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BQ Practice Qs - 5 Flashcards

1
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Who is Apple’s newly hired retail Chief?

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Angela Ahrendts

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What is Apple Inc. Taking from BurBerry Group PLC. And what role will it fill?

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Angela (or Ms.) Ahrendts, to fill the role of retail chief.

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Which industry did Apple look to when looking for someone to fill its position of retail chief?

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Fashion

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What are the emerging errors of the federal health marketplace dealing with website traffic and software issues?

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duplicate enrollments, spouse reported as children, missing data fields, suspect eligibility determinations

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What penalty did SAC aggree to pay in a civil insider-trading settlement with the SEC?

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$616 million

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Why are sugar prices still lower in foreign countries than the US, despite a 50% drop in US prices over two years?

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They have fewer government price restrictions

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How much has JP Morgan spent on Washington lobbying?

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$8 million

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With the federal government on shutdown for a few days, the U.S. Department of Agriculture could not carry-out their multiyear battle against what pest that feasts on 300 different plants surrounding the nation’s capital?

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Stink bugs

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Brazil is seeking deeper military defense ties with Russia. What specifically are they trying to address?

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Cyberwarfare or cybersecurity

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The SEC sought $1.8 billion to settle in criminal court alone in a case against SAC CEO Steven Cohen regarding what offense?

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Insider trading

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(the French Utility) Electricite de France SA said that it reached an agreement with the U.K. government to build a nuclear - power plant, the first in the country for how long?

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30 years

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What French utility company agreed to build a nuclear power plant with the UK government?

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Electricite de France

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The alliance between Pakistan and China is compared to the United States’ alliance with what other country, described as being in a nuclear arms race with Pakistan?

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India

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A microphone exploded killing Governor Arsala Jamal, and injuring at least 15 other people in what Afghanistan province?

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Logar province

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Despite rumors of territorial ambitions in Southeast Asia, China is funding Cambodia’s first oil refinery. How much is China lending to Cambodia (in US dollars)?

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$1.6 Billion

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What demands are German Social Democrats making in coalition talks with Merkel?

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Minimum wage, more flexible retirement age, and equal pay for men and women

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Prince Bandar, who is leading Saudi Arabia’s efforts to fund, train, and arm rebels fighting the Syrian president, is quoted about a recent unexpected action saying, “This was a message for the U.S., not the U.N.” What was the action?

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Renouncing a seat on the United Nations Security Council

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What is the death toll of the magnitude 7.2 earthquake that rocked the Phillipines on October 15th?

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90 (now 171)

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According to Jod Goodwin, an immigration lawyer in Hawaii “It’s like a magic word, say it and the government has to giive you a hearing.” What is the magic word about which the artice speaks in depth?

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credible-fear

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Drones used to take out terrorists in Pakistan and Yemen have underestimated other effects such as what when drones hit?

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Civilian deaths

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Two human rights groups are critisizing the Obama administration for violating standards set by the president. What human rights violations are they pointing to?

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Civilian caasualities from frone strikes

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A cat has served as mayor in a smal ltown in the United States for the past 16 years. What state is this town in?

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Alaska

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Rome officials have refused to do what to a deceased Nazi official, Erich Priebke, who died at the age of 100?

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Allow his burial

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Crowds in Rome are protesting efforts to bury Erich Priebke. Who was Mr. Priebke?

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A Nazi war criminal

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What symbolic gift did Pope Francis deliver to palestinian President Abbas after their discussion of politics and peace with Israel?

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A pen (with hopes to be used to sign the peace treaty with Israel)

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There has been a marked increase in candy pproduction abroad. What is driving this move abroad?

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Lower sugar prices abroad

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What unexpected problem affected the capitol building during the government shutdown?

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Stinkbugs flourished

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Washington’s State Liquor Control Board me Wednesdayt, and unanimously approved regulations concerning what?

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Pot production, processing, and retailing

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The Bay Area Rapid Transit employee’s announced the return of a strike in the past few months after what tragedy that took place in the Bay Area?

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The death of two people, one a BART employee, while the other was a contractor who were both working on the tracks

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The Marine Corps plans to improve discipline and reinforce standards within its ranks by announcing what initiative?

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“Reawakening” initiative

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A former San Diego Mayor, Bob Filner, plead guilty in federal court receiving one felony, and two misdemeanors over what allegations?

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Sexual harassment

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Gerogia became the first state to incorporate a $5-a-month charge to people who receive free cellphone service through what federal program?

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Lifeline program

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The discovery of a 1.8 million year-old skull found in Africa offered evidence that ancestors emerged from a single adventurous species called what?

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Homo erectus

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How many members are within the OECD?

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34

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What is the cell that sits at the base of a follicle and provides instructions to other cells to make hair, and ultimately treat baldness?

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Dermal Papilla

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27 chemical weapons inspectors in Syria say they are on track to complete their current objective by their Nov. 1st deadline. What is that objective?

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Disabling (chemical/biological weapon) production equipment

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Who is named the interim CEO of the Bank of Israel?

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Karnit Flug

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Who was recently named as the chief of the Bank of Israel?

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Karnit Flug

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Which country is joining the major oil producers of the worked as it moves to develop a major oil field?

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Brazil

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Which area is seeing a spike in the industry of discount air travel?

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Latin America

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41
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How many states have passed laws that limit property owners’ ability to ban firearms in vehicles in parking areas?

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22

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42
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What city is Twitter headquartered in?

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San Fancisco

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What is the name of the mobile-games company that has gone from being worth nothing to being worth $3 billion in just 3 years?

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Supercell

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The missed expectations of the iPhone 5C signals what about Apple?

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Apple misjudged their stratgy to introduce for the first time two new phone models simutanelously.

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Which company may have misjudged its strategy as it now is changing orders to produce more of one product and far less of another expected to do well?

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Apple

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Which country is home to Europe’s biggest economy?

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Germany

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47
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Why is GE struggling to start extracting oil from oil sands in Canada?

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Its equipment is stuck on a truck in Washington.

48
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Which flower has gone down in price from $100,000 each to as little as $5.48?

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The orchid

49
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A rare, but wildly popular bourbon called Pappy Van Winkle had 200 bottles stolen from a distillery located where?

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Frankfort, Kentucky distillery

50
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Canada requires any foreign bid of over $344 to pass a government review to determine what?

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If it will be a “net economic benefit” or a security risk.

51
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Who is the world’s largest maker of PCs?

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Lenovo

52
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Which company is trying to shed the image of being an “old man’s car”?

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Mercedes-Benz

53
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Which drug company is continuing to pour money into R&D as others in the industry scale back, citing expectations of a pay off soon as the reason to do so?

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Eli Lilly

54
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Which recent Google acquisition has yet to see much return, losing $248 million in the third quarter?

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Motorola

55
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How many new products will Stephen Elop, former CEO of Nokia, introduce in Abu Dhabi for Microsoft?

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6 new products

56
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Which company is releasing their first ever tablet computer?

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Nokia

57
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Which company is intending to offer high-altitude balloon rides into space?

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Paragon Space Development

58
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What is the challenge for Netflix about profit-growth potential?

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to keep up enough growth in $7.99-per month subscriptions to balance out its significant investments in library programming and original TV shows

59
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Which company is the top provider of streaming entertainment?

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Netflix

60
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What company is becoming known for producing finance chiefs for other companies?

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ebay

61
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Who will become the new CEO of Burberry succeeding Anela Ahrendts position?

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Chistopher Bailey

62
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Quest Diagnostics has begun selling a genetic screening test used to predict the risk of what diseases?

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Breast and ovarian cancer

63
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U.S. defense executives is faced with a temporary budget fix that will serve to focus more on trimming Pentagon procurement spending on big weapons programs such as what?

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The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and the new Ford-class aircraft carriers

64
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The editors behind Wikipedia are accusing a set of contributors of manipulating the content uploaded on this webpage; who did the Daily Dot report to be behind this suspicious activity?

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Wiki-PR, a public relations firm

65
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Which company has sold an entire unit and hired a new CEO in an effort to streamline operations and boost earnings?

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Siemens

66
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About half of Yahoo’s evaluation is in holdings in who/what?

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Alibaba Holding Group Ltd.

67
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What allegations is Mattel facing in China?

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Violations of labor laws.

68
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Ormet Corp., an aluminum maker based in Ohio, shut down a 272,000-ton-a-year smelter after failing to persuade Ohio regulators to increase subsidies on what purchases?

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Electricity purchaces

69
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Which metal industry is facing the shut down of multiple facilities?

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Aluminum

70
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What portion of the world-wide online advertising does Google represent?

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one third

71
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Which company is seeing increased share prices because of a soar in mobile Ad clicks?

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Google

72
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What did IBM of CEO criticize the company for failing?

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executing sales of computer hardware as well as in the growth market units

73
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What is the world’s best selling tablet computer?

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iPad mini

74
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Microsoft is unveiling their second generation tablets with office and exchange pre-installed. What are they hoping to accomplish with that move?

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Target corporate / business customers

75
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Which operating system is expected to have the largest market sale of tablets by 2014?

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Android

76
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Which company is loaning about $835 million to RadioShack to refinance bank debt?

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General Electric

77
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In which country are IBM central processing units manufactured?

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Taiwan

78
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Who is the CEO of AMR, the parent company of American Airlines?

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Tom Horton

79
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How did an Internet-service outage, faced by Level 3 Communications, start that left people in the Brooklyn and Philadelphia area with slow to nonexistent service for nearly 25 hourse?

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The outage started after a heavily trafficked fiber-optic switch failed

80
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Who are the two largest toy making corporations?

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Hasbro and Mattel

81
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Which industry is seeing growth internationally, despite falling sales in the US?

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Toy Manufacturers

82
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PepsiCo Inc.’s snacks business continued to increase its profit which was driven by the growth of what PepsiCo line?

A

Frito-Lay

83
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Caesars Entertainment disclosed that federal regulators are investigating the unit that operates the casino and hotel for what alleged violatioons?

A

Money laundering

84
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Asius Technologies has developed two types of earpieces to help people safely, and effectively listen to sounds; the earpiece for hearing-impaired people is designed like what?

A

Balloons

85
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New pipelines are envisioned to move Pennsylvania ethane to Texas and Louisiana, which could alter Royal Dutch Shell’s plan to build a plant in Pennsylvania that turns ethane into what chemical?

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Ethylene

86
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The increase in the performance of Johnson & Johnson’s pharmaceuticals business was driven by new prescription drugs such as what?

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Zytiga, used for prostate-cancer therapy

87
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Vornado Realty Trust grew into a real estate giant by buying big stakes, but a recent failed investment to what two companies show Vornado may be losing its touch?

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J.C. Penny and Toys ‘R’ Us

88
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After being accused of insider trading, the jury sided with Mark Cuban given that the star witness in the trial did not do what?

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Testify in person

89
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The SEC has been trying to project a tougher image after critics charged what?

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That the SEC was caught off-guard during the financial crisis

90
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What two money manging corporations are raking in the dough from collecting fees as their customers’ assets swell?

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BlackRock and Charles Schwab

91
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What is Bank of America considering to introduce that could eat into billions of dollars in revenue?

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a checking account that wouldn’t permit customers to overdraw

92
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Which bank is considering becoming the first big bank to prohibit overdraws on checking accounts?

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Bank of America

93
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What is causing gas prices to fall for US drivers?

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Booming diesel fuel use in Europe and Latin America

94
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What is the causing gasoline prices to decrease to a nine-month low even though refiners are operating at high speed still?

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Booming diesel-fuel use in Europe and Latin America

95
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Who is the presiden of European Central Bank?

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Mario Draghi

96
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What European mobile company is AT&T CEO, Randall Stephenson, intending to buy?

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Vodafone

97
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How many dollars is 80 billion yuan?

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$13.1 billion

98
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What suggested industries and governments could do more to harden the financial system against external threats?

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A hacker test proved they could force a shutdown of US equity markets

99
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What university’s endowment is lowering the percentage of assets dedicatted to private-equity investments?

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Yale

100
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Yale University announced a target to cut the endowment of their largest asset class in their portfolio dedicated to what type of investments?

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Private-equity investments

101
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Yale Investment Office has cut it’s target exposure to what two areas?

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Private equity & real estate

102
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What has hindered Argentina from being Brazil’s biggest source of crop imports?

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cold weather and dry conditions

103
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Which US crop is in high demand due to bad seasons in other countries?

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Wheat

104
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Investors are buying catastrophe bonds at the fastest pace in six years that bet against what?

A

Natural disasters

105
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Which country is facing a potential housing bubble as developers continue to invest in new projects and adding to the number of vacant apartments and homes?

A

Dubai

106
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Energy stocks contribute what percent of incremental net income for the US?

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12%

107
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What Does “Square Cash” form Square Inc. allow you do ?

A

E-mail money / or / costless transfer money to another individual, like a friend

108
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Marriott’s SpringHill Suites is sponsoring calm and comfortable colors and furniture before and after TSA screening checkpoints. What’s in it for them?

A

Advertising. / name & logo all over.

109
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How many dishes do IKEA stores offer in their cafeteria?

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five

110
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What was one theory to the trend of increased cosmetic procedures done to men, such as botox?

A

The pressure to look young to find employment

111
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What 8-second exercise does luke snyder compare to yoga?

A

Bull riding

112
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Bull riders must stay on the bull 8 seconds to get a score, but the must not do what thing?

A

Touch his body or the bull with his free hand

113
Q

The only passenger car in the U.S. that runs on compressed natural gas?

A

Honda Civic GX

114
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T. Boone Pickens, a lifelong oil man, plans on getting his Pickens Plan Car sto run off what, instead of OPEC oil?

A

Compressed natural gas

115
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Australian officials are heading towards putting a ban on what device in response to the country having some of the highest skin-cancer rates in the world?

A

Tanning Beds

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