need for banks or exchanges.

Answer: Decentralized

27. Jack Dorsey is most known for co-founding Twitter, but he is

also CEO of another tech company. What is the name of this other
company most well-known for credit card readers?

Answer: Block

28. What “S” Funding company based out of Texas offers Income
Share Agreements, or ISAs, to help users pay off their student debt?
Its name is a word that also means to walk with long, decisive steps.

Answer: Stride Funding

29. According to global data from Statista in 2022, which country

that’s partly in Asia and partly in Europe has the highest number of
mobile banking users at 85%?

Answer: Turkey

30. In 2017 and 2018, "CryptoKitties" were sold for thousands of

dollars at auction, attracting attention to this game which was built on
what type of cryptographic technology?

Answer: Blockchain
31. Showing a healthy distrust of vowels, Singaporean database
company Bluzelle sells native blockchain tokens with what guessable
three-letter name?

Answer: BLZ

32. What kind of investor provides capital for a start-up business, in

exchange or ownership equity? They probably get their incredibly
positive name from taking a risky investment at an early stage.

Answer: Angel Investor

33. What smartphone app and fintech company was founded by

father and son duo Walter Wemple Cruttenden III and Jeffrey James
Cruttenden to promote incremental and passive investing in 2014?
The company's app features a light green color scheme and shares
its name with a seed enclosed in a tough, leathery shell. The portfolio
options the company offers were designed in part by Nobel laureate
Harry Markowitz.

Answer: Acorns

34. The San Francisco-based company Ethos was valued at a

valuation of more than $2 billion in May 2021 after spending its
existence focusing on what common type of insurance product?

Answer: Life insurance

35. With more than $140 million in funding raised as of April 2021,
what is the London-based fintech company with a Plaid-like
technology that declares "We build intelligent infrastructure that puts
fintech at people's fingertips. Empowering businesses in every
industry to create first-class financial experiences."?

Answer: TrueLayer

36. What “V” mobile-only neobank, founded in San Francisco in

2015, was founded by Colin Walsh as a way to attract millenials to
banking? It is the third most popular neobank, behind Chime and
Simple.

Answer: Varo Bank

37. According to Investopedia, a radical change to a blockchain

network’s protocol which forms a branch following the former protocol
 and another branch following the new one is known as a “hard” type
of what utensil?

Answer: Fork

38. What “B” company, based out of Dublin, Ireland, offers AI

analysis of legal fees? The company name is a compound word, with
the first half meaning giving out a lot of light, and the second half
meaning a country’s representative piece of cloth.

Answer: Brightflag

39. In January 2021, a short squeeze orchestrated by Reddit users

caused a skyrocketing of the price of what retail chain that sells video
games and consumer electronics?

Answer: GameStop

40. What “S” fintech company, that built fraud prevention for
Coinbase and Revolut, offers fraud platforms to other companies? Its
name is also the name of a small fish, often sold in oily tins and also
referred to as pilchard.

Answer: Sardine

41. What “C” FinTech company unifies warranty, registration, and

issue resolution onto a single platform? Its name is also the first
name of NBA star “The Glide” Drexler, and Walt Frazier’s nickname.

Answer: Clyde

42. Flutterwave is a fintech company that offers a payment

infrastructure for global merchants and payment providers, based out
of what “N” African nation?

Answer: Nigeria

43. A FinTech company that offers account management to

financial institutions is ______. Fill in the one word blank, the last
name of hall of fame New York Yankees centerfielder Mickey, without
the “E” at the end.

Answer: MANTL
44. A chip card that is dual interface has one embedded chip that
can process transactions in two ways: contact and ______.

Answer: Contactless

45. Which blockchain-based crypto exchange and payment

platform was founded in Kenya in 2013 to help Africa take part in
digital trading?

Answer: BitPesa

46. Which fintech company in Mexico has a feminine name that

starts with C and helps companies streamline their cash flow?

Answer: Clara

47. Crypto wallets are often split subcatagories based on whether

they are connected to the internet or not. What pair of words (one
three letters long, the other four letters long) are used to differentiate
these subcategories?

Answer: Hot and Cold

48. Which FinTech company based in China and linked to Alibaba

owns Alipay and shares its name with a one-by-one marching insect?

Answer: Ant Group

49. A2A is an acronym that refers to moving money between two

places for safekeeping (like at a bank) that are owned by the same
person. The “2” means “to” and the As on each side are the same
word. Which term is it?

Answer: Account

50. Headquartered in LA, which global fintech company with a

name that combines a color and a geometric term provides cloud-
based financial management software to huge corporations like
Costco, Netflix, and Google?

Answer: Blackline

51. Which startup founded in Chicago in 2017 boasts its services

as the “purrfect” way for developers to manage in-app purchases and
subscriptions?
 Answer: RevenueCat

52. Robotic Process ______ (RPA) has many uses, but it’s
especially useful for taking some of the human “drudge work” out of
handling finances. For example, the bots can be used to organize
client info, prefill applications, and compile reports.

Answer: Automation

53. Which prefix that means “new” applies to a digital bank that
only operates online or through mobile apps?

Answer: Neo

54. Buy Now ______ Later (BNPL) is an example of the emerging

trend of embedded finance, where non-finance companies offer
consumers financial services.

Answer: Pay

55. What’s the name of Ethereum’s main token? (Hint: It’s a word
that can also refer to the glorious heavens above or a liquid gas that
used to be what doctors would knock you out with before surgery)

Answer: Ether

56. You can nominate your favorite fintech for which award that’s
handed out in NYC each year by a prominent financial media
company founded by Jason Raznick? (Hint: It’s abbreviated “BZ”)

Answer: Benzinga

57. Which Berlin-based fintech company founded by Martin

Kessing in 2017 offers an API to help other fintech’s customize the
investment experience for their clients?

Answer: Upvest

58. Which fintech app hit the scene with a “roar” in 2013 and
claims to be “the only money app you need” to handle everything
from building credit and budgeting to investing?

Answer: Moneylion
59. Which American fintech company founded in 1984 and based
in Wisconsin owns First Data and the STAR Network that powers
over 2 million ATMs in the United States?

Answer: Fiserv

60. Even though it’s based in the UK, which fintech company
founded in 2015 by Nikolay Storonsky and Vlad Yatsenko has yet to
get a British banking license, so as of 2022 it’s providing services
more to foreign markets?

Answer: Revolut

61. Which “buzzworthy” fintech startup for 2023 helps employees

at startups navigate getting and funding stock options?

Answer: EquityBee

62. Which fintech company based in Delaware can help you

protect your customers against fraud and automate the process of
handling any problems through its Disputes as a Service feature?

Answer: Quavo

63. What is the name of the fintech company, which was founded
by Max Levchin and went public on the New York Stock Exchange in
2021, that allows users to apply for a small loan when purchasing a
variety of items at its partner stores?

Answer: Affirm

64. The common financial index NASDAQ stands for National

Association of Securities Dealers Automated WHAT?

Answer: quotations

65. What “T” cryptocurrency, based on the Ethereum blockchain,

plans on being decentralized and accepted by telecom operators,
becoming more accessible as a result? Its name makes sense, as it
is currency accepted by telecom.

Answer: Telcoin

66. Born in Bulgaria before attending Thomas Jefferson High

School in Virginia and Stanford University in California, Vlad Tenev
 founded defunct trading company Celeris and then software
company Chronos Research before eventually founding what still-
functioning company in 2013?

Answer: Robinhood

67. In January 2020, global payments company Visa acquired a

financial technology startup for a price of more than $5 billion. The
company provides the "plumbing" for linking bank accounts to
payment apps so transfers can be easily sent over Wi-Fi or cellular
networks. The company shares its name with a clothing pattern.
What is the company?

Answer: Plaid

68. What “U” company, whose logo is a green caret pointing up, is
an AI lending platform that uses non-traditional methods to determine
credit for personal loans? It is also a word for a person who has
suddenly risen to great wealth or power, and is often treated as cocky
or arrogant.

Answer: Upstart

69. With a soaring valuation that reached more than $40 billion in
the first half of 2021, what is the name of the Swedish fintech
company that primarily features post-purchase payments (i.e. "buy
now, pay later") and is headquartered in Stockholm?

Answer: Klarna

70. Which Chinese mobile payment platform was founded by Jack

Ma in 2004 and in 2013, surpassed Paypal as the most used digital
way to pay in the world?

Answer: Alipay

71. Created in 2011 by Charlie Lee, which Bitcoin-like

cryptocurrency is represented by the currency code LTC?

Answer: Litecoin

72. What is the name of the mysterious and unknown person who
designed and created the original implementation protocol for
Bitcoin? We'll accept either the first or last name.
 Answer: Satoshi Nakamoto

73. Founded in 2011 in San Francisco, what mobile-first personal

finance company offers student loans, mortgages, and credit card
services through mobile and desktop apps? This “S” company was
founded by Mike Cagney and Ian Brady, among others.

Answer: SoFi

74. Which double-C named fintech unicorn startup was founded by

two African entrepreneurs in 2018 and lets users send payments
across borders for free via text message?

Answer: Chipper Cash

75. In 2013, a software bug caused what financial technology

company to erroneously credit customer Chris Reynold's account
with 92 quadrillion dollars, although the error was quickly corrected?

Answer: PayPal

76. With a valuation north of $1 billion and more than $700 million
raised in venture capital, what is the four-letter company that offers
business credit cards to technology companies and brands itself as
"the financial OS for the next generation of business"?

Answer: Brex

77. Policybazaar and ZhongAn Insurance are both technology-

based insurance companies that have received large amounts of
funding through the Vision Fund which is one of the world's largest
venture capital funds and is associated with what Japanese telecom
giant?

Answer: SoftBank

78. Artificial intelligence in finance might seem like the future of

banking, but it’s practically history! In 1987, Security Pacific Bank
California started using AI to fight fraud on which kind of banking
card?

Answer: Debit

79. The autonomous region of Cantabria in northern Spain has

what port city as its capital? The city is home to Spain's largest bank.
 Answer: Santander

80. Name one of the two online payments companies founded in

the late 1990s that eventually merged and became known as PayPal.

Answer: Confinity and X.com

81. What “VW” company is the first European Neobank to be

entirely cloud-based, with offices in 23 companies? Its name sounds
like a Mexican celebration of a billfold.

Answer: Viva Wallet

82. Founded in 2009 by Tim Chen and Jacob Gibson, what’s the
name of the popular personal finance and investing website and app
for money geeks?

Answer: NerdWallet

83. Which Brazilian online-only bank was founded in 2013, became

a unicorn fintech startup, and is now the largest “neobank” in Latin
America?

Answer: Nubank

84. What is the name of the NYC-based e-commerce fraud-

prevention FinTech founded by Eido Gal and Assaf Feldman in 2013
that has raised more than $200 million in venture funding as of April
2021?

Answer: Riskified

85. What is the alliteratively-named San Francisco-based

technology company that offers pay-per-mile car insurance? The
company was founded in 2011 and went public in February 2021.

Answer: Metromile

86. After being named the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange

by volume in 2018, Binance moved its headquarters to what
Mediterranean island within the same year to benefit from its
cryptocurrency regulations?
 Answer: Malta

87. Which global fintech and SaaS company, founded in Ireland in

2009, gives businesses the ability to process online payments in
more than 100 currencies, or in-person with a physical card reader
they can hook up to a smartphone that connects with Terminal (its
POS)?

Answer: Stripe

88. The large insurance and financial services company

Northwestern Mutual is not headquartered in the Northwestern part of
the United States nor in the same state as Northwestern University.
In which state is this 1857-founded company headquartered? The
company's most recent major FinTech acquisition was the financial
planning app LearnVest for over $200 million in 2015.

Answer: Wisconsin

89. Which name that starts with F refers to a prepaid card for travel
that you can load more than one currency onto?

Answer: Forex

90. Founded in London, England in 2015 by Nikolay Stroronsky

and Vlad Yatsenko, what app allows you to manage all your savings
and investments? Its name is the first several letters of a word
synonymous with insurrection.

Answer: Revolut

91. In 2017, Misys merged with D+H to form the third-largest

financial services company in the world. Now providing its software
and other products to more than 8,600 institutions globally, what’s the
company’s name?

Answer: Finastra

92. What man was the founder of mortgage giant Rock Financial in
1985 which became the largest independent mortgage lender in the
US by the late 1990s? The company later rebranded to Quicken
Loans and also includes the Rocket Mortgage brand as well.

Answer: Dan Gilbert

93. What is the name of the NYC-based fintech company that
focuses on reducing clients spend along with issuing a namesake
corporate credit card? The company was in the news in April 2021
after raising back-to-back rounds that raised the young four-letter firm
at more than one billion dollars.

Answer: Ramp

94. What two-word term is commonly used in the UK to describe a

small to medium, often online-only, bank set up with the intent of
competing with larger and more established institutions?

Answer: Challenger bank

95. Featuring partially overlapping blue and orange circles as its

logo, what is the smart card electronic cash system founded in the
United Kingdom in the 1990s and acquired by Mastercard in 2001?

Answer: Mondex