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What market value were gold coins traded in relation to?
Congressional standard of the silver dollar
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In what year did the shift in gold standard occur?
1834
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What are gold and silver coins valuable for now adays?
their precious metal value
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What are non primarily gold and silver coins valuable for?
their numismatic value
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What was the only coin with any silver content in circulation from 1965 to 1970?
Kennedy half dollar
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What was the Kennedy half dollar replaced with?
cupronickel
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How much was the experimental Stella coin valued at?
$4.00
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When were silver dollars first minted?
1794
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Who was featured on the copper - nickel dollar?
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Which coin was introduced in 1979?
Susan B. Anthony dollar
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What did the new $1 coin minted in 2000 feature?
Sacagawea
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In which century were gold dollars minted?
19th
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What do coins, Federal Reserve Notes and deposits held by despository institutions make up?
The monetary base
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What was the monetary base value in 1994?
400 billion dollars
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How much did the monetar base value increase to in 2013?
over 3000 billion
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How many times a year does the Federal Open Market Committee meet?
Eight
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What would the Federal Reserve buy to try and increase money supply?
securities
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What does the decline in value of the dollar correspond to?
price inflation
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The rise in level of prices in an economy is referred to as what?
price inflation
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What does CPI stand for?
consumer price index
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Who publishes the Consumer Price Index?
Bureau of Labor Statistics
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What does the CPI estimate?
average price of consumer goods and services in the United States
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When was the Royal College of Chemistry established?
1845
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Which politicians donated funds to establish the Royal College of Chemistry?
Benjamin Disraeli, William Gladstone and Robert Peel
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Who was the first professor of the Royal College of Chemistry?
August Wilhelm von Hofmann
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Why was the Royal College of Chemistry founded?
in the United Kingdom the teaching of chemistry in particular had fallen behind that in Germany
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Who supported the Royal College of Chemistry?
Prince Albert
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When was the Royal College of Chemistry established?
1845
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What was not well taught that led to the founding of the Royal College of Chemistry?
practical aspects of the experimental sciences
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Which country was ahead of the United Kingdom in the teaching of chemistry?
Germany
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Which Prince supported the establishment of the college?
Prince Albert
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Who was the first professor of the college?
August Wilhelm von Hofmann
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When was the City and Guilds College founded?
1876
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What was the aim of the City and Guilds College when it was founded?
improve the training of craftsmen, technicians, technologists, and engineers
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What were the main objectives of establishing the City and Guilds College?
to create a Central Institution in London and to conduct a system of qualifying examinations in technical subjects
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How much did the 1851 Exhibition Commissioners pay for the land that became the City and Guilds College?
GBP 342,500
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What was the former name of the City and Guilds College?
CGLI Central Technical College
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Which college was founded in 1876?
City and Guilds College
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How many livery companies were in the meeting that founded the college?
16
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What does CGLI stand for?
Advancement of Technical Education
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Other than conducting a system of qualifying examinations, what was the other main objective of the meeting of CGLI?
to create a Central Institution in London
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How large was the land (in acres) that the institution was founded on?
eighty-seven
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When did Imperial announce their science park program at the Wye Campus?
December 2005
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When did Imperial abandon their science park program?
September 2006
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When was the Wye College campus closed?
September 2009
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Where was Imperial planning on launching their science park program?
the Wye campus
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Where was Imperial's science park programme located?
Wye campus
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When was the science park programme abandoned?
September 2006
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How much money could the science park programme have raised for the college?
£110m
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Who did not know about the potential revenue that the programme could have raised initially?
the public
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What was closed on September 2009?
Wye College campus
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What was the market value of the endowment the college received on July 31, 2015?
£512.4 million
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What is a "Unitised Scheme"?
a unit trust vehicle for College, Faculties and Departments to invest endowments and unfettered income to produce returns for the long term
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How much did the market value of the college's endowment increase between 2014 and 2015?
£78 million
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How many percent did the college's endowment market value increase from 2014 to 2015?
18%
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How many distinct portfolios is the College's endownment divided into?
three
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What is the term that represents a unit trust vehicle that allows endowments to be invested to produce returns for the lon term?
Unitised Scheme
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The 120 operational and developmental properties within the college that are not core to the academic mission belong to which portfolio?
Non-Core Property
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The College's restricted equity holdings would be considered a part of which portion of the portfolio?
Strategic Asset Investments
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How much did the market value of the endowment increase by during the year 2014/2015?
£78 million
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How many staff members did Imperial submit assessments of for the REF assessment?
1,257
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In the 2014 rankings produced by Times Higher Education, what position was Imperial ranked for GPA?
2nd
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How many units of assessment did Imperial submit?
14
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How highly was Imperial ranked in "research power" in 2014?
8th
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How many staff members did Imperial claim to have in 2014?
1,257
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What does REF stand for?
Research Excellence Framework
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What was the percentage of Imperials research that was seemed to be 3*?
44%
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What did the REF give Imperial as an overall GPA?
3.36
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What was Imperial's overall GPA rank according to the Times Higher Education?
2nd
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When was Professor Stefan Grimm found dead?
September 2014
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When did Imperial College make its first public announcement of Stefan Grimm's death?
4 December 2014
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How many times was Professor Stefan Grimm's email viewed in the first four days after it was posted online?
more than 100,000
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What did Professor Grimm's last email accuse Imperial College of before his death?
bullying
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What did Imperial College announce it would do after Professor Grimm's death?
internal inquiry
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Which Professor was found dead in September 2014?
Professor Stefan Grimm
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To which department did the professor who passed in September 2014 belong?
Department of Medicine
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What was the dead professor threatened with before his death?
dismissal
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How much did the Grimm claim his employers said he should raise in grant money per year?
£200,000
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How many views did Grimm's last email get in the first four days after it was posted?
more than 100,000
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Which day was the Imperial College Boat Club formed on?
12 December 1919
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How many alumni from Imperial were a part of the Gold medal winning GB8+?
3
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What was the name of the coach of the Gold medal winning GB8+?
Martin McElroy
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Which event has the Boat Club been highly successful at?
Henley Royal Regatta
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Which event did the Boat Club claim victory in for 2013?
The Prince Albert Challenge Cup event
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What school was established in 1851?
The Royal School of Mines
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Who established the Royal School of Mines?
Sir Henry de la Beche
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A collection of miners, maps and mining equipment all belonged to what entity?
the Museum of Economic Geology
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Which famous prince was a patron at the Royal School of Mines?
Prince Albert
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Which region did Prince Albert aim to make famous as an educational region?
South Kensington
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Who granted Imperial degree-awarding powers?
Privy Council
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In which year was the London Centre for Nanotechnology established?
2003
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The Londre Centre for Nanotechnology was a joint effort between UCL and which college?
Imperial College London
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What is the old name of the Imperial College Business School?
Tanaka Business School
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The Faculties of Life Sciences and Physical Sciences merged in 2005 to become which faculty?
Faculty of Natural Sciences
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In which area in London is Imperial's main campus located?
South Kensington
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What is the area inside of South Kensington where Imperial is located known as?
Albertopolis
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In which decade did the expansion of the South Kensington campus being?
1950s
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Who designed the Imperial Institue that was a victim of Imperial's expansion in the 1950s & 1960s?
Thomas Collcutt
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Which landmark still remains from the Imperial Institue after Imperial's expansion?
Queen's Tower
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Which centre provides electives outside of science for students?
Centre For Co-Curricular Studies
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