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For the third time in roughly a year, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's space transportation company SpaceX failed to land the main part of a spent rocket on what?
A floating ocean platform
What is the name of the SEC's enforcement chief?
Andrew Ceresney
Who is the acting administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services?
Andy Slavitt
What private-equity firm agreed to buy Apollo Education Group Inc. for about $1.1 billion?
Apollo Global Management LLC
What bank controls 85% of the repo clearing market?
Bank of New York Mellon
In Europe, negative deposit rates may have what other, perverse effect?
Banks Charge More For Loans
Shire's stock is down 12% this year despite the announcement to purchase what company?
Baxalta
One-third of customers who purchased this type of item in the afternoon hadn't actually been to a McDonald's previously.
Breakfast
Who is the Vatican's finance chief?
Cardinal George Pell
What three companies' combined share of the U.S. soda market tops 90%?
Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Dr Pepper Snapple Group
Representatives from what organization, which oversees New York fashion week, met in November with London and Milan fashion federations to discuss alternatives to the current fashion weeks?
Council of Fashion Designers of America
Starbucks has benefited from doing what?
Diversifying beyond coffee
Four of the biggest Western oil companies poised to pay more than $35 billion in what this year, an amount equal to about 40% of their combined cash flows?
Dividends
As of January 25th, who are the top two contenders this Iowa?
Donald Trump; Ted Cruz
One of the most keenly researched diseases of recent years is an inherited muscle-wasting disorder called what?
Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Federal investigators declared February first that what event linked to Chipotle appears to be over?
E. Coli Outbreak
At least 10 people have died of starvation in what Islamic State-occupied city after Iraqi forces blockaded the city about three months ago?
Fallujah
What organizations buy the bulk of mortgages in the US?
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
Who called the misalignment a between GCT repos and other repos a potential source of market instability in periods of stress?
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Who is the French President?
Francois Hollande
What is the name of the executive who will launch a proxy fight to win Norfolk Southern?
Hunter Harrison
A management change is being initiated by what Barclays chief executive?
Jes Staley
What acronymic studies' researchers are collaborating to study cardiovascular diseases among ethnic groups?
Masala and Mesa
What is the name of the peace accord for Ukraine?
Minsk Protocol
What company has for years pursued a deal with Syngenta?
Monsanto
Who are the Big Six seed and chemical makers?
Monsanto Co., Syngenta AG, DuPont Co., Dow Chemical Co., Bayer AG and BASF SE
What is the name of the virtual reality unit that Facebook owns?
Oculus Rift
What has New York converted into Wi-Fi hotpots to provide a city-wide network?
Old Phone Booths
For women, the strongest predictors of sexual satisfaction are what?
Orgasms; Mood Setting; Communication
What is the name of DreamWorks Animation's Chinese joint venture?
Oriental DreamWorks
Who is the United Airline's CEO?
Oscar Munoz
Today, what is increasingly mentioned early in the hiring process, and can get in the way of attaining a job?
Previous salary
What country is the largest shipper of liquefied natural gas?
Qatar
What is the second largest consumer lender by mortgage volume in the US?
Quicken Loans
What is the name of the architect who is inspired by Miami Marine Stadium?
Rene Gonzalez
What other name is the yuan known by
Renminbi
What is the name of the Saudi King
Salman
Coca-Cola Co. has agreed to buy what company, Nigeria's largest juice maker?
TGI Group's Chi Ltd.
What is Germany's biggest travel company?
TUI AG
What is the name of the Russian Intelligence service?
The FSB
What is the world's largest bank by market value?
Wells Fargo
Who is the President of China?
Xi Jinping
Who is the President of Egypt?
Abdel Fattah Al Sisi
Yahoo's stake in what companies (name one) composes a large portion of its valuation?
Alibaba and Yahoo Japan
The latest developments from what companies go beyond using special programs designed to manage all of your passwords and treat a handset as a replacement for passwords?
Alphabet Inc. and Apple Inc.
Which two nontraditional companies have charged forward in driverless car research?
Alphabet Inc. and Tesla Motors
What is Donald Trump's slogan?
"Make America Great Again"
What London-based auction house's art sales are down 11% from last year?
Christie's International
What Chinese baby-product retailer called off its Hong Kong listing in light of deteriorating market conditions?
Goodbaby China Holdings
Who was the dictator of Libya until he was displaced in 2011?
Moammar Gadhafi
What bank accounted for the lion's share of its litigation costs related to the mortgage probes?
Morgan Stanley
Coca-Cola bought a stake in what energy drink maker last year?
Monster Beverage Corp.
What ratings firm downgraded the heavily leveraged Wynn Macau?
Moody's
What branches of the military allow soldiers to wear white or black socks?
Navy, Air Force, and Army
What stock trades at around 400 times its estimated 2016 earnings and has seen 600% growth in stock price over the past three years?
Netflix
Despite more than a decade of attempting to educate people about them, what remains the second-most common point of entry into an IT system, and have been on the rise since 2011?
Phishing attacks
The European Central Bank has said what is the key systemic financial risk in 2016 but it will be unable to help?
Profitability
The last time the Fed raised rates during one of these was in the early 1980s.
Profits Recession
What new CFO at Alphabet promises greater financial discipline and transparency?
Ruth Porat
In 2010 companies only needed 10 days on average to do this but in 2015 the average time was 23 days.
Screen and hire employees
Parker Conrad has resigned as chief executive of what health-insurance brokerage?
Zenefits
The Chesapeake Energy Corp. trouble cascaded to what oil-and-gas logistics firm that has been trying to merge with Williams Cos.?
Energy Transfer Equity LP
What are considerably more than the value of the two awards given by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission?
Administrative Costs
Which 1946 law governs most regulatory agency action?
Administrative Procedure Act
What company's market cap increased by $57 billion due to being more transparent in how it spends its money?
Alphabet
Whose quiet beta test program for "Sign in with your phone" is its latest effort to let Android users log into its services without a password?
Alphabet
$15 billion is the difference between what two technology giants in terms of market capitalization?
Alphabet; Apple
What is the brand name of Microsoft's cloud computing platform and infrastructure?
Azure
What bank is hiring a new chief risk officer and where is he from?
Barclays; J.P. Morgan
What government agency found deficient practices in Theranos?
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
What safety feature found on all modern airlines should take an average passenger 15 seconds to don but most passengers actually cannot in an emergency?
Life Vests
Philips NV said it was terminating its $2.8 billion deal to sell what business after CFIUS blocked the deal?
Lighting components; automotive lighting
Which two regions of the country are largely responsible for the increase in murders?
Midwest and South
What ministry in France regulates the usage of the term haute couture?
Ministry of Industry
What is the name of the Senate majority leader?
Mitch McConnell
For men, the strongest predictors of sexual satisfaction are what?
Mood Setting; Sexual Variety; Communication
In 2015 what wealth management firm had the most advisors?
Morgan Stanley
In what state did Ammon Bundy's father commit a similar armed standoff?
Nevada
What is the name of the McDonalds's CEO who has turned around the company this year?
Steve Easterbrook
Who built Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. into a restaurant-industry leader by playing offense, brashly touting fresher and more virtuous food than competitors?
Steve Ells
What is the name of the Warrior's head coach?
Steve Kerr
Financial history shows that the return on what during the United States' own emerging-market period was no higher than it has been since World War II?
Stocks
Defense Secretary Ash Carter said the U.S. would direct more funds to tackle the challenges posed by which two nations as well as the continuing battle against Islamic State?
Russia and China
What countries are allies of the current regime in Syria?
Russia; Iran
What is the name of the largest state owned oil and gas company in Saudi Arabia?
Saudi Aramco
What company said that it would sell more assets, accelerate store closures and find other ways to cut costs after revenue fell short of expectations and cash flow turned negative in the important holiday quarter?
Sears Holdings Corp.
China National Chemical Corp.'s planned takeover of who could give the Swiss maker of pesticides and seeds a leg up in China's burgeoning agricultural market?
Syngenta AG
The United Nations suspended the peace talks of what country after days of fruitless efforts to kick-start the negotiations?
Syria
A surge of evangelical Christians, along with support from the Republican Party's most conservative voters, combined to give who his victory in Iowa's GOP caucuses?
Ted Cruz
What big broadcasters are now producing their own daytime shows for less money and distributing them nationally?
Tegna Inc., Tribune Media Co. and E.W. Scripps Co.
Typically daytime talk shows are created and licensed out by Hollywood studios such as which large three?
Time Warner Inc.'s Warner Bros., CBS Corp. or Comcast Corp.'s NBCUniversal
What two organizations field lawsuits against a state requiring identification to vote?
U.S. Justice Department; NAACP
What court case established that in insider trading cases the prosecutors had to prove the insider disclosed the information for a personal benefit?
U.S. v. Newman
Two months ago, the International Monetary Fund designated what as one of the world's reserve currencies?
Yuan
What two key markets for Ford, are mired in sales slumps?
Brazil; Russia
Which university is examining a stone that may recount the history of the lost colony of Roanoke?
Brenau University
The correlation between price moves in what two things is 0.95, higher than any calendar month except for two since 1990?
Brent Crude; Stock Market
In 1944, this conference cemented in place permanent restrictions on capital flows in international finance?
Bretton Woods
When what aren't replaced with bond sales, banks are forced to keep the debt on their own balance sheets, tying up capital and risking losses?
Bridge Loans
Peparing children to do what can feel daunting and unnatural to many parents because they don't know math or programming themselves?
Code
Diet Coke is still the world's top-selling diet cola, but whose share has grown from 0.5% to 3% during the past decade?
Coke Zero
When they couldn't resolve the differences between clearinghouses who chose to suspend its interbank GCF repo services?
Depository Trust & Clearing Corp.
What bank's shares are trading at just 30% of book value and are down 50% since last October?
Deutsche Bank
Jeffrey Katzenberg, the head of what Hollywood animation studio, has spent years attempting to establish a foothold in China?
DreamWorks Animation SKG
What country's weak dollar-derived revenues are strangling the country's capacity to import essential goods?
Egypt
What is the Arab world's most populous nation?
Egypt
This Egyptian state-owned natural-gas company missed payment deadlines for liquefied natural gas with two suppliers?
Egyptian Natural Gas Holdings (Egas)
Who first predicted the existence of gravitational waves in 1916?
Einstein
Brinker International operates what two popular restaurants?
Chili's; Maggiano's
Who resigned after a clash with President François Hollande over his proposal for a constitutional amendment stripping some homegrown terrorists of their nationality?
Christiane Taubira
What Twitter Inc. Chief Executive is revamping his top ranks as he tries to find ways to revive the social media company and earn the trust of investors?
Jack Dorsey
An E. coli outbreak in 1993 hurt what company?
Jack in the Box
Who is the US Treasury Secretary?
Jacob Lew
Who is the FBI director?
James Comey
As Asian currencies plunge during the region's 1997 financial crisis, what country spurns the IMF and slaps on strict capital controls?
Malaysia
What hedge fund manager, who became a billionaire during the financial crisis by betting against the housing market, allocated roughly $3 billion of his assets under management and as much as $250 million of his own money to gold?
John Paulson
Who runs ESPN?
John Skipper
On August 21st shares of what private equity firm declined more than 50% before covering over the day?
KKR
This oil minister of what country brushed off calls by other OPEC members for an emergency meeting to consider changing tack amid oil prices that have fallen to depths unseen in more than a decade?
Kuwait
What founder of Omega Advisors, who has forecast rising stocks for years, is cautioning investors to be wary in what he has described as an unusual and unpredictable environment?
Leon Cooperman
What new McDonald's menu allows customers to pick a pair of items for a total of $2 from among four choices: mozzarella sticks, small fries and the McDouble and McChicken sandwiches?
McPick 2
What Michigan agency failed to tread the Flint River water with an anti-corrosive agent?
Michigan Department of Environmental Quality
Chinese citizens stole genetically pure corn seeds developed by what two U.S. agribusiness giants?
Monsanto; DuPont
What country has the EU been negotiating a readmissions agreement with for years?
Morocco
Newspapers and television stations have focused on what issue rather than the Boko Haram attack that left 65 dead?
Nigeria's crashing economy
What cash-strapped members of OPEC who are highly dependent on oil revenue have pushed for the group to take more action?
Nigeria; Venezuela
Under Adidas's former CEO, the company slipped to the No. 3 spot in the U.S. sporting goods market behind which companies?
Nike Inc. and Under Armour Inc.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has launched an investigation into what practice to see if it violates New York labor laws?
Noncompete agreements
What art masterpiece did Christie's sell for the highest amount last year?
Pablo Picasso's "Women of Algiers (Version O)"
Banks in what region are suffering from stocks and bonds selling off together?
Europe
In what area of the world do investors believe the slowdown in global economic growth does not justify the steep market falls?
Europe
In 1998, which two firms nearly doubled in size through acquisitions of rivals, including Mobil and Amoco?
Exxon and BP
Ford is preparing to offer a new aluminum version of what vehicle line?
F-series
What federal agency has funded several communication and resolution programs?
Federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
In 2011, a Super Bowl ad for what company was slammed for being offensive because it poked fun at a humanitarian cause—the plight of Tibetans?
Groupon
While the spent SpaceX booster did not land on a floating platform, the main mission of the rocket was successful. That mission was to launch what collaborative venture between NASA and European space authorities?
The Jason-3 satellite
AT& T Inc. has de-emphasized what TV service in favor of its newly acquired satellite operator DirecTV?
U-Verse TV
What country blocked an attempt by Coke to trademark the word "Zero" in 2008 following a challenge by PepsiCo?
U.K.
Who brought the charges against brokers who allegedly conspired to fix Libor?
U.K.'s Serious Fraud Office
A year ago what firm agreed to pay $14.4 million to settle allegations that it failed to inform all clients about advantages its dark pool gave to some firms, including high-frequency traders?
UBS
After the financial crisis, who slimmed down its volatile investment bank and turned its focus on the supposedly more consistent business of wealth management?
UBS Group AG
What firm popularized low-cost index-related products?
Vanguard
A study presented at a American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine meeting, found an association between low levels of what nutrient and injuries?
Vitamin D
Cam Newton met his match at the Super Bowl with what pass rusher who is equally as athletic and just as strong?
Von Miller
Who has frequently failed to anticipate the broad swings in the price of crude oil?
Wall Street
What giant retailer is boosting its minimum wage to $10/hour in February?
Walmart
Most of the 154 U.S. outlets Wal-Mart Stores Inc. shut down on Thursday 1/28/2016 were what type of smaller outlet the company started opening in 2011 to be nearer shoppers' homes and to better compete with dollar and convenience stores?
Walmart Express
Who are Hulu's current owners?
Walt Disney Co., 21st Century Fox and Comcast Corp.
What is the name of the head of China's National Bureau of Statistics who has been placed under investigation for corruption?
Wang Baoan
What has been making it more costly for companies to issue debt, directly crimping the supply of credit and economic growth?
Wider Bond Spreads
Who is the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York?
William Dudley
The Chesapeake Energy Corp. turmoil helped trigger a selloff in shares of what pipeline giant, which gets 20% of its sales from moving Chesapeake's natural gas from fields to markets?
Williams Cos.
What obscure tropical malady afflicting Africa has transformed into a major international health concern?
Zika Virus
What agency has paid a total of more than $55 million - some 100 times the Commodity Futures Trading Commission tally - to 23 whistleblowers?
SEC
What industry raised prices by 2% to 3% over the course of 2015 without allowing cheaper private-label brands to gain market share?
Soda industry
This type of more personalized phishing comes from people we think we know, such as someone you friended on Facebook but don't really know?
Spear phishing
Which carrier offers data plans at half the price of T-Mobile?
Sprint
Cable mogul John Malone's vision to merge Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. with what premium cable network has taken a big step forward?
Starz
What CEO of Ralph Lauren Corp. is conducting a review of the business after the apparel company reported a 39% drop in quarterly profit?
Stefan Larsson
Of all the factors contributing to high cholesterol, many cardiologists say what one often goes unmentioned in advice for patients?
Stress
Who is the CEO of Google?
Sundar Pichai
What country's central bank cut its main interest rate further into negative territory on 2/11, as the European and Japanese central banks test the boundaries of how low rates can go?
Sweden
What high school sport reports the highest percentage of injuries due to overuse?
Swimming (55.7%)
Japan joins what country as the only countries where the 10-year government bond yield is negative?
Switzerland
What is the name for the rapid selloff of its financial assets in 1994 after Mexico devalued the peso?
Tequila Crisis
Who is the governor of Iowa?
Terry Branstad
What is the term for bitcoin's open ledger on which transactions are recorded?
The Blockchain
What is the nickname for Britain's proposed exit from the EU?
"Brexit"
What is the nickname of the stones sitting in Brenau University?
"Dare Stones"
What Stanford program is a communication and resolution program for mistakes made by doctors?
"Pearl" (Process for Early Assessment, Resolution and Learning)
What is the nickname of the Australian Open?
"The Happy Slam"
What new jetliner if Boeing on pace to deliver ahead of schedule?
737 Max
What Danish conglomerate is the world's biggest containership operator by capacity and reported a fourthquarter net loss of $2.51 billion?
A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S
What type of plane is Iran looking to buy from Airbus?
A380 superjumbos
Who has taken out about 70 patents for Humira, one of the largest patent portfolios ever assembled for a single drug?
AbbVie
What medical-technology firms announced separate acquisitions aiming to further expand their portfolios beyond implanted devices and appeal to hospitals and clinics looking to bring down costs?
Abbott Laboratories and Stryker Corp.
What Belgian is believed to have orchestrated the Nov. 13 killing spree in Paris that left 130 dead and hundreds injured?
Abdelhamid Abaaoud
A classic study of the effect stress has on cholesterol was conducted on people of what profession around April 15?
Accountants
What sports apparel company recently announced hiring a new CEO?
Adidas
Pia Guerrero founded what advocacy group in the late 1990s to promote a broader representation of woman's body images in popular culture?
Adios Barbie
Which British citizen and critic of Putin was murdered after drinking tea laced with polonium?
Alexander Litvinenko
Researchers at Google parent Alphabet Inc.'s DeepMind unit said what program beat European Go champion Fan Hui five games to zero on a full board during a recent competition?
AlphaGo
What company recently propelled past Apple to become the most valuable company in the world?
Alphabet
What is the name of Google's parent company?
Alphabet
What company's forward price/earnings multiple is 136.9, more than six times that of Alphabet?
Amazon
The new demand from online customers that shipping be both free and fast is largely the result of what?
Amazon Prime
Universities benefited from soaring valuations of what type of gifts?
Art
Who is the CEO of Shell?
Ben van Beurden
Greg Jensenhas had talks internally about whether leave what position and keep what other position?
Co-CEO; Co-Chief Investment Officer
Who is the Prime Minister of the UK?
David Cameron
Who is the founder of the Center for Medical Progress who was recently indicted by a Texas grand jury?
David Daleiden
In the cyclocross world championships, what Belgian rider was flagged for what the Union Cycliste Internationale termed a "technological fraud"?
Femke Van den Driessche
What city released a proposed settlement with the Justice Department to continue overhauling its police department and court systems?
Ferguson
Fiat Chrysler spun off what sports-car business to investors?
Ferrari
What is the name of the division of the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. responsible for repos?
Fixed Income Clearing Corp.
Obama recently declared a federal emergency due to lead contamination in which American city?
Flint, Michigan
What billionaire investor predicted at the World Economic forum that China's currency was likely going to fall?
George Soros
Lower oil prices are beginning to lead to a decline in revenue from the broader non-energy market in what city for United Airlines?
Houston
What is the major reason the Fed is expected to postpone its next rate increase and the ECB to ramp up quantitative easing?
Inflation is too low
What is the capital of Pakistan?
Islamabad
What is the name of one of the founders of the fashionable Public School brand based in New York?
Mr. Chow and Maxwell Osborne
What state-owned company is Russia's largest producer of oil?
OAO Rosneft
What was donated to Stanford that has been valued at more than $600 million?
Post-World War II Art Collection
Morgan Stanley delivered its full-year results with a cost-cutting promise dubbed what?
Project Streamline
The Asociación de Bancos de México, a trade group, hired what Washington, D.C. consultancy to address the Mexican banking conflict?
Promontory Financial Group
Wentworth Club was bought in 2014 by what conglomerate that focuses on business in China, for about $195 million?
Reignwood Group
What book of the Bible did Trump read from in a Liberty University Speech?
Second Corinthians
What company guarantees it can sell people's cars for a certain price within 60 days, and pays the difference if they sell for less?
Shift Technologies
What is the name of the Islamic State's stronghold in Syria?
Sirte
While manufacturing has been weak and corporate executives are signaling that 2016 sales may continue to be soft, one bright spot had been what?
Strong jobs growth
What is Europe's second largest economy and the world's fifth largest economy?
UK
What country is the second largest borrower in the developing world after Mexico?
Venezuela
In what part of Russia is 2/3 of the country's oil produced?
West Siberia
What new treatment for psychiatric disorders like depression and anxiety uses real-time scans to show patients how their brains go awry?
fMRI Neurofeedback
What is the name of the mortgage that is given to borrowers that can't fully document their income?
"Low-Doc" or "Alt-A" loans
What is the one large asset manager who's Q4 earnings per share is expected to increase from 2015?
Affiliated Managers Group
Amazon offers cloud-computing services through what unit, which rents computing power to other companies from thousands of servers?
Amazon Web Services
What Seattle company plans to open as many as 400 bookstores?
Amazon.com
It took Wal-Mart Stores Inc. 35 years to passed $100 billion in revenue for the first time in 1997, but what rival company achieved the same mark last year?
Amazon.com Inc.
Who is chancellor of Germany?
Angela Merkel
Anheuser-Busch InBev NV is moving toward selling the Peroni and Grolsch brands towho?
Asahi Group Holdings Ltd.
What is Asahi Group Holdings Ltd.'s signature brand?
Asahi Super Dry
Who is the US defense secretary?
Ash Carter
Cerberus Capital Management will take a large stake in which struggling beauty company?
Avon Products Inc.
Who is the Supreme Leader of Iran?
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
What country has added a 20% tax on any transaction that takes money out of the country?
Azerbaijan
Name one of the two biotech companies planning IPOs in February.
BeiGene Ltd. and Editas Medicine Inc.
What is the world's largest private-equity firm?
Blackstone
Who testified that he had told Cosby's attorney that county prosecutors would never charge Mr. Cosby for allegedly drugging and sexually assaulting a former Temple University employee?
Bruce Castor
What is the name of the London whale trader whose case was dropped by U.S. regulators in 2015?
Bruno Iksil
Name one of the two Belgian cities that had the largest traffic jams in the world?
Brussels and Antwerp
Who did the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency issue a one-year suspension to for three so-called "whereabouts failures" before the 2012 Olympics in London?
Cam F. Awesome
This quarterback is known for his excessive in-game and post-game celebrations.
Cam Newton
What likely NFL MVP led the Carolina Panthers to the Super Bowl?
Cam Newton
Who may become the second person in history to win a Heisman Trophy, the NFL MVP award and a Super Bowl title?
Cam Newton
What term describes the phenomenon on 2/11 when a barrel for April delivery fetched $2.75 more than the near-month March contract?
Contango
What industry allows Mexican banks to facilitate cross-border transactions and meet their clients' needs for dealing in dollars?
Correspondent banking
What bank said its 'dark pool' would give predatory traders a negative score?
Credit Suisse
Just a year ago, the China addressed preholiday cash demands by resorting to what typical method?
Cutting Reserve Requirements
Twitter's executive upheaval comes as Mr. Dorsey tries to get a handle on the company that had fallen into disarray under his predecessor. Name that predecessor?
Dick Costolo
What is the name of Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc.'s soda that includes the word "Zero"?
Diet Rite Pure Zero
What is the name of the Brazilian president facing impeachment proceedings?
Dilma Rousseff
What two chemical companies merged in December in a 120 billion dollar transaction?
DuPont and Dow Chemical
What is the largest segment of Disney's television business?
ESPN
What is the most important part of Disney's media networks business, which accounts for 52% of operating income in fiscal 2015?
ESPN
A blizzard hit this area of the United States in late January?
East Coast
Who is the CEO of Theranos?
Elizabeth Holmes
Who has accounted for the majority of global oil consumption since 2014 according to the International Energy Agency?
Emerging Markets
What airline, the world's largest by international traffic, already has plans to expand flights to Iran and link the country to the carrier's vast network?
Emirates Airline
What does the acronym ETF stand for?
Exchange-Traded Fund
Right before the Iowa caucuses, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio returned to a theme he used to launch his campaign by promising to do what?
Expand the party's electorate
Which federal agency is responsible for providing disaster relief?
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Verizon Communications Inc. has sold off parts of what TV service?
FiOS
What automotive OEM has maintained the market leadership position in the "mom-mobile"?
Fiat Chrysler
Which company that created the modern minivan three decades ago, unveiled an all-new model it calls the Pacifica?
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV
What standard means an adviser must work in the best interest of a client and avoid conflicts of interest, which could include commissions and other sales-based compensation?
Fiduciary
What car manufacturer said it plans to trim jobs and make product cutbacks in Europe to bolster paper-thin margins there?
Ford Motor Co.
What location-sharing mobile app is being forced to sell shares at sometimes half what they asked two years ago?
Foursquare
What network hosted the debate that Trump decided to skip?
Fox News
What famous study led to the identification of many of the now established risk factors for coronary heart disease, including high blood pressure and cholesterol levels and smoking?
Framingham Heart Study
What city is the headquarters of Deutsche Bank?
Frankfurt
Shares of what Swiss mining and trading company have risen more than 8% this year?
Glencore PLC
What is the name of the Eagles co-founder who died in January?
Glenn Frey
Investors typically turn to what investment when real returns go negative?
Gold
Who is poised to appoint a director at SunEdison Inc. following a collapse in the solar power company's stock price and the departure of some senior officials?
Greenlight Capital
What is the name of the governor of the Bank of Japan?
Haruhiko Kuroda
Who is the governor of the Bank of Japan?
Haruhiko Kuroda
Frank J. Biondi serves on the boards of five public companies, and which one is objected to his multiple board seats?
Hasbro Inc.
What company reported strong revenue during the holiday period, helped by a surge in demand for toys tied to Star Wars?
Hasbro Inc.
What is the top-selling prescription drug in the world by sales and generated $14 billion in global sales last year, more than 60% of its owner's total revenue?
Humira
Christie's sales of contemporary art, old-master paintings, 19th century paintings, and Russian art fell last year, but what types of art sold 57% better than the prior year?
Impressionist and modern art
What categories of art are considered safe bets by investors?
Impressionist; Modern Art
Which country has the third largest number of billionaires in the world?
India
What two countries tightened restrictions on their citizens' access to foreign currency in recent years, battling to limit capital outflows caused by the winding down of the Federal Reserve's bond-buying program?
India; Nigeria
The self-driving Prius in Suzu, Japan is a prototype developed by which university?
Kanazawa University
Women's Wear Daily reported last month that Hedi Slimane was in a contract dispute with what owner of Saint Laurent?
Kering SA
Who will open a new small-car plant in Mexico this year, the South Korean auto maker's first in the country?
Kia Motors Co.
What customer segment is comprised of people who buy a product or service after half of a population has done so?
Late adopters
Who will replace Redstone as chairman of CBS?
Leslie Moonves
According to prosecutors, Scott Tucker used proceeds from his illegal payday loan operation to purchase race cars and finance what racing team?
Level 5 Motorsports
President Barack Obama will possibly step up military operations against Islamic State in what country that U.S. forces are currently not in?
Libya
70% of the Detroit Three's U.S. sales are from what vehicle type?
Light Trucks
Who is the governor of the Bank of England?
Mark Carney
Facing poor returns for drilling and severe challenges to long-term growth, some big oil companies have little choice but to turn to what?
Mergers & acquisitions
Bank of America estimates that about two-thirds of brokers of what financial services and wealth-management firm stayed since its acquisition?
Merrill Lynch
Facebook said some 80% of total fourth-quarter advertising revenue comes from where?
Mobile
An explosion that blew a hole in the side of a commercial flight leaving what city is stoking suspicions that terrorists may have carried out an attack on the jet?
Mogadishu, Somali
What is the name of the Malaysian attorney general who ruled a transfer of money to Najib Razak from Saudi Arabia's royal family was a legal personal donation?
Mohamed Apandi Ali
Who was Egypt's first democratically elected President who was unseated in 2013?
Mohammed Morsi
What city in Iraq is the U.S. hoping to retake in Iraq with the help of the Turkish government?
Mosul
What are some branded names for motion resolution technology that companies are using to inflate refresh rates on TV sets?
MotionFlow and TruMotion
What is the name of the leader of the National League for Democracy in Myanmar and winner of the Nobel Prize?
Ms. Suu Kyi
What is the name of the T-Mobile service that allows its subscribers to listen to music without using data?
Music Freedom Service
What country halted imports of goods and imposed spending limits on credit and debit cards denominated in foreign currencies?
Nigeria
Mr. Madoff's brother, Peter Madoff, the firm's chief compliance officer, is portrayed by what actor?
Peter Scolari
Which Malaysian state oil firm will slash capital and operating spending by as much as 50 billion ringgit ($11.37 billion) over the next four years?
Petroliam Nasional Bhd., or Petronas
What is the traditional approach to hip replacement surgery called?
Posterior approach
Low rates have hurt the profitability of AIG life insurance group, but what is buffering its losses?
Property Casualty Insurance
Which commonwealth of the US owes investors $70 billion dollars?
Puerto Rico
Hudson Executive wants CIT to consider selling what business?
Rail
What is the Brazilian currency?
Real
What fashion designer is bucking fashion designers' long-held tradition of showing clothes for the season ahead at a runway show?
Rebecca Minkoff
The odds of what in the next 12 months have climbed to 21%, double the level of a year ago and the highest since 2012?
Recession
What painting by Amedeo Modigliani sold for $170.4 million?
Reclining Nude
For some corporate-governance experts, the arrangements surrounding control of Viacom and CBS are troubling because what could become a "shadow" board with tremendous power over the boards of the two companies?
Redstone's trust
Which two cinema chains participated in Atom Tickets' tests?
Regal Entertainment Group and Carmike Cinemas
Who is the governor of Michigan?
Rick Snyder
What Anglo-Dutch oil giant said its adjusted earnings for 2015 likely were to fall more than 50%, to between $10.4 billion and $10.7 billion from more than $22 billion in 2014?
Royal Dutch Shell PLC
What company made a $50 billion bet on gas and a wager against crude oil as the energy industry's future with the acquisition of BG Group PLC?
Royal Dutch Shell PLC
What is the Russian currency?
Ruble
Federal authorities generally have been reluctant to engage with armed protesters like the Oregon group, mindful of what two past violent outcomes?
Ruby Ridge, Idaho; Waco, Texas
Hedi Slimane's four-hour shoot in Lucia Santina Ribisi's bedroom led to a 15-second online ad promoting whose runway show?
Saint Laurent
What is the name of the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. who called for countries that have influence over Syria's regime to use it to gain access for humanitarian aid in the besieged areas?
Samantha Power
What is China's version of Twitter called?
Sina Weibo
Name one of the two European media companies that are joining together to oppose Netflix to purchase rights to top shows?
Sky PLC and Canal Plus
What country would become the first country on the migrant trail if Greece were to be suspended?
Slovenia
What types of banks are illsuited to handle the costs of increased oversight, making them attractive targets?
Small SIFI Banks
Morgan Stanley took a much bigger stake in wealth management when it bought what division from Citigroup Inc.?
Smith Barney
What is the highest level of classification among the emails sent by Clinton?
Special Access Programs (SAP)
Which Canadian company offered to acquire Canadian Oil Sands for 2.92 billion dollars?
Suncor Energy
What sect of Islam do Assad's opponents follow?
Sunni
Buying one of last year's models of what device isn't a big sacrifice because its tech has hit a plateau and new sets coming later this year promise improvements only at the very high end?
TV sets
What is the nickname for the advanced U.S. missile defense system utilized in Asia?
Thaad
What is the leading index of Japanese stocks?
The Nikkei
What is the pharmaceutical industry's largest trade group?
The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, or PhRMA
What is the name of a private home made of exposed concrete, with walls suspended on metal brackets to appear as if they are floating, which was made to address the role global warming is expected to play in the evolution of Miami?
The Prairie Home
What sports site targets African American fans?
The Undefeated
What is the name of the list that is a collection of humanity's greatest treasures including the Taj Mahal and the Acropolis?
The World Heritage List
What could spoil Japan's plans to reignite growth with its new monetary policy, which central bankers hope will encourage consumer spending over saving?
The Yen's Appreciation
At what blood-testing company's lab were serious deficiencies found by federal inspectors from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services?
Theranos Inc.
What is similar about Portland Trail Blazers guards Damian Lillard and C.J. McCollum?
They Live With Their Moms
What day is considered one of the most important advertising nights of the week, since movie studios and car companies spend heavily in advance of the weekend?
Thursday
Rome's latest crackdown on tax evasion is serving up fresh headaches for the financial industry in what Italian-speaking sliver of Switzerland?
Ticino
Since the acquittal of six British traders who is now in a situation where he has been convicted of conspiring with nobody?
Tom Hayes
What is the name of the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, who proposed giving cable and satellite customers more choice in whether to use their service provider's set-top box and cable app?
Tom Wheeler
What are Expedia's three other main brands?
Travelocity, Orbitz and Hotels.com
What two investments are considered haven assets in periods of poor economic conditions?
Treasuries; Gold
What health-insurance program for U.S. military personnel, veterans, and their families, is believed to have been bilked for the most money in the suspected compounding cream fraud?
Tricare
Today, there are two competing central parliaments and governments in Syria; what cities are they based in?
Tripoli; Tobruk
What are the proteins in the body that when detected signal heart damage?
Troponins
Two weeks prior to the first primary votes being cast for the presidential election, who are the three front runners for the Republican ticket?
Trump, Cruz, Carson
Mr. Shkreli, a hedge-fund manager, bought what company and increased the price for Daraprim, which treats a parasitic infection?
Turing Pharmaceuticals AG
Who was the world's second-largest exporter of wheat behind Canada last year?
U.S.
What plane that splashed down in the Hudson River in 2009 showcased the problem with current life vest standards?
US Airways Flight 1549
What type of stocks have rallied in February, reflecting the promise of regular periodic payouts that investors covet at a time when interest rates are low and markets are in flux?
Utility
What two companies, both chaired by Sumner Redstone, split in 2006?
Viacom and CBS
Who is Vanguard's CEO?
William McNabb
Which of Pablo Picasso's masterworks sold for nearly $180 million in New York last May?
Women of Algiers (Version O)
A sharp slide in public and private valuations for prominent technology firms was an important subject at what annual event this year in Davos, Switzerland?
World Economic Forum
What yearly event was held in Switzerland in January to discuss the world economy?
World Economic Forum
Since taking office what Chinese president has yet to meet with Mr. Kim, though he has strengthened ties with South Korea, Pyongyang's rival?
Xi Jinping
The risk as Twitter gets set to report fourth-quarter results is that its trajectory might mimic what other tech company whose has 320 million monthly active users but has failed to monetize its content?
Yahoo
What Ivy League school's M.B.A.s still tend to choose nontraditional paths at a higher rate than peers at other business schools?
Yale
Which sect of Islam do most ISIS slaves come from?
Yazidi
Sales of what device scarcely grew in the fourth quarter, and are projected to decline in the current quarter, for the first time since it was introduced in 2007?
iPhone
Formally known as HonHai Precision Industry, Foxconn assembles the bulk of what electronic device?
iPhones
Which major institutional shareholders oppose the re-election of directors with more than four spots?
Black-Rock Inc., the investment arm of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and the California State Teachers' Retirement System
Who is the Bank of America CEO?
Brian Moynihan
What company, one of the world's biggest port operators, said global volume slowed sharply last year?
DP World
Who is the head of Greenlight Capital?
David Einhorn
Central-bank officials delayed using a traditional credit-easing tools in late January for fear that it could do what?
Devalue the Yuan
Name one of the two cost-cutting measures being taken by Citigroup to achieve bottom-line growth.
Ditching voice mail for some employees; Installing printers that requires scanning IDs
60% of the migrants arriving in the European bloc are now what?
Economic Migrants
At its peak last year, one-fifth of all U.S. office space under construction was located in what energy-rich city?
Houston
Name the two main companies that are urging employees to keep their nest eggs in their corporate plans when they change jobs or retire.
International Paper Co.; United Technologies Corp.
Credit Suisse is moving away from what to focus on wealth management?
Investment Banking
Ford Motor Co. is leaving which two Asian markets amid dim prospects for profit?
Japan and Indonesia
Who is the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee?
John McCain
Who is succeeding Sumner Redstone as executive chairman of CBS?
Leslie Moonves
Who is the CEO of yahoo?
Marissa Mayer
What do some analysts believe will eventually overtake oil as the world's most dominant source of fuel?
Natural gas
What industry can no longer count on an acquirers' stocks rising sharply after announcing a new deal and in mid-January was down 50% down from its 52-week high?
Pharmaceuticals
Sales of what have risen sharply due to forthcoming Obama administration regulation expected to create roadblocks for the most popular way of buying the devices?
Silencers
What company has suffered from weak ratings and fear it is more exposed than peers to cord shaving?
Viacom
What companies rank near the bottom of S& P 500 companies when it comes to the independence of their boards, with 55% and 57% of directors deemed independent?
Viacom and CBS
What color socks were US army soldiers required to wear previous to a recent change in 2016?
White
Harley's market share is eroding amid competition from what two large rivals?
Yamaha Motor Co. and Polaris Industries Inc.
The New York Attorney General has been investigating what sandwich chain's use of agreements that bar its workers from taking jobs at any other sandwich shops near one of its location for two years?
Jimmy John's
What U.S. politician met with Turkish leaders to gain their support in the fight against ISIS?
Joe Biden
Deutsche Bank's shares now have declined almost 50% since what co-Chief Executive made his first public appearances in his new role?
John Cryan
What is the name of one of the chief executives of Deutsche Bank?
John Cryan
Who argued for permanent restrictions on capital flows in the mid-twentieth century?
John Maynard Keynes
Who is the Maryland Governor?
Larry Hogan
What legal newswire has required reporters and junior news assistants to sign agreements pledging not to work at competitors that provide legal news for one year after leaving the company?
Law360
What does Naypyitaw, the capital of Myanmar, mean?
"Abode of Kings"
What is the name of the Australian project intended to monitor beef cattle using technology?
"The Outback Project"
The presumed leader of the Islamic State operatives who attacked Paris in November boasted that he slipped into Europe by pretending to be what?
A Syrian refugee
What European president said that he was opposed to opening negotiations among EU governments to any further demands?
François Hollande
Hillary Clinton pressed Bernie Sanders on the viability of his proposals for what in a Democratic presidential debate on 2/11?
Free Health Care; College Tuition
Who was the lead actor in Caddyshack and Stripes?
Bill Murray
State-owned enterprises in China are subject to an unwritten rule that they should price their IPOs at or above what?
Book Value
Investigators probing the deadly Amtrak derailment last May have ruled out issues with the locomotive, track or train signals as causes, which puts the focus on this person, the train's engineer.
Brandon Bostian
In what country did the Zika virus first spread?
Brazil
Which South American country owes US banks 89 billion dollars?
Brazil
For the first time in four decades, what Egyptian assembler and distributor of passenger vehicles halted production at some of its plants as the dollar shortage limited its imports?
GB Auto SAE
What heavyweight boxer was formerly known as Lenroy Thompson before legally changing his name after being suspended for failing to keep drug testers informed of his whereabouts?
Cam F. Awesome
In exchange for emergency aid during the Asian financial crisis of 1997, the IMF insisted countries remove restrictions on what?
Capital Flows
This country's foreign-exchange reserves fell by $700 billion last year?
China
What hedge fund said, ""Everybody likes buying a bargain, but catching a falling knife is no fun at all?"
Cobalt Capital Management
What Wall Street firm predicts that January's stock-market swoon won't derail a merger boom?
Goldman Sachs
What other large publicly traded company and rival of Xerox split in the fall of 2015?
HP
What employees whose job it is to ensure that traders and other employees stay on the right side of laws and regulations are increasingly in the cross hairs themselves?
Compliance Officers
What two Swiss banks reported outflows by wealth-management clients troubled by the wider financial-market turmoil despite their recent emphasis on the industry?
Credit Suisse; UBS
Alcoa Inc. said it would expand its board by three members, gaining the support of what activist investor as the aluminum maker prepares to spin off its aerospace- and automotive-focused unit?
Elliott Management Corp.
What billionaire entrepreneur is chairman of SolarCity?
Elon Musk
While this year's Super Bowl ads had a lighter tone, last year's ads were overly what?
Emotional
Avenue Capital Group, Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC, Carlson Capital LP and Blackstone Group LP's GSO Capital are among firms that have raised or are raising money from investors to plow into what sector?
Energy
Late last year, a consortium of Chinese firms invested $400 million for a minority stake in what soccer franchise?
Manchester City FC
Chances of what are at 10%, down from 17% at the start of February and 60% at the end of December?
March Rate Increase
All-day breakfast is McDonald's biggest strategic change since it rolled out what throughout the U.S. in 2009?
McCafe beverages
Dunkin's shares have slumped 17% since early September, coinciding with the announcement of whose new morning menu offerings?
McDonalds
Starting pay for hourly employees was raised by what two food service companies last year?
McDonalds and Starbucks
Prosecutors said Scott Tucker tried to hide his $2 billion payday loan business by claiming it was owned and operated by whom?
Native American Tribes
So far this century, what oil company has paid out over $380 billion through buybacks and dividends?
ExxonMobil
What tech company generated about $1,410,000 in revenue per employee in 2014, higher than other tech companies?
What is a popular instrument for investors to bet on the Fed's rate policy?
Federal-Funds Futures Contract
Overuse injuries are statistically more likely among which sex?
Females
Since mid-1982, the U.S. has held an average of 23.8 days of supply in storage of what commodity?
Oil
What NGO organized a closed-door forum with the Taliban?
Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
What apparel company reported a 39% drop in quarterly profit and cut its sales outlook for the current year?
Ralph Lauren Corp.
Ford is planning a new small pickup, a U.S. segment it once dominated before discontinuing what truck?
Ranger
Who is the CEO of Netflix?
Reed Hastings
What country, whose currency, the ruble, touched its weakest-ever level against the dollar, is pushing to take the place of U.S. grain?
Russia
What is the name for organized employee share sales that are a way for employees to lock in profits at the company's current valuation?
Secondaries
What country is the world's biggest repository for foreign wealth and has bled assets in recent years as tax evaders succumb to pressure from their home countries?
Switzerland
Professional and college sports teams think they have found a cutting-edge advantage hidden in which of the most basic nutrients?
Vitamin D
Despite that market logic dictates that companies should ramp up share repurchases when their stock prices are low, when do companies actually buy back shares?
When they have a lot of cash
What company is getting close to falling below its $15 initial public offering price for the first time?
Yelp
What tech company generated about $140,000 in revenue per employee in 2014, lower than a basket of tech companies?
Yelp
Generally, if you're unsure of your loved one's personal floral preferences, flower shop owner Blanchet Jaigla believes that you can't go wrong with sending what?
An all-white bouquet
Shell is in the finishing stages of acquiring what global gas powerhouse for $50 billion?
BG Group PLC
As head of the bank's model risk group, who defended a risk model that warned of a giant loss at the bank related to the London hale that went unheeded?
C.S. Venkatakrishnan
What two investors have pushed for a three-way split of AIG to improve the insurer's flagging financial results?
Carl Icahn; John Paulson
What company has borne the brunt of a global commodities slump and a mining sector mired in a prolonged slowdown?
Caterpillar
An advisory panel to the FDA voted to recommend the agency approve the sale of a knockoff version of arthritis drug Remicade developed by who?
Celltrion Inc.
In what area of the political spectrum are Bloomberg's supporters most likely to fall?
Center
Dr. Farley of Temple University makes the unique claim that who would support New Years resolutions?
Charles Darwin
What is the name of the Intelligence Community Inspector General?
Charles McCullough
What finance industry expert is resigning from Yahoo's board?
Charles Schwab
What is the name of the French air force carrier that is currently the only carrier in the Persian Gulf?
Charles de Gaulle
Name two of the symptoms that 51% of patients exhibit in the four weeks prior to a heart attack?
Chest pain, shortness of breath, light headedness, and heart palpitations
Standard & Poor's downgraded which two oil firms?
Chevron and Shell
What are TGI's Chi Ltd.'s juice brands?
Chi and Chivita
In the mobile-phone business, Samsung continues to suffer from stiff competition from low-cost brands from what country?
China
What is the biggest market for apps downloaded?
China
What is the world's second largest economy?
China
What four countries have the largest foreign-exchange reserves in the world?
China; Japan; Switzerland; Saudi Arabia
The Brooklyn indictment against who, unsealed in 2014, accuses the alleged leader of the Sinaloa cartel and an associate of distributing more than 457,000 kilograms of cocaine?
El Chapo
A highly anticipated new energy-demand projection from what company released Monday 1/26 cuts the company's expectations for China?
Exxon Mobil Corp.
Which country is thinking of leaving the EU?
Great Britain
What company did the new CEO of Adidas come from?
Henckel AG
Mr. Sanders sought to put Mrs. Clinton on the defensive, noting that she has said she has taken advice from whom and citing his role in the secret bombings of Cambodia during the Vietnam War?
Henry Kissinger
Name one of the German hotels that banned children under 16 (or under 14).
Hotel Esplanade and Hotel Parkshloessl
The Federal Trade Commission has no rules regarding search engine results of what sites?
Hotel booking sites
What rebel group is Saudi Arabia and Malaysia jointly fighting in Yemen?
Houthi
In which sport are overuse injuries least likely to occur?
Ice Hockey
What tends to rise in a healthy economy, reflecting growing demand for money among consumers and businesses and bolstering the profits of banks and other financial firms?
Interest Rates
Active managers say they should be able to outperform the average passive bond fund if what two things rise?
Interest Rates; Volatility
There has been much opposition to Canadian Pacific Railway's proposed takeover of which U.S. rival?
Norfolk Southern Corp.
Who are battening down the hatches in Asia: pruning ranks, eliminating units and holding down bonuses as they brace for a potentially tough year?
Investment Banks
Cerberus will acquire 80% of which of the company's geographic divisions?
North America
What is the name of the country's first stadium purpose-built for watching powerboat races?
Miami Marine Stadium
Who is the former NY mayor pondering a run for President?
Michael Bloomberg
Who is thinking about entering the 2016 presidential race as an independent?
Michael Bloomberg
What company is dealing with a continuing drag from smartphones, a business it retooled after it wrote down about 80% of its disastrous $9.4 billion purchase of Nokia Corp.'s handset business?
Microsoft
What company reports cloud sales as an annualized run rate, projecting a single quarter's sales over the entire year, rather than disclosing the actual quarterly figure?
Microsoft Corp.
What is the name of the rebel-held Damascus suburb that is suffering from a Syrian government siege that has cut off the last remaining food-smuggling routes?
Moadhamiya
What is the name of the leader of Libya who was overthrown?
Moammar Gadhafi
The game being played in the global oil market today bears more than a passing resemblance to what game?
Poker
Who are Memphis Meats' rivals that also aim to bring such "cultured meat" to market in the next several years?
Mosa Meat and Modern Meadow Inc.
What sports league's annual revenue is the highest at $12 billion?
NFL
Which Shiite militia group is accused of violence against Sunnis in Diyala?
Popular Mobilization Forces
U.S. and European Union negotiators are scrambling to reach a deal on new protections in what type of data-privacy hoping to stave off a potentially significant breakdown in trans-Atlantic commerce?
Safe harbor
As wheat's price has fallen what is making U.S. wheat more expensive for buyers using other currencies?
Strong Dollar
As part of a mission to help with the migrant crisis, NATO is doing what along the Turkish-Syrian border?
Surveillance
What Japanese city is considering implementing self-driving vehicles to give its aging population transportation as train and bus routes dwindle?
Suzu
What city has has signed deals this week with a handful of French firms to revamp Imam Khomeini International Airport?
Tehran
What is largest vintage snowmobile event in the world?
Waconia Snowmobile Show
In addition to its one bookstore so far, Amazon also has a presence in whose malls, where it has set up permanent kiosks selling devices, cases and branded apparel?
Westfield Corp.
The subpoena sent to the Clinton Foundation asked for records about what longtime Clinton aide?
Huma Abedin
Who is the chief executive of Avon Products Inc.?
Sheri McCoy
What two actions by China's central bank contributed to selloffs of the currency and left investors scratching their heads?
A devaluation; Using a basket of currencies for valuation
In addition to convention devices bought from companies like Siemens AG, Thernos' lab in Newark contains what proprietary machines?
Edison machines
Who is the commander of US and allied forces in Afghanistan?
General John Campbell
In what city is the Islamic State's Syrian headquarters?
Raqqa
What is the name of Christie's International PLC's rival based in New York?
Sotheby's
What area in Houston is defined by many energy industry-related companies?
Energy Corridor
Name one of the two vehicles that Mike Zielinski remodeled after his wife died from cancer.
1957 Chevy Bel Air; 1959 Airstream Flying Cloud
Iran may buy 40 turboprop shorthaul planes from this joint venture between Airbus and Italy's Finmeccanica SpA?
ATR
What term refers to the economic policies advocated by Shinzō Abe since the December 2012 general election?
Abenomics
Who is the Turkish Prime Minister?
Ahmet Davutoglu
Iran struck a deal with which airplane manufacturer to acquire 114 planes once the trade restrictions were removed?
Airbus Group SE
What industry is known for its boom-and-bust nature and price wars?
Airline Industry
What OPEC countries proposed an agreement of cutting output by 5%?
Algeria; Venezuela
What technology company forecast that revenue in the current quarter will decline for the first time in 13 years?
Apple Inc.
In what major league sports teams did the CEO of Swift Transportation own a stake (name one)?
Arizona Diamondbacks, Phoenix Suns, Phoenix Coyotes
What Goldman Sachs Group Inc. analyst drew headlines when he declared in March 2005 that oil was in a "super spike" that could take prices to $105 a barrel?
Arjun Murti
What is one of the largest Islamist rebel groups in Syria, with about 10,000 fighters who are strongly backed by Saudi Arabia?
Army of Islam
Tayshaun Prince credits his longevity in the NBA to his work with this person who was named the Timberwolves' vice president of sports performance in September?
Arnie Kander
Coca-Cola Co. and PepsiCo Inc. will soon reveal whether Americans are spending more freely on soda and potato chips, as consumers pocket savings where?
At the gas pump
Shares of what group have fallen more sharply than the overall market as the industry shifts towards passive investing?
Asset Managers
The market for what has made a stronger comeback in the U.S. than in Europe from the financial crisis that many people still blame these securities for causing?
Asset-Backed Securities
An attempt by the ECB to revive what market has shown only lackluster results?
Asset-Backed-Securities
European issuance of what has failed to take off despite European Central Bank purchases starting in 2014?
Asset-Backed-Securities
What firm that runs two exchanges failed to disclose certain details about their markets that gave advantages to some high-speed traders?
BATS Global Markets
Who has a commanding and stable lead in New Hampshire ahead of the Democratic primary, enjoying a 20-point edge that budged little after Iowa's closely contested caucuses?
Bernie Sanders
What company run by bee scientist Noah Wilson-Rich is an urban-beekeeping venture based in Boston that installs and manages honeybee hives on buildings around the country?
Best Bees
According to the Journal who is the only coach capable of stopping a tight end like Rob Gronkowski in games?
Bill Belichick
A judge ruled former district attorney's decade-old promise not to prosecute what comedian who for alleged sexual assault wasn't legally binding?
Bill Cosby
How have Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, and Citigroup increased their profits despite declining revenues?
By cutting costs
What two cars will Fiat Crysler stop production of in the U.S., allowing it to build more Jeep SUVs and Ram trucks?
Chrysler 200; Dodge Dart
During the bank selloff, few other bank executives besides James Dimon have bought shares of their firms except for the CEO and chairman of what bank?
Citigroup
Of the major Wall Street banks, who has fared best in predicting the collapse in oil prices?
Citigroup
What has been a major driver of broader market moves in recent weeks that has had companies laying off hundreds of thousands of workers and cutting billions in spending since prices started falling in mid-2014?
Crude-oil
The IMF uses what the ratio to gauge the sufficiency of countries' exchange reserves; the higher the ratio, the lower the likelihood of huge flight into other currencies?
Currency Reserves to M2
What city is the "pipeline capital of the world" and is the delivery point for the U.S. West Texas Intermediate oil-futures contract?
Cushing, Oklahoma
In 2015, Turing purchased what drug, which is used to treat a parasite infection, and increased the price to $750 for a tablet from $13.50?
Daraprim
What term refers to privately run stock trading venues that have come under greater scrutiny in the past several years?
Dark Pools
Which GOP candidate plans to skip the Fox News debate Thursday in Des Moines?
Donald J. Trump
What is structured to encourage work and help parents, acting as a wage subsidy for the lowest-income workers because it increases with income—to a point?
Earned income tax credit
Synergies with Starz may not come easily because Lions Gate owns a 31% stake in wwhich of Starz's competitors?
Epix
What federal agency will roll out details of the Obama administration's plan to require large employers to disclose how much they pay men and women?
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
What is the name of the New York attorney general?
Eric T. Schneiderman
Who is the commander of Iran's Basij military?
General Mohammad Reza-Naghdi
Who is the Prime Minister of Iraq?
Haider al-Abadi
GE is said to be in talks to acquire whose drilling assets?
Halliburton
What was recently found to be linked to Diabetes and Hypertension?
Hand-Grip Strength
What U.S. politician is expected to press China to do more to address North Korea's recent nuclear test?
John Kerry
What is the name of the newly built Wi-Fi network in New York City?
LinkNYC
Miller Brewing Co. tried but failed to secure trademark protection for what type of beer in the 1970s?
Lite or light beer
Whose bond market is one of the most liquid in the developing world?
Mexico
Name two of the four states that declared states of emergency due to a snowstorm in January?
Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina
Who ran a Super Bowl an ad that shows babies, children and adults, who were born nine months after their parents' favorite teams won the Super Bowl, singing Seal's "Kiss from a Rose."?
NFL
What cable channel will simulcast the broadcast portion of the NFL's television rights package sold to CBS and NBC and will also carry eight games exclusively?
NFL Network
What stock exchange uses floor traders to manually open stocks, which sometimes takes longer, especially during times of heightened volatility?
NYSE
What is the name of the measure of the proportion of shares moving higher over time?
NYSE Advance/Decline Line
Who is the Malaysian Prime Minister?
Najib Razak
Theranos already has stopped collecting samples of blood from patients for all but one of its tests while it waits for the FDA to review the company's applications for wider use of what proprietary vials?
Nanotainers
Who is the Prime Minister of India?
Narendra Modi
This index is down 18% so far in 2016 and is off about 30% since its July peak?
Nasdaq Biotechnology Index
China supplies North Korea with nearly all of this important commodity.
Oil
Lower prices of what commodity could spark a vicious circle in which demand falls along with prices as the value of those countries' exports declines, weighing on economic growth?
Oil
What companies are maxing out revolving credit lines typically used to cover short-term funding gaps, raising fresh concerns about banks' exposure to their business?
Oil; Gas
What Saudi Arabian manufacturing and investment conglomerate significantly increased its stake in Credit Suisse tin 2008 but did not take part in a private placement last October?
Olayan Group
Peru's stance on paying its debt may change after what president leaves office later this year?
Ollanta Humala
A judge ruled what New Jersey lender took illegal "kickbacks" from mortgage insurers, boosting costs for borrowers?
PHH Corp.
What company did eBay spin off in 2015?
PayPal
Anheuser-Busch InBev NV is moving toward selling what brands to Asahi Group Holdings Ltd.?
Peroni and Grolsch
What activist firm, which has accumulated power at companies such as Canadian Pacific Railway and Zoetis has had its worst year ever?
Pershing Square Capital Management
Darren Huston, the CEO of what company, says travel sites have built up larger databases on customer reviews and booking preferences, and so have become more sophisticated about how they tailor search results?
Priceline Group
Canada's supply of crude is so vast that only which countries control more?
Saudi Arabia and Venezuela
What countries are local allies of the opposition fighters in Syria?
Saudi Arabia; Turkey
In an attempt to slow money outflows China is curbing the ability of foreign companies to do what?
Repatriate Earnings
What are short-term loans through which banks and other financial firms exchange cash and securities to raise funds for their trading activities?
Repos
In mid-October, a letter arrived at the office of AIG's general counsel in which Mr. Icahn said he was buying AIG shares. What aspect of this letter showcases Mr. Icahn's cookie-cutter approach?
Salutation Contained the Name of a Different Corporation
What Brazilian mining firm was alerted to severe structural problems in one of its dams a year before it collapsed but didn't take appropriate measures to fix them?
Samarco Mineração SA
What item were Brixmor accountants smoothing in order to show consistent growth?
Same-Property Net Operating Income
In what city is the Super Bowl being held?
Santa Clara
What two Chinese trust companies went public in 1994?
Shaanxi International Trust Co.; Anxin Trust Co.
China's 68 slightly regulated lending and investment firms known as trust companies form the system known as what?
Shadow Banking
The US's recent 1.7 billion settlement centered on a purchase of US arms by what leader of Iran?
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
What will be the first Chinese trust company to list outside the mainland, and the first to go public in more than two decades?
Shandong International Trust
Which Chinese state-run firm defaulted on $500 million dollars of debt last November?
Shanshui Cement Group
What activist hedge fund has called for new management at Yahoo and a sale of the business while threatening to nominate a slate of directors by the March 26 deadline for proxy proposals?
Starboard Value LP.
What is the name of the concert-info app that tells people what bands are playing nearby?
Songkick
Sun Products researchers found that men report fewer laundry frustrations than women, except for what major complaint?
Sorting
Waffle House is "worshipped" by residents of what region of the United States?
South
In Africa, what country comprises the bulk of Barclay's current customers?
South Africa
People of what ethnic group have high rates of cardiovascular disease that can't be explained by traditional risk factors such as smoking, high blood pressure or obesity?
South Asians
Which early state does Clinton hold the largest leas against Sanders in?
South Carolina
Which state hosts the fourth Democratic contest?
South Carolina
Data from what nation is viewed as a proxy for the global trade picture because of the nation's heavy dependence on imports of raw materials and exports of goods such as cars and phones?
South Korea
What nation's exports fell at their fastest pace since the global financial crisis, the latest warning sign about international trade?
South Korea
Which airlines offers a companion pass that lets you take a partner on all of your trips free for one year?
Southwest
What meal replacement if the prime choice of techies and early adopters?
Soylent
What is the name of a restructuring update in October meant to reassure investors that Deutsche Bank had a solid plan to slim down, clean up its legal messes and make money?
Strategy 2020
What family runs at family get-togethers such as 10K every thanksgiving and the Los Angeles Marathon for the father's birthday?
Stuckey
Unlike in developed nations, where cheap gas prices encourage drivers to take road trips or buy larger vehicles, lower oil prices don't necessarily translate into cheaper fuel costs in emerging economies because of cuts in what?
Subsidies
An $8.5 billion expansion of what last year hasn't produced the dollars the government anticipated?
Suez Canal
What sporting event happens to coincide with the best time in years to buy a new TV because March is when much of the TV industry's new models start showing up in store and the kickoff of clearance sale season?
Super Bowl
Tinder offers each user one what a day, which lets the user indicate they are especially interested in someone?
Super like
What top labels have announced their September shows will feature fall clothes that will be immediately for sale, abandoning the tradition of debuting designs six months before they arrive in stores?
Tom Ford and Burberry
What trader's conviction resulted from an investigation into the way Libor, or the London interbank offered rate, was skewed by global banks?
Tom Hayes
U.S. new-car dealers are telling auto makers to limit production of passenger cars in the face of overwhelming demand for what types of vehicles?
Trucks and sport-utility vehicles
The probability for a default in five years is as high as 97% in what country (measured by the cost to insure its debt in the credit default-swap market)?
Venezuela
What countries have for months called on OPEC to take action?
Venezuela; Nigeria
In what state is Bernie Sanders a senator?
Vermont
To target men, P& G decided to make detergents like Tide Plus Febreze Sport in fragrances such as what?
Victory Fresh
Meetings in what European capital last year laid the groundwork for the current negotiations between the Syrian government and opposition?
Vienna
The largest ammunition maker by revenue is who?
Vista Outdoor Inc.
Scratch and Blockly are what type of programming language compared to text-based ones like Python?
Visual
Shares of what firm fell 14% in heavy trading Tuesday after the investment firm announced weak results and the retirement of a marquee fund manage?
Waddell & Reed Financial
WeBank is raising more than $450 million primarily from what two firms?
Warburg Pincus; Temasek Holdings
What is the name of Chinese Internet firm Tencent Holdings Ltd.'s online banking affiliate?
WeBank
What personal-loan service offered by WeBank means "a tiny bit of loan" in English?
Weilidai
What bank will pay $1.2 billion to settle a long running mortgage-lending suit by regulators that the bank had previously vowed to fight?
Wells Fargo
Who is the head of Pershing Square Capital Management?
William Ackman
Wall Street sentiment has soured on what online-review service as it grapples with rising costs and slowing user growth?
Yelp
Saudi Arabia said it would set up an independent group to investigate claims of airstrikes that have led to civilian deaths where?
Yemen
Volatile financial markets are leading global investors to seek safety in what currency, which strengthened to its best level against the dollar since 2014?
Yen
What is the term for the subsidiaries which are controlled by SunEdison but trade publicly?
Yieldcos
China's latest steps to slow money outflows involves a new rule that shrinks the pool of Chinese yuan available for banks in what city to make loans?
Hong Kong
Which carrier recently reported blockbuster earnings helping boost its stock 8.1%.
Alaska Air Group Inc.
A merger between the Finnish wireless-equipment company Nokia Corp. and this French firm underwent CFIUS scrutiny.
Alcatel-Lucent
Alphabet's stock is up nearly 40% over the last 12 months, beating every other large tech company save for who?
Amazon; Netflix
Which airline trades at a steep discount relative to its competition?
American Airlines
Who rose to become the most profitable and valuable company in the world by selling consumer electronics at premium prices?
Apple
What two large snowmobile manufacturers are located in Minnesota?
Arctic Cat and Polaris
What bank is selling its trading business on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, marking the end of big-bank dominance of equity market making?
Barclays
What bank said it would refocus its investment bank on the U.K. and the U.S. and would eliminate around 1,000 jobs, mainly across Asia?
Barclays
Amazon's plan to open 400 bookstores compares with the current presence of which two rivals?
Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million
In April 2015, the SEC fined what chief compliance officer at BlackRock Advisors LLC $60,000 for failing to report a conflict of interest involving one of the firm's executives?
Bartholomew A. Battist
Who does Russia support in the conflict in Syria?
Bashar al-Assad
Who is the President of Syria?
Bashir al-Assad
Whose case is the Supreme Court now willing to consider regarding insider trading?
Bassam Salman
Powerful processors and dazzling screens on phones have increased, yet what hasn't kept up?
Batteries
What is the name of the dominant American twins who have won multiple grand slams in doubles?
Bob and Mike Bryan
United and Southwest both announced large aircraft orders from which manufacturer?
Boeing Co.
What company is on pace to achieve a rare feat in its industry: delivering a new jetliner ahead of schedule?
Boeing Co.
Whose shares fell as fresh concerns about the company's accounting method for its jetliners added to investor anxiety about the outlook for the commercial-aircraft market?
Boeing Co.
What two companies in the Down Jones Industrial Index gave 2016 guidance in January that fell well short of analysts' expectations?
Boeing; Apple
What is the name of wifi service that lets its customers buy access to hotspots around the world?
Boingo
Suspected members of what group stormed a refugee encampment in northeast Nigeria, killing at least 60 people?
Boko Haram
United's decision to buy from Boeingwas a potential blow to what other manufacturer that pitched United its new CSeries plane?
Bombardier Inc.
Opponents of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad who traveled to Geneva for peace talks threatened to stay out of the negotiations until the regime ends its campaign of what?
Bombings and sieges in rebel-held areas
With rates in the developed world near zero, what instead of rate cutting will central banks have to do if they decide to rescue the market?
Bond Buying
What is the top exporter of beef?
Brazil (Australia is number 2)
Who has promoted a pain cream called Rx Pro made by World Health Industries Inc., which is one of the compounding cream companies under investigation by the FBI?
Brett Favre
The latest cycling scandal involved cheating using what during a cyclocross race?
Concealed motor
While many of the conditions that drove M&A in 2015 remain in place in Janurary, what condition necessary for deal making isn't?
Confidence
The popularity of dating apps leads to what, which is how economists describe bottlenecks in a system of exchange?
Congestion
Chief executives at the biggest publicly traded energy companies have chosen dividends over higher debt ratings, but what smaller rivals slashed its payouts?
ConocoPhillips
16 people face what criminal charge in relation to the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge?
Conspiracy to impede federal officers through intimidation, threats or force
The director of what government agency is appointed to a five-year term by the president, with wide discretion to implement and enforce rules?
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
In a sign of an oil windfall, nonalcoholic beverage sales rose 5.5% in the fourth quarter atwhat type of U.S. stores, faster than at supermarkets?
Convenience stores
What commodity has taken similar paths to crude oil in recent months, driven by fears about global growth?
Copper
According to Google's 70/20/10 rule, where do 70% of internal efforts go?
Core Business
Who is the leader of Greenlight Capital?
David Einhorn
The armed occupation of an Oregon wildlife refuge ended peacefully when who, the last of the four remaining protesters, left?
David Lee Fry
In what city was the World Economic Forum held?
Davos, Switzerland
The new stock index focused on companies with good governance and focused on long-term goals was debuted in what city?
Davos, Switzerland
Gemfields' savvy marketing techniques evoke whose strategy for stoking diamond demand in the 1940s and 50s?
De Beers
A serious difference in support of what creates a rift between the Vatican and Iran?
Death Penalty
What business has Goldman Sachs turned to now that its fixed-income trading operation is in decline?
Debt Financing
What International Business Machines Corp. computer was designed only to play chess and beat chess master Garry Kasparov in 1997?
Deep Blue
AlphaGo uses two computer programs with millions of connections that loosely mimic the structure of the human brain that are called what?
Deep neural networks
Researchers at which of Alphabet Inc.'s units said the program, AlphaGo, beat European Go champion Fan Hui five games to zero on a full board during a recent competition?
DeepMind
What nonalcoholic beverage company derives about 90% of its revenue in the U.S. as compared to its main competitors that derive about half overseas?
Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc.
Name two of the most popular daytime talk shows currently on air?
Dr. Phil and Ellen
ESPN and what daily fantasy site have unwound their exclusive advertising relationship?
Draft-Kings Inc.
At what university did Trump hold a rally to raise money for veterans?
Drake University
Private-company valuations of what two firms were marked down by more than 20% last year by mutual funds holding their shares?
Dropbox; Snapchat
What is the name of the app that requires people to solve math problems to text or call?
Drunk Mode
What is the name of the app that analyzes drunk texts/tweets and advises the author on whether to send or not?
Drunk Text Savior
What term in the investment world refers to cash reserves and very liquid investments?
Dry Powder
Despite circulation that is far outstripped by Southern Living, what other Southern-focused magazine is luring more advertisers and readers to print at a time when many are moving online?
Garden & Gun
Claims were brought against Wells Fargo under what law that regarding lenders accused of bilking the Federal Housing Administration, which has historically backed loans to first time and low-income buyers?
False Claims Act
What approach aims to make the C-section birth experience more rewarding for families?
Family-Centered Caesareans or Gentle Caesareans
Researchers at Google parent Alphabet Inc.'s DeepMind unit said the program, AlphaGo, beat what European Go champion five games to zero on a full board during a recent competition?
Fan Hui
Atom Tickets potentially poses the first serious challenge to what app owned by Comcast Corp.'s that has long dominated the online ticket market?
Fandango
What are the four stages of blending a family after a remarriage?
Fantasy, Disillusionment, Restructuring, and Reward
What is specifically excluded from provisions that loosened rules for financing certain exports to Cuba?
Farm Products
Who is the executive director of the International Energy Agency?
Fatih Birol
What Southern-focused magazine employs only 14 editorial staffers and largely depending on freelancers to produce six issues a year?
Garden & Gun
The male founders of this company started it because they were puzzled by the predominantly feminine fragrances that line the laundry aisle?
Frey
Barbie's sales have decreased at more than 10% in each of the last eight quarters, as the toy lost shelf space to dolls from what Walt Disney Co. property, which Mattel produced up until this year?
Frozen
Hasbro recently started selling dolls from what movie, having snatched the license from rival Mattel Inc.?
Frozen
What is the name of the Chinese venture-capital fund that owns the firm the CFIUS prevented Phillips from buying?
GSR Ventures
What high-frequency trading firm is buying the trading business of the last big-bank in equity market making?
GTS
What 19th century French sociologist explored how technologies spread as a result of imitation of the elite?
Gabriel Tarde
Samsung shares have fallen nearly 20% since last March when which of its smartphoneS was launched?
Galaxy S6
Alphabet Inc.'s researchers claimed a major artificial-intelligence breakthrough unveiling a software program that taught itself to beat a top human player of what board game?
Go
What game, which originated in ancient China, has been a target of artificial-intelligence research because mastering it requires more humanlike skills of pattern recognition and intuitive judgment?
Go
What Chinese-owned firm did the CFIUS prevent Phillips from buying?
Go Scale Capital
After surging nearly 300% to its October 2014 high, what camera maker's shares have since lost more than 90% of their value and sit near record lows?
GoPro
Which maker of cameras said it would cease production of some entry-level cameras, the latest move to improve its slumping business?
GoPro Inc.
National Iranian Gas Export Co. is in talks with what European company to build floating LNG facilities—offshore vessels on which natural gas can be liquefied?
Golar LNG Ltd.
A 1381 statute under King Richard II (left) condemns 'the great mischief which the realm suffereth' when what leaves the country?
Gold; Silver
The $13.5 billion in bridge loans offered to Mylan NV to help the drug maker pay for its hostile bid for Perrigo Co is among the biggest solo commitments what firm has ever made?
Goldman Sachs
Mr. Dorsey named Omid Kordestani, the former chief business officer of what company, as Twitter's executive chairman?
What hedge fund accuses Peru of violating a U.S. law for improper disclosures in its latest bond issuance?
Gramercy Funds Management
Scientists have directly detected what for the first time, caused by a cosmic clash of black holes?
Gravitational Waves
Who said he would accept arrest by British police if a United Nations decides that the three years he has spent holed up in the Ecuadorean Embassy don't amount to illegal detention?
Julian Assange
What is the name of the Taiwanese party that recently lost the presidential election?
KMT or Nationalist Party (Kuomintang)
North Korea said it would put its armed forces in control of what inter-Korean industrial park?
Kaesong Industrial Complex
What is the largest city in Pakistan?
Karachi
Who is the mayor of Flint, Michigan?
Karen Weaver
What is the name of the new CEO due to take over Adidas?
Kasper Rorsted
Name two female stars whose daytime talk shows have been cancelled recently after only two seasons?
Katie Couric and Meredith Vieira
What brand names does Sears have left to divest?
Kenmore, Craftsman and DieHard
Who is the CEO of AmEx?
Kenneth Chenault
Who is the CEO of American Express?
Kenneth Chenault
What state's public-employees' pension plan has less money available to rund future retirements following years of low state contributions?
Kentucky
What three states mentioned by the Journal are facing problems funding defined-benefit plans for their state employees?
Kentucky; Pennsylvania; Oregon
A key test of DreamWorks' attempts to establish a foothold in China is what upcoming film?
Kung Fu Panda 3
Russia says it will boycott the Syrian talks if who does not participate in them?
Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD)
Turkey considers the PYD a terrorist organization because they believe it answers to whom?
Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
Who is the founder and leader of Hayman Capital Management?
Kyle Bass
Who said that China's liquid foreign reserves are "already below a critical level," intensifying a debate over China's ability to keep its currency from falling?
Kyle Bass
What is the Roman numeral for 50?
L
Barclays told clients that what dark pool protected them from predatory trading using liquidity profiling?
LX
What dark pool categorized trades in buckets ranked from zero to five, with zero the most predatory, and clients could elect to not trade with low-ranked firms?
LX
What is the name of the rancher who had acted a spokesman for the armed occupation group in Oregon and who was shot by the FBI?
LaVoy Finicum
The Republican chairman of what committee plans to unveil legislation to dramatically reshape the nation's air-traffic control network?
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
Deutsche Bank is selling its stake in what Chinese bank?
Hua Xia Bank
Deutsche Bank plans to sell its stake in what Chinese bank?
Hua Xia Bank
What is the name of the former Iowa caucus winners that dropped out of the GOP race?
Huckabee (and also Santorum)
What new activist hedge fund, has taken a stake in CIT Group Inc. and wants the lender to break up?
Hudson Executive Capital
Without a retail partner, Theranos would have to battle what giant lab companies for blood-testing business through doctors' offices?
Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings and Quest Diagnostics Inc.
What Fed governor is emerging as a significant influence at an uncertain time for monetary policy and market tumult?
Lael Brainard
Who said the traditional link between employment gains and stronger inflation is very weak in today's economy?
Lael Brainard
Samsung earns most of its money from making what?
Memory Chips
Bond investors have been piling into what country, viewing it as one of the few emerging market countries to withstand some of the global forces plaguing its peers?
Mexico
What country has been described as "a safe haven, the best of the worst, the least ugly?"
Mexico
A white officer in Ferguson fatally shot whom, setting off a summer of sometimes violent protest?
Michael Brown
What is the name of the CEO who resigned from Brixmor Property Group after an accounting scandal?
Michael Carroll
Who retired from Waddell & Reed Financial, sending the firm's stock price down 14%
Michael L. Avery
What is the name of the executive of Valeant Pharmaceuticals?
Michael Pearson
The Zika virus is possibly linked to to babies born with underdeveloped skulls and brains, which is a condition known as what?
Microcephaly
Instead of their governments, banks in Europe turned to sovereign-wealth funds in what region to replenish its coffers amid the 2008 crisis?
Middle East
Low rates hurt the profitability of what type of companies, which hold long-term assets to pay future claims?
Life Insurers
In 2015, more than 200 of what type of company— whose disclosure requirements vary from state to state —donated almost $11 million to super PACs?
Limited liability companies
Shares of professional online network fell 29% after it posted a fourth-quarter loss and forecast a much weaker-than-expected 2016 as it shifts gears on its advertising strategy?
LinkedIn Corp.
Cable mogul John Malone's vision to merge what studio with premium cable network Starz has taken a big step forward?
Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.
Barclays told clients that its dark pool, called LX, protected them from predatory trading using what system?
Liquidity Profiling
UBS clients in what regions had "liquidity requirements" prompted by low energy prices and pulled money from their accounts?
Middle East and Russia
What prominent bitcoin developer labeled the currency a failed experiment?
Mike Hearn
What do psychologists call the arrangement where a stepfamily lives apart in two houses?
Living Apart Together
The river shipping industry says it hopes shoring up crumbling what will help the coal industry by keeping transportation costs low, and entice other shippers to transport more of their goods by river?
Locks and dams
What does Libor stand for?
London Interbank Offered Rate
What is the name for J.P. Morgan's roughly $6 billion trading loss from a series of derivative transactions involving CDSs?
London Whale
What is the scientific term for bad cholesterol?
Low Density Lipoprotein
The reshaping of trade routes for wheat has been enabled by what?
Low Oil Costs
With the inflow of cheap commodity and energy pushing down price indexes, some central banks have become focused on taking inflation from one another by doing what?
Lowering the Value of Their National Currencies
Who was nominated to be the new U.S. commander in Afghanistan?
Lt. Gen. John Nicholson
Who was the Warrior's assistant coach that replaced their head coach to start the season?
Luke Walton
What portion of Phillips business has potential impacts on U.S. national security?
Lumileds (LED)
What type of car makers have been hit hardest by the slowing demand for passenger cars?
Luxury car makers
What material that offers comfort and hides flaws has become popular with women's pants designers?
Lycra
Ukraine was booted out of the widely followed index last year after its central bank prevented foreign investors from repatriating funds from the sale of Ukrainian stocks?
MSCI Frontier Markets index
What company has faced deeper challenges compared with many of its shipping peers because of its separate oil business?
Maersk
What is the name of the government investment fund at the center of the corruption scandal in Malaysia regarding a 700 million transfer from Saudi Arabia?
Malaysia Development Berhad
An armed group occupied what federal wildlife refuge in Oregon to protest federal land management policies?
Malheur National Wildlife Refuge
Whose lawsuit alleges Mr. Redstone lacked mental capacity when he removed her last October as his healthcare agent, the person with authority over his care if he were incapacitated, and replaced her with Viacom's Mr. Dauman?
Manuela Herzer
What sector of the economy shrank in January for the fourth straight month, though a jump in new orders offered hope that it has hit bottom?
Manufacturing sector
Who is the European Central Bank President?
Mario Draggi
Who introduced herself as Yahoo Inc.'s chief executive on an earnings call in October 2012, saying she took the job "to grow and to help redefine one of the Internet's most beloved companies"?
Marissa Mayer
Who is the CEO of Facebook?
Mark Zuckerberg
China's securities regulator has suspended what practice?
Marketwide Circuit Breakers
What candidate's 0.2 percent surge in the polls since late last year has been labeled as Martin O'Mentum by late-night host Stephen Colert?
Martin O'Malley
What is the name of the Democratic candidate who dropped out of the race after Iowa?
Martin O'Malley
Which Democratic candidate's poll numbers are so low that they likely only include his immediate family members?
Martin O'Malley
What former pharmaceutical executive asserted his Fifth Amendment right not to testify before a House committee—a stance that visibly angered lawmakers exploring escalating drug costs?
Martin Shkreli
Activist investor Starboard Value LP has taken a 6.7% stake in what beleaguered semiconductor company?
Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
Dating markets are a good example of what type of markets according to Nobel laureate Alvin Roth?
Matching markets
What is the name of Kentucky's new governor who is preparing a fresh overhaul of the state's pension plans?
Matt Bevin
People trying 30-day exercise challenges say they were inspired by a 2011 TED Talk by what Google software engineer?
Matt Cutts
What company has sold more than a billion Barbie dolls over the decades, which historically has been the company's largest and most profitable toy?
Mattel Inc.
What consulting firm proposed adjusting how circuit breakers are triggered, making trading halts last longer, and getting exchanges to agree on the same rules to avoid conflicts during periods of instability?
McKinsey
What do you call the blending of virtual and real worlds that differs from the virtual-reality that place people entirely into a digital space?
Mixed, or augmented, reality
Who led a long-running plot to steal genetically pure corn seeds developed by U.S. agribusiness giants?
Mo Hailong
Tesla Motors Inc. said its fourth-quarter net loss nearly tripled as the costs of launching its what sport-utility vehicle led to an 11th consecutive quarterly loss?
Model X
With the acquisition of BG Group PLC, Shell intends to become primarily a business that extracts, liquefies and transports what fuel source used mainly for heat and electricity, rather than pump oil for the transportation industry?
Natural gas
Who provides software to private companies to manage employee share sales?
Nasdaq Private Market
Once Sumner Redstone's trust goes into effect, two Boston lawyers and five board members of what company will oversee the trust?
National Amusements
What company owned by Sumner Redstone owns 80% of Viacom and CBS?
National Amusements
What Depression-era law governing silencers requires that people who want to buy a silencer first get approval from a local law-enforcement agent?
National Firearms Act of 1934
Who has just 72% of the assets needed to cover future retirement benefits?
National Football League
Name one of the two American organizations that independently track world temperatures?
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NOAA and NASA)
International law forbids countries from stripping people of all of what?
Nationality
Iran holds the world's largest reserves of fuel source?
Natural gas
Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Chevron Corp. and others have pursued multibillion-dollar projects that hinge on what fuel source, which emits less carbon than oil and is cheaper or more lucrative to use in power generation?
Natural gas
Who is the Prime Minister of Pakistan?
Nawaz Sharif
A central impediment to what in the U.S. is a law authorizing the Fed to pay interest to banks on reserves they deposit with the central bank?
Negative Interest Rates
Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen suggesting the central bank could turn to in an economic downturn despite legal and other uncertainties?
Negative Interest Rates
Investors are piling into gold, seeking shelter amid concerns that a turn toward what in some countries is threatening to destabilize the global financial system?
Negative Interest Rates
Economists said what move described as Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda's latest "bazooka" was aimed at weakening the yen and propping up stock prices, but the opposite happened?
Negative Rates
Investors have criticized the ECB for buying too many securities where rather than focusing on former troubled spots of southern Europe?
Northern European Countries
Rebels and fighters from al Qaeda's Syrian branch known as what are besieging towns in Idlib province?
Nusra Front
What is the name of the three Democratic candidates for President?
O'Malley, Clinton, Sanders
Mrs. Clinton tethered herself to what person, who remains enormously popular with the African-American voters she is relying on to help her campaign?
Obama
Virtual-reality headsets from what companies are hitting stores this year?
Oculus, Sony Corp. and HTC Corp.
The Obama administration is proposing a $10-a-barrel tax on who to fund hundreds of billions of dollars of alternative transportation efforts
Oil companies
The new left-leaning government of the Canadian province of Alberta has announced it would cap carbon emissions from what industry?
Oil-sands
U.S. new-car dealers are telling auto makers to limit production of what type of vehicle in the face of overwhelming demand for what types of trucks and sport-utility vehicles?
Passenger cars
The world's biggest energy companies have a tough decision: Do they keep their coveted investment-grade credit ratings or do what?
Pay dividends
What food did the Warriors' training staff eliminate from the team plane this season?
Peanut Butter and Jelly
What is the name of the initiative launched by J.P. Morgan that encourages its investment bankers to take their weekends off?
Pencils Down
Just 7% of companies offer what to new workers?
Pension
What is the name of the Chinese central bank?
People's Bank of China
What beverage company derives half of its sales from snacks and is the market leader in sports drinks and teas?
PepsiCo
What hedge fund has placed a $1 billion wager against investment grade bonds issued by 10 companies it thinks are especially susceptible to an economic downdraft?
Perry Capital
What new metric based on a large health study replaces the old advice to take 10,000 steps a day?
Personal Activity Intelligence
In what Pakistani city were 130 children killed in 2014?
Peshawar
Which Brazilian oil producer slashed 2015-2019 investment projections by more than $30 billion?
Petróleo Brasileiro SA, or Petrobras
What Mexican state-owned oil company provides the government with the bulk of its oil revenue?
Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex)
What French car maker has agreed to a joint venture with auto maker Iran Khodro to produce cars in Iran?
Peugeot
Viacom said that Sumner Redstone would step down as executive chairman, ceding his role to whom?
Philippe Dauman
What chief executive of Viacom Inc. fiercely defended his leadership as the media company reported quarterly results that stoked investor concerns and sent its shares tumbling?
Philippe Dauman
Who will succeed Sumner Redstone as executive chairman of Viacom?
Philippe Dauman
Ms. Brainard grabbed attention in October by appearing to position herself against Ms. Yellen in regards to what economy theory?
Phillips Curve
Who is the EU's Economic and Financial Affairs Commissioner?
Pierre Moscovici
What foremost tailing-dam engineer recommended that Samarco construct a buttress at the base of the dam and has emerged as a key witness in a criminal investigation of Samarco?
Pimenta de Ávila
What British film studio looking for a sale said it has appointed investment bank Rothschild to assist with a strategic review of its capital base and structure?
Pinewood Group PLC
In 2011, the SEC fined what firm $1 million for failing to disclose to clients that they were often trading with an in-house high-speed firm?
Pipeline Trading Systems
Many investors' assumption that what type of companies are insulated from plunging energy prices is being called into question?
Pipeline companies
What activist investing firm whose motto was "surrender the booty," collapsed in 2007?
Pirate Capital
Lael Brainard serves as a counterweight at the Fed to what group of people who want to move rates up quickly?
Policy Hawks
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani met with who during his trip to Europe?
Pope Francis
What bank in Italy is dogged by bad loans, thin capital and questions about the legality of some business practices?
Popolare di Vicenza
What logistics company is Everlane using to deliver its online orders within one hour?
Postmates
Food delivery is a highly competitive and still-speculative business that includes which two venture-funded startups?
Postmates Inc. and DoorDash Inc.
One of Alcoa's new directors, Mr. Schmidt, was until last month on the board of what rival company, which had higher margins than Alcoa?
Precision Castparts Corp.
The CDC has warned who to avoid travel to 23 countries and territories, most in the Americas, where Zika is circulating?
Pregnant Women
What two agencies achieved their first major victory in the fight against fraud in dark-pool trading that began when they first sued Barclays?
SEC; New York attorney general
To attack Zika, what French drugmaker said it would take advantage of the research it did for its newly approved vaccine for dengue fever?
Sanof i SA
What French drugmaker ended a licensing pact with MannKind Corp. for the rights to sell the insulin inhaler Afrezza?
Sanofi SA
Hyundai Motor Co. is prepping what truck, which will copy many of the Honda Ridgeline's characteristics?
Santa Cruz
Which former Vice-Presidential candidate endorsed Trump?
Sarah Palin
What do ranchers in Australia use to monitor their cattle?
Satellite Images
Super Bowl ads from what companies missed the mark?
Social Finance Inc. (SoFi), SunTrust Banks Inc., and AstraZeneca
Instead of their governments, banks in Europe turned to what entities in the Middle East i to replenish its coffers amid the 2008 crisis?
Sovereign-Wealth Funds
Consumers boosted savings and slowed what in December?
Spending
A phobia of what was used in a study cited in WSJ's January 19th article "Training the brain to cope with depression"?
Spiders
What ad product is LinkedIn's fastest-growing and most profitable?
Sponsored updates
What gold medalist at the 2004 Olympics, reportedly had filed papers to retire when he received a whereabouts failure suspension in 2013?
Sprinter Shawn Crawford
What company's November IPO price was several dollars below the highest price at which it had raised money privately?
Square
What is the name of the monastery that ISIS destroyed, which was the oldest Christian monastery in Iraq?
St. Elijah's Monastery
Time Warner has been in talks about buying into what streaming site as a part-owner?
Hulu
Former hacker Moran Cerf considers what to be the weak link in all of the interactions between humans and IT systems?
Human mistakes
AbbVie, which is facing a looming threat of competition for what arthritis treatment, said it has taken out about 70 patents for the drug, one of the largest patent portfolios ever assembled for a single drug?
Humira
Investors have been concerned about Lions Gate's film slate after what movie, released in November, fared worse than expected at the box office?
Hunger Games
What British brand founded on boots is quitting London's runways and plans to market immediately-available clothes at events such as music festivals?
Hunter
What are the names of the two main companies designing hyperloops?
Hyperloop Technologies and Hyperloop Transportation Technologies
What tech firm moved up the stack (the layers of technology) from making things that compute to selling the services that computation enables, and the result is that its revenue has shrunk for the past 15 quarters?
IBM
When the Bretton Woods system collapsed and fixed exchange rates were abandoned, who suggested money should flow freely across borders?
IMF
What is the name of the Hezbollah Chief's son who was implicated in a foiled suicide plot in Israel?
Jawad Nasrallah (son of Hassan Nasrallah)
What is the name of the French Defense Minister?
Jean Yves Le Drian
The appointment of who after the previous justice minister's resignation tips the balance of power in the French government further away from the Socialist Party's left wing?
Jean-Jacques Urvoas
Although he trails far behind in Iowa, the super PAC backing this candidate spent more than $20 million slamming Sen. Marco Rubio.
Jeb Bush
Because of its proximity to Islam's holy cities of Mecca and Medina and its large port, what city has long been a gateway for millions of pilgrims and developed into an important commercial hub?
Jeddah
Once complete, what skycraper will be the first building to soar more than a full kilometer (3,281 feet) above ground?
Jeddah Tower
What activist investor took roughly a $1 billion stake in AmEx last summer when the stock was trading at around $75?
Jeffrey Ubben (ValueAct Capital Management)
Who is the name of the CEO of Swift Transportation Co. who was criticized for his excessive borrowing?
Jerry Moyes
Who is the President of Stanford and the lead independent director of Alphabet Inc?
John Hennessy
What two stocks notched the biggest gains in the Dow in January following their fourth-quarter earnings reports?
Johnson & Johnson; 3M
A $14 billion merger between which companies will combine the businesses of selling heating and air-conditioning equipment for skyscrapers, schools, hospitals and other structures with the business of lines of security and fire-suppression gear?
Johnson Controls and Tyco International
The existence of gravitational waves verifies an unproven portion of what theory by Einstein?
Theory of General Relativity
Whose main retail partner threatened to terminate its relationship with the blood-testing company unless it quickly fixes the problems?
Theranos Inc.
According to economists, the first thing an online dating site has to do is create a market that is what?
Thick
What unit of Affiliated Managers Group Inc., halted redemptions at a fund that had made large investments in low-rated, hard-to-sell securities?
Third Avenue Management
What chief executive of Credit Suisse Group AG has asked his board to slash his 2015 bonus after the Swiss bank posted quarterly results that sent its share price tumbling?
Tidjane Thiam
Whose plans at Credit Suisse include bolstering wealth management, particularly in regions such as Asia, while reducing the resources directed to its investment bank?
Tidjane Thiam
Unplanned losses from lawsuits, fines, restructuring or defaults at Deutsche Bank might stop coupon payments on what type of junior bonds?
Tier 1 Capital
What $20 billion technology focused hedge fund backed by longtime hedge-fund investor Julian Robertson lost about 14% in January, making the month one of the worst on record?
Tiger Global Management
Who is the CEO of apple?
Tim Cook
Fiat Chrysler expects to hit financial targets through expanded output of what two types of vehicles?
Truck; Sport-Utility Vehicle
Many companies from what country borrowed heavily in dollars and the 38% rise in the dollar versus the lira over the past 18 months has made those loans hard to service and repay?
Turkey
What two countries is the U.S. trying to reduce rising tensions between that result from the presence of forces at a training camp in northern Iraq?
Turkey, Iraq
What company for the first time failed to show any user growth in an earnings report?
Twitter Inc.
Jack Dorsey is CEO of which two companies?
Twitter Inc. and square Inc.
The oil, iron ore and soybeans that Brazil exports are quoted globally in what currency?
U.S. Dollars
What is the lead federal agency coordinating in Flint?
US Department of Health
Even though the dangers of distracted driving have been well documented, a driver working for what company has a mere 15 seconds to lurch over and accept a ride assignment?
Uber
Even with the negative changes in the private equity environment recently, what technology company raised money at an enormous valuation in December?
Uber Technologies
What company is preparing to go live with a full-scale meal-delivery service across 10 cities in the U.S?
Uber Technologies Inc.
What is the oldest cattle ranch in the Northern Territory of Australia?
Undoolya Station
Which rail firm furloughed 3,900 employees last year amid steep declines in shipments of coal, crude oil and fracking sand?
Union Pacific Corp.
For this airline, low oil prices are no longer a strictly positive development due to a decline in business from corporate energy customers.
United Airlines
Harley-Davidson has urged some dealers to put less emphasis on what type of motorcycles?
Used motorcycles
The Labor Department is considering holding advisers working with retirement savings to a fiduciary standard which could lead to a decline in what type of investment vehicle?
Variable Annuity
With what investment vehicle does a buyer gets a retirement nest egg invested in mutual-fund-like accounts with a lifetime income feature?
Variable Annuity
Who is the chief executive of Lukoil, a Russian oil company?
Vagit Alkperov
Which of Pershing's investments has been one its worst performers this year?
Valeant Pharmaceuticals International
Who declared that a rise in the number of birth defects and other neurological conditions possibly linked to the Zika virus constitutes a global public-health emergency?
World Health Organization
What mega resort is the Wynn Macau's attempt to win back revenue in a shrinking pool?
Wynn Palace
What hydraulic fracturing company was bought by ExxonMobil in 2009?
XTO Energy
Long known for its small, quirky setting and for sending M.B.A.s into arts management or public administration, what school is working hard to become a global business brand?
Yale School of Management
What is the Japanese currency?
Yen
What two drugmakers boosted the prices of newly acquired drugs to meet preset profit targets, which spurred public outrage and prompted congressional investigations?
Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. and Turing Pharmaceuticals AG
What city is proposing a tax on foreign investment and speculation to combat rising home prices?
Vancouver
Name the two cities in Canada that are suffering from rising home prices resulting from foreign investment?
Vancouver; Toronto
What is the largest shareholder of Xerox?
Vanguard
Some say the high commissions lead advisers and insurance agents to sell what to some people who may not be best served by such an investment?
Variable Annuity
Who is the UN Secretary General?
Ban Ki-moon
Which two companies have the two largest wealth management practices?
Bank of America and Morgan Stanley
Who is the current Federal Reserve chairwoman?
Janet Yellen
What is the name of the Washington Post reporter who was recently released by Iran?
Jason Reszaian
What head of DreamWorks Animation SKG has spent years attempting to establish a foothold in China?
Jeffrey Katzenberg
Which investor has a 1 billion stake in AmEx?
Jeffrey Ubben
What online marketplace that launched last year ships both from its own warehouses and from direct-from-supplier facilities?
Jet.com
Alibaba and its financial services affiliate, Ant Financial, operate an online bank called what?
MYbank
What Western bank divested its African business due to a change in strategy?
Barclays
What device was used to measure grip strength in the Diabetes and Hypertension study?
Dynamometer
What is the name of Theranos's proprietary device?
Edison
Sears is run by what billionaire hedge-fund manager who has been jettisoning assets to fund operating losses and other obligations?
Edward Lampert
What is the name of the phenomenon in 2015 that occurs when sea surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean warm up?
El Nino
What country has asked women to avoid getting pregnant until 2018 due to a virus outbreak?
El Salvador
In few places is the rift created by Europe's migrant crisis as deep as border between what two countries?
Germany; Denmark
What is the name of the second-biggest U.S. proxy-advisory firm, which has taken aim at companies with tiny audit panels?
Glass, Lewis & Co.,
What company is developing a head-mounted gadget that projects images onto users' eyes so the digital world appears to interact with real life?
Magic Leap
What Spanish island is so popular among German travelers that it is called the republic's 17th state?
Majorca
What is the name of the union-backed group that has heckled the retailer to raise its entry-level wage?
Making Change at Walmart
Yahoo's chief executive plans to shift her focus from taking market share to what?
Making drastic cuts
What investment typically struggles to compete with any yield-bearing investments when interest rates rise, but that disadvantage matters less when borrowing costs are negative?
Gold
One of the few winners this year are an unlikely group of what stocks?
Gold Mining Companies
What solar-power company reported better-than-expected results for its fourth quarter, but shares tumbled in after-hours trading?
SolarCity Corp.
Who accounted for 64% of GOP caucus-goers in Iowa, up from 57% in the 2012 caucuses?
Evangelical Christians
What former tennis world No. 1, known for her intensity, has rediscovered her mojo by trying to sit around and do nothing?
Victoria Azarenka
Which Chinese state-controlled oil-and-gas producer said it planned to cut year-to-year production for the first time since before the company listed in 2001?
Cnooc Ltd.
Some in the river-shipping industry remain optimistic that what will remain a big source of business?
Coal
Withdrawals from what exceeded new contributions in 2013 for the first time?
401(k) plans
The EU wants to turn away all migrants but those from what war-torn countries, mainly which two?
Syria and Iraq
What program is increasingly popular, especially as an alternative to New Year's resolutions, which often fail this time of year?
30-Day Exercise Challenge
Currently Boeing spends more producing each of what technologically advanced jet than it gets selling them?
787 Dreamliner
What shoe and accessory label believes that faster delivery of online orders has helped lower the return rate because people don't fall out of love with what they bought while waiting for it to arrive?
Cole Haan
What tennis playER's 2015 was a disappointment with two Grand Slam quarterfinals and a year-end ranking of No. 22?
Victoria Azarenka
Ed Bastian, who will become chief executive of what company. in early May, said he doesn't expect the retirement of Richard Anderson, the current CEO, to result in any changes in the business plan?
Delta Air Lines Inc.
The U.S. Treasury Department said it would slow issuance of what type of debt?
Long-Term
What are some of the colorful nicknames the brokers in the Libor case used during communications?
Lord Libor; Big Nose; Danny the Animal
Bobby Stuckey goes running outside of Boulder, Colorado as part of his training for what marathon that he will run with his family?
Los Angeles Marathon
Name two of the three most common New Years resolutions.
Lose weight, Quit Smoking; Be financially responsible
Investigators' theory is that the man who detonated a bomb on a plane leaving Mogadishu used what to bypass security screening?
A wheelchair
What Danish shipping and oil conglomerate ordered 20 of the world's biggest container ships, called Triple-Es?
A.P. Møller-Mærsk A/S
What financial holding company that had bulked up with acquisitions under Chief Executive John Thain is now facing calls to break up?
CIT Group
What insurance company's profitability lags behind big rivals like Travelers Cos. and Chubb Ltd.?
AIG (American International Group)
Scott Tucker, a businessman who reinvented himself as a race-car driver, was arrested due to what payday lending operation?
AMG Services Inc.
The annual cost of credit default swaps on bonds of what blue-chip telecommunications company has risen by one third to about $1.1 million?
AT&T
What is the principal carrier of the Zika virus?
Aedes Aegypti Mosquito
Coca-Cola increasingly is targeting what region for growth amid sluggish sales in more developed markets?
Africa
German police detained two men of what nationality believed to be part of an Islamic State-linked group suspected of planning an attack in Berlin?
Algerian
Who is the leader of an armed group occupying a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon to protest federal land management policies?
Ammon Bundy
Who is the leader of the armed group that occupied a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon?
Ammon Bundy
In the medical community, experts are divided on whether what reduces mortality or illness?
An Annual Checkup
What strategy guides wage setting and helps growth by dissuading citizens from saving in the hope of cheaper prices in the future?
An Inflation Target
Name two of the movies Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning insists his backup quarterbacks watch?
Cadddyshack, Top Gun, Christmas Vacation, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Bull Durham
Who is the managing director of the International Monetary Fund?
Christine Lagarde
Who wrote The Innovator's Dilemma, a book about how new technologies cause great firms to fail?
Clayton Christensen
Who was involved in an armed standoff with federal officials in 2014 over grazing fees?
Cliven Bundy
What pioneering investor coined the term emerging markets in 1981?
Antoine van Agtmael
Private-equity firm Apollo Global Management LLC agreed to buy what company for about $1.1 billion, betting there is still a future for the beleaguered for-profit college industry?
Apollo Education Group Inc.
Walt Disney Co., 21st Century Fox's Twentieth Century Fox, and Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. are backing what mobile startup that can organize groups to go to movies and enable discounts for less-popular screenings?
Atom Tickets
What is the name of the founder and former CEO of Chesapeake Energy who was forced to unload 94% of his shares to pay back debt?
Aubrey McClendon
After a long run, Bobby Stuckey indulges with what food?
Beer and Potato Chips
What practice involves providers using the word "cloud" in their marketing materials, sales pitches and earnings reports to include a range of services?
Cloudwashing
What Chinese state-controlled oil-and-gas producer announced plans to slash its spending and cut back production?
Cnooc Ltd.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration agreed to expedite its review of a pair of experimental drugs from what two companies?
BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. and Sarepta Therapeutics
What type of drugs are typically manufactured in living organisms rather than through the chemical synthesis used for regular pills?
Biotech drugs
What is the name of one of the new versions of bitcoin created to expand the size limits of blocks?
Bitcoin XT; Bitcoin Classic
What two firms are buying in riskier parts of Europe's bond markets as they sift through the wreckage of this year's market selloff?
Blackrock; Allianz Global Investors
What type of cheating in cycling involves blood being drawn, stored and reinjected later?
Blood doping
Who plays Madoff's wife, Ruth, who is charismatic and expert at small talk?
Blythe Danner
What investor of Xerox will have three board seats on the board of its new split company?
Carl Icahn
In what top destination for Carnival celebrations are police are doubling their presence from 2015 and boosting video surveillance?
Cologne
Whirlpool Corp. says it developed what on its washing machines in 2014 to better accommodate men who don't sort?
ColorLast
What company added video customers in the fourth quarter, capping off its best year in almost a decade as cable providers gain market share in a contracting pay-TV market?
Comcast Corp.
Right before the Iowa caucuses, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz accused his rivals of being insufficiently what?
Conservative
What is the most sought after goal for plant hackers?
Creating a natural blue rose
This bank says that its system to combat high-frequency traders didn't perform as it should have since it included significant subjective elements?
Credit Suisse
What large bank is pulling back from investment banking and turning its energy to wealth management?
Credit Suisse
Which bank is Germany's biggest lender?
Deutsche Bank
Which federal appeals court is hearing an appeal from states and companies about an Obama administration rule limiting carbon emissions from power plants?
District of Columbia Circuit
What company recently began making its subcompact Fit in Mexico, investing $800 million in a new assembly factory?
Honda Motor Co.
What vehicle was designed as an SUV with a truck bed?
Honda Ridgeline
David Rubenstein, a founder of private-equity firm Carlyle Group, said he anticipates the greatest investing opportunities he's ever seen in what sector?
Energy
What is the name of the brand-new 17-story building in Houston that a French oilfield-services company is trying to sublease?
Energy Tower IV
Where do companies remain heavily reliant on banks, as opposed to public markets, to raise money?
Europe
Dara Khosrowshahi, the CEO of what company, said "To the extent we see the experience being poor or a significant amount of walks, we will penalize the hotel in sort order."
Expedia
Nearly 10 years ago, Sanofi Chief Executive Olivier Brandicourt presided over the multibillion- dollar flop of what insulin inhaler as head of metabolic and cardiovascular medicine at Pfizer Inc.?
Exubera
What are the four biggest publicly traded Western oil companies?
Exxon Mobil Corp., BP PLC, Chevron Corp. and Royal Dutch Shell PLC
What oil company is one of three U.S. companies with a triple-A credit rating?
ExxonMobil
What oil company is one of three triple-A-rated U.S. companies?
ExxonMobil
What oil company might be a safer and possibly more-rewarding approach for value-seekers looking to buy beaten-down energy stocks?
ExxonMobil
Chinese authorities say what online peer-to-peer lending platform was a Ponzi scheme?
Ezubo
In a letter of intent to buy shares sent to AIG, the salutation accidently contained the name of the general counsel of what mining company Carl Icahn previously went after?
Freeport-McMoRan Inc.
Brazil isn't alone because authorities now believe that some cases of microcephaly in babies where may be linked to an outbreak of Zika that occurred there in 2013 and 2014?
French Polynesia
Name on of two higher-end Mexican food categories that have grown popular at Brinker International's restaurants?
Fresh Tex; Fresh Mex
What two companies have already faced probes related to potential money laundering involving Mexico?
HSBC; Citigroup
Jeff Raider, co-founder and co-CEO of what company, which makes and sells razorblades and shaving accessories, says men should pick a beard style that suits them and make sure to care for it?
Harry's
Adidas's new CEO Kaspar Rorsted comes from what company?
Henkel AG
What country imposed capital controls that helped stem colossal outflows, but also crimped investment and financing for companies and are still in existence after eight years?
Iceland
What are the names of the two men accussed of murdering Litvinenko?
Lugovoi and Kovtun
Existing worries among doctors over links with lung cancer were compounded by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's warning that what could cause breathing difficulties in people with respiratory problems?
Inhaled insulin
What are a proxy for layoffs across the U.S.?
Initial Jobless Claims
Foxconn is competing against an offer from what Japanese government-backed investment fund that owns a controlling stake in Japan Display Inc.?
Innovation Network Corp.
Revenue from which of Microsoft's reporting segments, which commingles the Azure cloud-computing service with data-center software installed on customers' computers, as well as support and consulting, grew 11% excluding currency effects?
Intelligent Cloud
What firm owns the New York Stock Exchange?
Intercontinental Exchange
What Shiite powerhouse is ramping up oil production which will make it difficult for Sunni champion Saudi Arabia to take the lead with output cuts?
Iran
Years of sanctions have left what nation with one of the world's oldest plane fleets?
Iran
This CEO of Norfolk Southern introduced a five-year restructuring plan?
James Squires
What Danish prime minister set the minimum value of items to be confiscated from asylum seekers at about $1,500?
Lars Lokke Rasmussen
What device did researchers use to detect gravitational tremors from two spiraling black holes about 1.3 billion light years away from Earth?
Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO)
What customer segment of the technology life cycle is becoming more influential as new product cycles get shorter?
Late adopters
Dalian Wanda Group Co. bought what Hollywood film producer for $3.5 billion last month?
Legendary Entertainment
CBS said that Sumner Redstone would step down as executive chairman, ceding his role to whom?
Leslie Moonves
European Union member states have sent border guards, police vehicles and fingerprinting machines to what non-member nation?
Macedonia
Some officials warn that European governments are discussing a Plan B that would have what border sealed off entirely?
Macedonian-Greek border
Who is the Italian Prime Minister?
Matteo Renzi
What San Francisco company aims in three to four years to be the first to sell meat grown from animal cells in steel tanks?
Memphis Meats Inc.
What two insurance firms have been pressured by some shareholders to split into parts to lighten their regulatory load?
MetLife; AIG
Executives, investors and analysts say they don't believe a recent rally in prices of what will last?
Metal
Most global auto makers have in recent years opened new assembly plants or announced plans for one where?
Mexico
Who will pay $3.2 billion to resolve civil charges that it misled investors about the quality of mortgage bonds it sold in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis?
Morgan Stanley
Early in the 19th century, middle-class Americans began speculating wildly on stocks, egged on by financial promoters publishing tout sheets that hyped the hot stocks of the day such as what example from the Journal?
Morris Canal & Banking Co.
Low interest rates remain a boon for what two industries?
Mortgage Lenders; Auto Makers
Some hospitals are adopting new approaches to delivering babies by caesarean section that make them more like what?
Natural Births
Data analysts are beginning to use what to parse Bank of Japan statements for the frequency of words such as "inflation," or phrases such as "weakening expectations?"
Natural Language Processing
Iran is pushing to find new ways to extract and export its vast reserves of what fuel source, including developing facilities to liquefy the commodity and ship it to Europe in two years?
Natural gas
What British trader is alleged by the CFTC and U.S. prosecutors to have made millions of dollars manipulating the U.S. futures markets, contributing to the May 2010 "flash crash" meltdown?
Navinder Singh Sarao
Which Japanese automotive company is pledging to have an autonomous vehicle on the market in 2020?
Nissan Motor Co.
Why are West Texas Intermediate oil-futures contracts trading at a discount to Brent?
No Storage Room
What is the name of an index created by Nomura that uses deep learning, in which software mimics human neurological functions, to study and interpret the BOJ's views?
Nomura AI Economic-Sentiment Index
Which two firms have artificial intelligence crunching the text of BOJ economic assessments to supplement their human employees' judgment regarding possible policy shifts?
Nomura; Credit Suisse
What type of agreements— common in computing and engineering jobs, where proprietary technology can be at stake—are spreading to other industries and stretching further down the corporate ladder?
Noncompete agreements
What company unveiled a five-year restructuring plan in an effort aimed largely at fending off another hostile takeover attempt by Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd.?
Norfolk Southern Corp.
Outbreaks of what virus was traced to Chipotles in California in August and Boston in December?
Norovirus
The legality of a 2013 law from what state requiring identification to vote will be challenged in a trial set to begin in federal court?
North Carolina
The committees that figure out the pay for top executives at Yahoo Inc. and Alphabet Inc. and the committees that recommend new directors for Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. and Netflix Inc. have what in common?
Only two board members
What internet startup uses technology to buy and flip houses quickly for a profit?
OpenDoor Labs
What is the name of the app by Priceline that allows customers to make reservations?
OpenTable
About 40% of households with people between 55 and 64 have nothing saved for what?
Retirement
This year, Honda will revive what pickup, returning to one of the best-selling parts of the auto industry?
Ridgeline
Who is considering intervening in the currency market directly, something it hasn't done in a decade and a half?
Riksbank (Sweden)
A group of Chinese citizens attempted to ship and smuggle high-tech seeds and corn kernels back to China inside boxes of what?
Orville Redenbacher Microwave Popcorn
Alphabet lost $3.5 billion last year in what segment of its business?
Other Bets
What group that supported the ideals of the wildlife occupiers but sought to mediate a peaceful resolution between them and authorities?
Pacific Patriots Network
What is the name of the Time Warner Cable technology that lets its subscribers connect to TWC wifi automatically?
Passpoint
What is the name of the technology New York uses in its Wi-Fi network to allow users to move from one hotspot to another without needed to log in again?
Passport (Hotspot 2.0)
What is the name of the Republican Governor who signed a law requiring identification to vote?
Patrick McCrory
What is the name of the Malaysian currency?
Ringgit
Who is the CEO of AIG?
Peter Hancock
Based on his current 18 years of experience, what quarterback would receive an annual pension of $107,040 from the NFL?
Peyton Manning
This quarterback initially lost his job this season to shiny backup Brock Osweiler after an injury?
Peyton Manning
An advisory panel to the FDA voted to recommend the agency approve the sale of a knockoff version of arthritis drug Remicade developed by Celltrion Inc. and licensed to who?
Pfizer Inc.
What industry, under fire this election season for rising prices, is ramping up a new advertising campaign designed to improve its reputation with lawmakers?
Pharmaceutical industry
Investigators probing the deadly Amtrak derailment in what city last May have ruled out issues with the locomotive, track or train signals as causes?
Philadelphia
What sect of Islam dominates Malaysia?
Sunni
What two towns has the Syrian regime recaptured from the opposition in January?
Rabia; Salma
Ad prices for what big game have increased about 75% during the past decade, up to $5 million for 30 second's worth of ad time?
Super Bowl
An advisory panel to the FDA voted to recommend the agency approve the sale of a knockoff version of what Johnson & Johnson arthritis drug?
Remicade
What type of projects are about to be flooded with federal cash even though coal traffic is dwindling?
River-infrastructure
What is the capital of Saudi Arabia?
Riyadh
What founder of Soylent recently declared that "grocery shopping is a multisensory living nightmare"?
Rob Rhinehart
Who is Clinton's campaign manager?
Robby Mook
Who plays the title character in HBO's coming Madoff biopic?
Robert De Niro
In an effort to counter the arguments that ESPN's business is in decline, what CEO of Disney said that ESPN has experienced an uptick in subscriber numbers in the past couple of month?
Robert Iger
What is the name of the Barclays chief risk officer who is being replaced?
Robert Le Blanc
What is the name of the US FBI agent who disappeared in Iran?
Robert Levinson
What is a board game that teaches basic programming skills?
Robot Turtles
What city marked the Iranian president's first overseas trip since the lifting of sanctions?
Rome
What U.S. securities firm was set to be acquired by Beijing's most prominent securities firm until an unrelated crackdown by Chinese government on that firm ended the deal?
Russell Investments
What company had been the acquisition target of China's Citic Securities' prior to the deal falling through?
Russell Investments
OPEC members have resisted any move without broader cooperation from what non-OPEC member?
Russia
The U.S. State Department said the peace talks in Geneva were halted partly because of whose ongoing airstrikes?
Russia
This year what country is poised to become the world's largest exporter of wheat?
Russia
What is the name of Belgium's national rail service?
SNCB
The European Union's highest court in October struck down what framework because of concerns that Europeans' data wasn't sufficiently protected in the U.S. and could fall into the hands of intelligence services?
Safe Harbor
Stryker said on Monday what company that makes a broad array of products used to reduce the risk of patients acquiring new infections or conditions while in the hospital?
Sage Products LLC
What company is the world's biggest producer of memory chips?
Samsung
Jeddah Tower is being built in what conservative Arab nation?
Saudi Arabia
What country ordered the segregation of men and women in local council meetings?
Saudi Arabia
What country told banks with branches there to stop allowing traders to make certain bets on further depreciation of its currency, the riyal?
Saudi Arabia
What three large companies does the Journal mention on 1/26 that are increasing share repurchases amid the current stock market retrenchment?
Schlumberger Ltd., General motors Co., and BlackRock Inc.
Federal prosecutors charged what businessman-turned-race-car driver and his attorney Wednesday with overcharging customers hundreds of millions of dollars in undisclosed fees?
Scott Tucker
Visual-programming languages for children such as what use tiles or blocks rather than text to teach sequencing?
Scratch
79% percent of men and 81% of women who were satisfied said they have what one or more times per week?
Sex
A person in Texas has contracted the Zika virus through what, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention?
Sexual contact
Taiwanese company Foxxconn offered over $5 billion to take over what Japanese electronics maker?
Sharp Corp.
Who has decided to enter exclusive talks with Taiwanese electronics assembler Foxconn over a takeover?
Sharp Corp.
Procter & Gamble Co., the biggest detergent maker in the U.S., recently stopped calling the Tide consumer what in its internal discussions, upending a 70-year practice?
She
S& P has already downgraded which oil companies to mid-tier investment grade ratings?
Shell and Chevron
What private-equity firm is making a $500 million investment in Symantec Corp.?
Silver Lake
What country's central bank set a target to buy as much as 35% of government debt from commercial banks with newly minted money?
Sweden
What currency is mainstay for investors seeking refuge?
Swiss Franc
What is the name of Credit Suisse's operation in its home country of Switzerland that is slated for a partial initial public offering of shares by next year?
Swiss Universal Bank
Private-equity firm Silver Lake is making a $500 million investment in what company?
Symantec Corp.
Last year, U.S. volumes of what beverage fell again marking the 11th straight year of consumers cutting back over concerns about obesity and artificial sweeteners?
Soda
What New York auction house has fared better than its London rival?
Sotheby's
Which Silicon Valley company launched a platform last year for plant designers?
Taxa
What is the name of the advanced U.S. missile defense system being offered to South Korea?
Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system (Thaad)
Who is the Virginia Governor?
Terry McAuliffe
Investors have long been happy to endure production hiccups and cash burn in anticipation of future riches from, but that mentality has been tossed aside for what company as the stock market has soured?
Tesla
What company has burned $2.9 billion in the past six quarters and has just $1.2 billion in cash and equivalents remaining?
Tesla
Sean Compton, Tribune's president of strategic programming and acquisitions, launched what show staring a conservative radio host to avoid being too dependent on NBCUniversal?
The Bill Cunningham Show
Who hasn't Theranos reached an agreement on the terms of a study they would jointly run to compare Theranos's technology with more traditional blood-testing techniques?
The Cleveland Clinic
What organization said that oil production outside OPEC countries would fall in 2016 due to spending cuts, but much of the decline would be offset by an increase in Iranian production?
The International Energy Agency
Researchers identified a set of gene variants that raises the risk of schizophrenia in a part of the genome known as what?
The Major Histocompatibility Complex
What company has been hit by multiple food-safety concerns in China in recent years?
Yum Brands
The largest emerald mine in the world is located in which country?
Zambia
The sharp plunge in oil prices has greatly benefited the big four U.S. airlines' profits but has not benefited who?
Their Investors
President François Hollande over his proposal for a constitutional amendment stripping some homegrown terrorists of what?
Their Nationality
Walgreens is suspending some relationships with what firm in the wake of a critical regulatory inspection report?
Theranos
Walgreen said it is temporarily closing what at its store in Palo Alto, California?
Theranos Wellness Center
What chief executive of Apple said he remains optimistic despite Apple's recent troubles, noting that he sees future gains for iPad and continued growth from services such as Apple Music and other projects?
Tim Cook
What is the medical term for hip replacement surgery?
Total hip arthroplasty
What is the third largest US carrier by traffic?
United Airlines
The slide in oil prices helped which two of the largest U.S. airlines deliver record-high profits for the latest quarter?
United Continental Holding and Southwest Airlines
Collectors from what country remain the world's biggest art buyers?
United States
What large U.S. health insurer is expecting losses of more than $500 million on its 2016 Affordable Care Act plans?
UnitedHealth Group Inc.
Ford has recently cited obstacles to selling cars in Asian countries as a reason for opposing what agreement that would phase out U.S. duties on imported cars from 12 Pacific nations, including Japan?
Trans-Pacific Partnership
Who are the two leading Republican candidates in Iowa (as of 1/20/2016)?
Trump and Cruz
What is the name of the new Taiwanese leader?
Tsai Ing-Wen (Ms. Tsai)
Amnesty International criticized NATO's plan to return migrants to what country rather than Greece, saying it would violate refugees' right to asylum?
Turkey
Into what country are 60-70k Syrian refugees fleeing violence?
Turkey
Which company is Johnson Controls looking to merge with?
Tyco International
Many Chinese companies borrowed in what currency in recent years to take advantage of lower interest rates outside China?
U.S. Dollars
Morgan Stanley falsely told investors it didn't securitize what type of loans, or those that were larger than the underlying property was worth?
Underwater
The addition of touch screens, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi has given birth to a smarter, easier-to-use generation of what device that allows you to easily control your television, gaming systems, Blu-ray players, and sound systems?
Universal remote
Apollo Education, which owns what chain of schools that are a part of a fast-shrinking sector?
University of Phoenix
Who is the current CEO of Xerox?
Ursula Burns
Investors at what two companies, that recently experienced a leadership change, have long anticipated changes including possible deal making and new strategic focus?
Viacom; CBS
What restaurant is popular with Carolina Panthers players?
Waffle House
What program set aside hundreds of millions of dollars for whistleblowers in the multitrillion-dollar futures and swaps markets?
Whistleblower Program
In what South Carolina city, the seat of Fairfield County, did Walmart close down one of its Supercenters after operating there for 17 years?
Winnsboro
Charley Kempthorne has done what every morning for the last 52 years?
Written in a journal
Mr. Shkreli reportedly bought for $2 million an album from what hip-hop group?
Wu-Tang Clan
Gross gaming revenue in what Chinese casino hub is set to fall nearly 30% year over year this January?
Wynn Macau
Apple Inc. said sales of what product last year grew at the slowest pace since its introduction in 2007?
iPhone
What is the nickname for the spread between interest rates on Treasury bills and offshore three-month interbank dollar loans?
"TED spread"
Which emerging market economy is entering its second year of recession?
Brazil
What is it called in software circles when you create a new version of a system and force users to move to the new version?
Hard fork
What major bank recently suffered a data breach that comprised approximately 76 million households?
JP Morgan Chase
Who is the founder of SpaceX competitor Blue Origin?
Jeff Bezos
What city in India was described as having "super rich" individuals with super cars having to share roads with hand pulled rickshaws, horse drawn carriages and livestock?
Kolkata
Which two regions in the world have been buying large amounts of luxury housing in the UK, New York, and Sydney?
Middle East and Asia
What is the name of the vulnerability that is allowing routers to be hacked?
Misfortune Cookie Flaw
In the January 19th edition of the WSJ, the headline "Barclays Beating a Retreat" refers to the bank exiting what geography?
Sub-Saharan Africa
Which sect of Islam composes ISIS?
Sunni
Which clause of the Constitution is at issue in the Supreme Court's review of Obama's 2014 executive action on immigration?
The "Take Care" clause
What is a nickname for Flint, Michigan?
The Rust Belt City
What is the nickname of the Brazilian officer of Spanish descent whose mask is one of the most popular at Carnival?
"Japanese Cop"
What is the name of the movie about the Benghazi terrorist attack?
'13 Hours'
What is the name of the movie that overtook Star Wars: The Force Awakens at the box office for the first time?
'Ride Along 2'
A Connecticut hedge fund is challenging the sovereign nation of Peru to pay off what type of financial security?
Agrarian land bonds
Who plans keep raising rates in tandem with the Fed to support the peso and Mexican financial assets?
Agustin Carstens
What foreign airlines announced plans or are considering flights to and from the capital of Iran?
Air France-KLM, Lufthansa AG's Eurowings, Austrian Airlines, Emirates Airline, and British Airways
Iran Air is the first Iranian airline to benefit from sanctions relief, agreeing to a deal with what company for 118 new jetliners?
Airbus
A two-year licensing agreement that expired last year required the owners of Hulu to give full current seasons of every show produced by an in-house studio that airs on which broadcast networks?
ABC, NBC and Fox
What company said it will reorganize its core property-casualty and life-insurance operations into nine units that can either expand within or be spun off or sold over time?
AIG
What is the largest telecommunications company in the US?
AT&T
Both Coke Zero and Diet Coke are sweetened with aspartame but Coke Zero also has what other artificial sweetener, giving it a slightly different taste?
Acesulfame potassium
What German sportswear company replaced its chief executive?
Adidas AG
The WHO called for measures to combat what mosquitoe species, which is common in the tropics and subtropics, that spreads the Zika virus?
Aedes aegypti
Alcoa Inc. on Monday said it would expand its board by three members, gaining the support of activist investor Elliott Management Corp. as the aluminum maker prepares to spin off what unit?
Aerospace and automotive
The Xerox split undoes what acquisition of Xerox in 2010?
Affiliated Computer Services Inc.
In which country did the White House give legal authority to the Pentagon to combat ISIS?
Afghanistan
Sanofi SA ended a licensing pact with MannKind Corp. for the rights to sell what insulin inhaler?
Afrezza
Prices for raw aluminum have fallen sharply since 2011, a decline that was partly behind what company's announcement in late September that it would spin off its more profitable and diverse parts-making units?
Alcoa Inc.
Who is the Governor of Puerto Rico?
Alejandro Garcia Padilla
Abbott Laboratories agreed to acquire what diagnostic-test company for $5.8 billion?
Alere
Abbott agreed to pay $5.8 billion for what diagnostic-testing company, whose tests for HIV, malaria and the flu can deliver results faster than traditional laboratory tests?
Alere Inc.
Who is currently the CEO of Johnson Controls Inc. and will become CEO of Johnson Controls PLC immediately after merging with Tyco?
Alex Molinaroli
Who is the CEO of Johnson Controls?
Alex Molinaroli
What FCA brand originally forecast a 50% jump in world-wide revenue from 2013's figure by the end of 2018?
Alfa Romeo
What Chinese Internet giant led the latest funding round for Magic Leap and values the Dania Beach, Fla., company at $4.5 billion?
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
McDonald's Corp. posted its best U.S. quarterly sales in nearly four years, driven by what initiative by Chief Executive Steve Easterbrook?
All-day breakfast
Which company is responsible for Misfortune Cookie Flaw?
Allegro Software Development
What company had roughly 33% of global mobile Internet ad revenues in 2015?
Alphabet (Google)
What firm's researchers claimed a major artificial-intelligence breakthrough unveiling a software program that taught itself to beat a top human player of the board game Go?
Alphabet Inc.'s
GE's $17 billion purchase of the energy assets of this company was its biggest acquisition ever?
Alstom
What internet-based company delivered the largest quarterly profit in its 20-year history, but its shares plunged as much as 15% in after-hours trading?
Amazon.com Inc.
Baupost Group purchased about 20% of a bond deal sold by what oil and gas company?
American Energy Partners-Permian Basin
What company's 50-year bond was one of the worst performing investment-grade securities in recent weeks with its yield spread tripling?
American Express
Who is asking potential blood donors who have been in Mexico, the Caribbean or Central or South America to wait at least 28 days after their trip before donating?
American Red Cross
Who called for the remaining protesters to end the occupation of a refuge in Oregon?
Ammon Bundy
A 1.5-percentage-point spread between yields on investment-grade corporate bonds and government bonds is typically associated with what?
An economic or market downturn
Despite famously claiming he would live forever, Sumner Redstone planned for his controlling interests in CBS and Viacom to go into what should he die or be deemed incapacitated?
An irrevocable trust
Leaders from whose conservative coalition have called on him/her to limit the number of migrants allowed in the country, after it registered a record 1.1 million last year?
Angela Merkel
Mark Cutifani, CEO of what company, thinks 2016 is set to be even more difficult for mining companies and commodity markets than 2015?
Anglo American PLC
Investors placed more than $100 billion of orders for $46 billion of debt sold by who?
Anheuser-Busch InBev
What company is moving toward selling the Peroni and Grolsch brands to Asahi Group Holdings Ltd. in a deal designed to help the Belgian brewer close its takeover of SABMiller PLC?
Anheuser-Busch InBev NV
What is the capital of Turkey?
Ankara
According to the WSJ, what medical procedure do 2/3rds of US adults do every year?
Annual Check Up
What is the same-day hip replacement technique called that requires a smaller incision and a more skilled surgeon?
Anterior approach
Swiss banks have shifted away from their traditional markets in Europe, where legacy problems with hidden accounts have been abundant, to new regions such what?
Asia
Where is Pinewood Group PLC's first U.S. location that has lured many projects away from Los Angeles soundstages?
Atlanta
While his former employer is leaving Sub-Saharan Africa, what bank headed by Barclay's previous CEO Bob Diamond's is buying up assets across the region?
Atlas Mara
Both Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange require companies to have what type of committees of at least three board members?
Audit committees
Chipotle disagree with health officials about the E. coli's likely source with government officials leaning toward produce despite that Chipotle concluded the E. coli was most likely from contaminated what?
Australian beef
What two countries were the first to introduce border checks in September due to the migrant problem from Greece?
Austria; Germany
More than 40% of the firms in what industry are trading below their tangible book value, or what each company's assets would fetch were they to be liquidated?
Banking
What industry is one of the worst performing this year and has fallen 16% since the start of 2016?
Banking
What iconic toy will be getting three new body sizes—curvy, petite and tall—to try to stem a long swoon in sales?
Barbie doll
What is the name of the $50 billion dollar company Shell is seeking to acquire?
BG Group
Royal Dutch Shell PLC made a $50 billion bet on gas and a wager against crude oil as the energy industry's future with the acquisition of what company?
BG Group PLC
In one of Brazil's worst disasters on November 5th, 2015, a dam burst after the operating company was alerted to the severe problems. A civil lawsuit was filed against Samarco and parent companies for $5 Billion. What were the parent companies?
BHP Billiton and Vale SA
What is the name of a numerical indicator of the likelihood the BOJ will ease monetary policy created by Credit Suisse?
BOJ Text Index
What is the name of the Pakistani University that was targeted by terrorists?
Bacha Khan University
Oil futures are more often what which means that traders pay a slight premium for an actual barrel than the promise of one in the future?
Backwardated
In which city in Iraq were three Americans kidnapped in January?
Baghdad
What index that measures the price of moving raw materials by sea hit its lowest level on record?
Baltic Dry Index
U.S. lenders have cut ties with what bank, which caters to low-income customers with branches in Mexican retailers?
Banco Azteca
The focus on Wall Street's work conditions, particularly among lower-level employees, intensified following the death of an intern in 2013 at what firm?
Bank of America
What bank achieved its biggest annual profit in nearly a decade despite revenue continuing to fall?
Bank of America
What firm boasted of being "the Wal-Mart of banking?"
Bank of America
What wealth-management holds the most assets under management?
Bank of America (Merrill Lynch)
Which country's bank introduced negative interest rates in January?
Bank of Japan
Name the one of the two major central banks in the world to introduce negative interest rates?
Bank of Japan and European Central Bank (in 2014)
Goldman converted to what at the height of the financial crisis?
Bank-Holding Company
Activists have started to come into what sector recently, though they are largely avoiding the biggest institutions?
Banking
Among the biggest casualties of the fall in interest rates have been what sector that makes money on the spread between the interest charged for loans and payments made to customers on deposits?
Banking
What is the name of the company Shire Plc acquired in January for $32 billion?
Baxalta
Jeff Raider, co-founder and co-CEO of Harry's, recommends using what product post shower for men with thicker beards because it softens the hair and keeps it in a manageable format?
Beard oil
What company did the Chinese citizens who stole genetically pure corn seeds work for?
Beijing Dabeinong Technology Group
What was David Lee Fry, the last of the protesters at the reserve, afraid of that he suggesting he might take his own life on an Internet live stream?
Being Raped In Prison
In Iow, what Democrat drew overwhelming support from "very liberal'' and younger voter?
Bernie Sanders
Who is the chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee?
Bill Shuster
What copies of biotechnology drugs known as?
Biosimilars
What new color socks can US army soldiers wear after a change in 2016?
Black
The earnings manipulation disclosure from Brixmor was a blow to what financial-services giant, which took it public in 2013 and still owns more than a third of the company's shares?
Blackstone Group
Health officials in Brazil reported two cases of the Zika virus being transmitted through what medical procedure?
Blood transfusion
Hedge funds are betting the next bond sector to crack will be the $4.5 trillion market for the debt for what type of company?
Blue-Chip
What is the name of the Warrior's general manager?
Bob Myers
What company was smoothing income items, both up and down, in order to show consistent growth in a key measure of company income?
Brixmor Property Group
Which Toronto based company offered to acquire the majority stake of Rouse Properties for $657 million?
Brookfield Asset Management
Senior Justice Department officials are tentatively planning to send Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to where, to face trial on drug-trafficking charges if he is extradited from Mexico?
Brooklyn, N.Y.
What brand seems to have gotten its marketing mojo back when it ran a funny election-themed Super Bowl ad featuring Amy Schumer and actor Seth Rogen?
Bud Light
In the new deal between on data transfer, the EU said the U.S. had agreed to provide binding written assurances that personal information about Europeans wouldn't be subject to what when it is copied on to U.S. servers?
Bulk surveillance
What is currently the world's tallest building?
Burj Khalifa
Who agreed last October to acquire SABMiller PLC, which bottles and distributes Coke in South Africa and several other markets?
Busch InBev NV
Barclays is replacing its long-serving chief risk officer with whom from J.P. Morgan Chase?
C.S. Venkatakrishnan
Name of measure of volatility that is commonly used by Wall Street?
CBOE Volatility Index
After two years of CBS having exclusive broadcast rights to Thursday night football, the NFL is splitting its television rights package with what two channels for the next two seasons?
CBS and NBC
Who investigated the outbreak of E. coli tied to Chipotle that sickened 55 people across America?
CDC
Norfolk Southern is trying to fend off another hostile takeover attempt by whom?
Canadian Pacific Railway
Norfolk Southern Corp. unveiled a five-year restructuring plan in an effort aimed largely at fending off another hostile takeover attempt by what company?
Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd.
What idea that contradicts financial and economic orthodoxy is now being proposed by economic-policy makers?
Capital Controls
Who has effected change at companies including Hertz Global Holdings Inc., American International Group Inc. and Xerox Corp.?
Carl Icahn
What activist investors dropped their public fight with American International Group Inc. on 2/11, promising a year of peace in exchange for two board seats?
Carl Icahn; John Paulson
What two activist investors have called for the AIG to break into three parts?
Carl Icahn; John Paulson
What celebration precedes the season of Lent and is one of the biggest open gatherings of the year in Germany?
Carnival
When revelers will descend on Germany's Rhineland region, kicking off five days of what festival, under the heaviest police presence in recent memory?
Carnival
The products made by what type of pharmacies, which mix pharmaceutical and prescription ingredients to meet specialized medical needs, aren't as tightly regulated as mass-market drugs?
Compounding pharmacies
What is the name of the organization that antiabortion group that released undercover videos of Planned Parenthood?
Center for Medical Progress
Foreign residents and companies are traditionally restricted to ordinary deposit accounts rather than what?
Certificates Of Deposit
What is Redstone's new title?
Chairman Emeritus
In what Pakistani city did the Taliban attack on Bacha Khan University occur?
Charsadda
Three quarters of Egyptians qualify for this program that has been in place for more than 50 years?
Cheap-Bread Program
Shares of what company, once one of the biggest drillers in the U.S., was the first to go when the market opened on 2/8 and three big U.S. energy companies pulled each other into a spiraling stock plunge?
Chesapeake Energy Corp.
What is the name of the inventor who produced the first xerographic image in 1938?
Chester Carlson
Hedge fund manager Kyle Bass wrote that the assets in whose banking system are equivalent to 340% of the country's gross domestic product and that the country would need to print more than $10 trillion to recapitalize its banks?
China
Netflix's total reach is more than 190 countries, but what is the last big market the company has yet to penetrate?
China
What country has provided Venezuela with a steady source of financing in exchange for oil?
China
What country instituted a restriction similar to Saudi Arabia's on forward currency bets and suspended applications for certain outbound investments?
China
What country should maintain between $2.13 trillion and $4.26 trillion of currency reserves to fend off any destructive capital outflow?
China
What country was typically a manufacturing powerhouse, but is becoming more consumer-driven and less energy-intensive?
China
What country's foreign-exchange reserves fell to the lowest level in more than three years in January?
China
What is Apple's biggest market for phones after America?
China
Which country was Iran's largest importer during economic sanctions?
China
What is China's largest cellphone carrier, which reached a deal with Apple in 2014?
China Mobile Limited
Who's planned takeover of Syngenta AG could give the Swiss maker of pesticides and seeds a leg up in China's burgeoning agricultural market?
China National Chemical Corp.
Historically, the Wynn Macau's revenue came from high rollers, but they have taken a big hit because of what?
China's Anticorruption Drive
In what the countries was "The Force Awakens" not a blockbuster hit like in the U.S.?
China, Russia and South Korea
The E. coli outbreak that sickened more than 50 customers of what restaurant in nine states last year is expected to be declared over?
Chipotle Mexican Grill
What company closed its roughly 2,000 U.S. restaurants for a few hours on 2/8 so its 50,000 workers nationwide could tune in to a broadcast with executives in Denver?
Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc.
What company said it plans to set aside up to $10 million to help local growers meet its new food-safety standards?
Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc.
In the latest sign that the art market is cooling, what London-based auction house said art sales last year dropped 11% from the market's peak a year earlier?
Christie's International PLC
Banks in Eruope are suffering from what that makes it impossible for banks to build up barely adequate capital bases?
Chronic Profitability Crisis
What term refers to a point at which a stock market will automatically stop trading for a period of time in response to substantial drops in value?
Circuit Breakers
With nearly $60 billion on hand, what enterprise-technology giant is in an especially strong position to make acquisitions?
Cisco Systems
The Chinese government cracked down on what Chinese brokerage for breaking unspecified rules on margin trading and short-selling contracts?
Citic Securities
Until half a year ago, this firm appeared crucial to Beijing's economic agenda by opening the door to more foreign participation in the country's markets?
Citic Securities
AmEx said it expects the sale of the Costco portfolio to what company?
Citigroup
What banks are experimenting with systems that let people withdraw cash by using a special code displayed on a phone's screen?
Citigroup Inc. and Wells Fargo & Co
What is the name of the app that provides information on local events?
Citymaps
What is the name of the Obama administration's environmental rule to limit carbon emissions from power plants?
Clean Power Plan
A new deal between the U.S. and EU, revolves around the regulation of what entities that are supposed to help prevent a market wide collapse by ensuring either party in a derivatives transaction would get paid if the other side defaults?
Clearinghouses
Microsoft recently showed further growth in what services, which refer to selling access to software or raw processing power running in Microsoft's own data centers?
Cloud services
Last month, Canada rejected whose attempt to trademark the rights to a common English word for its diet drink brands after a rival opposed the move?
Coca-Cola Co.
86% of women say they are willing to sacrifice some amount of style for what?
Comfort
What governmental body has long examined deals in which foreign companies try to buy U.S. assets?
Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS)
Since its Whistleblower Program was launched in 2011, who has spent more on administrative costs than it has paid out in bounties?
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
W deal between that two agencies entails European policy makers will move closer to the U.S. on rules regarding the amount of margin that clients of banks must post to clearinghouses for derivative transactions?
Commodity Futures Trading Commission; European Commission
One of the largest studies to date on sexual satisfaction in long term relationships has found that couples with satisfying sex lives do a lot of what?
Communicating
The Justice Department is investigating what authorities suspect is half a billion dollars in health-care fraud linked to what?
Compounding creams
While initial public offerings typically yield the biggest payouts, getting a company ready for one can be very costly and fraught with uncertainty, so what other route can offer a mutually beneficial" exit ramp for private equity firms?
Corporate acquisition
Stress also stimulates the release of what two hormones that in turn stimulate the release of triglycerides and free fatty acids, which over time can boost LDL cholesterol?
Cortisol; Adrenaline
American Express lost a contract with what company that will affect roughly one in 10 AmEx cards in circulation and could hurt the company's future?
Costco
If European banks fall close to their minimum capital needs, regulators will stop them paying not only stock dividends, but also what?
Coupons on Junior Bonds
The CEO of what bank has asked his board to slash his 2015 bonus after the bank posted quarterly results that sent its share price tumbling?
Credit Suisse
Who are J.P. Morgan Chase's three largest clients in its repo clearing business?
Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Scotland, and HSBC
What two banks agreed to pay $154.3 million combined to settle investigations by regulators into their dark pools?
Credit Suisse; Barclays
While Barclays and Morgan Stanley are in retreat across Asia, what three banks are scooping gup traders and market share?
Credit Suisse; HSBC; UBS
ESPN tested a model of direct-to-consumer programming with what sports championship?
Cricket World Cup
What are Credit Suisse's two dark pool trading venues?
Crossfinder (largest); Light Pool
A key differentiator for Hulu from its bigger rivals Netflix Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. is what?
Current-season episodes
What 1881 print depicts the fate of small investors?
Cut-throat Business in Wall Street
Name one of the major companies with which the founders of Public School have collaborated?
DKNY, Jordan brand, Nordstrom, Barneys New York, etc.
What Nigerian city did Boko Haram members attack?
Dalori
What is the name of the Italian steelmaker that is offering a 5.7 billion euro deal to Iran?
Danieli
What were advertised as a place where asset managers could trade in secret and avoid giving away their moves to computer-driven traders?
Dark Pools
What former emergency manager of Flint said he would resign his position as emergency manager of Detroit Public Schools?
Darnell Earley
What airline merged with Northwest Airlines in 2008?
Delta Air Lines
To which party does the new Taiwanese leader belong?
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)
To attack Zika, French drugmaker Sanof i SA said it would take advantage of the research it did for its newly approved vaccine for what fever—the world's first against the mosquito-borne illness?
Dengue fever
Which US department background checks refugees?
Department of Homeland Security
Regulators in Washington and Brussels struck a deal to coordinate rules for what financial instrument, which played a central role in the 2008 financial meltdown?
Derivatives
The flint city council voted in 2013 to switch the city's water supply to the Flint River from what larger city's Water and Sewage Department?
Detroit
Regulators have told what bank it must meet a common-equity Tier 1 capital ratio of 10.75% this year, which rises to 12.25% at the start of 2019?
Deutsche Bank
What bank's supervisory board has voted to deny 2015 bonuses for the lender's management board, including new co-CEO John Cryan?
Deutsche Bank
What lender in Germany expects to report its first full-year loss since 2008?
Deutsche Bank
The biggest shadow hanging over Viacom's stock is the pending renewal of its distribution deal with what satellite TV provider?
Dish Network
Some banks have started to explore selling revolving loans lent to oil and gas companies to at a discount to whom?
Distressed-Debt Funds
A Saudi airstrike in October caused severe damage to a hospital operated by what aid group?
Doctors Without Borders
An epic change is happening inside American homes as 60% of men are now primarily responsible for what?
Doing Laundry
The combination of overseas weakness and what has driven import prices lower in the U.S.?
Dollar Strength
Which Republican candidate has the highest unfavorable ratings?
Donald Trump
Which candidate has noted his lack of reliance on a super PAC as proof he isn't beholden to donors?
Donald Trump
Who is the European Council President who laid out proposals that address David Cameron's demand for a way to restrict benefits for EU nationals coming to the U.K. so as to try to reduce migration?
Donald Tusk
What PepsiCo Inc. snack brand owns shock advertising?
Doritos
Where are members of parliament living in the capital?
Dorms
What two former J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. deal makers started Hudson Executive Capital?
Douglas Braunstein; James Woolery
In December 2015, which companies agreed to combine into a chemical giant worth more than $120 billion before splitting up into three companies focused on three separate sectors?
Dow Chemical Co. and DuPont Co.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is gearing up to rule nearly 13 years after Coke first tried to register "zero" in the U.S., triggering a 2007 challenge from what company which also has a diet drink named Zero?
Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc.
More than 60% of sales take place between 4 a.m. and 11 a.m. what quick service chain?
Dunkin Donuts
What are the names of the ranchers who were imprisoned for federal arson charges?
Dwight and Steven Hammond
Dell Inc. touched off a thirst for mergers late last year with the biggest tech deal in history, a $67 billion bid for what company?
EMC Corp.
The cord-cutting phenomenon and its worrisome impact on what network have overshadowed success from Disney's Star Wars bonanza?
ESPN
What usually-strong television channel network lost pay-TV subscribers and dialed back profit projections for its media networks?
ESPN
President Barack Obama and House Speaker Paul Ryan both support a plan to increase what tax credit to include childless workers?
Earned income tax credit
Market and corporate sentiment has taken a negative turn, but only some of what have followed suit?
Economic Indicators
The CEO of Delta will be succeeded by who, Delta's longtime president?
Ed Bastian
What is the name of AmEx's president who collapsed and died on the way home from a business trip?
Edward Gilligan
Political unrest and a string of terror attacks have hurt tourism and foreign investment in what country?
Egypt
What country is suffering from a dollar shortage?
Egypt
Disney's consumer products and interactive media revenue grew in large part due to Star Wars merchandise, including a hit videogame from what publisher?
Electronic Arts Inc.
Who is the founder and chief executive of Theranos Inc.?
Elizabeth Holmes
What activist hedge fund has amassed a big stake in Symantec, becoming one of its largest shareholders?
Elliott Management Corp.
Who introduced the hyperloop idea in 2013, describing a low-pressure tube in which levitating capsules carry passengers at about 760 miles an hour?
Elon Musk
Who is the CEO of SpaceX?
Elon Musk
What is Italy's largest oil company?
Eni SpA
What world region on January 19th saw the gap in yields between high-grade corporate debt and safer government bonds balloon to its widest level in nearly three years?
Europe
The longer-term goal of countering Russian aggression involves quadrupling to $3.4 billion the budget of what, which covers training and gear for the U.S. and its European allies?
European Reassurance Initiative
Twitter's board includes what person who co-founded Twitter along with Mr. Dorsey and is one of the largest individual owners of Twitter stock?
Evan Williams
What late University of New Mexico professor conducted a landmark 1962 study about the rate at which new ideas and innovation spread through cultures?
Everett Rogers
What online apparel and accessories brand based in San Francisco, is attempting one-hour delivery in San Francisco and New York City's Manhattan borough?
Everlane
Name four of the nine top oil companies that have invested tens of billions of dollars into megaprojects in the Alberta's boreal forests?
Exxon Mobil Corp., BP PLC, Chevron Corp., ConocoPhillips and Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Marathon Oil Corp., China's Cnooc Ltd., Total SA of France and Norway's Statoil ASA
S& P aised the prospect that what oil company—whose AAA rating outlasted even the U.S. Treasury's— could face a one-step downgrade from its top-tier status?
Exxon Mobile
Following downbeat results from BP and Chevron, what company reported profits Tuesday that beat analyst expectations for the fourth quarter and full year?
ExxonMobil
This company, once the world's most valuable, was overtaken by Facebook for fourth place?
ExxonMobil
What is the nickname for a group of winning stocks that includes Facebook Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Netflix Inc., and Google Inc.?
FANG stocks
Who would likely review cultured meat before the USDA Food Safety & Inspection Service would begin regulating the product and how it is processed?
FDA
ExxonMobil, even in an awful 2015, earned more than twice as much as what company (that overtook it in market capitalization) has in its entire history?
What company is quickly gaining on Google in terms of market capitalization?
Hedge funds have also been squeezed by steep drops in a small collection of stocks favored by the industry overall including what two stocks?
Facebook; General Motors
What is the name of the SpaceX rocket that successfully returned from space in December 2015?
Falcon 9
Along with a slowdown in China, what else has most impacted the stock market during the month of January?
Falling crude-oil prices
What is the name of the investment that allows investors and traders to place bets on central-bank policy?
Fed-Fund Futures
A proposal calls for creating a standalone, nonprofit corporation funded by user fees that would take over what federal agency's responsibilities?
Federal Aviation Administration
What law enforcement agency joined the broad criminal investigation into the lead contamination in Flint, Michigan?
Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Supreme Court ruled that who acted lawfully in a 2011 order requiring wholesale electricity market operators to pay higher levels of compensation to power customers that agreed to reduce their electricity use?
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
While the states regulate retail electricity markets, who regulates at the wholesale level?
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
The fine Wells Fargo has agreed to pay will be one of the largest settlements on record related to what governmental agency?
Federal Housing Administration
So far, super PACs have received more than one-third of their donations from executives of what industry?
Financial services
On January 27, the U.S. loosened rules for what in relation to certain exports to Cuba?
Financing
Apple has outfitted its latest iPhones with special high-security chips that let programmers develop apps to let users log in using what?
Fingerprints
What athletic retailer installed new infrastructure in September to fill online orders and said it would close about a quarter of its 600 stores after its new warehouse-management system failed to process orders fast enough?
Finish Line Inc.
What ratings firm warned in a report that the banking sector for the whole of sub-Saharan Africa is headed for a bad year?
Fitch Ratings
How many prisoners were released in Iran the weekend of 1/17-1/19
Five
What metric measures inflation expectations starting five years from now and running five years from that date?
Five year, five year forward inflation break-even rate
Fandango has held talks with Time Warner Inc.'s Warner Bros. to acquire what movie website?
Flixster
What group believes corporations have become too obsessed with the short-term satisfaction of investors, particularly vocal activist shareholders, at the expense of future growth?
Focusing Capital on the Long Term
Investors are concerned about profitability in what company after its core U.S. market looks like it is plateauing this year?
Ford
Who will build a new assembly plant in Mexico and sharply increase factory output from that country following the signing of a costly new labor deal?
Ford Motor Co.
Questions have been raised as to the composition of what and how quickly China can liquidate it, if needed, to meet the demand for foreign currencies?
Foreign Exchange Reserves
What is believed to be the cause of rising home prices in some Canadian cities?
Foreign Speculative Investment
To defend the yuan and stem outflows from mainland China, Beijing has been spending heavily from it's what?
Foreign-Exchange Reserves
What is the name of SunEdison's two subsidiaries?
Form Power Inc.; TerraForm Global Inc
Who is Southwest Airline's CEO?
Gary Kelly
What little-known mining company dominates the fast-growing and increasingly lucrative sector of colored gemstones?
Gemfields PLC
What maker of the U.S. military's Predator drones, built a 450-foot maglev track in San Diego?
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc.
What term refers to repos between dealers that cross clearing banks and are backed by Treasuries, mortgage bonds, and agency debt?
General Collateral Finance Trades
What conglomerate represents one of the few cases in which the market in January hasn't punished a company for energy exposure?
General Electric
Which major car company had a large complex in Flint?
General Motors
Ford's plan mirrors whose $5 billion investment to double Mexican capacity by 2018?
General Motors Co.
Sidecar Technologies Inc. experimented with delivering food and packages over the past year before shutting down last month and selling its assets to who?
General Motors Co.
What automotive firm has been retreating from money-losing businesses, recently making moves to exit or reduce exposure to Russia, Indonesia, Australia and Thailand?
General Motors Co.
What car manufacturer's fourth-quarter profit surged on growth in China and the U.S. in a sign of its continued strength?
General Motors Co.
Which automotive makers abandoned the minivan segment years ago?
General Motors Co. and Ford Motor Co.
Where are talks between the current Syria regime and the rebels set to take place?
Geneva
Where will UN brokered peace talks be held regarding the conflict in Syria should both sides agree to participate?
Geneva
Who is currently the CEO of Tyco and will become CEO of Johnson Controls PLC 18 months after merging with Johnson Controls Inc.?
George Oliver
In what country was the sound of children's playing regulated until 2011?
Germany
Whose police detained two Algerian men believed to be part of an Islamic State-linked group suspected of planning an attack?
Germany
The police of which two countries recently coordinated a strike against an international smuggling ring?
Germany and Turkey
Who is the head of the bank in Italy that is dogged by bad loans, thin capital and questions about the legality of some business practices?
Gianni Zonin
What country do EU members accuse of not doing enough to protect its northern border with Macedonia?
Greece
What term refers to how when a crisis arose and the stock market fell more than about 20%, the Fed lowered the Fed Funds rate, often resulting in a negative real yield?
Greenspan put
Who is the governor of Texas?
Greg Abbot
What Bridgewater executive has had talks internally about whether to hand off some or all of his responsibilities as co-CEO while remaining co-chief investment officer?
Greg Jensen
What head coach of the San Antonio Spurs does the Journal suggest should run for president?
Gregg Popovich
Angela Duckworth, a psychology professor at University of Pennsylvania, found that what personality characteristic, defined as passion and perseverance toward long-term goals, better predicts success than talent or intelligence?
Grit
According to Richard Chaifetz, head of Com-Psych Corp., some driven senior managers "are getting burned out over being too what?
Gritty
ABC's Madoff series is a reminder of what type of mentality that can grip investors, depicted as more than willing to rely on reputation than do their own research?
Groupthink
Rebels fighting to overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad say their survival now depends on changing tactics and shifting to what type of warfare?
Guerrilla Warfare
The WHO said it declared the Zika epidemic an emergency only because of its possible links to microcephaly and what a rare disorder in which the body's immune system attacks nerve cells?
Guillain-Barré
The government's suit claimed Wells Fargo improperly certified certain FHA mortgage loans for what that didn't qualify for the program?
HUD insurance
Avenue is buying senior debt of companies such as what exploration company and what oil-rig operator?
Halcón Resources; Ocean Rig UDW
Whose U.S. dealer network is widely regarded as the best in the business even though tension has grown between some of those dealers and the company's management?
Harley-Davidson Inc.
What did the protestors rename the wildlife refuge they occupied?
Harney Country Resource Center
What have protestors named the wildlife preserve they occupy in Oregon?
Harney County Resource Center
Who long insisted Mr. Madoff was a fake and was tortured by his inability to get regulators' attention?
Harry Markopolos
Who is the President of Iran?
Hassan Rouhani
What term describes the creation of exclusive custom-fitted clothing made and sold to only one individual?
Haute Couture
Who is the chairwoman of the Federal Reserve?
Janet Yellen
The group of twenty major companies banding together to hold down the cost of providing health-care benefits is called what?
Health Transformation Alliance
Twenty major companies are banding together to use their collective data and market power in a bid to hold down the cost of providing workers with what?
Health-care benefits
What Wall Street Industry has largely stopped buying since mid-January despite retail investors taking a relatively sanguine view?
Hedge Funds
What French fashion designer brought a video crew to Lucia Santina Ribisi's bedroom in Los Angeles last month to film the 18-year-old artist hanging out with her friend?
Hedi Slimane
Who is the creative director of Saint Laurent whose close attention to youth culture in Los Angeles doubled the brand's revenue in his first two years on the job?
Hedi Slimane
What are the world's third and fourth largest brewers by volume?
Heineken NV and Carlsberg A/S
What economist at the London Business School believes that countries hoping to control their monetary policy should have neither fixed exchange rates nor a free flow of capital?
Helene Rey
What are ranchers in Australia relying upon to round up cattle instead of horses?
Helicopters
What company, Greece's largest refinery, agreed to buy oil from National Iranian Oil Co., marking the first sale of Iranian crude to a European country since the lifting of trade sanctions against the Middle Eastern nation?
Hellenic Petroleum
U.S. Special Forces soldiers are being called in more frequently by Afghan forces to help stop the Taliban from capturing what province and its lucrative heroin trade?
Helmand
Which province of Afghanistan are the Taliban seeking to control because of its lucrative heroin trade?
Helmand
What king lifted laws make it increasingly difficult to export precious metal from England?
Henry VIII
GoPro plans what new camera that will better connect to smartphones and cloud-computing centers?
Hero 5
According to the Journal, what is the most visible improvement in TV tech that allows screens to display the brightest and darkest colors much closer to real life?
High dynamic range (HDR)
Despite what they told asset managers, banks were quietly catering to whom in their so-called dark pools?
High-Frequency Traders
In Iowa, what Democrat won large margins among older and less-liberal voters?
Hillary Clinton
Which Democratic candidate tends to be favored by minority voters?
Hillary Clinton
Whose family charitable foundation received a subpoena from government investigators last year?
Hillary Clinton
Which presidential candidates have criticized rising drug costs?
Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Donald Trump
Which one of Blackstone's largest investments has lost more than 30% of its stock-market value over the past year?
Hilton Worldwide Holdings
What is the most popular small SUV?
Honda CR-V
What Japanese auto maker is doubling down on sport-utility vehicles and pickups and lessening reliance on the sedans and compact cars in the U.S.?
Honda Motor Co.
For the past decade, what animal has been dying at an alarming rate of about 30% each year?
Honeybees
Falling import prices are likely to put added pressure on what?
Inflation
While too much of this can be troublesome to an economy an annual rate of 2% of it is important for economic growth?
Inflation
Using what technology found in most home entertainment devices, does a remote send commands via pulses of light?
Infrared (or IR)
The manufacturing index created by whom has fallen below 50 for a fourth month in a row, putting the sector in contraction?
Institute for Supply Management
What proxy-advisory firm urges the defeat of any non-CEO director with more than five boards starting in 2017?
Institutional Shareholder Services
Rising rates are good for what type of companies because they tend to invest premiums paid businesses in high-quality corporate bonds as a way of generating income until claims come due?
Insurance Companies
Iran was suspended in 2011 from the global aviation-payment system run by who?
International Air Transport Association
In May 2013, the Securities and Exchange Commission launched an investigation into how what company accounted for cloud revenue?
International Business Machines Corp.
As Wall Street's trading desks are hemmed in by tougher regulations, what have they begun to rely on more?
Investment Banking (M&A activity)
What is the only state that has begun testing a mobile driver's license?
Iowa
What are the first three states to vote in the 2016 campaign?
Iowa; New Hampshire, South Carolina
The release of sanctions on what country has resulted in a decline in crude-oil prices in mid-January?
Iran
With which Middle Eastern country did the US recently complete a nuclear deal (or a prisoner exchange)?
Iran
What is Iran's flagship airline, which has a fleet with an average age of more than 25 years?
Iran Air
What two countries are supporting the Syrian President?
Iran and Russia
For citizens of what countries did Obama restrict entry to the US without a VISA?
Iran, Iraq, Sudan, and Syria
The United Nations launched an appeal for $861 million to plug a funding gap in its 2016 humanitarian emergency-response budget for what country?
Iraq
Through its merger with Tyco International, Johnson Controls will undergo a tax inversion and the new company's headquarters will be in what country?
Ireland
The first British woman to be convicted of joining what organization was sentenced to six years in prison?
Islamic State
Canadabased Valeant purchased which two long-standing drugs that treat heart problems from Marathon Pharmaceuticals LLC and then raised their prices by 525% and 212% overnight?
Isuprel and Nitropress
What was unique about the coin flip at the NFC championship game this year?
It did not flip
Big Swiss banks are mobilizing their bankers in what country to convince clients to stay with them once they repatriate their money due to the new tax amnesty program?
Italy
The gap between German government debt and what country's debt has been pushed to its widest levels since August?
Italy
What country is worried that shutting the Greek-Macedonian border might only open up new migration routes?
Italy
What country's banks are the least profitable in Europe?
Italy
Michael L. Avery of Waddell & Reed Financial was the portfolio manager of its largest mutual fund named what?
Ivy Asset Strategy Fund
What bank added 8,000 compliance employees in just the last year?
J.P. Morgan Chase
What bank controls 15% of the repo clearing market?
J.P. Morgan Chase
On August 21st shares of what two companies dropped more than 20% before recovering most of the day's losses?
J.P. Morgan Chase; General Electric Co.
Nigeria was removed from what index last September triggering billions of redemption from bondholders?
J.P. Morgan's emerging-market bond index
Who bought 500,000 of his firm's shares trying to deliver a jolt of confidence to investors as a month long slide in bank stocks threatened to become an avalanche?
James Dimon
What Norfolk Southern chief executive told analysts in his fourth-quarter earnings call that the plan would cut costs by $130 million in 2016 and result in annual savings of more than $650 million by 2020?
James Squires
What is the name of the J.P. Morgan CEO who says analysts need to relax?
Jamie Dimon
Who is the governor of Maryland?
Larry Hogan
U.S. and its allies have confronted a challenge fighting ISIS in what country due mainly to the absence of a central government?
Libya
What country is emerging as a new destination of choice for extremists since the overthrow of its previous leader?
Libya
Which country in Africa has 47 billion barrels of crude reserves, the largest in Africa?
Libya
What rebel commander's appearance in Geneva as a member of the opposition delegation has added more friction to the already fraught negotiations?
Mohammad Alloush
Banks around the world are retreating from emerging markets as regulators ramp up their scrutiny and punishment of what crime?
Money Laundering
What bank is considering shifting employees to low-cost offices in places such as Mumbai and Budapest?
Morgan Stanley
What company is threatening Bank of America's purchased brokerage unit for market leadership?
Morgan Stanley
The Treasury Department and Commerce Department issued guidelines that will help facilitate what in Cuba?
Music and Art Festivals
What organization is sending ships from its standing maritime force to the Aegean Sea, joining for the first time in the effort to stem the influx of migrants into Europe?
NATO
Who had the worst-funded pension among the four major sports leagues in 2013?
NFL
Shares of which big power sellers fell sharply after The Supreme Court upheld a federal rule that calls for payments to businesses, schools and other large energy consumers that reduce their electricity usage at times of peak demand?
NRG Energy Inc., Dynegy Inc. and Calpine Corp.
On Aug. 24, circuit breakers were triggered en masse on what stock market after prices plunged due to uncertainty over China?
NYSE
What wetsuit material is now appearing in women's pea coats and skirts?
Neoprene
What luxury online retailer has invested in a fleet of more than 50 vans offering same-day delivery in London, Hong Kong and the greater New York area?
Net-a-Porter
In 2013 what stock was the top S&P performer surging 300%?
Netflix
Streaming service Viaplay in the Nordics, Australian streaming service Stan, Lightbox in New Zealand, and Hulu in the U.S. have met to discuss jointly bidding for TV shows as a way to counter what company's growing global dominance?
Netflix
What streaming service reported a surge in streaming subscribers in the fourth quarter, boosted by its international expansion, even as the company missed its target for customer additions in the U.S.?
Netflix
Name one of the companies that are thinking of acquiring Yahoo's web properties?
New Corp and IAC, Verizon, TPG
The winter storm brought severe flooding to what state's southern coast?
New Jersey
An inspection completed in November uncovered five major infractions at which of Theranos's labs that violate federal law governing clinical labs?
Newark
What is the name of the police officer whose mask Brazilian residents are wearing at Carnival?
Newton Ishii
What bee scientist who holds a Ph.D. in biology, has been preaching the gospel of urban beekeeping to commercial property owners, hotels, universities and audiences at TED conferences?
Noah Wilson-Rich
The White House denounced whose plan to launch a satellite in February, describing the move as a "destabilizing provocation"?
North Korea
What strategy involves retailers investing heavily in state-of-the-art software, redesigning their warehouses and training employees, with the goal of getting their merchandise to customers seamlessly, whether they buy online or in a store?
Omnichannel retailing
Chinese leaders have ruled out for now the possibility of what in February saying that would undermine Chinese purchasing power just as the government is trying to shift to an economy driven by consumption?
One-Time Sharp Devaluation Of The Yuan
What panel of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission looks into cases that aren't taken to court?
Operations Review Panel
What main measure of revenue generating activity at Google is studied by Wall Street analysts?
Paid Clicks
Mr. Dalio runs Bridgewater on a collection of 210 self-written principles meant to minimize the role of human emotion in decision- making such as what core tenet?
Pain + Reflection = Progress
What country that has a readmission agreement with the EU has in some instances refused to take back migrants?
Pakistan
A newspaper illustration depicted the scene of what on Wall Street on the morning of May 14, 1884?
Panic of 1884
Who has resigned as chief executive of health-insurance brokerage Zenefits after coming under fire for were inadequate compliance procedures and weak internal controls?
Parker Conrad
The new data transfer deal between the U.S. and EU is called what?
Privacy Shield
What type of companies have bought back $940 million of employee stock last year, an increase of more than 40% from 2014?
Private Start ups
Wealthy donors in the 2016 presidential election are increasingly using what to mask their donations to super PACs?
Private companies
Whose portfolios have become an increasingly important source of corporate acquisitions in recent years?
Private-equity investors
Robert Pavlik of Boston Private Wealth prefers consumer-staples stocks during a slowdown in the economy such as what two stocks?
Procter & Gamble; Mondelez International
What are the two variables investors care most about when valuing stocks?
Profits; Interest Rates
Boeing has long employed what accounting system that averages out expected costs and revenue on airplane programs over years of production?
Program accounting
About two years ago, J.P. Morgan added what in which employees can flag if they need the full weekend off for a variety of reasons?
Protected Weekend
The Taliban's office in this country was shut down days after it opened in 2013 following protests by the Afghan government?
Qatar
Who are the Syrian opposition's main regional backers?
Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey
What oil company's assets weren't even worth enough to cover the highest-ranking debt?
Quicksilver Resources
If the Fed doesn't do what it risks suggesting the economy is in worse shape than thought?
Raise Interest Rates
The world's tallest buildings generally have had a record of poor financial performance, but they help the community how?
Raise Surrounding Area Value
What two ISIS controlled cities has the French Defense Minister said must be targeted?
Raqqa and Mosul
Mr. Jensen asked stakeholders whether who was fulfilling a promised 10 year plan to give up responsibilities and ownership to other executives at Bridgewater?
Ray Dalio
What was a big source of new investment for Blackstone in the fourth quarter of 2015?
Real Estate
The CFPB established a new hardline interpretation of what four decade- old law designed to keep lenders and realtors from inflating home-sale transaction costs?
Real Estate Settlement Procedure Act
What popular Republican representative is backing Ted Cruz in Iowa?
Representative Steve King
There was only one deal related to this type of security last year from southern Europe?
Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities
Foreigners aren't allowed to buy what in Saudi Arabia?
Residential Properties
What term describes a car that has been made period-perfect on the outside and ultramodern on the inside?
Restomod
An increase in drawdowns of what could become problematic for banks because the drastic drop in oil and gas prices has left some companies with few assets valuable enough to fully cover the loans in bankruptcy?
Revolving Loans
What chief executive who propelled Delta Air Lines Inc. to financial and operational dominance in his nine years leading the carrier, is retiring in May?
Richard Anderson
What bureaucracy director appointed in 2012, could single-handedly overrule a judge and impose a penalty based on a new legal interpretation, without advance notice?
Richard Cordray
Who plays the title character in ABC's Madoff?
Richard Dreyfuss
Variable annuities often are purchased with an add-on what that guarantees a minimum paycheck for life with protection against stock market losses making it like a personal pension plan?
Rider
Compared with China, the impact of capital flight has been much worse in what other major country in 2015?
Russia
What country produced the most barrels a day of crude oil and liquid fuels in 2015?
Russia
What country promised cuts in crude oil production in the early 2000s that it never carried out?
Russia
What country, an important market for Egypt's tourism, banned flights to the popular Red Sea resorts?
Russia
Who are the Syrian government's main regional backers?
Russia and Iran
What co-founder of Mattel introduced Barbie at the 1959 Toy Fair in New York?
Ruth Handler
Who is the CFO of Alphabet?
Ruth Porat
What is the name of a new stock index will hopefully prove that companies with good governance and focused on long-term goals will produce higher returns for shareholders?
S&P Long-Term Value Creation Global Index
What index, which tracks companies targeted by such investors, is down 30% over the past 12 months and 17% this year, including dividends?
S&P U.S. Activist Interest Index
There is uncertainty about Coke's soda-bottling partnerships in Africa after brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev NV agreed last October to acquire who, which bottles and distributes Coke in South Africa and several other markets?
SABMiller PLC
What German software vendor has seen a financial tailwind as it gets higher-valued dollars in exchange for their products?
SAP SE
Which two countries are the largest suppliers of oil to China?
Saudi Arabia and Russia
What is the term for the area comprising 26 European countries that have abolished passports and any other type of border control at their common borders?
Schengen area
Scientists have identified key genetic traits that for the first time point to a biological mechanism behind what mental disorder?
Schizophrenia
What terrorist group attacked and killed 21 university students in Pakistan?
Sect of The Taliban
A hedge fund accuses Peru of violating what U.S. law for improper disclosures in its latest bond issuance?
Securities Act of 1933
During the oil bust of the 1980s Houston became famous for what that were so named because glassy new towers were so empty they were transparent?
See-Through Buildings
What is the name of the female American tennis player who has won the Australian Open six times?
Serena Williams
What is the name of the Russian foreign minister?
Sergei Lavrov
A 2013 taste test of a burger grown in a lab was accomplished by a multiyear, $330,000 project funded by what Google Inc. co-founder?
Sergey Brin
What is the name of the chief executive of FCA who failed in his bid last year to find a merger partner for the seventh-largest global car maker?
Sergio Marchionne
What do silencer purchasers do to sidestep approval from a local law-enforcement agent?
Set Up A Trust
Regime forces in Syria gained full control over what strategic town in southern Syria on Tuesday the 26th after an intensive campaign of Russian airstrikes?
Sheikh Miskeen
Which major corporation welcomed the new emissions cap policy in Alberta along with three local oil-sands producers, and said it didn't expect the cap would have a negative impact on its existing operations?
Shell
Who is the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook?
Sheryl Sandberg
What industry's situation isn't likely to improve in the first half of 2016, given the its overcapacity and weakened demand related to slower growth in China?
Shipping
What company announced plans to buy its way into the broader outdoor sporting-goods market, reducing its reliance on volatile sales of guns and ammunition?
Smith & Wesson Holding Corp.
A deal deal announced with what company under which Viacom will sell advertising against the vanishing-messages app company's owned and operated content?
Snapchat Inc.
What online lender, which offers student- loan refinancing, mortgages and personal loans, will ramp up a $20 million TV and digital ad effort (about 20% of its annual ad budget) with a spot during the Super Bowl?
Social Finance Inc.
What is the mistaken belief that it is trivial to build the layer above yours in the technology industry?
Stack fallacy
What university led the pack with a record $1.63 billion raised in its fiscal year ended Aug. 31?
Stanford
Hasbro Inc. reported strong revenue during the holiday period, helped by a surge in demand for toys tied to what franchise?
Star Wars
What hedge fund and stakeholder in Yahoo has called for new leadership and selling the business?
Starboard Value LP
What coffee shop chain is still having great fiscal returns despite its Christmas cup fiasco?
Starbucks
Who is the CEO of Blackstone Group?
Stephen Schwarzman
What McDonald's chief executive's rebuilding initiatives are gaining traction less than a year after he took the helm?
Steve Easterbrook
What, according to a January 19th WSJ Article "Netflix's Rally Looks Vulnerable", are the two driving metrics behind the streaming service's performance?
Subscriber growth and content costs
Experts believe that what Swiss pesticides giant could also get caught in a CFIUS review if a deal proceeds with China National Chemical Corp. or ChemChina?
Syngenta
In what country has Russia deployed military forces?
Syria
Douglas Steenland, AIG's nonexecutive chairman, said being a nonbank one of these is not currently a binding constraint on return of capital.
Systemically Important Financial Institution
What is AIG classified as according to the U.S. federal government?
Systemically Important Financial Institution
Toyota has redesigned what best-seller among smaller trucks?
Tacoma
What is the name of the tallest mountain in Hong Kong?
Tai Mo Shan
What is the name of the dam in which ISIS militants are hiding senior officials?
Taqba Dam
Who is Egypt's new central-bank governor who has relaxed some restrictions on Egyptian banks dealing with dollars to free up more foreign exchange?
Tarek Amer
In a league where the average career lasts five years, who is in his 14th season in the NBA stilling starting games after signing with the Minnesota Timberwolves last year?
Tayshaun Prince
What is the name of J.P. Morgan's initiative that boosts the bank's apprenticeship program and adds more membership events for analysts and managing directors?
Team Connect
What industry is suffering disproportionately from currency headwings because of its unusual success abroad?
Tech industry
What French oilfield-services company expanded its presence in the Houston, but now wants out due to falling oil prices?
Technip SA
Right before the Iowa caucuses, Trump focused most of his attacks on who?
Ted Cruz
Which candidate was born in Canada and is having his eligibility for the presidency questioned?
Ted Cruz
Who is WeBank's biggest shareholder?
Tencent
Facebook, under pressure from government officials, is more aggressively policing material it views as supporting what?
Terrorism
Who said its fourth-quarter net loss nearly tripled to $320.4 million as the costs of launching its Model X sport-utility vehicle led to an 11th consecutive quarterly loss?
Tesla Motors Inc.
What is being blamed for the increase in murders?
The "Ferguson Effect"
Which band is responsible for "Hotel California" and "Lyin' Eyes"?
The Eagles
What is the name of the day in 2010 when the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more than 1,000 points before rapidly recovering?
The Flash Crash
What was the water source that was contaminated in Flint, Michigan?
The Flint River
What is the name of the group in the Senate that tried to pass through immigration reform in 2013?
The Gang of Eight
Which organization organized a meeting between the Vatican and business leaders?
The Global Foundation
What is the name of the Iranian council that vets political candidates and legislation from parliament?
The Guardian Council
What is the name of the study that tracked 20 years of activity from 60,000 Norwegian people to gain insight into which lifestyle factors, such as the prevalence of obesity, contribute to disease and death?
The HUNT Study
Which governing agency requires a majority of board committees overseeing executive pay or company audits to only include independent directors?
The SEC
Who claimed credit for the recent car bombing in Kabul?
The Taliban
Name two organizations/countries with which President Obama has negotiated a prisoner swap?
The Taliban, Cuba, Iran
The People's Bank of China has been prioritizing what over market reforms?
The Yuan's Stability
What is America's largest employer?
Wal-Mart
What retailer on 1/28/2016 closed more than a handful of domestic stores at once for the first time in its history?
Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
Which drugstore operator has 41 blood-drawing "wellness centers" in stores in Arizona and California that are Theranos's primary access to consumers?
Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc.
What is the name of the Chinese Foreign Minister who said he is committed to denuclearizing North Korea?
Wang Yi
The holiday selling season proved to be challenging for Sears with intense competition and what else pressuring margins and driving sales declines?
Warm weather
What group that represents companies including coal producer Murray Energy Corp., utility FirstEnergy Corp., agricultural-commodities trader Cargill Inc. and Marathon Petroleum Corp spearheaded a multimillion- dollar lobbying effort for river infrastructure?
Waterways Council Inc.
Considered the birthplace of the Ryder Cup, what club is now one of its country's most prestigious golf courses, and each May it hosts the BMW PGA Championship, a flagship European tour event?
Wentworth Club
Several members of what exclusive English golf and country clubs are furious with the club's Chinese owners for increasing fees and slashing membership?
Wentworth Club
The lifting of the U.S. oil-export ban had put what at a small premium to the global benchmark Brent, but the prospect of no more room to put incoming barrels has opened a discount of $3.80 a barrel?
West Texas Intermediate Oil-Futures Contract
What are the names of the two Facebook messaging apps?
WhatsApp and Facebook messenger
Oversupply of what has pushed prices down and unleashed a battle for market share?
Wheat
What is the name of the Chinese currency?
Yuan
Police have arrested 21 people linked to Ezubo and its parent company, who is?
Yucheng International Holdings Group Ltd.
What company gives away human-resources software to small businesses and then collects commissions from health-insurance carriers when users of the software sign up for benefits?
Zenefits