This weeks quiz (I got 5/10)

Once again I'm bad at the details in the following quiz:

1. Good news for the Golden Arches as McDonald's profit climbed 6 percent in the third quarter and the company credited which product for the boost?
Angus burgers
Specialty coffees
Value menu items
All of the above

2. What company has announced that Douglas Oberhelman, a 34-year veteran of the firm, will become the its new CEO, replacing Jim Owens, on July 1?
Caterpillar
Pfizer
RCA
Walgreens

3. While the third-quarter drop in landline customers was expected, analysts anticipated AT&T would add about 1.5 million wireless subscribers. How many did the company actually add?
500,000
1 million
2 million
2.5 million

4. Hoping it might be the perfect 10, Boston Beer Co., maker of Samuel Adams, will team up with brewery from what country to jointly produce a new craft beer to be marketed next spring with an alcohol content of 10 percent?
Australia
Canada
Germany
Ireland

5. As unemployment rates rose last month in 23 states and fell in 19 as the economy struggled to create jobs in the early stages of recovery, which state had the highest unemployment rate at 15.3 percent?
California
Michigan
Nevada
Rhode Island

6. If you are in the market for a sports utility vehicle, Motor Trend Magazine would like to steer you in the direction of which SUV that it has picked as No. 1?
Edge
Forester
Outback
Pilot

7. It was a soft soft drink market for Coca Cola but sales outside of the company's home turf of North America helped profit inch higher in the third quarter, although overall sales fell as the stronger dollar continued to take a toll on revenue. What percentage of Coca Cola's sales come from North America?
One fifth
One quarter
One third
One half

8. Sun Microsystems says it plans eliminate up to how many jobs over the next year as it awaits a takeover by Oracle Corp.?
1,000
2,000
3,000
4,000

9. Despite the fact that air traffic picked up in September, which airline announced a third quarter loss of $18 million?
American
Continental
Delta
United

10. Volkswagen has its eye on the prize, which would be No. 1 in world auto sales, as Toyota sputters. To this end, VW is planning to open a new plant in which U.S. state in 2011?
Alabama
North Carolina
Oklahoma
Tennessee

Answers (Scroll over to see):

1. All of the above
2. Caterpillar
3. 2M
4. Germany
5. Michigan
6. Outback
7. 1/4
8. 3,000
9. Continental
10. Tennessee

No Costume Yet

Boy I am really waiting till the last minute once again to figure out what I'm going to be. At this point I'm seriously considering staying home and playing video games. At this point I may go with zombie, since it's easy and I have to mangle a pair of jeans and a dress shirt. Not too hard, easy to figure out, not cumbersome. Yup sounds great!

Hush Now Sweet Prince

So there was a death in my family this last week and I'm a little broken up about it. I knew this day would come and honestly I'm a little surprised it didn't happen sooner. But it still leaves a void of emptiness in my heart.

On Sunday afternoon October 18th my Bacardi glass died.

It's hard to be too sad, he led a good life, being the glass that I used for mixing all my drinks since my junior year in college. He'd been with me in the best of times, like when we would party with friends for whatever occasion, or have a few drinks before going out. He was also there in the worst of times, like when I was so depressed that I would start drinking on a saturday night and instead of going out I would black out by myself. But he was a good drink glass, and I'm going to miss him.

He was received as a promotional glass when I bought a bottle of bacardi during my junior year of college, during the height of the Bacardi and Cola marketing campaign, which coincided with a heavy rum drinking phase at the time. He managed to survive my entire senior year of college, in which I used and abused him alot. After college when I was still drinking pretty regularly on the weekends he was always there, surviving every spill, drop, dishwashing.

In the last couple years as my alcohol consumption has dropped way down, but Bacardi was still there, acting as a water glass by my bedside, always keeping a vigilant watch over my not sleeping form. Like a security blanket I knew he was always there to quench my thirst in the middle of the night. And now he's gone and it's not the same.

In the end it was something minor that ended his life, he got tipped over on the counter while I was washing dishes. And he shattered, laying there in several pieces like a prince of men who was just hit by a car, or a talking egg who fell from a wall. I'll miss you buddy, but there will always be the memories.

Current Events

So someone in our office sends out a weekly quiz almost every thursday, it's ten questions, usually multiple choice and originally she was borrowing questions from "Are you smarter then a fifth grader?" Well I won the quiz about 7 weeks in a row so I'm now banned from winning which is comical because the quiz has changed from Fifth grade questions, to more current events stuff. Which I have very little eye for extreme details. Take this weeks quiz:

1. President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize for what the awarding committee said were "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." He becomes the fourth American president to be honored with the award; which of the following is NOT among them?
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
John F. Kennedy
Jimmy Carter

2. The kidnapping at knifepoint of a four-day-old baby from its Nashville, Tenn., home ended happily when the infant was found three days later in neighboring Alabama. The mother of the child said the kidnapper had posed as a uniformed government official before pulling a knife and snatching the baby. What division of government?
The Tennessee State Police
The Inland Revenue Service
The Nashville Police Department
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service

3. A member of the French government, Frederic Mitterand, found himself in hot water when opponents surfaced a segment from a four-year-old autobiography in which he admitted he had paid for sex with young male prostitutes in Thailand. What position does he hold in the cabinet of President Nicolas Sarkozy?
Justice minister
Culture minister
Education minister
Minister of defense

4. Major League Baseball entered its postseason phase, but not before an extra game was played to decide the American League Central Division, which was tied between the Minnesota Twins and the Detroit Tigers after the regular season. The game was a back-and-forth, extra-innings thriller that ended in a 6-5 win for the Twins. In which inning did it end?
10th
11th
12th
13th

5. After a five-month trial, the 85-year-old son of New York philanthropist and socialite Brooke Astor was found guilty of looting his Alzheimer's-ridden mother's estate, a verdict that could send him to jail for as many as 25 years. What is the son's name?
Anthony Astor
Vincent Astor, Jr.
Anthony Marshall
Philip Marshall

6. NASA is known for its soft landings of men and spacecraft onto the moon. Not this time. The space agency deliberately smashed a rocket and satellite into the moon's south pole. For what reason?
As part of a test to see if the same could be done on Mars
To disturb the moon's surface and determine if there is any ice underneath
To get rid of space junk that had been floating around the earth and threatening the International Space Station
To destroy a Russian probe landed in the area in the Sixties that NASA feared was being used as a signaling device for nuclear missiles by Iran

7. Disgraced football player Michael Vick, just back in the National Football League after serving a prison sentence for running a dogfighting ring, landed a TV show that will highlight his life and his comeback with the Philadelphia Eagles. On what channel will it be shown?
Fox
Bravo
TLC (The Learning Channel)
BET (Black Entertainment Television)

8. A museum in Lima, Peru, offered a no-questions-asked $2,000 reward after a body part was stolen from its version of the controversial "Bodies" exhibition, a collection of Chinese cadavers preserved through a process that replaces water in tissues with polymers. What part went missing?
A lung
A head
A forearm
A sexual organ

9. American pianist and singer Harry Connick Jr. became red-faced with anger as he judged a talent show in which four white men in afro wigs and blackface sang and danced behind a Michael Jackson impersonator in whiteface as they did a Jackson 5 skit. In which country did the incident happen?
Australia
England
Canada
Ireland

10. A Mideast man who bragged about his sex life -- including losing his virginity at 14 -- was sentenced to five years in jail and 1,000 lashes after being found guilty of transgressing morals laws. In what country was the sentence handed down?
Iran
Oman
Yemen
Saudi Arabia

What's funny is I knew every single one of these stories, what I didn't know was the exact details. So I did poorly on this quiz (4/10) but I don't feel terrible because I at least know about the news. But then I got to thinking...Marty...what happened to your attention to detail. You used to be able to quote off the who/what/where/when/why of a story easily, and right now you can get the what and the why...2/5 is riding the Mendoza line, and that's never good. I guess I need to sharpen up on my current events.

Answers: (Scroll over them to see them)

1. John F. Kennedy
2. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service
3. Culture minister
4. 12th
5. Anthony Marshall
6. To disturb the moon's surface and determine if there is any ice underneath
7. BET (Black Entertainment Television)
8. A lung
9. Australia
10. Saudi Arabia