Showing posts with label S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats. Show all posts

Saturday, July 14, 2018

14 Jul 2018, Day 103

Question 1:
As Marlow approaches, what are Kurtz's final words? Answer: The horror.


Please see Day 55 for the explanation.

Question 2:
Because the company increased shareholder dividends for 25 years in a row, what S&P designation was granted the world's largest distributor of toys? Answer: S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats.


Please seeDay 45 for the explanation.

Question 3:
What do scientists call the "aliens" and odd organisms that live below the bottom of the ocean? Answer: intraterrestrials.


If you were to type organisms that live below the bottom of the ocean in the search field, you will come across an article that gives the answer in the title. The only problem intraterrestrial, as defined by A Google a Day, doesn't meet the definition described here.

Sunday, November 19, 2017

19 Nov 2017, Day 92

Question 1:
Because the company increased shareholder dividends for 25 years in a row, what S&P designation was granted the world's largest distributor of toys? Answer: S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats.


Please see Day 45 for the explanation.

Question 2:
What industry is the primary user of perchloroethylene, a chemical that researchers at Boston University have linked to mental illness, like bipolar disorder? Answer: dry cleaners.


Please see Day 8 for the explanation.

Question 3:
Who is generally regarded as one of the very first Americans to die in the struggle for liberty from British Rule? Answer: Crispus Attucks.


When you place revolutionary war first casualty in the search field you'll see two names. The other, an 11 year old boy named Christopher Seider died two weeks before Attucks, but in typical Internet fashion there are many arguments but no citations(even from an organization like the New England Historical Society, who have the means to investigate). Until source material becomes widely available Mr. Attucks is the answer.

Friday, January 29, 2016

29 Jan, 2016: Day 45

Question 1:
What renowned children's book set around the love for the first African-American to play major league baseball, starts with the line "The St. George Hotel?"? Answer: Thank You, Jackie Robinson.


If you didn't know the first Black to play major league baseball was Jackie Robinson for the Brooklyn Dodgers. I didn't have to look that up, it's something that I already knew, I didn't have to look that up. Seeding the search, Jackie Robinson "The St. George Hotel?" children's book gets you the answer.

Question 2:
Who wrote the biggest hit of the performer who has five stars along Hollywood Boulevard? Answer: Johnny Marks.


Please see Day 26 for the explanation.

Question 3:
Because the company increased shareholder dividends for 25 years in a row, what S&P designation was granted the world's largest distributor of toys? Answer: S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats.


For a moment I was on a red herring, looking up the toy distributor, instead of looking at was in my face the whole time. The correct search is using in the search field increased shareholder dividends 25 years s&p 500. There's an index using the name. Annual Fund Operating Expenses is .35%.