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Test Your Investing Confidence

Investing OverconfidenceYour level of confidence is a key to your success in many areas, especially investing. To test your confidence level, answer these ten questions. It will take only a few minutes to complete. For each question, provide a low and high guess such that you are 90% sure the correct answer falls between the two. Your challenge is to be neither too narrow (overconfident) nor too wide (underconfident). We'll tell you whether your score suggests you're too overconfident.

After the first quiz, you’ll have the opportunity to take another quiz to see if you can improve your score.

 

 

 

Questions

1.
Revenues of Royal Dutch Shell in 2009 (in billions of dollars)

low   high

2. The prime rate charged by banks in 1981 (highest ever)

low   high

3. Year in which poet Robert Frost was born

low   high

4. The number of vice presidents who served as U.S. president

low   high

5. Number of symphonies written by Mozart

low   high

6. Number of stone blocks used in the Great Pyramid

low   high

7. Number of glaciers in Alaska

low  high

8. Number of cameo appearances Alfred Hitchcock made in his movies

low   high

9. Length of the Trans-Siberian Railway (in miles)

low   high

10. Year Beethoven was born

low   high

 




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