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Family quiz answers

Family quiz - September 2020

  1. Donald Duck bowtie is red
  2. Thomas Cromwell's wife was called Elizabeth
  3. “你好" means "hello" 👋 in Chinese
  4. "Yay" is printed
  5. Rowan Atkinson had a small part in Never Say Never Again
  6. Graham Atkinson with 107
  7. George Washington did (in a speech drafted by Alexander Hamilton)
  8. The Security Council of the United Nations only has five permanent members - China, France, Russia, the UK and the US. Germany is currently one of the ten additional, temporary members which hold their seats on a rotating basis by geographic region.
  9. Most expensive project (in today's money)?
    1. Manhattan project: $27.5 billion
    2. Apollo: $150 billion (https://www.pigeonroost.net/apollo-program-vs-manhattan-project/)
    3. V2: $29.1 billion (cost was at $2 billion in 1944, so 2,000,000,000 x (255.7 / 17.6) = 2,000,000,000 x 14.53 = 29,060,000,000)
    4. HS2: $135.1 billion (new forecast of £106bn in USD)
  10. They are volleyball techniques

CPI in 1944 is 17.6.

CPI in 2019 is 255.7

https://www.minneapolisfed.org/about-us/monetary-policy/inflation-calculator/consumer-price-index-1913

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