So this is quizmas: our inaugural holiday face-off
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The Economist
4.4 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Join our editors and correspondents in a gripping test of recall and reflexes. There are questions on business and politics of course—but also news noises to identify, one saucy limerick and quotes from “The Real Housewives” franchise that frankly no one expected. Which team will take the trophy?
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| 0:00.0 | The Economist. |
| 0:09.7 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 0:13.0 | Most weekdays were doing that thing with perspectives and events and shaping. |
| 0:17.2 | Today, dear listeners, we're doing something very different. |
| 0:28.6 | Thank you. Today, dear listeners, we're doing something very different. See, on the whole, we hear The Economist are big into quizzes. |
| 0:33.1 | Over the years, we've had some staff who, in their off time, were real quiz champions. |
| 0:37.6 | You can see how much we love this stuff in our app, with our weekly news quiz, a crossword, |
| 0:41.8 | both cryptic and standard, our dateline quiz on news history. It goes on. We are, in a word, |
| 0:47.1 | quizzical. So for today's show, we're indulging that inclination in a big way. |
| 0:52.0 | Welcome to our first annual end-of-year quiz show. Can I get a gong or something here? |
| 1:00.1 | Right, before we begin, some introductions are needed. First, we have Rajana Shambog, our business affairs editor, alongside Alex Hearn, our resident AI expert. They will be competing as one team. And you guys have come, I think, with a team name. |
| 1:13.4 | What is it? |
| 1:13.9 | Of course we have, Jason. |
| 1:15.1 | We are called the Jason Palmer fan club. |
| 1:17.4 | This is not an attempt to curry favor with our esteemed quiz master. |
| 1:21.5 | I cry foul. |
| 1:22.9 | Right. |
| 1:23.7 | Wait, while we write that down? |
| 1:26.5 | Bit of a mouthful. |
| 1:28.1 | JPMC. |
| 1:29.3 | Right, we'll go with that. |
| 1:30.5 | JPMFC. |
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