The Biz Quiz 18 November 2011 Questions

1. Sir Richard Branson has just paid 747million to buy a business. Which one? ( )British Midland Airlines ( )HMV ( )Northern Rock ( )Everything Everywhere

2. Who is being sued in a high profile court case by business rival Boris Berezovsky? ( )Ivor Adenough ( )Lord Sugar ( )Hazan Mingefacker ( )Roman Abramovich

3. A group of businesses is urging the complete removal of which tax? ( )Stamp Duty ( )Air Passenger Duty ( )Whisky Duty ( )Estate Agent Commission Tax

4. The Airmiles reward scheme has been re-launched under the name of... ( )Adios ( )Ripioff ( )Avios ( )Offerz

5. Warren Buffett has paid $10billion for a 5.4% stake in... ( )Facebook ( )Coca-Cola ( )Twitter ( )IBM

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6. According to the CIPD, UK employers are reluctant to hire new employees mainly because they... ( )Lack confidence about future demand ( )Fear too many applications ( )Don't know how to advertise properly

( )Want to hire free interns

7. UK music firm EMI has said it will sell its recorded music unit for 1.2bn to ( )Paul McCartney ( )Universal Music ( )Spotify ( )Apple iTunes

8. Google has launched a music service to rival iTunes. What is it called? ( )Google Music ( )Google Sounds ( )G-Songs ( )iMusic

9. Which troubled transport firm has been put into liquidation? ( )Kingfisher Air ( )Seafrance ( )Hoverspeed ( )Grand Central Line

10. Youth unemployment in the UK has passed what terrible milestone? ( )10% of all young people ( )1 million unemployed ( )500,000 unemployed ( )2 million unemployed

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Answers
1 Northern Rock 2 Roman Abramovich 3 Air Passenger Duty 4 Avios 5 IBM 6 Lack confidence about future demand 7 Universal Music 8 Google Music 9 Seafrance 10 1 million unemployed

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