Easter Quiz

Bull and Bear are exhausted following their eleven-part series on the property market. Instead, this weekend, they have set a short, and sweet, Easter Quiz. The answers are below.

  1. Where and when was the largest-ever Easter egg (shown above) made?

  2. What is the record number of Cadbury Crème Eggs eaten in one minute?

  3. Which Tech start-up was founded on this day in 1975 in Albuquerque, New Mexico?

  4. Which UK pop group won the Eurovision Song Contest on this day in 1981?

  5. UK 10-year bond yields closed on Thursday at 0.80%. What were they on 3 April 2020?

  6. Golf courses were allowed to re-open last week. How many courses are there in the UK and how many happy property investment managers are there now as a result?

Let us know if you get them all right (without peeping at the answers!). When we return on Sunday, 11 April, The Weekly will be in a new format.

Have a great Easter.
 
Answers:

  1. The Guinness World Record was awarded in 2019 to Assciacao Visite Pomerode in Santa Catarina Brazil. It stands 15.12 metres tall and has a diameter of 8.72 metres.

  2. Canadian, Peter Czerwinski managed to eat six Cadbury Crème Eggs in one minute on 11 April 2014.

  3. Microsoft. It now has a market cap of $1.7 trillion. The founders, Bill Gates and Paul Allen were nineteen and twenty-two respectively when they set up the business.

  4. Bucks Fizz with ‘Making Your Mind Up’. The UK has won the contest 5 times and been runner-up 15 times. Only Ireland (7) and Sweden (6) have won it more times. The UK has been placed bottom on 3 occasions with Jemini receiving the dreaded nul points in 2003.

  5. Ten-year gilt yields are now 0.80%. They were 0.13% on 3 April 2020. They reached a low of 0.08% on 3 August – ten times lower than they are today. The sharp sell-off reflects growing concern over rising inflation. Meanwhile, the FTSE 100 has risen from 5415 a year ago to 6737 on Thursday (+24.41%).

  6. In total there are 3,170 golf courses in the UK of which 2,270 are in England, 614 in Scotland, 186 in Wales and 100 in Northern Ireland. There are a similar number in Japan. Otherwise, only the US have more with 16,752. We don’t know exactly how many property investment managers play golf in the UK but we do know that the team at St Bride’s Managers are very happy (Easter) bunnies!