Thursday, 29 July 2010

Regular Appearances- July 30th 2010

Connect the following-

1. Bagehot- (3 February 1826 – 24 March 1877), an English businessman, essayist and journalist who wrote extensively about literature, government, and economic affairs.

2. Schumpeter- (8 February 1883 – 8 January 1950), an Austrian economist and political scientist born in Moravia, then part of Austria-Hungary, now in the Czech Republic. He popularized the term "creative destruction" in economics.

3. Charlemagne- (742- 814), King of Franks and Emperor of the Romans.

4. Lexington- a town in  MA, USA, famous for being the site of the first shot of the American Revolution, in the battle of Lexington, on April 19, 1775.

5. Buttonwood- a common and familiar tree in North America, also called the American Sycamore. Early Wall St. traders used to gather under one.

6. Banyan- a fig, most commonly the Indian Banyan tree.

2 comments:

anangrawat said...

The EConomist

The Answer said...

The regular columns covering different parts of the world in "The Economist".

Congrats anangrawat!

Sorry others, if this was too much of a trivia question...