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The Big Weekly Quiz 🏆 ✂️ 🎂 09/11/24

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 IEA stand for? (MONDAY)

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Foreign investors took $10bn out of Indian stocks in October. Foreign investor ownership of India's stock market is now the lowest for how long? (MONDAY)

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At the moment, roughly what percentage of the food we eat in the UK comes from UK farmers and growers? (WEDNESDAY)

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Which company was rumoured to be interested in buying Burberry this week? (TUESDAY)

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Frasers Group tried and failed recently to put in a cheeky bid for another 'berry - Mulberry - but was rebuffed. Kering's got its own problems to worry about at the moment!

BMW's profits just plunged by how much thanks largely to weak China sales? (THURSDAY)

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Name the world's fourth most populous country that has just banned Apple's iPhone 16 and Google's Pixel phones because they don't use enough locally-sourced materials? TUESDAY)

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The PPI scandal cost banks £50bn. Analysts at RBC reckon that the car financing scandal could cost them up to how much? (WEDNESDAY)

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Rolls-Royce just shut down which business division? (FRIDAY)

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ADNOC is the state-owned oil company of which country? (TUESDAY)

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Saudi Arabia's state-controlled oil company is called "Aramco" (officially the "Saudi Arabian Oil Company", but it used to be called Arabian-American Oil Company which explains the "AM" in Aramco!).

Wizz Air just launched an All You Can Fly scheme for what annual subscription (sorry - but it's already sold out!)? (WEDNESDAY)

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What department is Elon Musk rumoured to become head of in the new Trump administration? (THURSDAY)

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This has Musk's sense of humour written all over it! Remember that he reportedly named his Tesla car models the S, the 3, the X and the Y so he could say that they were "S3XY"?!? 🤦‍♂️

Researchers at Which? have found which Chinese-made appliances are able to listen in to your conversations? (WEDNESDAY)

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Which mining company just sold its steelmaking coal business for £850m? (TUESDAY)

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BHP tried and failed recently to buy Anglo American. Anglo American is trying to streamline its operations to make it less of a takeover target. At the moment, it's seen as a bit of a ragbag of assets. As a result, some investors are arguing that it's at a valuation discount as a result meaning that a rich buyer could buy the whole thing and then dispose of assets. If Anglo American manages to sell these assets off itself and crystallise individual businesses then this discount should narrow/disappear, making it a less attractive target.

Who makes Wegovy? (THURSDAY)

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Ely Lilly makes rival drugs Mounjaro and Zepbound.

What does FTC stand for? (THURSDAY)

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The FTC works to prevent fraudulent, deceptive and unfair business practices.

Which posh car maker just announced that it would push it's previously-stated goal of an all-electric line-up from 2030 to 2035? (FRIDAY)

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Bentley is owned by VW and Maybach is a sub-brand of Mercedes-Benz. Rolls-Royce Holdings is an aerospace and defence company. Rolls-Royce Motor Cars has been a wholly-owned subsidiary of BMW since 2003.

What proportion of Goldman Sachs's staff are partners? (FRIDAY)

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Boots has a market share of 19% of the UK's health and beauty market. What market share does John Lewis currently have? (MONDAY)

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M&S is also trying to push this as a growth area. It has a 0.3% market share.

Who owns Sky? (MONDAY)

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Comcast has owned Sky Group since 2018

Who did Hammerson buy back a 50% stake in Southampton's Westquay shopping centre from? (FRIDAY)

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GIC is Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, PIF is Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund and ADIA is the sovereign wealth fund owned by the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.

The Big Weekly Quiz 09/11/24
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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