Here is this week’s Business News Quiz! You can print off a Word version (with answers and weblinks) and use it with your classes.
You can download the Word file here.
- The UK’s largest chain of bakeries, Greggs, said profits and sales rose in 2011 as it opened 84 new stores, where are they now planning to open stores?
In school & colleges ( )
At motorway service stations ( )
In Europe ( )
In the USA ( ) - Profits at which airline have plunged 61% from a year earlier, as global economic uncertainty hit demand for passenger travel and cargo shipments?
Cathay Pacific ( )
British Airways ( )
Iberia ( )
Air New Zealand ( ) - A computer glitch saw the new Apple iPad go up for sale for £49.99 on which company’s website?
ASDA( )
Argos( )
Amazon( )
Tesco( ) - After 244 years reference book firm Encyclopaedia Britannica has decided to stop publishing its famous and weighty 32-volume print edition.It will now focus on digital expansion, who is the main online competition for this company?
Yahoo ( )
Ask Jeeves ( )
Wikipedia ( )
Google ( ) - Fashion retailer has said it is reviewing its UK store operations after reporting a sharp fall in profits.Pre-tax profits fell to £5m for the year to 31 January from £8.9m the previous year, as losses widened at its flagship UK stores?
Topshop ( )
French Connection ( )
Primark ( )
Zara ( ) - Samsung has started the process of updating its Galaxy S2 smartphones with the latest version of Android, what is this called?
BLT ( )
Strawberry cheesecake ( )
Raspberry ripple ( )
Ice Cream Sandwich ( ) - UK unemployment rose by how much to 2.67 million during the three months to January, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS)?
28 000 ( )
30 000 ( )
35 000 ( )
38 000 ( ) - Which catalogue company says sales fell 7.7% in its latest trading update?
Argos ( )
Tesco direct ( )
Littlewoods ( )
Simply be ( ) - The boss of Tesco’s UK operation, is stepping down.His departure, after only a year in the job, follows a disappointing Christmas sales period, a fall in market share and a profit warning in January. Who is he?
Phillip Green ( )
Richard Brasher ( )
Terry Leahy ( )
Phillip Clarke ( ) - Who has won the contract to provide Wi-Fi to the London Underground?
Virgin Media ( )
02 ( )
BT ( )
Sky ( )
Donna Jestin
Teacher of Business Studies Notre Dame College & Senior Examiner for AQA
