Businesses and the Economic Crisis

Question 1

The Bank of Nook has slashed interest rates for which fantasy economy to near zero?

Accepted Answer

Animal Crossing

Question 2

According to retail data, prices for which items have fallen in the UK over the last month?

Accepted Answer

Furniture, Clothing, Footwear

Question 3

Walkers, Doritos, 7Up, Lipton iced tea, Quaker Oats and Tropicana are all brands owned by?

Accepted Answer

PepsiCo

Question 4

Disney+ added 50m subscribers in April, 5 months after launch. How long did it take Netflix to do the same on launch?

Accepted Answer

10 years

Question 5

Which business may cut 12,000 jobs as the virus crisis grounds flights?

Accepted Answer

British Airways

Question 6

More companies have suspended or cancelled their dividends so far in 2020 than in the previous 10 years combined.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 7

On this day in 2004: Google WENT public at a valuation of $23 billion. It is now worth more than $1,000 billion.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 8

Airbus has cut production by a third as airline sales slump. In which country is Airbus based?

Accepted Answer

France

Question 9

Virgin Group is providing a £20m loan to help steer which business through the coronavirus pandemic?

Accepted Answer

Virgin Active

Question 10

Zoom is headquartered in San Jose, California. In which year was it founded?

Accepted Answer

2011

Question 11

Since March, who has taken on 100,000 new full & part-time staff, and announced they plan to add 75,000 more?

Accepted Answer

Amazon

Question 12

A survey found that 60-80% of small businesses fail in their first 5 years. The main reason is?

Accepted Answer

They run out of cash

Question 13

Which is Britain's biggest employee-owned business? Their supermarkets have remained open during the crisis.

Accepted Answer

Waitrose/John Lewis

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