The Wall Street Journal Weekly Quiz Covering front-page articles from September 24 – 30, 2005 Developed by: Scott R. Homan Ph.D., Purdue University Issue #6 Fall 2005 © Copyright 2005 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All rights reserved.

WSJ Weekly Quiz September 24 – 30, 2005 a. 10% or about 8.5 million barrels b. 25% or about 30 million barrels c. 4% or 3.5 million barrels d. 1% or 500,000 barrels 1. The “cushion” needed to protect consumers from sudden price increases for gasoline is approximately:

© Copyright 2005 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All rights reserved. WSJ Weekly Quiz September 24 – 30, 2005 a. increasing b. decreasing c. staying the same d. stalled 2. Globally investments in oil projects are ______________.

© Copyright 2005 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All rights reserved. WSJ Weekly Quiz September 24 – 30, 2005 a. height b. safety c. wheel size d. speed 3. For decades the auto industry has equated weight of a vehicle with which quality?

© Copyright 2005 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All rights reserved. WSJ Weekly Quiz September 24 – 30, 2005 a. a small statistically significant relationship b. a large statistically significant relationship c. a medium statistically significant relationship d. no statistically significant relationship 4. A paper looking at car-crash fatality rates from 1966 to 2002, found _______ between fuel economy and increased traffic fatalities.

© Copyright 2005 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All rights reserved. WSJ Weekly Quiz September 24 – 30, 2005 a. homes b. cars c. boats d. credit cards 5. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, drawing on new research he has personally supervised, said American consumers have become enormously dependent on borrowing against their __________ to fuel their spending.

© Copyright 2005 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All rights reserved. WSJ Weekly Quiz September 24 – 30, 2005 a. $600 billion b. $600 million c. $6000 d. $ Mr. Greenspan's new data show that borrowing against home values added a stunning ___________ to consumers' spending power last year.

© Copyright 2005 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All rights reserved. WSJ Weekly Quiz September 24 – 30, 2005 a. 42 thousand U.S. households b. 42 Billion U.S. households c. 420,000 U.S. households d. 42 million U.S. households 7. High-speed Internet access, or broadband, has attained critical mass, reaching _____________ households this year, says eMarketer Inc.

© Copyright 2005 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All rights reserved. WSJ Weekly Quiz September 24 – 30, 2005 a. expensive b. over c. not working d. real 8. Viacom's Mr. Kramer says the traditional media companies are waking up to the fact that Internet advertising is __________.

© Copyright 2005 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All rights reserved. WSJ Weekly Quiz September 24 – 30, 2005 a. smaller, short-term b. smaller, long-term c. larger, long-term d. larger, short-term 9. Ford Motor Co. plans to offer ______________ contracts to a smaller group of suppliers on future models, a switch that could save billions of dollars a year.

© Copyright 2005 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All rights reserved. WSJ Weekly Quiz September 24 – 30, 2005 a. less than 2,000 b. less than 200 c. less than 1,000 d. less than Ultimately, Ford aims to shrink from about 2,500 suppliers world- wide to ___.

© Copyright 2005 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All rights reserved. WSJ Weekly Quiz September 24 – 30, 2005 a. eight national accrediting commissions b. eight global accrediting commissions c. eight regional accrediting commissions d. two European accrediting commissions 11. Traditional colleges receive stamps of approval from __________, whose charters typically date to the 19th century.

© Copyright 2005 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All rights reserved. WSJ Weekly Quiz September 24 – 30, 2005 a. 9 b. 90 c. 900 d While 3,000 traditional colleges have standard accreditation, only about __________ for-profit colleges do.

© Copyright 2005 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All rights reserved. WSJ Weekly Quiz September 24 – 30, 2005 a. making sure long –term goals are changed with every slight change in bottom line numbers b. quickly and easily accessing a large amount of “real time” data c. making sure employees don’t take too many restroom breaks d. making managers too paranoid to get any real work done 13. “Dashboard” computer software is useful for

© Copyright 2005 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All rights reserved. WSJ Weekly Quiz September 24 – 30, 2005 a. undocumented workers b. college students c. factory workers d. white-collar professionals 14. Many of the fastest growing unions in the U.S. represent _________.

© Copyright 2005 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All rights reserved. WSJ Weekly Quiz September 24 – 30, 2005 a. Cosmetology b. Legal Services c. Obstetrics d. Personal Trainers 15. India is now handling outsourcing in what profession?

© Copyright 2005 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All rights reserved. WSJ Weekly Quiz September 24 – 30, 2005 a. shipping time b. cargo theft c. animal injury d. traffic accidents 16. An SC-tracker is designed to help reduce ______________.

© Copyright 2005 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All rights reserved. WSJ Weekly Quiz September 24 – 30, 2005 a. 28 states b. 18 states c. 10 states d. 8 states 17. To ensure that they get their share of internet sales taxes, _______ states have banded together to simplify their myriad tax rules, regulations and quirks.

© Copyright 2005 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All rights reserved. WSJ Weekly Quiz September 24 – 30, 2005 a. wealth b. real estate c. cash d. Human Resource 18. Wall Street brokers are in a different line of work these days. Their firms are pushing them to be ________ managers.

© Copyright 2005 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All rights reserved. WSJ Weekly Quiz September 24 – 30, 2005 a. government help b. red cross help c. church help d. volunteer help 19. This year's devastating hurricane season has breathed new life into a push by some in the insurance industry to enlist ____ for insuring against natural disasters.

© Copyright 2005 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All rights reserved. WSJ Weekly Quiz September 24 – 30, 2005 a. rich consumers b. middle income consumers c. poorer consumers d. Northern consumers 20. Expensive energy is having a greater effect on _______________.

© Copyright 2005 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All rights reserved. WSJ Weekly Quiz September 24 – 30, 2005 a. 1 b. 3 c. 5 d AmEx shareholders are to receive ________ Ameriprise share for every five American Express shares they hold, and the shares will begin trading Monday on the New York Stock Exchange, using the stock symbol AMP.

© Copyright 2005 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All rights reserved. WSJ Weekly Quiz September 24 – 30, 2005 a. 2 b. 22 c. 200 d This month, ________ of the companies represented in the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index have said their results will come in below expectations.

© Copyright 2005 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All rights reserved. WSJ Weekly Quiz September 24 – 30, 2005 a. $2.5 billion loss b. $2.5 billion profit c. $25 billion loss d. $25 billion profit 23. GM showed a ______________ in its North American operations for the first six months.

© Copyright 2005 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All rights reserved. WSJ Weekly Quiz September 24 – 30, 2005 a. fallen 13% b. risen 13% c. fallen 53% d. risen 53% 24. World-wide sales of music CDs have ________ in the past six years.

© Copyright 2005 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All rights reserved. WSJ Weekly Quiz September 24 – 30, 2005 a. the program is a complete success b. the program is not working at all c. 51% of participants are still receiving calls that should be blocked d. the telephone survey could not be conducted because the calls were blocked 25. A recent survey concerning the National Do Not Call Registry found:

© Copyright 2005 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All rights reserved. WSJ Weekly Quiz September 24 – 30, 2005 a. take the car to the dealer b. wait for an immediate repair c. get an oil change first d. go to the auto parts store first 26. When Jeanne Robinson brought her 1999 Volkswagen Passat to a local repair shop last month she was told to ______________.