Current Affairs Quiz - 29 May 2009

At Sha Tin College, we use CAQ as a starter activity to get both IB Economics and IB B&M students thinking about the global business and economic issues that can be applied to their studies. Students really like the competitive nature of these quizzes (who gets the most answers correct – without using the Internet), which serve to make the subjects a little more ‘real’ and engaging.

Feel free to adapt to suit your own country / teaching groups.

So, here we go…(answers at the foot of the page)

1. Which electronics giant has reported its first annual loss in 14 years?

2. Which US company was fined €1.06 billion (HK$11.2 billion) by the European Commission’s competition regulator? Note: this is a European record and more than twice the amount the regulator imposed on Microsoft in an antitrust ruling back in 2004.

3. Manchester United Football Club has signed a £10m (HK$118.2m) sponsorship deal with India’s largest mobile phone network. What is the name of the company?

4. Which British telecoms giant is shedding another 15,000 jobs (having already cut 15,000 jobs last year)?

5. Which company owns the (new) slogan “Lead Ahead”?

6. The latest 25,000-square-metre attraction at Ma Wan Park, Hong Kong (under the Tsing Ma Bridge) opened last weekend. What is the name of the attraction?

7. Which Southwest Asian country celebrates it National Day on May 22nd (Hint: capital city is Sana’a )?

8. Which company uses the slogan “Like.no.other”?

9. Which company owns the trademarks: SingStar, Xperia, Memory Stick and Hi-MD?

10. What is the proposed minimum wage for Hong Kong?

11. Which Chinese bank plans to issue 1 trillion yuan in commercial loans within the next 12 months (to boost consumer spending)?

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Answers:
Sony, Intel, Airtel, BT, Intel, Noah’s Ark, Yemen, Sony, Sony, $31 – $33, ICBC