// BEGIN editorial data var i = 0; var BizNews10thAniv = new Array(); BizNews10thAniv.ID = "BizNews10thAniv"; BizNews10thAniv.ID_WB = 13690696; BizNews10thAniv.navsectionID = "3032071" BizNews10thAniv.sPubDate = "7/3/2006 10:23:57 PM GMT"; BizNews10thAniv.quiztype = 1; BizNews10thAniv.appFmt = 0; BizNews10thAniv.bDispQNums = 1; BizNews10thAniv.appWidth = 460; BizNews10thAniv.appDeck = new Array("When did gasoline top $3? Who tried to blow the whistle on Enron? Stop brooding over your once-mighty options and relive the ups and downs of the last 10 years in this special MSNBC.com anniversary edition of the business quiz. ","You answered of questions correctly. Scroll down to see answers for each question. "); BizNews10thAniv.headHeight = 40; BizNews10thAniv.copyMargin = 9; BizNews10thAniv.copyBorder = 0; BizNews10thAniv[1] = new Array(); BizNews10thAniv[1][0] = new Array("When did Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan give his famous “irrational exuberance” speech?"); BizNews10thAniv[1].answer = "The correct answer is Dec. 5, 1996."; BizNews10thAniv[1][1] = new Array("Dec. 5, 1996",'',1); BizNews10thAniv[1][2] = new Array("July 12, 1997",'',0); BizNews10thAniv[1][3] = new Array("Dec. 10, 1999",'',0); BizNews10thAniv[1][4] = new Array("March 10, 2000",'',0); BizNews10thAniv[2] = new Array(); BizNews10thAniv[2][0] = new Array("With tales of $6,000 shower curtains and a $2 million party in Sardinia, Dennis Kozlowski became a poster child of Wall Street excess and was eventually convicted of looting millions from the company he used to run. What company was it?"); BizNews10thAniv[2].answer = "The correct answer is Tyco."; BizNews10thAniv[2][1] = new Array("HealthSouth",'',0); BizNews10thAniv[2][2] = new Array("ImClone",'',0); BizNews10thAniv[2][3] = new Array("Tyco",'',1); BizNews10thAniv[2][4] = new Array("Worldcom",'',0); BizNews10thAniv[3] = new Array(); BizNews10thAniv[3][0] = new Array("Ah, the late ‘90s, when it seemed everyone with a business plan and an Aeron chair could start a dot-com. Which of the following was NOT the name of a real company?"); BizNews10thAniv[3].answer = "The correct answer is Scooboo."; BizNews10thAniv[3][1] = new Array("Flooz",'',0); BizNews10thAniv[3][2] = new Array("Kozmo",'',0); BizNews10thAniv[3][3] = new Array("Kibu",'',0); BizNews10thAniv[3][4] = new Array("Scooboo",'',1); BizNews10thAniv[4] = new Array(); BizNews10thAniv[4][0] = new Array("Of course, some Internet companies were phenomenally successful. But do you know which came first? Which of the following lists these online giants in the correct order of their founding?"); BizNews10thAniv[4].answer = "The correct answer is Yahoo, Amazon, eBay, Google."; BizNews10thAniv[4][1] = new Array("Amazon, eBay, Yahoo, Google",'',0); BizNews10thAniv[4][2] = new Array("Yahoo, Amazon, eBay, Google",'',1); BizNews10thAniv[4][3] = new Array("eBay, Yahoo, Google, Amazon",'',0); BizNews10thAniv[4][4] = new Array("Yahoo, eBay, Google, Amazon",'',0); BizNews10thAniv[5] = new Array(); BizNews10thAniv[5][0] = new Array("What former Enron executive tried to blow the whistle on the company’s accounting scandals?"); BizNews10thAniv[5].answer = "The correct answer is Sherron Watkins."; BizNews10thAniv[5][1] = new Array("Richard Causey",'',0); BizNews10thAniv[5][2] = new Array("Lea Fastow",'',0); BizNews10thAniv[5][3] = new Array("Ben Glisan Jr.",'',0); BizNews10thAniv[5][4] = new Array("Sherron Watkins ",'',1); BizNews10thAniv[6] = new Array(); BizNews10thAniv[6][0] = new Array("What was the key issue in U.S. vs. Microsoft, the massive antitrust case filed by the federal government against the software giant?"); BizNews10thAniv[6].answer = "The correct answer is bundling Internet Explorer with Windows."; BizNews10thAniv[6][1] = new Array("Alleged threats to PC makers over Linux",'',0); BizNews10thAniv[6][2] = new Array("Bundling Internet Explorer with Windows",'',1); BizNews10thAniv[6][3] = new Array("Alleged theft of Apple’s “look and feel”",'',0); BizNews10thAniv[6][4] = new Array("Purchase of Hotmail",'',0); BizNews10thAniv[7] = new Array(); BizNews10thAniv[7][0] = new Array("Which of the following countries did NOT go through a severe financial crisis in the last 10 years?"); BizNews10thAniv[7].answer = "The correct answer is Mexico."; BizNews10thAniv[7][1] = new Array("Argentina",'',0); BizNews10thAniv[7][2] = new Array("Mexico ",'',1); BizNews10thAniv[7][3] = new Array("Russia",'',0); BizNews10thAniv[7][4] = new Array("Thailand",'',0); BizNews10thAniv[8] = new Array(); BizNews10thAniv[8][0] = new Array("When did the average price of a gallon of gas first top $3 in the United States?"); BizNews10thAniv[8].answer = "The correct answer is September 2005."; BizNews10thAniv[8][1] = new Array("September 2004",'',0); BizNews10thAniv[8][2] = new Array("June 2005",'',0); BizNews10thAniv[8][3] = new Array("September 2005",'',1); BizNews10thAniv[8][4] = new Array("January 2006",'',0); BizNews10thAniv[9] = new Array(); BizNews10thAniv[9][0] = new Array("Which of the following industries did New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer NOT launch a high-profile investigation of in the last decade?"); BizNews10thAniv[9].answer = "The correct answer is Television."; BizNews10thAniv[9][1] = new Array("Insurance",'',0); BizNews10thAniv[9][2] = new Array("Investment banking",'',0); BizNews10thAniv[9][3] = new Array("Music",'',0); BizNews10thAniv[9][4] = new Array("Television",'',1); BizNews10thAniv[10] = new Array(); BizNews10thAniv[10][0] = new Array("What year did anti-globalization protests erupt in violence at the WTO conference in Seattle?"); BizNews10thAniv[10].answer = "The correct answer is 1999."; BizNews10thAniv[10][1] = new Array("1997",'',0); BizNews10thAniv[10][2] = new Array("1998",'',0); BizNews10thAniv[10][3] = new Array("1999 ",'',1); BizNews10thAniv[10][4] = new Array("2000",'',0); // END editorial data