2010年12月18日星期六

Business quiz 2010: part in pictures

In the these final instalment of our festive quiz, let's see if these pictures help you remember the business and economic events of 2010。


  1. 1.What did this sportsman campaign against?
    Eric Cantona
  2. 2.What did this man clash with China over?
     Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner testifies on Capitol Hill
  3. 3.Why was a plaque from Lehman Brothers' HQ in the news?
    Lehman Brothers sale
  4. 4.What happened to 'rogue trader' Jerome Kerviel?
    Jerome Kerviel
  5. 5.Who employed 'fabulous' Fabrice Tourre, the trader whose flamboyant emails were crucial to a $1bn fraud case?
    Fabrice Tourre of The Goldman Sachs Group testifies on Capitol Hill.
  6. 6.Who, pictured, is Britain's new trade minister?
    Stephen Green Group Chairman of HSBC
  7. 7.Which company is this American now running?
    BP Managing Director Bob Dudley poses for the media outside BP's headquarters in London
  8. 8.This CEO is leaving which bank, after missing out on the chairmanship?
    HSBC's Michael Geoghegan
  9. 9.And what did this CEO used to manage?
    New Marks and Spencer boss Marc Bolland
  10. 10.And finally, what did this man persuade Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg do to?
    Warren Buffett. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images

A bus passes the Bank of England in London.

The Bank of England in London: who has voted for a rate rise, and what is the QE programme worth? Photograph: Simon Dawson/Getty Images
  1. 1.Who is the only member of the Bank of England's MPC to vote to raise interest rates this year?
  2. 2.What is the Bank of England's QE programme worth?
  3. 3.UK unemployment reached what level this year?
  4. 4.For how many months this year did CPI inflation come within the government's target?
  5. 5.Which of these measures was announced in Ireland's austerity fiscal plan in November?
  6. 6.Which country waded into the foreign exchange markets in October to devalue its own currency?
  7. 7.Which Republican presidential hopeful criticised the Federal Reserve's foray into quantitative easing?
  8. 8.Which sector was credited with driving the UK's surprisingly strong GDP growth early this year?
  9. 9.What did World Bank president Robert Zoellick claim would help restore the global economy to health?
  10. 10.Which of these countries emerged from recession at the start of December?
    1. Asil Nadir was in the news after his dramatic return to the UK. But is he one of the correct answers in our business quiz? Photograph: Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images
      1. 1.Who wanted his life back?
      2. 2.Who quit the Office for Budget Responsibility after just three months?
      3. 3.And where was replacement Robert Chote recruited from?
      4. 4.Who faced taxing criticism after swapping Monaco for Westminster?
      5. 5.Who told MPs that Mervyn King was too political?
      6. 6.Which economist joined the Red Knights bidding to take over Manchester United?
      7. 7.Who is Todd Combs?
      8. 8.Who topped the FTSE 100 bosses pay league in 2010, taking home £90m in cash and share options?
      9. 9.Who took on Citigroup in a high-profile court case, and lost?
      10. 10.What did Ajai Chopra do?

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