During breaks between parades and football games, here’s a productive way to spend time on New Year’s Day: Ben Schott of The New York Times has produced “The Year in Questions.” Challenge yourself. It’s a news quiz and, while some of the answers are obvious, many are difficult.
Here are some of the questions that have a personal finance or money-related bent.
First off, you have to match the person with a notable statement that person made in 2013. Try this one:
If you are going to have a couple of drinks, you stay at home and that’s it. You don’t make a public spectacle of yourself.
Who said this during a career meltdown? “Inappropriate and hurtful language is totally, totally unacceptable.”
Now, try to answer these questions. We’ve provided a category for each question that might also include a hint.
- Entertainment: “What unusual beat did The Denver Post hire Ricardo Baca to cover?”
- Food safety: “What animal’s meat was found to have contaminated food across Europe?”
- Pay equity: “What country voted against limiting executive pay to 12 times that of the lowest-paid employees?”
- Social media: “Who was ‘Carlos Danger’?”
- College costs: “Chegg began trading on the New York Stock Exchange; what does the company provide?”
- Gadgets: “What are the 5C and 5S?”
- Money: “What was redesigned to feature a ‘color-changing bell in an inkwell?”
Go ahead and try the entire quiz. It’s fun. You can find all of the answers here.
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