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The Big Weekly Quiz 😱 🐳 👜 01/02/25

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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It is rumoured that China is currently building a massive military command centre in Beijing. How many times bigger is it said to be versus the Pentagon? (FRIDAY)

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American firm Axle and Manufacturing made a takeover offer worth £1.2bn for which British car parts maker? (THURSDAY)

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Which company just announced that it would be shutting down its flagship store on Oxford Street? (TUESDAY)

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It's closing in February, six years after it first opened.

Name Britain's biggest wealth manager. (FRIDAY)

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What's the name of the process whereby a smaller AI model users the output of a bigger AI model to improve performance? (WEDNESDAY)

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Which company owns brands Rabanne and Jean Paul Gaultier? (FRIDAY)

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Constellation Brands is actually an American beverage company with wine brands including Robert Mondavi and Ruffino along with beer brands such as Corona and Modelo Especial. VF Corporation is an American apparel and footwear company that owns brands including JanSport, Timberland and The North Face.

Which UK supermarket ditched its Aldi and Lidl price-match scheme just a year after it launched? (WEDNESDAY)

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Who owns Guinness? (MONDAY)

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Despite all the DeepSeek drama, what valuation is OpenAI going for now? (FRIDAY)

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OpenAI had an implied valuation of $157bn at its last funding round in October

UK car production fell to its lowest level since when? (THURSDAY)

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Which bank this week announced that it was going to exit investment banking in the UK and Europe to focus on Asia? (WEDNESDAY)

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What does ECM stand for? (WEDNESDAY)

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Chancellor Reeves is currently trying to free up access for companies to pension fund surpluses. How much money could this potentially release for investment? (MONDAY)

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The idea here is to free up money to invest in racier assets that could get bigger returns.

Roughly how many stores is WH Smith trying to offload in an effort to concentrate its efforts on its much more successful travel business? (MONDAY)

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WH Smith first tried to find a buyer back in 2004 and almost did a deal with private equity firm Permira, but it failed because of disagreement over what to do about the £250m gaping hole in its pension fund.

When did Amazon Fresh launch in the UK? (MONDAY)

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It's first store was in Ealing!

Stats from Rightmove showed that rents across the UK - outside London - FELL for the first time in how long? (TUESDAY)

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Most of the new launches will be electric.

Which high street bank announced the closure of an additional 136 branches? (THURSDAY)

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What's the name of DeepSeek's model that caused all the kerfuffle this week? (TUESDAY)

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Which two Baltic countries this week promised to spend MORE than 5% of their GDP on defence? (TUESDAY)

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NATO's current defence spending target is 2% of GDP, but this is expected to rise to 3% or 3.5% when it meets at its June summit.

A report by Water UK said that household water bills in the UK are going to rise by an average of what percentage this year? (THURSDAY)

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The Big Weekly Quiz 01/02/25
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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