It’s Friday and around here at Rock Your Stock we LOVE giving away free stuff on Fridays. But if you took our quiz from a couple of weeks ago, you’d know that we don’t yet have any cool swag of our own, so we’ve resorted to giving away swag from some of our sister sites.
This week’s prize was donated by a very cool and very important website called WorkSafely.com, which provides some really great workplace safety resources and articles. It’s edited by my coworker Heather and features celebrity blogger Rob Ellis, who has been a tireless advocate of workplace safety ever since the death of his son in an industrial accident in 1999. The prize is a free Worksafely.com T-shirt as well as two pocket-sized first aid kits. Here at Rock Your Stock, we believe companies should make profits but not at the expense of the health and safety of their workers.
Check out our first quiz to learn the rules if you haven’t participated before. E-mail your answers to editor@rockyourstock.com by noon tomorrow and we’ll enter your name in the draw. Drop a comment on this blog post and we’ll enter your name twice.
Here’s the quiz. It’s super easy, if I do say so myself:
1. Michelle Obama, wife of presidential candidate Barack Obama, resigned this week from the board of which large international retailer:
a) Toys R Us
b) Wal-Mart
c) The Gap
2. On Tuesday, Thomas Fitzpatrick, the CEO from which publicly traded lending institution, resigned his post amid a kickback scandal?
a) Sallie Mae
b) Freddie Mac
c) Fannie Mae
d) Bernie Mac
3. Which search engine announced this week that it was buying Feedburner for $100 million?
a) Ask.com
b) Yahoo!
c) Google
d) MSN
4. Which major North American book retailer reported this week a Q1 loss of $1.6 million?
a) Barns & Noble
b) Borders
c) Chapters-Indigo
5. Former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan made some comments this week about China’s economy that negatively affected the U.S. stock market. Prior to being with the Federal Reserve, Greenspan was, among other things, a disciple of which 20th-century pro-capitalism philosopher?
a) Adam Smith
b) Ayn Rand
c) Milton Friedman
