Commercial Awareness Quiz - March 2020

When did WHO chief Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus declare the coronavirus as a pandemic?
- 11th March
- 20th February
- 20th March
- 5th March

Across the subsequent week in March, by how many million did Britain’s blue-chip companies lose value?
- £250m
- £210m
- £100m
- £350m

Typically pension funds have what percentage of their investments in stock markets?
- 20-30%
- 50-60%
- 60-70%
- 75%

What did economists at the Centre for Business and Economic Research predict Britain’s unemployment rate to soar to?
- 2.8m out of work
- 1m out of work
- 10m out of work
- 3.5m out of work

Roughly what percentage of Brits are likely to be unemployed as a result of measures put in place in March and April?
- 5%
- 10%
- 15%
- 8%

Which Italian restaurant chain filed for administration in March?
- Pizza Express
- Ask Italian
- Zizzi
- Carluccio’s

Which airline’s largest shareholder has repeatedly stressed their reluctance for the aviation industry to rely on state aid?
- Virgin Atlantic
- easyJet
- British Airways
- Flybe

On the 11th March, Chancellor Rishi Sunak delivered the Budget which has since been labelled as ‘the largest fiscal loosening’ since 1992. This was before some of the measures were extend further to strengthen the UK’s response to the coronavirus. What was the initial coronavirus package?
- £30bn
- £100m
- £50m
- £15m

Sunak announced that small businesses who are interrupted will be give loans of up to how much?
- £2.5m
- £50k
- £1.2m
- £2m

Sunak also announced a 2% digital services tax. What does this mean?
- A levy which will affect the revenues of search engines, social media services and online marketplaces
- A levy which affects all businesses who have an online platform
- A tax break for companies who the government deem essential to the development of technology in the country
- All digital service providers will be looked after by the government while the coronavirus prevents the majority of the population from going to work
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