// BEGIN editorial data var i = 0; var BizQuiz_091112 = new Array(); BizQuiz_091112.ID = "BizQuiz_091112"; BizQuiz_091112.ID_WB = 33888295; BizQuiz_091112.vote = "BusinessQuiz_060731_vote"; BizQuiz_091112.navsectionID = "3174182" BizQuiz_091112.sPubDate = "11/12/2009 5:56:19 PM GMT"; BizQuiz_091112.quiztype = 1; BizQuiz_091112.appFmt = 0; BizQuiz_091112.bDispQNums = 1; BizQuiz_091112.appWidth = 460; BizQuiz_091112.appDeck = new Array("Consumer confidence may be shaky, but you should still be confident in the value of the weekly Ticker Test.","You answered of questions correctly. Scroll down to see answers for each question. "); BizQuiz_091112.headHeight = 40; BizQuiz_091112.copyMargin = 9; BizQuiz_091112.copyBorder = 0; BizQuiz_091112[1] = new Array(); BizQuiz_091112[1][0] = new Array("In order to improve its position in China, which company will buy the 3Com Corp. networking company for $2.7 billion? "); BizQuiz_091112[1].answer = "Hewlett-Packard is the correct answer. China is a long way from that garage in Palo Alto, Calif.
Read the story."; BizQuiz_091112[1][1] = new Array("Accenture",'',0); BizQuiz_091112[1][2] = new Array("Hewlett Packard",'',1); BizQuiz_091112[1][3] = new Array("IBM",'',0); BizQuiz_091112[1][4] = new Array("Microsoft",'',0); BizQuiz_091112[2] = new Array(); BizQuiz_091112[2][0] = new Array("Apparently not wanting to be left alone in the race for loans, which company says it will hire 1,200 mortgage loan officers by the end of next year, a 60 percent increase in its sales force? "); BizQuiz_091112[2].answer = "JPMorgan Chase is the correct answer. Good news for the job market and the loan market, we hope.
Read the story."; BizQuiz_091112[2][1] = new Array("Bank of America",'',0); BizQuiz_091112[2][2] = new Array("Barclays",'',0); BizQuiz_091112[2][3] = new Array("Citigroup",'',0); BizQuiz_091112[2][4] = new Array("JP Morgan Chase",'',1); BizQuiz_091112[3] = new Array(); BizQuiz_091112[3][0] = new Array("You have to wonder what is going on in the trading card market as Topps, for so long the standard in the sports card business, says it will no longer do cards associated with which professional sports league?"); BizQuiz_091112[3].answer = "National Football League is the correct answer. It just won’t seem the same.
Read the story."; BizQuiz_091112[3][1] = new Array("Major League Baseball",'',0); BizQuiz_091112[3][2] = new Array("National Basketball Association",'',0); BizQuiz_091112[3][3] = new Array("National Football League",'',1); BizQuiz_091112[3][4] = new Array("National Hockey League",'',0); BizQuiz_091112[4] = new Array(); BizQuiz_091112[4][0] = new Array("Before you dial that number, check your cell phone because which cell phone maker said that about 14 million mobile phone chargers could be dangerous for users will replace them free of charge?"); BizQuiz_091112[4].answer = "Nokia is the correct answer. A shocking discovery led to the recall.
Read the story."; BizQuiz_091112[4][1] = new Array("LG",'',0); BizQuiz_091112[4][2] = new Array("Kyocera",'',0); BizQuiz_091112[4][3] = new Array("Nokia",'',1); BizQuiz_091112[4][4] = new Array("Sony Ericsson",'',0); BizQuiz_091112[5] = new Array(); BizQuiz_091112[5][0] = new Array("Pfizer, the world's biggest drugmaker, is closing six of its 20 research facilities, reorganizing and consolidating others, and cutting the jobs of roughly what percentage of its scientists and support staff?"); BizQuiz_091112[5].answer = "15 percent is the correct answer. This leaves us feeling a little woozy. We hope Pfizer has a pill for that.
Read the story."; BizQuiz_091112[5][1] = new Array("10 percent",'',0); BizQuiz_091112[5][2] = new Array("15 percent",'',1); BizQuiz_091112[5][3] = new Array("25 percent",'',0); BizQuiz_091112[5][4] = new Array("33 percent",'',0); BizQuiz_091112[6] = new Array(); BizQuiz_091112[6][0] = new Array("The $5 footlong has given Subway a pretty good foothold in the fast-food fray and before it became a national craze, it started as the idea of one store owner in which state?"); BizQuiz_091112[6].answer = "Florida is the correct answer. It actually started out a merely a weekend fling.
Read the story."; BizQuiz_091112[6][1] = new Array("Arizona",'',0); BizQuiz_091112[6][2] = new Array("Colorado",'',0); BizQuiz_091112[6][3] = new Array("Delaware",'',0); BizQuiz_091112[6][4] = new Array("Florida",'',1); BizQuiz_091112[7] = new Array(); BizQuiz_091112[7][0] = new Array("NBC Universal may soon have a new partner as GE and which cable company now agree on a valuation of around $30 billion for a joint venture, which seems certain to pave the way for a partnership? "); BizQuiz_091112[7].answer = "Comcast is the correct answer. The only roadblock seems to be French conglomerate Vivendi, which owns 20 percent of NBC Universal, and has not yet agreed to a deal.
Read the story. (Msnbc.com is a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC Universal.)"; BizQuiz_091112[7][1] = new Array("Charter",'',0); BizQuiz_091112[7][2] = new Array("Comcast",'',1); BizQuiz_091112[7][3] = new Array("Cox",'',0); BizQuiz_091112[7][4] = new Array("Time Warner Cable",'',0); BizQuiz_091112[8] = new Array(); BizQuiz_091112[8][0] = new Array("Read into it what you will, but Border Books Inc., the second-largest U.S. bookstore chain, will close more of its small-format Waldenbooks stores in January as it focuses on its more profitable superstores. In what Midwest state is Borders based?"); BizQuiz_091112[8].answer = "Michigan is the correct answer. That state just can’t seem to buy a break.
Read the story."; BizQuiz_091112[8][1] = new Array("Michigan",'',1); BizQuiz_091112[8][2] = new Array("Minnesota",'',0); BizQuiz_091112[8][3] = new Array("Ohio",'',0); BizQuiz_091112[8][4] = new Array("Wisconsin",'',0); BizQuiz_091112[9] = new Array(); BizQuiz_091112[9][0] = new Array("There is no reason to put the brakes on air bag technology and to that end which automaker is planning to put airbags in the seat belts in the back seats of an SUV by 2011?"); BizQuiz_091112[9].answer = "Ford is the correct answer. What will they think of next?
Read the story."; BizQuiz_091112[9][1] = new Array("Ford",'',1); BizQuiz_091112[9][2] = new Array("General Motors",'',0); BizQuiz_091112[9][3] = new Array("Honda",'',0); BizQuiz_091112[9][4] = new Array("Mercedes-Benz",'',0); BizQuiz_091112[10] = new Array(); BizQuiz_091112[10][0] = new Array("We know that the administration is working at it. But the unemployment rate last month topped 10 percent for the first time since what year?"); BizQuiz_091112[10].answer = "1983 is the correct answer. But based on the way the administration has been counting jobs saved by the stimulus, you never know what this number might turn out to be.
Read the story."; BizQuiz_091112[10][1] = new Array("1948",'',0); BizQuiz_091112[10][2] = new Array("1977",'',0); BizQuiz_091112[10][3] = new Array("1983",'',1); BizQuiz_091112[10][4] = new Array("1991",'',0); BizQuiz_091112.profiles = new Array();var i=0; BizQuiz_091112.profiles[i++]= new Array(0,19,"
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