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The Big Weekly Quiz ↕️ 🧑‍⚖️ 💔 12/10/24

This quiz is designed to test how much you’ve retained from this week’s editions of Watson’s Daily. Here are some things to keep in mind, so please read before you dive in!
  • Try to answer the questions by really thinking about the answer – and do NOT Google them because you will just be cheating yourself!
  • At the end of every question you will see a day in CAPITAL LETTERS, which is the edition where that question originated from.
  • If you don’t know the answer, go back to the edition that contains the question and you will be able to find it.
I do things this way because if you see the answer in context, you are far more likely to remember it rather than if I told you the answer straight away like in a pub quiz! I’m trying to help you learn! That said, best of luck 😉👍

This is a timed quiz. You will be given 15 seconds per question. Are you ready?

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What does Dowlais do? (MONDAY)

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Which company did Rio Tinto put an offer in for this week? (THURSDAY)

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British retailers are currently pushing for what percentage cut to business rates? (MONDAY)

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Which British developer just had to admit that it underestimated costs for nine developments in southern England to the tune of £115m? (WEDNESDAY)

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Chinese authorities are taking away passports of what types of workers under the "personal travel abroad management" rules? (MONDAY)

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Those affected have to hand in their passports and apply to the city education bureau to get permission to travel.

What did China just slap tariffs on in retaliation for newly-imposed taxes on Chinese EV imports? (WEDNESDAY)

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Norway's Equinor just took a 10% stake in which renewables company? (TUESDAY)

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Vestas is also a Danish wind energy company - but it's not the one that got the investment this week! Engie is French, generates power via renewables (and other means).

What's the name of Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund? TUESDAY)

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Vision 2030 is not the name of a fund, but the strategic framework designed to wean Saudi Arabia off oil revenues on a long-term basis.

Which company rolled out a new chip this week to rival Nvidia's H200 AI chips? (FRIDAY)

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According to research by UBS, Britain is going to suffer the biggest exodus in the world of what over the next five years? (TUESDAY)

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What's Meta's new answer to OpenAI's Sora? (MONDAY)

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Synthesia is a British company that develops software that is used to make AI-generated content. Lumiere creates realistic videos from text using AI. However, Movie Gen is Meta's baby!

What's the name of the new UK regulator that's there to accelerate approvals for new technologies? (TUESDAY)

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Which country's PM is trying to push measures through parliament that will cut taxes of young people for ten years? (THURSDAY)

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Which online apparel firm just announced a doubling of UK profits? (WEDNESDAY)

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What's the name of the new UK legislation that is being pushed through Parliament and seen as a key plank of the biggest overhaul of employment law in a generation? (THURSDAY)

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Which online marketplace is going to ban the sale of e-bikes from October 31st unless the vendors are "eligible business sellers"? (THURSDAY)

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Who was Hindenburg Research's big target this week? (FRIDAY)

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What's the name of France's new PM? (FRIDAY)

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Which car company announced a big shake-up this week of senior management? (FRIDAY)

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Which company is doing its best to buy Japanese retailer Seven & i at the moment? (WEDNESDAY)

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Sorry, Alimentation Mousse-Tard is my idea of a joke (I do this sometimes 😁)

The Big Weekly Quiz 12/10/24
More reading required! 🤔
Oh dear. You really need to up your game! Either you need to get a subscription to Watson's Daily or you need to read more closely 😱
Not your finest work. More reading required! 😉
You gave it a good go! There's more work to do, though... 🤓
That was good, but you can do better - I'm sure of it! 👍
Good effort! You are definitely paying attention, but you can still do better 💪
That was a good effort - got to just sharpen up a bit more! 👏👏👏
Ooooooh! Very well done! You can still do better, though ????
So near yet so far! How frustrating! 😱😱😱
GADDANGIT!!! You were sooooo close! Well done, though - great effort 👍👍👍
Perfect score - really well done! 🍾🍾🍾
WELL DONE!!! SUPERB JOB!

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