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The Bank Underground Christmas Quiz 2022


Before Bank Underground takes a festive break, it’s time for the Annual Bank Underground Christmas Quiz. Test yourself against our 10 festively themed questions on economics, finance and all things central banking…

1) (Currency) Which festive object appears on the back of a commemorative UK 50p coin?

A Christmas Pudding

A reindeer

A brussels sprout

2) (Commodities) The lighting of the Menorah at the Jewish winter festival of Hanukkah recalls the miracle of a jug of oil burning longer than the day it was expected to last. In this early example of commodity consumption, for how many days in total did the jug of oil keep the lamp lit?

Eight days

Correct. The jug of oil kept the lamp going for a full eight days

Four days

Seven days

Ten days

3) (Monetary Economics) The silver denarius was the main coin used by the Romans in first century Palestine and a key part of the monetary system. In the 15 BCE decree of Caesar Augustus, what was the silver content of the coin?

99%–100%

70%–75%

50%–60%

4) (History of Economic Thought) Which Nobel prize winning economist penned this festive ditty to the tune of Jingle Bells:
 ‘Maximize, maximize, that’s the crucial key; Allocate resources by their productivity; Equalize VMP’s with their price; and Your production function is the finest in the land.’?

Paul Samuelson

Paul Krugman

Ben Bernanke

5) (International Economics) Which country uses the ‘dram’ as its currency?

Mongolia

Uzbekistan

Cambodia

6) (Economic History) How far back in time would you have to go to find wild reindeers walking in the City of London?

Around 1,000 years

Around 100,000 years

Reindeers never lived in England

7)(Macroeconomics) What is the current projection for CPI inflation according to the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Report on Christmas 2024?

0%

3%

There are no projections

8) (Central Banking) Which darts player shares a name with a central banker and walks out to ‘King of Kings’ by Motorhead?

Mervyn ‘The King’ King

‘Helicopter’ Ben Bernanke

Alan ‘The Undertaker’ Greenspan

Mark ‘Carnage’ Carney

9) (Economic Theory) Which economist called simple economic textbook models with neat solutions ‘Santa Claus’ – examples in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech?

Paul Samuelson

Correct. Paul Samuelson used this term in comparing these textbook examples to the richer economic dynamics of reality

Milton Friedman

Paul Krugman

Ben Bernanke

10) (Currency Unions) Which central banker said of the euro ‘Whether one is buying a reindeer skin at one end of the continent or a bottle of suntan lotion at the opposite end, the same banknotes will be used without discrimination’?

Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa

Correct. Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa talked of reindeer in his speech a few months before the introduction of Euro banknotes

Wim Duisenberg

Ottmar Issing

Alexandre Lamfalassuy



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