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Answers to BIV’s 2020 news trivia quiz

BIV’s end-of-year quiz touches on the who, the what and the when of the past 12 months
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1: Kevin Desmond

2: Selina Robinson, Carole James, Joy McPhail

3: Tamara Vrooman, Craig Richmond

4: Coal, lumber, copper

5: 1983

6: Atlin

7: Gordon Fyfe

8: Glacier Media Inc. (TSX:GVC)

9: Santa Ono, Joy Johnson and Kathy Kinloch

10: Terry Teegee, of the Takla Lake First Nation

11: North Vancouver

12: Seaspan Corp., now a subsidiary of Atlas Corp. (NYSE:ATCO)

13: Waterfront Shipping Co.

14: TerraPower

15: Teekay (NYSE:TK)

16: Hydrogen

17: The Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Dallas Stars

18: Cowichan Valley (The others are Golden Mile Bench, Naramata Bench,   Okanagan Falls and Skaha Bench) 

19: Eight

20: No (Not yet, but the B.C. government has allowed orders to be placed online for pick up at stores)

21: Leone

22: Kingswood Capital Management

23: Foot Locker (NYSE:FL)

24: Malcolm Bromley

25: Well Health Technologies Corp. (TSX:WELL)

26: Oman

27: January

28: Immigration and Customs Enforcement

29: Phoenix Labs

30: Bryan Adams

31: Rogers (TSX:RCI.B)

32: Ballard Power Systems (TSX:BLDP)

33: Alida

34: MasterCard (NYSE:MA)

35: Slack Technologies Inc. (NYSE:WORK)

36: Wet’suwet’en Nation

37: Assembly Technologies Inc.

38: Teck Resources Ltd. (TSX:TECK.B)

39: Sea-to-Sky Gondola

40: Tom Keiser

41: Wine

42: Premium Brands (TSX:PBH)

43: Shahrzad Rafati

44: Battery electric

45: Six (Argentina, China, India, Pakistan, Romania, South Korea) 

46: Coal (Coal was worth $6.7 billion, lumber $4.7 billion, copper $2.9 billion, natural gas $2.7 billion)

47: Five: sockeye, chum, pink, coho, chinook

48: Acuitas Therapeutics

49: Winston Yep

50: North Korea

51: DP4

52: Hamilton Tiger-Cats

53: Chicago, Las Vegas, Los Angeles

54: Wagyu beef

55: Olivia Munn

56: Hong Kong

57: India

58: Paul Evans and Yves Tiberghien

59: Tim Brook

60: Surrey

See the questions at https://biv.com/article/2020/12/biv-quiz-time-test-your-bc-2020-business-news-knowledge