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The Big Weekly Quiz 🎇 🎵 ⏬ 25/01/25

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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Which French fashion house this week announced plans to double sales in the US by opening new stores and moving into concessions in a number of "big box" retailers? (THURSDAY)

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The average property price is currently about FIVE TIMES the average income of a first-time buyer. What is the long-term average? (FRIDAY)

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According to Knight Frank data, house prices in Riyadh have risen by how much since 2020? (MONDAY)

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In addition to this, apartment prices have risen by 56%! Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has a goal of 70% owner-occupancy by 2030, so this property price boom will make that a lot harder.

Microsoft just signed a deal to buy 3.5m carbon credits from which Brazilian start-up to offset at least some of its expected AI-driven carbon emissions? (THURSDAY)

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The start-up buys up farming and cattle land and then restores it by planting native tree species.

What's the name of the major AI infrastructure plan announced this week by SoftBank and OpenAI? (WEDNESDAY)

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...and it's going to be exclusive to OpenAI!

Which supermarket announced this week that it would cut 3,000 jobs by closing hot food counters and cafes in addition to slashing senior management roles by 20%? (FRIDAY)

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Which European bank is rumoured to be exiting the UK due to frustration with high street banking in general? (MONDAY)

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What is a hedge fund's traditional fee structure referred to as? (MONDAY)

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"Two and twenty" refers to 2% management fee plus 20% of the gains.

Roughly how much of the world's maritime trade pass through the Panama Canal currently? (FRIDAY)

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According to PwC's annual survey of global chief execs, which country has just overtaken Germany to become Europe's most attractive place to do business? TUESDAY)

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It's the first time the UK has been placed this highly since PwC began the survey almost thirty years ago!

Which Sam Altman-backed biotech company just raised $1bn to go to their efforts towards increasing the human lifespan by ten years? (FRIDAY)

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By roughly how much have cocoa prices increased over the last year? (THURSDAY)

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Extreme weather and disease have hit harvests and there have been three consecutive seasons of global cocoa deficits already!

The UK government wants to cut business rates relief from what to what from April, potentially jacking up business rates bills by 140%? (TUESDAY)

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The previous government had originally introduced the rates relief scheme in November 2022 to help cushion the blow for these firms and gave eligible properties with 75% business rates relief a cap of up to £110,000 per business.

According to the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association, Germany's EV sales fell by how much last month thanks to the withdrawal of government tax breaks? (WEDNESDAY)

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Six Chinese authorities are "encouraging" state-owned insurers to put aside at least what percentage of new premium income every year to Chinese shares? (THURSDAY)

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Mutual fund managers will also be "encouraged" to boost their holdings by 10% per year over the next three years.

Which Chinese social media platform did "TikTok refugees" flee to when TikTok was briefly banned in the US? (MONDAY)

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Although "Xiaohongshu" literally translates as "little red book", in English the app is called RedNote.

Which company just announced plans to spend £70m on buying 74 acres of land between Heathrow and Slough to build a massive three-storey data centre? (WEDNESDAY)

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It will be the company's first ever data centre and be the UK's largest!

Monzo is considering an IPO. The CEO is leaning towards a New York listing - where does the company's board favour? (WEDNESDAY)

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Trump just signed an executive order to keep TikTok online for how long (pending negotiations to sell at least 50% of it to a US company)? (TUESDAY)

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Roughly how many new model launches are there scheduled to be this year in Europe? (TUESDAY)

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Most of the new launches will be electric.

The Big Weekly Quiz 25/01/25
More reading required! 🤔
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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 ????
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GADDANGIT!!! You were sooooo close! Well done, though - great effort 👍👍👍
Perfect score - really well done! 🍾🍾🍾
WELL DONE!!! SUPERB JOB!

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