Trades, Trading, and the like.... by FrankensteinP

According to legend, securing financing for the Broadway musical No, No, Nanette was the motivation behind WHAT BASEBALL TRANSACTION?

WHAT VENERABLE INSTITUTION was founded by 24 men gathered under a buttonwood tree in lower New York City on May 17, 1792?

Linebackers Jesse Solomon and David Howard, cornerback Issiac Holt, running back Darrin Nelson, defensive lineman Alex Steward, three first-round draft picks, three second-round picks, a third-round pick and a sixth-round pick were traded for WHAT PLAYER (and a small handful of draft picks)?

In the movie Trading Places, the Duke brothers attempt (but are foiled in their attempt) to corner the market in WHAT?

Baseball players Brad Gulden, Harry Chiti, Dickie Noles, and John McDonald hold WHAT UNIQUE POSITION IN BASEBALL HISTORY?

The largest airline in Germany takes its name, in part, from WHAT LONG-EXTINCT TRADE, GUILD, AND MERCHANT CONFEDERATION?

WHAT MAN was the subject of the largest transfer fee in the history of organized soccer (or "association football"), when he moved from Tottenham Hotspur to Real Madrid?

FILL IN THE BLANK: The ________ Board of Trade is the oldest futures and options exchange in the world.

NAME THE KEY PLAYER who was traded from the Edmonton Oilers to the Los Angeles Kings on August 9, 1988. Some say that this was the darkest day in the history of the Canada.

The Silk Road was one of the oldest, and most famous, trade routes in the world. WHAT CULTURE controlled the key merchant city of Samarkand for hundreds of years, dominating the Silk Road trade from roughly the second century BC to the 10th Century AD?

Yankees pitchers Mike Kekich and Fritz Peterson were never traded for each other, but they were involved in one of the more unusual trades in baseball history. WHAT WAS THAT TRADE?

The actor John Houseman, known for playing martinet law professor Charles Kingsfield in The Paper Chase, supplemented his income in his later years by appearing in a series of advertisements for WHAT FINANCIAL FIRM? The tagline from the commercials was "They make money the old-fashioned way. They EARN it."