Earlier than Financial institution Underground goes off on its Christmas holidays, it’s time for the Annual Financial institution Underground Christmas Quiz! We hope you take pleasure in testing your information on our festive themed questions on economics, finance and all issues central banking…
1) The G-funk traditional ‘Regulate’ was a 1994 hit for whom?
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2) Ebenezer Scrooge’s creditworthiness at which Sq. Mile monetary establishment is talked about within the opening strains of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol?
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3) Former Financial institution of England Governor Montagu Norman was such a daily traveller from Victoria on his overseas journeys that the Financial institution’s archives doc him giving Christmas items to officers from the Southern Railway. What did he purchase them?
4) What was the reindeer themed identify of the Reichsbank’s president throughout Germany’s Twenties hyperinflation episode?
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5) Which of those English soccer groups has not been referred to as the ‘Financial institution of England Membership’ in some unspecified time in the future as a result of their seemingly limitless wealth?
6) This time final 12 months analysis instructed that 49% of Brits would spend much less on Christmas presents. The primary purpose was the influence of the pandemic on their funds (35%). What was the second most frequent response?
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7) This 12 months all of the discuss is of ‘provide shortages’ resulting in a scarcity of Christmas presents. However when was the well-known ‘Cabbage Patch Doll’ disaster, the place a scarcity of the dolls which are ‘so ugly they’re cute’ led to fights breaking out in shops and a black market the place dad and mom have been paying 2 or 3 occasions the face worth of the dolls simply so their kids wouldn’t be upset?
8) UK commerce statistics are labeled utilizing the Widespread Nomenclature (CN) classification system. Christmas timber are traded underneath the CN 8-digit code ‘06042020 Christmas Timber’. What share of whole UK exports in 2016 was on this product group?
Right. Supply: Financial institution calculations primarily based on knowledge from UK HMRC Abroad Commerce Statistics.
9) In accordance with estimates by monetary companies firm PNC, which of the next items from the traditional vacation tune, ‘The twelve days of Christmas’ has risen in value probably the most in share phrases between 2019 and 2021?
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10) Sadly there isn’t a Christmas Tree Financial institution, however which different arboreal associated identify beneath is NOT a financial institution authorised within the UK?
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11) ISO nation codes are internationally acknowledged codes that designate each nation. What’s the Alpha-3 ISO Code for the Christmas Islands?
12) Which central financial institution, the oldest on its continent, celebrated its centenary this 12 months?
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13) Which British economist attributed to Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, in a ebook revealed simply earlier than Christmas in 1919, that ‘[t]right here isn’t any subtler, no surer technique of overturning the present foundation of society than to debauch the forex’?
14) Which of the next is the primary sentence from the primary chapter of the primary ebook from Adam Smith’s ‘The Wealth of Nations’?
Incorrect. Enjoyable Reality: It’s the first sentence from ‘Introduction and Plan of the Work’.
Right. It’s the first sentence from Chapter 1 of Ebook One.
Incorrect. Enjoyable Reality: It’s the first sentence from Chapter 1 of Ebook Three.
Incorrect. Enjoyable Reality: It’s the first sentence of Chapter 3 of Ebook One.
