Quiz #147: 16-22 January

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The answers to this week's quiz will be published on this website on 23 January. Good luck!

If you missed the answers to the bumper quiz in our final issue of 2016, here they are again:

1. Where are the Opec headquarters located?
Vienna, Austria

2. True or false? Filipe Nyusi is the president of Angola.
False, Filipe Nyusi is the president of Mozambique.

3. US President-elect Donald Trump wants to cancel the order to manufacture more Air Force One planes. Which manufacturer is involved?
Boeing

4. Who is the prime minister of Japan?
Shinzo Abe

5. In which month did the US presidential election take place?
November

6. True or false?  Angela Merkel is the president of Germany.
False, she is the chancellor of Germany.

7. True or false? French politician Marine Le Pen is a member of The Republicans (Les Républicains) party.
False, she is a member of the National Front/Front National.

8. Which of these countries do not border Iraq?
Israel 

9. In monetary policy, what does QE stand for?
Quantitative easing

Bonus questions in magazine:

10. Former Northern Cape ANC chairman John Block was handed a jail term for corruption and money laundering. How long is his sentence?
Fifteen years

11. In which country is Tencent headquartered?
China

12. Who is the chair of the IMF?
Christine Lagarde

13. Who is the Springbok coach?
Allister Coetzee

14. Name the 24-hour news channel that belongs to the Gupta family.
ANN7

15. What is the European Space Agency Mars lander, which crashed on the red planet in October, called?
ExoMars Schiaparelli

16. In which Asian country has the government withdrawn high-denomination notes in an attempt to crack down on the shadow economy?
India

17. True or false? Trevor Noah interviewed outgoing US President Barack Obama.
True.

18. Who is the president of Nigeria?
Muhammadu Buhari

19. What is the group of SABC employees, who were dismissed shortly after protesting against censorship by the public broadcaster, called? (Members of this group have since been testifying before a Parliamentary committee investigating the SABC.)
The SABC 8

20. True or false? Kuala Lumpur is the capital of the Philippines. 
False, it is the capital of Malaysia.

21. Which of the following is not a property company?
Sanofi

22. True or false? The capital of Norway is Reykjavík.
False, the capital of Norway is Oslo.

23. In financial jargon, what does HEPS stand for?
Headline earnings per share

24. As a temporary measure, the department of basic education has lowered the pass mark for mathematics so that certain learners can pass and move on to the next grade. What is the pass mark?
20%

25. True or false? The CEO of Sibanye Gold is Neal Froneman.
True.

26. Which television and film awards ceremony takes place in the US in January?
The Golden Globe Awards

27. What currency does Scotland use?
Pound sterling

28. The Kariba Dam is situated between Zimbabwe and which other country?
Zambia

29. True or false? The president of Taiwan is female.
True.

30. Who is the CEO of Apple?
Tim Cook