Business News Quiz 5

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Why have Walmart found lunch to be so expensive?

	They have to provide nutritious food for all their workers
	Human Rights legislation means Walmart has to provide vegetarian, Halal and Kosher options in all their canteens
	Walmart has been ordered to pay £99m to workers who were refused lunchbreaks
	3 workers suffering from food poisoning have successfully sued Walmart for not providing a safe eating environment

Who or what will close on a Xmas high?

	A driver who failed the breathalyser has successfully claimed the readings were distorted by his cannabis addiction
	School pupils in London schools who have been given an extra 4 days holiday if there is a Tube strike
	FTSE
	David Beckham who has just won the ‘World Marketing Award for the most Brandable Footballer’

Who has just bought 200 Unwin stores?

	Virgin
	Threshers
	An anonymous winner of £60m on the Lottery
	Easyjet

Which company has just added 20 planes to its fleet?

	Easyjet
	Virgin
	BA
	Ryanair

The current account deficit is now reached a record high of £10.2bn ($17.7bn) in the third quarter of 2005. This is because:

	Hurricane Katrina and oil imports
	An accounting error – we are a net oil exporter
	Sustained economic growth
	A revaluation of the Chinese Yuan

Who has just bought the shoe retailer Stead and Simpson for £50m?

	Clark’s
	Reebok
	The management
	Adidas

According to reports what is tempting women to ‘spend, spend, spend’ at Christmas?

	Financial independence
	A low interest rate
	Gadgets
	A high divorce rate

Which Broadband phone company has raised $250m (£142m) to help finance the expansion of its network.

	Skype
	Vonage
	BT
	NTL

The attempt to allow drilling for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) has been blocked by … ?

	Animal rights protesters
	Thousands of penguins refusing to move
	The US Senate
	President Bush

Why has Britain cut the amount of direct aid it gives to Uganda by £15m ($26m)?

	The costs of the Iraq War mean budgets have been cut
	Concerns about the country's slow progress to democracy
	The funds transfer was blocked by the United Nations
	The rise in the exchange rate means the aid has not in fact, been cut: in dollar terms