Goldman Embarrasses Fashionistas with Smarts and Street Style

Goldman Sachs won a fancy fashionista quiz bowl after several analysts pulled consecutive weekend all nighters prepping the GS team on every manner of trivia. An Analyst who worked on the project speaking on condition of anonymity, as it's close to bonus, remarks [with a sigh] "At least this time my work was used for something. Usually the weekend pitchbooks are just coasters for the MD's Monday coffee. Naturally, they promised us that we would get to come, but inevitably "found out" that the team was at capacity right before they left for the event, but not before they made me do another turn - even internal books need to show Goldman's commitment to quality lest some bum find them in the dumpster and think less of us."

After extensive "wardrobe consultation" spanning a month the team decided to kick it old school with blue and white shirts (after all, Goldman Sachs isn't about being "wild and crazy and different"). The subtle deviations from regular banker attire is that the blue shirt was tight enough to bust at the seams, teasing the paparazzi with the possibility of a strategic wardrobe malfunction (but an undershirt was worn to prevent the world from actually seeing the hairy underbelly of banking), while the white shirt had two buttons undone and was slightly untucked, showing a Devil-may-care "we don't care that our Global Alpha underperformed every major fund on the street" attitude.
The real winners, however, are the first years at Deutsche Bank whose team won a "vast" supply of sexy lingerie. It's the closest any of them have gotten to a woman since the drunken debauchery that is investment banking training.

clipped from nymag.com Great triumph mixed with crushing defeat the other night as highly competitive people with lots of disposable income gathered at the Gramercy Park Hotel Private Roof Club for a fancy quiz night socialites, models, fashion designers, and, of course, investment bankers, who felt a little out of place. "We're investment-bank nerds, so we spent pretty much a month planning our outfits," said a member of the Goldman Sachs team. "We had wardrobe consultations on conference calls." Corporations from Valentino to Bloomberg sponsored teams, which then went from room to room, debating the questions in each. Goldman, surprising no one in the room, took home the grand prize. Other teams won various smaller prizes; Deutsche Bank, for example, won a vast supply of Agent Provocateur lingerie. Are you good enough to win a trip to a model's villa — or at least some fancy underwear? Here are the questions. (And the answers.)