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Fear Index - full deck Flashcards

1
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Quote at the start of Chapter One - “Learn from me”

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Frankenstein

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2
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Main protagonist

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Dr Alex Hoffmann

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3
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Where does Hoffmann live

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Geneva

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Book sent to Hoffmann at start

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The Expressions of the Emotions in Man and Animals - Darwin

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5
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When was the Darwin published

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1872 - John Murray

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6
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What condition/value is the Darwin book?

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“fine” - $15,000

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7
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Where has the Darwin book come from?

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Rosengaarden and NijenhuiseAntiquarian Scientific and Medical BooksEstablished 1911Prinsengracht 227 - Amsterdam

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Name of Hoffmann’s house

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Villa Claremont

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9
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Hoffmann’s wife

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Gabrielle

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10
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Where did the pictures in the Darwin book come from?

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Surrey Lunatic Asylum

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11
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Name of Hoffmann’s algorithm

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VIXAL-4

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12
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Hoffmann’s business partner

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Hugo Quarry

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13
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Other books in Hoffmann’s collection

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On The Origin of Species - Sotherby’s, NYC, $125,000The DEscent of Man - Huxley’s copy

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14
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Overnight execution dealer on VIXAL-4

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Susumu Takahashi

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15
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VIXAL-4 is shorting …

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Proctor and Gamble, $62 a share

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16
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Date Fear Index is set

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6th May 2010 - date of UK General Election

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17
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Burglar alarm security code

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1729

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18
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Significance of 1729

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Hardy and Ramanujan - taxi cabSmallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways

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19
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Hoffmann sets alarm to

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06:30

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20
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What does Hoffmann notice by the door when he investigates the break in

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Boots

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21
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Emergency number in Switzerland

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117

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22
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Time of break-in

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3:59am

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23
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Lake next to Geneva

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Lac Leman

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24
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What does Hoffmann see the intruder doing through the kitchen window

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Sharpening knives

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25
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Quote at the start of Chapter two -“A grain in the balance …”

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Darwin, Origin of Species

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26
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Police Inspector

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Jean-Philippe Leclerc

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27
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Hoffmann’s piano

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Bechstein

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28
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Landscape in Hoffmann’s living room

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Auerbach

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29
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Gabriel’s portraits derived from …

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MRI scans

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30
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What is Hoffmann hit by

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Fire extinguisher

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31
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Hoffmann’s nationality

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American

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32
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Gabrielle’s nationality

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British

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33
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How long has Hoffmann lived in Switzerland

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14 years

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34
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Where did Hoffmann used to work

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CERN - LHC

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35
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Name of Hoffmann’s company

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Hoffmann Investment Technologies - HIT

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36
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What is Hoffmann’s business?

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Hedge fund

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37
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Hoffmann’s staff

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Housekeeper, main, gardener.

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38
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Hoffmann’s security consultant

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Maurice Genoud

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39
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How much did Hoffmann pay for the Villa Claremont

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$60m

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40
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Carpet …

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Aubusson

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41
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Terminal on Hoffmann’s desk

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Bloomberg

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42
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French expert in Galvanism

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Dr Guillaume-Benjamin-Armand Duchenne

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43
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What does Hoffman collect

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First editions of scientific books

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44
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Tea in Hoffmann’s kitchen

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Taylors of Harrogate, Earl Grey

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45
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Gabrielle’s exhibition

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Human Contours

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46
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Gallery where Gabrielle’s exhibition is situated

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Plaine de Plainpalais

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47
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Gabrielle’s history

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Born in YorkshireUni of Salford - Art and FrenchRCA - MAWorked for UN in Geneva

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48
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Gabrielle’s work in studio

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3D scanned image of a foetus

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49
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Quote at the start of Chapter 3 - “Suspicion …”

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Darwin - Descent of Man

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50
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Which hospital is Hoffmann taken to?

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University

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51
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Where was the party where Hoffmann met Gabriellse

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Saint-Genis-Pouilly

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52
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Doctor treating Hoffmann at university hospital

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Dr Muhammet Celik - Turkish

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53
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Hoffman sent for what sort of scan?

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CAT - Computed Axial Tomography

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54
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CAT technician

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Fabian Tallon

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55
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Radiologist

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Dr Dufort

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56
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Hoffmann’s field

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Autonomous Machine Reasoning (not AI)

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57
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What sort of scan is recommended for Hoffmann?

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MRI - Magnetic Resonance Imagin

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58
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Portrait Gabrielle wanted to buy

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Lucien Freud

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59
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Quote at the start of chapter 4 - “The Slightest Advantage”

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Darwin - Origin of Species

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60
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Hugo Quarry’s life

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PPE from OxfordEx-wife and three children, Lutyens mansion in SurreySki chalet in Chamonix

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61
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Hoffmann’s driver

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Claude - not George

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62
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Newspaper being read on tram

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Tribune de Geneve

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63
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Where in Geneva is HIT’s office

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Les Eaux-Vivies

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64
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Neighbours of HIT office

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Salon de TheSupermarket

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65
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Datacomms backbone in Geneva

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GV1 fibre-optic pipe

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66
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Other occupants of HIT’s office

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DigiSyst, EcoTel, EuroTel

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67
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Hoffmann’s rule in his office

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No paper

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68
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Bill Gates’ book

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Business at the Speed of Light

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69
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Hoffman’s employees are mainly …

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Quants

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70
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Quarry’s name for Hoffmann’s staff

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The Nerd World

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71
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Senior managers

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Head of FinanceHead of RiskHead of OperationsQuarry - CEOHoffmann - President

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Quarry’s yacht

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65m, Benetti of Viareggio = planning to call her Trade Alpha

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73
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Quarry’s assistant

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Amber

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74
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Where is Quarry taking clients to lunch

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Beau-Rivage

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75
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How much is Quarry looking to raise

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$1b - settle for 750m

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76
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Terms - two and twenty

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2% annual fee20% performance fee

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77
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Quote at start of chapter 6 - Hardly any faculty …

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Darwin - Descent of Man

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78
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Picture of Gabrielle …

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Pamplelonne beach, St Tropez

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79
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Hoffmann’s award

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Algorithmic Hedge Fund Manager of the Year

80
Q

How much did the Darwin book cost

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���10,000

81
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Hoffmann’s PA

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Marie-Claude Durade

82
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Three teams of Quants

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IncubationTechnologyExecution

83
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Hungarian quant

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Imre Szabo

84
Q

IBAN prefix KYD

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Cayman Islands

85
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Chief Risk Officer

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Ganapathi Rajamani

86
Q

Police HQ situated

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Boulevard Carl-Vogt

87
Q

Cern’s location in Geneva

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Zimeysa

88
Q

Quarry’s invitees - brother and sister

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Etienne and Clarisse Mussard - grandfather had owned Fazy and Cie

89
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Quarry’s invitees - Most exotic

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Elmira Gulzhan, 38, daughter of President of AzakhstanINSEAD graduateFrancois de Gombart-Tonnelle - lawyer

90
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Quarry’s invitees - NYC bankers

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Ezra Klein, Winter Bay TrustBill Easterbrook, AmCor - spun off, now HIT’s biggest investor

91
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Quarry’s invitees - others

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Amschel HerxheimerIan Mould - Fife Building SocietyMieczyslaw Lukasinski - PolishLiwei Xu and Qu Zhang

92
Q

Quote at start of Chapter 6 - No doubt wealth …

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Darwin, Descent of Man

93
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HIT started with …

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$100 (mostly AmCor)

94
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Current AUM

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$10b

95
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Increase in Net Asset Value

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83%

96
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Gap between market performance and fund performance

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Alpha

97
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Three year alpha

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112%

98
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Research spend

A

$32m a year - 60 brilliant minds

99
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Hoffmann’s quote - That is the flight of naked men

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Elias Canetti in Crowds and Power

100
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Aristotle, 350BC defined humans as

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Zoon Logon Echon - rational animal, or animal with language

101
Q

Average US college student reads …

A

450 wpm

102
Q

“What disturbs and alarms men are not the things but is opinions and fancies about the things”

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Epictetus

103
Q

What does Ezra Klein call Hoffmann’s pitch?

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Behavioural Finance

104
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EMH

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Efficient Market Hypothesis

105
Q

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”

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FDR

106
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VIX

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S&P 500 Volatility Index

107
Q

Where did Hoffmann interview for staff in Oxford?

A

Randolph Hotel

108
Q

3D model of structure of penicillin in Oxford …

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Dr Dorothy Hodgkin - nobel laureate for Chemistry

109
Q

Parts of the brain

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Aqueduct of SylviusCistern of great cerebral veintentorium cerebellummedulla

110
Q

Gabrielle’s protection

A

Camille

111
Q

MCs being shorted

A

Accenture

112
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Airline being shorted

A

Vista Airways

113
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Hotel company being shorted

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Wyn Resorts

114
Q

How many CPUs?

A

1000

115
Q

Where does the Vista Airways plane crash?

A

Domodedovo Airport, Moscow

116
Q

Quote at start of chapter 7 - It can’t continue forever

A

Gordon Moore

117
Q

Chief Finance Officer

A

Lin Ju-Long

118
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Chief Operating Officer

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Pieter van der Zyl

119
Q

Where was Rajamani poached from?

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FSA in London

120
Q

At the FSA, Rajamani had gone after …

A

Goldman and Sachs

121
Q

Promised volatility limit in prospectus

A

20%

122
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HIT’s lawyer

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Max Gallant

123
Q

How much has Alex supposed to have asked to be transferred into his Cayman Islands account

A

$42m

124
Q

Cayman banki

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Royal Grand Cayman Bank Ltd

125
Q

Hoffmann’s doctor

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Jeanne Polidori

126
Q

Hoffmann’s protection

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Olivier Paccard

127
Q

Fountain in middle of Lac Leman

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Jet d’Eau - 140m

128
Q

Gallery where Human Contours is being held

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Galerie d’Art Contemporain Guy Bertrand

129
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Quote at start of chapter 8 - There is no exception to the rule

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Darwin, Origin of Species

130
Q

Geneva’s main contemporary art gallery

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MAMCO

131
Q

Where did Gabrielle meet Guy Bertrad

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Mandarin Oriental hotel - Christmas charity auction

132
Q

How many pieces in Human Contours

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27

133
Q

Who held the party where Hoffmann met Gabrielle

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Bob Walton

134
Q

Gabrielle’s large piece of an executed murderer

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The Invisible Man

135
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Who was the murderer in The Invisible Man

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James Duke Johnson - executed Florida, 1994

136
Q

Hoffmann’s team at CERN

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Large Electron-Positron Collider

137
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Quote at start of Chapter 9 - Even when we are quite alone

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Darwin - Descent of Man

138
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Where did Hoffmann take his PR firm to breakfast

A

Hotel President Wilson

139
Q

How much to keep Hoffmann out of the papers

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SFR200,000 a year - 10k per mention

140
Q

Hoffmann’s alma mater

A

Princeton

141
Q

Bertrand’s ring tone

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Mozart

142
Q

Total cost of Gabrielle’s exhibition

A

192,000 francs

143
Q

Nigerian artist at show

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Nneka Osoba

144
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Quote at start of chapter 10 - the instinct of each species

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Darwin - origin of species

145
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River in Geneva

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Rhone

146
Q

Hotel Beau Rivage is on …

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Quai de Mont Blanc

147
Q

Stabbed outside Hotel Beau Rivage in 1898

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Empress of Austria

148
Q

Lunch at Beau Rivage

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Grenouille de VallorbeFilet mignon de veau

149
Q

Wine at Beau Rivage

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2006 Louis Jadot Montrachet Grand Cru1995 Latour

150
Q

Marginal top rate of tax in Switzerland

A

8.80%

151
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Quote at start of chapter 11 - the struggle for existence

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Darwin, Origin of Species

152
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Hotel where Hoffmann is directed to

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Hotel Diodati, Rue de Berne 91, room 68

153
Q

Man Hoffmann kills at the Hotel Diodati

A

Joseph KarpBorn 14-4-52 - age 58Offenbach am Mein

154
Q

Real life case of cannibalism

A

Der Rotenberg Cannibal - Armin Meiwes

155
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Novel on Karp’s laptop

A

Der Metzgermeister - The Master Butcher

156
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Folder on Karp’s laptop - Das Opfer

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The Victim

157
Q

Park Gabrielle goes to after leaving her show

A

Parc des Bastions

158
Q

When did HIT set up shop

A

2002

159
Q

Quarry’s ghastly neighbours in Wimbledon let in the chalet

A

Bakers

160
Q

How far does Quarry come to see Hoffmann on New Years Eve

A

60 miles

161
Q

What do Quarry and Hoffmann bet on

A

Gabrielles’ knickers

162
Q

HIT named with a nod to …

A

Jim Simon’s quant shop - Renaissance Technologies on Long Island

163
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Normalcy is overrated: most normal people are assholes

A

Bill Clinton

164
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Quote at start of Chapter 13 - The extinction of species

A

Darwin - Origin of Species

165
Q

What is Vixel-4 lifting

A

Delta Hedge

166
Q

Hugo Quarry’s speedboat

A

Riva 115 - photograph

167
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How much collateral does HIT have to raise when VIXEL-4 lifts the delta hedge

A

$2.6bn

168
Q

Quote at start of Chapter 14 - Only the paranoid survive

A

Andy Grove

169
Q

Dr Jeanne Polidori’s degree

A

Psychiatry, University of Geneva

170
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When did Hoffmann stop seeing Dr Polidori

A

Nov-01

171
Q

Footbridge across the Rhone

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Passerelle de Chevres

172
Q

Computer in Cern’s receptions

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Berners-Lee’s NeXT cube

173
Q

Desertron

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America’s collider, Waxahachie, Texas - $10bn. Cancelled

174
Q

How much did it cost the US to bail out the banks

A

$3.7tn

175
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Quote at start of Chapter 15 - As I was considering these issues

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Bill Gates, Business at the Speed of Light

176
Q

What does Hoffmann find in a smoke alarm?

A

Camera

177
Q

Who does Genoud say asked him to install the cameras?

A

Hoffmann

178
Q

Where has Vixel-4 set up another facility for itself?

A

Zimeysa- 54 Route de Clerval

179
Q

Warning about Hoffmann’s project at CERN

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Thomas S Ray, Professor of Zoology, University of Oklahoma

180
Q

Quote from start of chapter 16 - Intelligent life on a planet comes of age

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Richard Dawkins, the Selfish Gene

181
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What is automatically triggered in New York as a result of the volatility triggered by VIXEL-4

A

LRPs - Liquidity Replenishment Points

182
Q

Oxford graduate trying to override VIXEL-4

A

Croker, ex-Rutherford Appleton lab

183
Q

How does Rajamani die?

A

Falls down the lift shaft

184
Q

Leclerc’s colleagues at the Diodati

A

Moynier, Lollin

185
Q

What car does Hoffmann steal?

A

BMW

186
Q

Evidence regarding LRPs

A

Mary Shapiro, Findings regarding market events 6th May 2010

187
Q

Zimeysa is an acronym for

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Zone Industrielle de Mayrin-Satigny

188
Q

What are all the roadworks in Zimeysa for?

A

Fibre optic cables

189
Q

Fibre landing site

A

Marseille, France

190
Q

CBEO declares what agains the NYSE

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Self help - more than one second response

191
Q

Where do protesters riot on the news?

A

Athens

192
Q

Quote at start of Chapter 18 - The flight crowd …

A

Elias Canetti, Crowds and Power

193
Q

Quote at start f Chapter 19 - Looking to the future

A

Darwin, Origin of Species

194
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Profit VIXAL-4 makes from crash

A

$4.1bn

195
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How much total market volatility does that represent

A

0.40%

196
Q

Bonuses received for keeping everything confidential

A

$5m

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