Thursday, October 29, 2009

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

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