// BEGIN editorial data var i = 0; var BizQuiz_091029 = new Array(); BizQuiz_091029.ID = "BizQuiz_091029"; BizQuiz_091029.ID_WB = 33534881; BizQuiz_091029.vote = "BusinessQuiz_060731_vote"; BizQuiz_091029.navsectionID = "3174182" BizQuiz_091029.sPubDate = "10/29/2009 5:24:37 PM GMT"; BizQuiz_091029.quiztype = 1; BizQuiz_091029.appFmt = 0; BizQuiz_091029.bDispQNums = 1; BizQuiz_091029.appWidth = 460; BizQuiz_091029.appDeck = new Array("If you are just sick thinking about the potential cost of national health care, perhaps the best remedy is a dose of the weekly Ticker Test.","You answered of questions correctly. Scroll down to see answers for each question. "); BizQuiz_091029.headHeight = 40; BizQuiz_091029.copyMargin = 9; BizQuiz_091029.copyBorder = 0; BizQuiz_091029[1] = new Array(); BizQuiz_091029[1][0] = new Array("It seems that there was some fuzzy math used by the Obama Administration as the stimulus package apparently created and saved thousands of fewer jobs than the administration’s original claim of how many?"); BizQuiz_091029[1].answer = "30,000 is the correct answer. Although as of yet there is no evidence the White House sought to inflate job numbers in the report, the administration emphatically embraced the flawed figures the moment they were released and now says if there are more errors, they will be found.
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Read the story."; BizQuiz_091029[2][1] = new Array("Lowe's",'',0); BizQuiz_091029[2][2] = new Array("Menard's",'',0); BizQuiz_091029[2][3] = new Array("Orchard Supply",'',0); BizQuiz_091029[2][4] = new Array("The Home Depot",'',1); BizQuiz_091029[3] = new Array(); BizQuiz_091029[3][0] = new Array("If you are looking for a Big Mac, you might not want to go to which country anymore, where its last three McDonald’s close because of the economy?"); BizQuiz_091029[3].answer = "Iceland is the correct answer. A chilling experience for fast food connoisseurs.
Read the story."; BizQuiz_091029[3][1] = new Array("Bolivia",'',0); BizQuiz_091029[3][2] = new Array("Ghana",'',0); BizQuiz_091029[3][3] = new Array("Iceland",'',1); BizQuiz_091029[3][4] = new Array("Liechtenstein",'',0); BizQuiz_091029[4] = new Array(); BizQuiz_091029[4][0] = new Array("With his eyes on the voters – we mean consumers – which senator proposed an immediate interest rate freeze on existing balances for the estimated 700 million credit cards in circulation? "); BizQuiz_091029[4].answer = "Christopher Dodd is the correct answer. But like Dodd’s political career, it seems like the proposal may reach a dead end.
Read the story."; BizQuiz_091029[4][1] = new Array("Chistopher Dodd",'',1); BizQuiz_091029[4][2] = new Array("Al Franken",'',0); BizQuiz_091029[4][3] = new Array("Daniel Inouye",'',0); BizQuiz_091029[4][4] = new Array("Patrick Leahy",'',0); BizQuiz_091029[5] = new Array(); BizQuiz_091029[5][0] = new Array("Jeffry Picower, accused of making more than $7 billion off the investment schemes of jailed financial manager Bernard Madoff, drowned after having a heart attack at his home in what state? "); BizQuiz_091029[5].answer = "Florida is the correct answer. Strange things just keep happening in the Madoff aftermath.
Read the story."; BizQuiz_091029[5][1] = new Array("California",'',0); BizQuiz_091029[5][2] = new Array("Florida",'',1); BizQuiz_091029[5][3] = new Array("South Carolina",'',0); BizQuiz_091029[5][4] = new Array("Texas",'',0); BizQuiz_091029[6] = new Array(); BizQuiz_091029[6][0] = new Array("Extra! Extra! Read all about it here on the internet. According to figures released by the Audit Bureau of Circulations, average daily circulation at 379 U.S. newspapers dropped how much in the April-September period from the same six-month stretch last year?"); BizQuiz_091029[6].answer = "10.6 percent is the correct answer. That’s one way to cut newsprint costs.
Read the story."; BizQuiz_091029[6][1] = new Array("10.6 percent",'',1); BizQuiz_091029[6][2] = new Array("12.4 percent",'',0); BizQuiz_091029[6][3] = new Array("14.8 percent",'',0); BizQuiz_091029[6][4] = new Array("16.2 percent",'',0); BizQuiz_091029[7] = new Array(); BizQuiz_091029[7][0] = new Array("We now have a good idea what Toys R Us plans to do with its recently purchased FAO Schwarz brand as the toy giant announced it would open FAO Schwarz boutiques in how many of its stores? "); BizQuiz_091029[7].answer = "585 is the correct answer. TRU obviously hopes that the Schwarz is with them.
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Read the story."; BizQuiz_091029[9][1] = new Array("Frank Biondi",'',0); BizQuiz_091029[9][2] = new Array("Carl Icahn",'',1); BizQuiz_091029[9][3] = new Array("Arthur Kern",'',0); BizQuiz_091029[9][4] = new Array("Gary Wilson",'',0); BizQuiz_091029[10] = new Array(); BizQuiz_091029[10][0] = new Array("In the banking world, it seems that failure is an option as the number of failed banks in the U.S. just passed the 100 mark for the year, making it the highest failure total since what year? "); BizQuiz_091029[10].answer = "1992 is the correct answer. Can’t help but wonder where it will stop.
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