Fool Quiz
KidBiz
February 25, 1998
1) In advertising terms, USP stands for:
1. Unique Selling Proposition
2. United Syndicated Press
3. United Service of Parcels
4. Unlimited Sales Potential
5. Underage Salaried Person
2) "Take your kids to work day" in 1997 was:
1. April 22
2. April 23
3. April 24
4. June 6
5. July 4
3) The verb "baby-sit" first appeared in:
1. 1636
2. 1789
3. 1905
4. 1929
5. 1947
4) According to the Very Esteemed TMF Hoyden, small businesses are almost always regulated at the:
1. Supermarket
2. Local Level
3. State Level
4. Federal Level
5. Spirit Level
5) The AYBC stands for:
1. Americans Yearning for Better Cats
2. Aboriginal Youth Business Council
3. Andorran Yentas and Bostonian Chaps
4. Association of Young Business Chiefs
5. Allotment of Year-End Buying Clubs
6) According to the Canadian Youth Business Foundation, a key mistake often made by young entrepreneurs is putting off:
1. Sex education
2. Bad odors
3. Capital Reinvestment
4. Bookkeeping
5. A seven-iron
7) The Junior Chamber of Commerce International is based in:
1. Sri Lanka
2. Kalamazoo
3. Boca Raton
4. Coral Gables
5. The Isle of Wight
8) "Jaycee" refers to:
1. A prominent religious figure
2. A member of a major national and international civic organization
3. The baseball team from Toronto
4. A new and lighter hockey puck
5. Jermaine C. Jackson
9) In general, a skill that takes longer to learn will be:
1. Worth more in the marketplace
2. Practiced only in the Middle Ages
3. Highly regulated by the GAAT
4. Highly regulated by NAFTA
5. Highly regulated by NASCAR
10) One type of computer expert that a young person can become is an Application User. An example would be someone who knew how to use:
1. Their friends
2. Microsoft Word
3. The internet
4. C++
5. A Macintosh
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Answers:
1) Unique Selling Proposition, according to the Stetson University website, is what makes one product different from any other. Since the product, if you're a teenager trying to get a job, is you, think of the USP as that which is most special about you: the thing that makes you unique. In other words, your soul. There now. Ready to write that cover letter?
2) According to the Simon & Schuster website, "Take your kids to work day" was on April 24. April 23 is Shakespeare's birthday. June 6 was D-Day, but that was in 1944. If you're working on July 4, and if you have the idea to take your kids to work with you, we suggest you get yourself straight to a neurosurgeon.
3) Ironic yet fitting, is it not, that the verb "baby-sit" should make its debut in 1947, just about the time that the baby boomers were busy being born. Their mommas and poppas found a need and coined a new term, so they could be freed up to paint the town red, do the lindy-hop, don bobby socks, and get cheap loans.
4) Small business are regulated at the local level. That means you probably have to go to a city or county office. TMF Hoyden suggests that you let your child make the call, since it's part of the learning experience. If you guessed "spirit level," then you probably don't know anything about planing and joining cedar shelves, either, do you?
5) The Aboriginal Youth Business Council on the web "was established in the summer of 1994 after discussions at the Young Dream Catchers Workshop in Gatineau, Quebec," and provides a host of services for young aborigines. The rest of us are welcome to visit.
6) The Canadian Youth Business Foundation says that you really should not put off bookkeeping a moment longer. You should hire an accountant, because, for all you know, you may owe Revenue Canada for payroll taxes. In the U.S., of course, we don't have Revenue U.S. or even Revenue America (because Canada is part of America). We have the IRS. Ewwww.
7) The Junior Chamber International is located in Coral Gables, Florida. "Boca Raton," by the way, is Spanish for "Mouth of the Rat." "Coral Gables" is English for "Coral Gables."
8) "Jaycee" is taken from the initials of Junior Citizens, which is the former name of a civic organization. It first appeared in 1938.
9) A skill that takes longer to learn will generally be worth more in the marketplace. Hence, doctors can be paid quite a bit, and computer programmers are paid quite nicely, as well. This formula can be stood on its head, though, in relation to the arts. You can spend your lifetime studying how to paint or write, and *still* no one may care. The dustheap of history is strewn with the corpses of great artists who died poor, like Rembrandt.
10) An application user becomes expert in one application, such as Microsoft Word. It may be to the young person's advantage to use her friends as well, but only if they consent to it, and only if she cuts them in on the action. A Macintosh is not an "application," it's a "platform."
-- David Wolpe ([email protected])