Answer: 6 including Mega Millions (lottery), AMC stock (meme stock), Stimulus Check, GME (ticker for GameStop; another meme stock), Dogecoin (cryptocurrency), Ethereum price (another cryptocurrency). 

From Year in Search 2021

Questions: 

• What do you notice about these terms and what they have in common? 
• Do you think there's a relationship between the popularity of a term on Google search and its performance as an investment? 
• Why do you think that meme stocks and cryptocurrencies were so popular in 2021? 

Here's the ready-to-go slides for this Question of the Day that you can use in your classroom.

Behind the numbers (Mashable):

Multiple top searches in different categories had to do with viral cryptocurrencies and meme stocks. For example, "AMC Stock" came in as the sixth most popular search of 2021. It was also the number two most popular News search, coming in behind searches for Mega Millions. GME (the stock ticker for GameStop) got number four in that category.

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About the Author

Tim Ranzetta

Tim's saving habits started at seven when a neighbor with a broken hip gave him a dog walking job. Her recovery, which took almost a year, resulted in Tim getting to know the bank tellers quite well (and accumulating a savings account balance of over $300!). His recent entrepreneurial adventures have included driving a shredding truck, analyzing executive compensation packages for Fortune 500 companies and helping families make better college financing decisions. After volunteering in 2010 to create and teach a personal finance program at Eastside College Prep in East Palo Alto, Tim saw firsthand the impact of an engaging and activity-based curriculum, which inspired him to start a new non-profit, Next Gen Personal Finance.