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The Big Weekly Quiz 🚀 😭 👋 23/11/24

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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BP has just given the go-ahead for a $7bn gas project that will be its first ever carbon capture, utilisation and storage project. Where? (FRIDAY)

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Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG) is in advanced talks to buy which crypto trading venue? (TUESDAY)

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How much money did Santander UK set aside this week for the car finance scandal? (THURSDAY)

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This is obviously a cautionary measure as the Supreme Court still has to make a final decision as to when and how compensation might have to be made in regard to the car finance mis-selling scandal. BMW recently said that it had set aside £70m.

When did Reddit float? (TUESDAY)

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Since its IPO, its share price has quadrupled!

Nvidia is thought to have roughly what sort of market share in AI chips? (THURSDAY)

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What's the name of the SEC head who announced that they'd resign on January 20th, the moment Trump takes office? (FRIDAY)

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Gensler has been a major critic of crypto and has sued the likes of Coinbase, Kraken and Binance. SBF of FTX must be cursing his luck in jail. If ONLY he had managed to hang on until Trump became president! Lina Khan is the head of the FTC (monitors competition and consumer protection) and Robert Califf is the head of the FDA (monitors food and drug safety).

Over 50% of Walmart's sales come from groceries. What proportion is it for rival retailer Target? (THURSDAY)

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This is probably why Walmart had great results and Target didn't! When consumers are feeling the pinch, they keep spending on groceries but they cut back on discretionary items.

Name the world's biggest lithium producer. (MONDAY)

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What proportion of the needs of US nuclear power plants for enriched uranium are met by supplies from Russia? (WEDNESDAY)

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Who currently owns CNBC and Sky? (WEDNESDAY)

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Who owns Temu? (FRIDAY)

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Research by Savills forecasts rents in the UK to rise by what amount over the next five years? (WEDNESDAY)

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What has Apple proposed to do to reverse an iPhone 16 ban in Indonesia? (THURSDAY)

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Roughly what proportion of Hasbro's products are China-made currently? (MONDAY)

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Hasbro is aiming for this to hit 20% within four years

Which country has the fourth biggest trade surplus with the US after China, Mexico and the EU? (MONDAY)

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Europe and Japan spend about 0.6% of their GDP on luxury goods while South Korea spends about 0.8%. What proportion of GDP does the US spend on luxury goods at the moment? TUESDAY)

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Who owns Sephora? (MONDAY)

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Sephora used to have a presence in the UK but then left in 2005. It seems that it's now making up for lost time with its plans to add 20 new UK stores to its existing six!

The latest ONS figures show what percentage of farms in England made a loss in 2023-24? (WEDNESDAY)

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Which Indian conglomerate founder had US civil and criminal charges brought against him this week by the DoJ and SEC for alleged involvement in a $265m bribery scheme? (FRIDAY)

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Mukesh Ambani is the chairman and MD of Reliance Industries. Natarajan Chandrasekaran is the chairman of Tata Sons and Tata Group.

What does Begbies Traynor do? (TUESDAY)

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The Big Weekly Quiz 23/11/24
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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