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    The document is a quiz containing 10 multiple choice questions about recent business and economic news. It tests the reader's knowledge on topics like a Competition Commission report on grocery retailing, the sale of publishing rights to the Guinness Book of Records for £60m, Natasha Kaplinsky becoming the first newsreader to earn £1m per year, Rupert Murdoch's company entering the battle to acquire Yahoo, and British Airways passengers being eligible for refunds of price surcharges. The answers are provided at the end.

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    The document is a quiz containing 10 multiple choice questions about recent business and economic news. It tests the reader's knowledge on topics like a Competition Commission report on grocery retailing, the sale of publishing rights to the Guinness Book of Records for £60m, Natasha Kaplinsky becoming the first newsreader to earn £1m per year, Rupert Murdoch's company entering the battle to acquire Yahoo, and British Airways passengers being eligible for refunds of price surcharges. The answers are provided at the end.

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    The document is a quiz containing 10 multiple choice questions about recent business and economic news. It tests the reader's knowledge on topics like a Competition Commission report on grocery retailing, the sale of publishing rights to the Guinness Book of Records for £60m, Natasha Kaplinsky becoming the first newsreader to earn £1m per year, Rupert Murdoch's company entering the battle to acquire Yahoo, and British Airways passengers being eligible for refunds of price surcharges. The answers are provided at the end.

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    Biz Quiz 170208

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    arsha
    The document is a quiz containing 10 multiple choice questions about recent business and economic news. It tests the reader's knowledge on topics like a Competition Commission report on grocery retailing, the sale of publishing rights to the Guinness Book of Records for £60m, Natasha Kaplinsky becoming the first newsreader to earn £1m per year, Rupert Murdoch's company entering the battle to acquire Yahoo, and British Airways passengers being eligible for refunds of price surcharges. The answers are provided at the end.

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    The Biz Quiz - 17 February 2008

    Questions

    1. The Competition Commission has just published its long-awaited report into:

    ( )Why there is only one Competition ( )Grocery retailing


    Commission

    ( )Banking charges ( )Mobile phone charges

    2. The right to publish the world's bestselling copyright book has just been sold for £60m. What is
    the book?

    ( )The Guinness Book of Records ( )The Anglican Bible

    ( )The Kama Sutra ( )The Highway Code

    3. The first newsreader to earn a salary of £1m a year starts work this week. Who is he/she?

    ( )Natasha Kaplinsky ( )Kate Garraway

    ( )Andrew Castle ( )Trevor McDonald

    4. Rupert Murdoch's News International has entered the battle to acquire:

    ( )MySpace ( )Bebo

    ( )Yahoo ( )FHM magazine

    5. People who flew long-haul with British Airways or Virgin Atlantic between 11 August 2004 and
    23 March 2006 will be eligible for:

    ( )10,000 free air miles ( )A refund of a price surcharge

    ( )A free flight to Dubai ( )Free meals on their next flight


    6. Which club has retained the title of the richest football club in the world?

    ( )Cheltenham Town ( )Real Madrid

    ( )Manchester United ( )Chelsea

    7. Why will low-cost airline Ryanair shut down its website for three days in late February 2008?

    ( )In protest against new European legislation ( )To test an experiment with telesales only

    ( )To upgrade its reservations systems ( )Because all of its flights in March 2008 are
    now full

    8. The government is planning to impose more taxes on rich foreigners who are known as:

    ( )"Free-loaders" ( )"Tom-Toms"

    ( )"Non-doms" ( )"Russian Exiles"

    9. Road haulage operators have urged the Chancellor of the Exchequer not to:

    ( )Fund a new runway at Heathrow ( )Raise fuel taxes

    ( )Increase interest rates ( )Impose a congestion charge on vans and


    lorries in UK cities

    10. Polaroid has announced that it is to stop producing...

    ( )television adverts; from now-on it will only ( )cameras for export to China
    advertise online

    ( )the film for its instant cameras ( )photocopiers


    Answers

    1 Grocery retailing

    2 The Guinness Book of Records

    3 Natasha Kaplinsky

    4 Yahoo

    5 A refund of a price surcharge

    6 Real Madrid

    7 To upgrade its reservations systems

    8 "Non-doms"

    9 Raise fuel taxes

    10 the film for its instant cameras

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