Fun Stuff...Off Topic(O/T)

[jiesen]

You realize, Jiesen, that you're giving away the answers to any who might yet take the quiz.

I do now... so there, I fixed it. Now you have to want to spoil it for yourself. (just highlight the hidden text)

[Rob]

I do now... so there, I fixed it.

That's cool, Jiesen. How do you "hide" the text? This is a feature I didn't know about.

Edit: Nevermind, I see what you did.

[Rob]

Origami CD Sleeve

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[billyjoe]

Rob,
I was relaxing on the davenport watching Leave it to Beaver and drinking Bosco when I got to thinking. Remember any old name brands that were popular and either disappeared or are fading away? Out of Bosco so I'll get some Ovaltine and dunk in Lorna Doone's. Now my side is hurting. Good thing the Carter's Little Liver pills aren't all gone. Rob, if you can think of any will you let me know? Thanks.

--------------billyjoe

[IIC]

What Flavor Ice Cream Are You???

What flavor are you???

Take this 10 question quiz and find out...I am Flirty like Chocolate:

http://www.quizwebsite.com/quiz/fun/which-ice-cream-flavor-are-you.html

[IIC]

Quiz

Since nobody was interested in finding out what Ice Cream flavor you are...I thought it might be fun to test your stock market knowledge.

I put this little 10 question quiz together. We are going to use the honor system...No looking anything up. Let's see who gets the highest score.

Simply copy and paste the score sheet below and type the corresponding letter of your answers in your post.

1) Who was known as the "Witch of Wall Street?
A. Carly Fiona
B) Hetty Green
C) Muriel Siebert
D) Maria Bartiromo

2) Of the original DJIA 30 in 1896 there is only one stock that is still on the index. Which one is it?
A) T
B) GE
C) JPM
D) MMM

3) What NYSE listed company had no employees yet was listed in 1989?:
A) Wabash Railroad
B) Advanced Micro Devices
C) Tyco International
D) Analog Devices

4) What stock had the highest per share price ever?
A) IBM
B) Resorts International
C) Yahoo Japan
D) Berkshire Hathaway

5) What was the first U.S. Stock Exchange:
A) New York
B) Philadelphia
C) Washington
D) American

6) What year was the ticker symbol first introduced?
A) 1930
B) 1896
C) 1902
D) 1867

7) Michael Douglas starred as Gordon Gekko in the hit movie Wall Street. Who was the director's first choice to play the role?
A) Richard Gere
B) Tom Cruise
C) Jack Nicholson
D) Warren Beatty

8 )Who was the world's first billionaire?
A) Bill Gates
B) Henry Ford
C) John D. Rockefeller
D) J. Paul Getty

9) Since 1900 the CPI was over +20% only once. What was the year?
A) 1980
B) 1928
C) 1946
D) 1918

10) One Hit Wonder Bobby McFerrin's Grammy Award winning song in 1988 was Don't Worry, Be Happy. In the songs video he is seen sitting in a chair reading a newspaper. What paper was he reading?
A) Wall Street Jornal
B) Investor's Daily
C) Barrons
D) Washington Post

Good Luck...I'll post the answers tomorrow night.


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[riverbabe]

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Doug, what a great quiz! I got 6 right on my own (the dates killed me!), but was so darned interested that I Googled the rest. So on my honor I won't fill in the answers. Great learning experience! Thanks.

[Rob]

. . . test your stock market knowledge.

Here are my guesses:

1) B
2) C
3) B
4) D (but it's misspelled)
5) A
6) B
7) C ("Lunch is for wimps.")
C
9) A
10) A

[IIC]

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Doug, what a great quiz! I got 6 right on my own (the dates killed me!), but was so darned interested that I Googled the rest. So on my honor I won't fill in the answers. Great learning experience! Thanks.

Thanks...I made up all the questions...But I only knew 5 of the answers w/o looking them up...Doug(IIC)

[IIC]

Here are my guesses:

1) B
2) C
3) B
4) D (but it's misspelled)
5) A
6) B
7) C ("Lunch is for wimps.")
C
9) A
10) A

Thanks Mr. Grammar...I corrected the spelling....BTW...You got 2 right. I won't mention which 2 yet though. As I mentioned I got 5...Except that doesn't really count because I picked those because I already knew the answers...Then I came up with 5 more that I didn't know...They are not in any particular order though.

Who else would like to try???

[Karel]

Doug,
Got 45 on #1. Will try to take others later.

No errors on the first quiz; will try to take the others later

Regards,

Karel

[IIC]

Well...There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of interest in my quizzes...So I guess I'll stop posting them...They are just for fun though.

Here are the answers w/ XXX's to the right:

1) Who was known as the "Witch of Wall Street?
A. Carly Fiona
B) Hetty Green...XXX... http://www.financialhistory.org/fh/1996/55-1.htm
C) Muriel Siebert
D) Maria Bartiromo

2) Of the original DJIA 30 in 1896 there is only one stock that is still on the index. Which one is it?

On the test I made a mistake...The original DJIA only had 12 stocks

A) T
B) GE...XXX...Original DJIA 12: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average
C) JPM
D) MMM

3) What NYSE listed company had no employees yet was listed in 1989?:
A) Wabash Railroad...XXX...They simply owned some railroad tracks which they leased
B) Advanced Micro Devices
C) Tyco International
D) Analog Devices

4) What stock had the highest per share price ever?
A) IBM
B) Resorts International
C) Yahoo Japan...XXX Approx $1.5 mil. sh
D) Berkshire Hathaway

5) What was the first U.S. Stock Exchange:
A) New York
B) Philadelphia...XXX in 1790...NYSE was 1792
C) Washington
D) American

6) What year was the ticker symbol first introduced?
A) 1930
B) 1896
C) 1902
D) 1867...XXX

7) Michael Douglas starred as Gordon Gekko in the hit movie Wall Street. Who was the director's first choice to play the role?
A) Richard Gere...XXX but Jack and Warren were considered too
B) Tom Cruise
C) Jack Nicholson
D) Warren Beatty

Who was the world's first billionaire?
A) Bill Gates
B) Henry Ford
C) John D. Rockefeller...XXX in 1916
D) J. Paul Getty

9) Since 1900 the CPI was over +20% only once. What was the year?
A) 1980
B) 1928
C) 1946
D) 1918...XXX...There seems to be some controversy here...But http://economagic.com has it as 1918. Another site I found had 1916 as the highest.

10) One Hit Wonder Bobby McFerrin's Grammy Award winning song in 1988 was Don't Worry, Be Happy. In the songs video he is seen sitting in a chair reading a newspaper. What paper was he reading?
A) Wall Street Journal
B) Investor's Daily...XXX...I believe this was before they changed the name by adding "Business"
C) Barrons
D) Washington Post

[billyjoe]

Doug,
The only ones I knew were Philadelphia and Hetty Green , my great great great great aunt.

----------billyjoe

[IIC]

Doug,
The only ones I knew were Philadelphia and Hetty Green , my great great great great aunt.

----------billyjoe

I hope you were not really related to that witch...She should burn in h*ll

[billyjoe]

I just manually popped popcorn on the stove and there were no old maids (unpopped kernels). It doesn't get any better than that !

----------billyjoe