FTNB Live! News Trivia at FT Weekend Fest
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 19 May 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
A special live recording of the FT News Briefing at the FT Weekend Festival in Washington, DC on May 4, 2024. Our wonderful colleagues played a friendly game of news trivia. How does your knowledge stack up?
The FT News Briefing is produced by Fiona Symon, Sonja Hutson, Kasia Broussalian and Marc Filippino. Additional help by Breen Turner, Sam Giovinco, Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Our engineer is Monica Lopez. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music.
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| 0:00.0 | BP is working to roll out EV charging hubs in the UK and we're keeping oil and gas |
| 0:06.1 | flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. |
| 0:11.8 | While today we're mostly in oil and gas. |
| 0:14.6 | We increased the proportion of our global annual investment |
| 0:17.4 | that went into our lower carbon and other transition businesses |
| 0:20.6 | from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in 2023. |
| 0:25.8 | BP.com slash and not all. |
| 0:28.8 | Hey there, it's Mark Filipino coming to you on a Sunday morning with a special |
| 0:36.3 | F.T. news briefing episode. The F.T. had its annual weekend festival |
| 0:40.6 | earlier this month in Washington, D.C. and we kicked things off with a little |
| 0:45.0 | news trivia. It was so much fun that we figured we would share it with you all. |
| 0:49.6 | It was hosted by the briefing's guest host and producer Sonia Hudson and I got to kick back and relax as one of the contestants this year |
| 0:57.8 | Now we weren't keeping score, but I'm pretty sure that I won. So here we go |
| 1:02.1 | FT Weekend Fest Trivia, live from DC. Good morning. Welcome to the Effie Weekend Festival. I'm super excited to be |
| 1:17.2 | back. We're gonna start off with a little quiz show, a little trivia, to |
| 1:21.8 | get things going. I'm Sonia Hudson, producer and guest host |
| 1:25.4 | of the FT news briefing podcast. We are a daily news show that covers the |
| 1:30.8 | biggest stories in about 10 minutes or less every day Monday |
| 1:33.6 | through Friday and then on Saturdays we do a US politics chat show called Swamp Notes |
| 1:38.6 | so check it out if you have it already. We've got four rounds of this trivia. There are no rules, there are no points, so everyone gets a trophy. |
| 1:47.0 | And without further ado, I will introduce our contestants. |
| 1:51.0 | We have Mark Filipino, of the F.T. |
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