Brief Quiz №22: Rockets, resilience and misplaced car keys

This week a country tested a missile to ward off enemies and a global organization launched a bond to fight pandemics. What if they, like, switched? Don’t get dispelled by nuclear war. Test your Influence IQ with this week’s Brief Quiz.

a. Sheer compliance: Meet Basel III’s stringent liquidity requirements.

b. Sheer prevention: for a missile defense system.

c. Sheer chance. There’s so much cash out there, no harm in taking it. We’ll figure it out later.

d. For a women’s livelihood bond.

Two. What did Lok Capital come back to investors?

a. $65 million it was incapable to deploy.

b. Lost car keys found in parking lot at limited-partner day.

d. $65 million in principal from its 2nd fund, after four exits.

Three. In two or three decades, how will most American babies be made?

a. Uh oh. Awkward.

b. The old-fashioned way.

c. Using drones. Don’t ask.

d. By selecting embryos from a DNA lab.

Four. What have we learned about Brazilian influence investors?

a. They can be from Brazil.

b. Which means they are sometimes not from Brazil.

c. Albeit let’s not exclude any possibility.

d. They are resilient and optimistic, just like you if you’re still reading.

Five. The World Bank launched a bond! To do what?

a. See how far it would go.

b. Ripple its muscle and demonstrate it could.

c. Finance green stuff. It’s getting repetitive…

d. To fight infectious disease pandemics (are you following?)

6. What’s the latest idea for SDG №14, ocean conservation?

a. Give up. It’s too late.

b. Expand definition of oceans to increase political perceptions of success.

c. Aerial ejaculating of Pepcid-like substance to decrease acidity.

d. A Hippocratic Oath.

7. Who’s meeting in Chicago this coming week?

a. Trump and Putin.

b. Ness and Capone.

c. The Sisterhood of Chicago-Style Deep-Pan Pizza Paramours.

d. The Global Steering Group of sixteen countries with national advisory boards for influence investing.

8. Big news in Switzerland! what is it?

a. They’re eventually joining the EU.

b. The motorway vignette will now come in a range of pastel colors.

c. Climate switch means lengthened ski seasons.

d. Swiss Re is completing the switch of $130 billion to ESG benchmarks.

This Brief Quiz is over. You may now resume your reading of scary and cynical news about frequently heinous behavior. Until next week.

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