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Quiz of the Year 2024: The answers

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Quiz of the Year 2024: The answersPublished on January 9, 2025

Did you try your hand at our Quiz of the Year 2024 and want to know your score? You can find all the answers below. We'll be in touch with the winner shortly.

Round 1: The year in review

1.The price of coffee and cocoa soared in 2024, with the coffee spot price up over 60 per cent as of 11 December. What was the year-to-date return for the cocoa spot as of the same date?

A 55%

B 80%

C 130%

D 190%

 

2. In May, Canadian pension fund Omers wrote off its investment in Thames Water. In what year did it first buy in to the struggling utility?

2010

2017

2020

2022

 

3. Google lost a high-profile antitrust case in the US in August. Russia also talked tough – in dollars, how much did it fine Google in October for removing Russian channels from YouTube?

2.5 billion

2.5 trillion

2.5 quadrillion

2.5 decillion

 

4. Domestic private sector DB schemes held over 30 per cent of assets in UK equities as of 2006. What was the estimated figure in 2023, per the DWP?

Less than 2%

Less than 5%

Less than 10%

Less than 12%

 

5. Elections were held in several major developed economies in 2024. As of current estimates, which of these nations saw the highest turnout?

UK 

US: 

France 

Japan

 

6. National Grid announced a £7bn rights issue in the spring to fund energy transition costs, the largest in the UK since a financial-crisis era equity raise by whom?

Barclays

HBOS

Lloyds

RBS

 

7. The US economy again avoided the hard landing that some had feared. This summer, the Dallas Federal Reserve said growth in which of these food categories tends to be a sign of weakness?

Sausages

Baked beans

Eggs

Bananas

 

8. Labour’s first Budget in 14 years was the source of angst for many. How long did chancellor Rachel Reeves take to deliver her speech?

37 minutes

53 minutes

77 minutes

101 minutes

 

9. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol attempted to invoke martial law in early December. How many members of the country’s 300-member parliament voted against the plan?

190

210

230

290

Round 2: Who said what?

"We have so sought to protect people from the downside that we haven’t exposed them to the upside" H Julia Hoggett

"We experienced a perfect storm of things that could go wrong" C Debra Crew

"Inflation is really known as a country buster" D Donald Trump

"The United States of America is the greatest idea humanity ever devised" E Kamala Harris

"To those who have pointed out that [the Budget] will not raise the potential growth rate substantially, my response is “of course not”" G Andrew Bailey

"The share price is crap. I know that's going to be a quote" Bill Winters

"Growth is the challenge, and investment is the solution" A Rachel Reeves

"Every company at its foundation is intelligence – fundamentally every company is an intelligence manufacturer" F Jensen Huang

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