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Money quiz

From ministers to interest rates, test your knowledge and see if you're up-to-date on current money matters both serious and fun

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July 2008 Quiz

Q1) Who's the Chancellor of the Exchequer?

Eddie George

Alistair Darling

George Osbourne

Q2) What are interest rates currently set at?

5.5%

Q3) Which Spanish bank recently bought troubled Alliance & Leicester?

Paribas

Madrid

Santander

Q4) What's the maximum amount of the cash you have with a bank or building society (per institution) that the Government guarantees if that company goes bust?

�28,000

�33,000

�35,000

Q5) What's the current official rate of unemployment?

5.2%

6.2%

8.2%

Q6) What's the basic rate of tax that the majority of taxpayers in the UK pay?

10%

20%

30%

Q7) What is the name of the US bank that recently collapsed?