Here is this week’s Business News Quiz! To use this resource with your own A Level classes, print off the Word version (which includes answers and weblinks).
- Mining firm Xstrata has formally announced plans to merge with Glencore, the world’s biggest commodity trader, how much is the deal worth?
$90bn ( )
$100bn ( )
$80m ( )
$70m ( )
- Which TV & broadband company reports £48m profit in fourth quarter of 2011?
Talk Talk ( )
Virgin media ( )
BT ( )
Sky ( ) - Which low cost airline has reported a net profit of 14.9m euros ($19.6m; £12.5m) in the last three months of 2011, thanks to higher fares and better weather than the same period a year earlier?
Flybe ( )
Jet 2 ( )
Easyjet ( )
Ryanair ( ) - Who with revenues of 480m euros (£401m) topped the Deloitte league table of the world’s richest football clubs for the seventh straight year?
Real Madrid ( )
Manchester United ( )
Bayern Munich ( )
Arsenal ( ) - Why has aircraft maker Airbus has been ordered to check the wings of all A380 superjumbo planes currently in service?
Cracks in them ( )
Wrong metal used ( )
Adhere to H&S measures ( )
Holes in them ( ) - Diageo has reported a rise in half-year profits as demand for its global brands continues to grow in emerging markets, in what industry do they operate?
Tobacco ( )
Drinks ( )
Commodities ( )
Mobile phones ( ) - The chief executive of Lovefilm is to become head of childcare at which major retailer?
House of Fraser ( )
Mama’s & Papa’s ( )
kiddicare.com ( )
Mothercare ( ) - Daily voucher company Groupon has reported an unexpected loss of how much?
$17.7m ( )
$22.7m ( )
$42.7m ( )
$32.7m ( ) - A pay freeze for MPs, voted through in the Commons last year, will be extended until when?
2015/16 ( )
2014/15 ( )
2013/14 ( )
2012/13 ( ) - The company behind the Superdry fashion chain has seen its shares fall by how much after it scaled back its profit forecast for the year?
15% ( )
12% ( )
10% ( )
17% ( )
Donna Jestin
Teacher of Business Studies Notre Dame College & Senior Examiner for AQA
