The Wall Street Journal Weekly Quiz s21

The Wall Street Journal Education Program Weekly Review & Quiz Covering front-page articles from Oct 14-20, 2006 Quiz Fall 2006 Developed by: Scott R. Homan Ph.D., Purdue University

1. Early one morning in August, a pair of military vessels from _____ pulled up alongside the Orizont, a Romanian oil rig. a. Iran b. Iraq c. Kuwait d. Qutar

2. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps wants to have a big part in______. a. acquiring the bomb b. business c. fighting against Saudi Arabia d. purging all western influence

3. The scandal over backdated stock options claimed one of corporate America's most successful chief executives, William McGuire of______who agreed to leave after an internal probe concluded that the stock-option grants that have brought him a fortune were likely manipulated. a. General Motors b. Dell c. IBM d. UnitedHealth Group

4. _____ are designed to give recipients the opportunity to profit if the company's share price rises in the future. a. Options b. Limit stocks c. Callers d. Flyer contracts

5. Under the Transportation Worker Identification Credential program, workers with unescorted access to secure U.S. port areas must be ______. a. over 21 years old b. high school graduates c. legal residents d. US citizens

6. The Transportation Worker Identification Credential program, will be implemented by the ______. a. US Coast Guard and the TSA b. US Navy and the TSA

7. Online advertising is still growing briskly, with U.S. revenue projected to rise _____ this year to $15.9 billion, according to research firm eMarketer Inc. a. 17% b. 27% c. 37% d. 47%

8. Unique USA users of News Corp's MySpace social-networking site climbed ____ in September from a year earlier, while Google's users rose 25%, according to research firm NetRatings Inc. a. 17 % b. 70 % c. 117 % d. 170 %

9. PUI-WING TAM was a subject of H-P investigations because _____. a. a January 2005 Wall Street Journal article she wrote detailing the board's unhappiness with then CEO Carly Fiorina b. she was suspected of having an affair with a HP executive c. she covered H-P for The Wall Street Journal from 2002 until earlier this year d. Both a and c

10. Various tactics used in investigating in the H-P case include: a. a technique known as "pretexting" b. bugging her home c. carrying out "post-trash inspections" d. sending e-mails to editors asking for personal information

11. In Estonia Pia Kurro will receive the equivalent of _____ a month from her government for over a year for having a baby. a. $ 60 b. $ 560 c. $ 1,060 d. $ 1,560

12. The fertility rate needed to stop a population from shrinking is______. a. 1.5 b. 1.7 c. 2.1 d. 2.7

13. Adidas's new U.S. marketing campaign for basketball, called ______celebrates the concept of team over individual. a. “It Takes One to Win”

14. Hundreds of Internet start ups targeting a wide range of markets are now relying on ______to fund their new business concepts. a. credit cards b. web advertising c. SBA loans d. volunteers

15. The opinion of Dick Wolf, creator of “Law & Order” of new “content wrap” style of commercials is _____. a. “they will be wildly successful” b. “I don't think anybody wants to watch two-minute spots” c. “This is very, very old wine in new bottles” d. “I'm feeling that maybe I'm totally out of touch”

16. At a meeting this week, directors of _____ are expected to take up whether to promote Muhtar Kent, to the number 2 job, solidifying his status as the front-runner to succeed Chairman and Chief Executive Neville Isdell. a. Coca Cola b. Pepsi c. IBM d. Dell

17. ______means being able to evaluate evidence, to tell fact from opinion, to see holes in an argument, to tell whether cause and effect has been established and to spot illogic. a. Critical disposition b. Cognitive thinking c. Clairvoyance d. Critical thinking

18. The ______Bank which means "village" or "rural" shares the Nobel Peace Prize with Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus for giving “microloans” to the impoverished. a. Grammar b. Grameen c. Grommet d. Graneen

19. Threatened by slowing growth and mounting competition, several small banks catering to the rapidly increasing ______population in the US are battling for coast to coast supremacy in that highly profitable niche. a. Norwegian b. French c. Japanese

20. In the past year, three lesser companies embroiled in the controversy over stock-options backdating have had their stocks delisted by ______for failing to publish quarterly or annual audited financial reports on time. a. NASDAQ b. USSE c. OTC d. PINK

21. Verizon Communications has decided to tie part of the compensation for CEO Ivan Seidenberg to______. a. performance of the company's stock b. attaining strategic objectives c. overall profits d. the number of new customers

22. WalMart currently operates nearly ____ stores in the U.S., including its Sam's Club warehouses, and more than 2,700 abroad. a. 2,000 b. 3,000 c. 4,000 d. 5,000

23. Powered by once skeptical investors rediscovering a passion for stocks, the Dow Jones Industrial Average yesterday closed above the _____ mark for the first time. a. 1000 b. 2000 c. 12000 d. 22000

24. An effort to conduct a double-blind randomized clinical trial to prove Alcoholic Anonymous an effective treatment would be difficult because _____. a. there is no list of membership names b. it would be unethical to steer people seeking help to a control group where they receive no help at all c. AA makes no marketing claims and does not charge fees d. All of the above

25. In recent weeks, more parents are turning to pricey software programs that record not only what Web sites their kids visit, but also the content of their______. a. instant messages b. emails c. diaries d. Both a and b

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