‘93/’94 Year-End Review and Outlook : The Biz Quiz
What’s a NAFTA? Do you get GATT? And why were Beavis & Butt-head pursuing Wayne & Garth?
Here is The Times’ annual quiz, testing your knowledge of news events and trends in the world of business from 1993.
Answers are at the end
1) Was the Dow Jones industrial average up or down at the end of 1993 compared to the end of 1992?
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2) Cable television giant Tele-Communications Inc. has agreed to be acquired by which of the following companies, in what may turn out to be the biggest merger ever?
a) BellSouth
b) Southwestern Bell
c) Bell Atlantic
d) Pacific Bell
e) Packard Bell
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3) Newlyweds Donald Trump and Marla Maples named their baby daughter after which legendary New York store?
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4) According to Forbes magazine, who is the the richest person in the United States?
a) Bill Gates
b) Ross Perot
c) Warren Buffett
d) John Kluge
e) Michael Eisner
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5) Which aerospace company wants to send television and video signals to your home by satellite?
a) Northrop
b) McDonnell Douglas
c) Hughes Aircraft
d) Lockheed
e) Boeing
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6) At which of the following is paroled junk bond financier Michael Milken guest-lecturing?
a) USC
b) UCLA
c) UC Berkeley
d) University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business
e) Birmingham High School in Van Nuys
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7) Which of the following schools did Milken attend?
a) USC
b) UCLA
c) UC Berkeley
d) Wharton School of Business
e) Birmingham High School
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8) According to Forbes, who is the richest woman in the United States?
a) Helen Walton
b) Madonna
c) Estee Lauder
d) Donna Karan
e) Hillary Rodham Clinton
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9) This man has been called everything from the most powerful person in the entertainment business (by Entertainment Weekly) to a “Darth Vader” (by then-Sen. Al Gore). Who is he?
a) Barry Diller
b) Michael Ovitz
c) John Malone
d) Rupert Murdoch
e) Howard Stern
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10) Match the Clinton Administration economic advisers with their titles:
a) Laura D’Andrea Tyson
b) Robert E. Rubin
c) Leon Panetta
d) Alice Rivlin
e) Robert Altman
1) Budget Director
2) Deputy Treasury Secretary
3) Deputy Budget Director
4) Head of National Economic Council
5) Chair of Council of Economic Advisers
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11) Who is the CEO of General Motors?
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12) The search for a new chief executive at troubled IBM was one of the biggest headhunting tasks in years. Who got the job?
a) John Sculley
b) Bill Gates
c) Louis Gerstner
d) John Akers
e) Conan O’Brien
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13) The fight over Paramount between QVC Network and Viacom involves some valuable entertainment properties. Match the products with the party involved in the Paramount battle:
a) Wayne & Garth
b) Ren & Stimpy
c) Beavis & Butt-head
d) Cubic zirconia jewelry & Blublocker sunglasses
1) Paramount
2) QVC
3) Viacom
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14) What do the following acronyms stand for?
a) NAFTA
b) GATT
c) QVC
d) PC
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15) Cable entrepreneur/buffalo meat promoter Ted Turner agreed to buy the company that brought us the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies and another that produced the hit film “A Few Good Men.” Name the two companies.
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Bonus question: Who made the biggest bomb of 1993?
a) North Korea
b) The makers of “The Last Action Hero”
c) “Dateline NBC”
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Answers to Quiz
1. Up.
2. c.
3. Tiffany
4. c. Forbes says Buffett is worth $8.32 billion.
5. c.
6. b.
7. c, d and e.
8. a. Helen Walton, the widow of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, is tied with her daughter Alice, at $4.55 billion.
9. c. Malone is chief executive of Tele-Communications Inc.
10. a-5, b-4, c-1, d-3, e-5.
11. John F. Smith Jr.
12. d.
13. a-1, b-3, c-3, d-2.
14. a-North American Free Trade Agreement; b-General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade; c-Quality, Value and Convenience; d-personal computer or politically correct
15 . New Line Cinema and Castle Rock Entertainment.
Bonus. Your pick.
