Question: Which agencies have became the authority on assessing the risk of financial institutions?
Answer: Moody's and S&P

Question: When was Basel II adopted?
Answer: 2005

Question: What said that agencies had to start using Moody's and S&P to assess financial institutions?
Answer: the Basel II recommendations

Question: Since when have the Basel II recommendations been in effect?
Answer: 2008

Question: Where is the European Central bank located?
Answer: Frankfurt

Question: What decided where the bank was to be located?
Answer: Amsterdam Treaty

Question: When did the bank move to it's new headquarters?
Answer: 2014

Question: What previously stood where the bank is now?
Answer: the former wholesale market

Question: When did construction of the new bank begin?
Answer: October 2008

Question: After the loan program was announced, which countries borrowed the most?
Answer: Greece, Ireland, Italy and Spain

Question: What would happen if some of the banks were to begin buying govenrment bonds?
Answer: easing the debt crisis

Question: How much does the ECB have to have to pay off it's own debts?
Answer: €200bn

Question: How do you prevent a credit bottleneck?
Answer: keep operating and loaning to businesses

Question: What is an LTRO?
Answer: longer-term refinancing operation

Question: How long was the time to maturity on an LTRO?
Answer: six-month

Question: When were the first supplemental LTRO's offered?
Answer: March 2008

Question: How long had the time to maturity been previously?
Answer: three months

Question: How many bids were recorded at the auction for the first 12 month LRTO?
Answer: close to 1100 bidders

Question: In what country is St. John's located?
Answer: Canada

Question: What is the name of the island that St. John's is located?
Answer: Newfoundland

Question: What city is ranked 20th in largest metropolitan area for Canada?
Answer: St. John's

Question: Where on the Avalon Peninsula is St. John's located?
Answer: eastern tip

Question: In what year did St. John's have a population of 214,285?
Answer: 2015

Question: Which city is considered one of the oldest settlements in North America?
Answer: St. John's

Question: Around what year did settlement begin to occur in St. John's?
Answer: 1630

Question: When was Cuper's Cove colony founded?
Answer: 1610

Question:  What year was Bristol's Hope colony founded?
Answer: 1618

Question: Who forbade the  english fisherman to setup seasonal camps in Newfoundland?
Answer: British government

Question: What was John Cabot's sons first name?
Answer: Sebastian

Question: What was the occupation of John Cabot?
Answer: explorer

Question: Where did the French, Spanish and Portuguese start to travel to fish yearly in 1540?
Answer: Avalon Peninsula

Question: Where is the Bay of Pasaia located?
Answer: Basque Country

Question: In what language did Sebastian Cabot write his map from 1545?
Answer: Latin

Question: What year did John Rut visit St. John's?
Answer: 1527

Question: Who sent the first known letter from North America?
Answer: John Rut

Question: What three countries ships did John Rut find in 1527?
Answer: Norman, Breton and Portuguese

Question: Who did John Rut write a letter to in 1527?
Answer: King Henry

Question: Who referred St. John's as St. "the principal prime and chief lot in all the whole country" ? 
Answer: William Payne

Question: When did censuses start being conducted in St. John's?
Answer: 1675

Question: When did Irish men begin to operate inshore fishing boats in St. John's?
Answer: 1680

Question: What grew during the summers in St. John's?
Answer: population

Question: Who controlled most of Newfoundland's east coast by 1620?
Answer: fishermen

Question: Who briefly seized St. John's in 1665?
Answer: Michiel de Ruyter

Question: In what year did the dutch attack St. John for a second time?
Answer: 1673

Question: How many men defended the attack from the Dutch in 1673?
Answer: twenty-three

Question: Who destroyed Fort William in 1696?
Answer: Pierre Le Moyne

Question: How many Dutch warships were fended of by Christopher Martin in 1673?
Answer: three

Question: Who flew the first non-stop transatlantic aircraft flight?
Answer: Alcock and Brown

Question: What aircraft did Alcock and Brown use in 1919 for their flight? 
Answer: Vickers Vimy IV bomber

Question: Where in St. John's did Alcock and Brown depart from in June 1919?
Answer: Lester's Field

Question: Who duplicated Alcock and Brown flight in 2005?
Answer: Steve Fossett

Question: What aircraft did Steve Fossett use for his flight in July 2005?
Answer: replica Vickers Vimy

Question: When did the Northern cod fishery collapse?
Answer: 1990s

Question: What led to an economic boom in St. John's?
Answer: Hibernia, Terra Nova and White Rose oil fields

Question: For how long did the Northern cod fishery provide a stable economy for St. John's?
Answer: hundreds of years

Question: How long did unemployment rates and depopulation suffer in St. John's?
Answer: decade

Question: Near what body of water is St. John's located by?
Answer: Atlantic Ocean

Question: How many Square miles is St. John's?
Answer: 172.22

Question: In what providence is Edmonton located?
Answer: Alberta

Question: What is the largest Atlantic Province city?
Answer: Halifax

Question: How is the climate in St. John's?
Answer: humid

Question: In which province is Kelowna located?
Answer: British Columbia

Question: Which Canadian city is the most rainiest?
Answer: British Columbia

Question: What body of water is to the east of St. John?
Answer: Atlantic Ocean

Question: From where do tropical storms travel from to St. John's?
Answer: United States

Question: What is the foggiest Canadian city?
Answer: St. John's

Question: What is the average wind speed in miles per hour for St. John's?
Answer: 15.1 mph

Question: What Canadian city has the mildest winter temperature?
Answer: British Columbia

Question: What is the driest season on average in St. John's?
Answer: summer

Question: What is another word for freezing rain?
Answer: silver thaws

Question: What are wharves in St. John's constructed out of?
Answer: wood

Question: In what year was the Great Fire?
Answer: 1892

Question: What was the most affected area of The Great Fire of 1892?
Answer: downtown core

Question: What US city is St. John's often compared to?
Answer: San Francisco

Question: What does the city council have restrictions on in downtown?
Answer: height of buildings

Question: What have the restrictions on the height of buildings caused over the years?
Answer: controversy

Question: What is the city lacking because of the height restrictions?
Answer: hotel rooms and office space

Question: What was amended to provide more office space in downtown?
Answer: heritage regulations

Question: What height was the original restriction in downtown for ?
Answer: 15 metres

Question: How tall was the first office building to be approved in the on Water Street between Bishop's Cove and Steer's Cove?
Answer: 47-metre

Question: In what year where there 100,646 inhabitants in St. John's?
Answer: 2006

Question: How many communities does the CMA include?
Answer: 12

Question: What was the population of the CMA in 2010?
Answer: 192,326

Question: What is Newfoundland and Labrador's largest city?
Answer: St. John's

Question: What is the largest religion in St. John's?
Answer: Christian

Question: What has declined in the recent years on St. John's?
Answer: sectarianism

Question: What sects declined from 2001-2011?
Answer: Christian

Question: What is supported by the federal, provincial and municipal governments?
Answer: civil service

Question: Who is the largest employer in the city?
Answer: The provincial government

Question: Who is the second largest employer in the city?
Answer: Memorial University

Question: What years did the fishing industry fall in Newfoundland and Labrador?
Answer: 1990s