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Biv News Quiz February 19, 2016

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1. How does the B.C. government plan to help people priced out of Metro Vancouver's housing market?

Relax the rules to allow tiny houses in alleys and driveways

Confiscate all vacant properties and rent them out at reduced rates

Tell people to live in Abbotsford

Exempt home buyers from paying the property transfer tax on new homes worth up to $750,000

Read more about the government's plans to help with housing here: https://www.biv.com/article/2016/2/bc-budget-offers-new-home-buyers-big-incentives/

Explanation

Read more about the government's plans to help with housing here: https://www.biv.com/article/2016/2/bc-budget-offers-new-home-buyers-big-incentives/

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2. Which filmed-in-Vancouver movie smashed box office records the weekend of February 12-14?

Deadpool

The Revenant

Zoolander 2

Hail, Caesar!

Check out more about this smash film here: https://www.biv.com/article/2016/2/made-bc-deadpool-obliterates-box-office-records-us/

Explanation

Check out more about this smash film here: https://www.biv.com/article/2016/2/made-bc-deadpool-obliterates-box-office-records-us/

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3. New international regulations requiring shipping containers to have a verified weight before being loaded onto deep sea freighters are raising concerns in the local shipping sector because:

They will add thousands of dollars per container to the cost of shipping products

They will add another speed bump to the local logistics chain because there are not enough Transport Canada and Measurement... They will add another speed bump to the local logistics chain because there are not enough Transport Canada and Measurement Canada-approved scales to weigh the number of unweighed containers currently flowing through the port

They will limit the range and size of products that can be shipped in containers

They will force shippers to appoint special container weight crews to oversee container packing

Read more about the container weight rules here: https://www.biv.com/article/2016/2/new-shipping-container-weight-rules-raise-new-port/

Explanation

Read more about the container weight rules here: https://www.biv.com/article/2016/2/new-shipping-container-weight-rules-raise-new-port/

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4. When it is completed next year, Surrey's biofuels processing facility will convert collected kitchen and yard waste into renewable natural gas for use in:

Fuelling the city’s natural-gas-powered waste collection trucks

Fuelling natural-gas operations service vehicles

Helping power the district energy system to heat and cool Surrey’s City Centre

All of the above

Read more about this facility here: https://www.biv.com/article/2016/2/green-startup-has-sweet-smell-success/

Explanation

Read more about this facility here: https://www.biv.com/article/2016/2/green-startup-has-sweet-smell-success/

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5. According to BIV's 2016 list of biggest manufacturers in Metro Vancouver, manufacturing windows is bigger than shipbuilding. True or false?

True, in part because of strong demand from the shipbuilding industry

True, due to increasing demand for windows from floating glass houseboats, one of the hottest real estate trends

True, because of demand for windows from China

False

Check out BIV's list of the biggest manufacturers in Metro Vancouver here: https://www.biv.com/datatables/top-100-biggest-manufacturers-in-metro-vancouver-i/

Explanation

Check out BIV's list of the biggest manufacturers in Metro Vancouver here: https://www.biv.com/datatables/top-100-biggest-manufacturers-in-metro-vancouver-i/

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6. What Vancouver cultural institution announced February 15 it had hired a new general director?

Bard on the Beach

The Arts Club

Vancouver Opera

Ballet BC

Read more about Kim Gaynor's new appointment here: https://www.biv.com/article/2016/2/vancouver-opera-appoints-new-general-director-shor/

Explanation

Read more about Kim Gaynor's new appointment here: https://www.biv.com/article/2016/2/vancouver-opera-appoints-new-general-director-shor/

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7. According to a Manulife Investor Sentiment report, which of the following is NOT true when it comes to how British Columbians feel about their investments this year compared with last year?

B.C. has the most optimistic investors in Canada

They are less interested in investing in real estate

They are more interested in saving cash

All of the above

Read more about Manulife's report here: https://www.biv.com/article/2016/2/fewer-british-columbians-seeing-housing-good-inves/

Explanation

Read more about Manulife's report here: https://www.biv.com/article/2016/2/fewer-british-columbians-seeing-housing-good-inves/

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8. What B.C. brokerage this month eliminated its investment banking and wealth management divisions, which was the substantial part of its business?

Odlum Brown

Global Securities Corp.

Leede Financial Markets Inc.

Salman Partners

Find out more about how current conditions are battering brokerage houses here: https://www.biv.com/article/2016/2/broken-business-model-batters-bc-brokerage-houses/

Explanation

Find out more about how current conditions are battering brokerage houses here: https://www.biv.com/article/2016/2/broken-business-model-batters-bc-brokerage-houses/

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9. The benchmark home sales price, for all home types, in Greater Vancouver in January was:

$470,000

$828,000

$1.08 million

$1.8 million

Vancouver's real estate market continued to increase in January. Read more here: https://www.biv.com/article/2016/2/value-vancouver-home-sales-jumps-73-january-crea/

Explanation

Vancouver's real estate market continued to increase in January. Read more here: https://www.biv.com/article/2016/2/value-vancouver-home-sales-jumps-73-january-crea/

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10. When does Uber CEO Travis Kalanick estimate his ride-sharing service will re-enter the Vancouver market?

Less than a year

More than a year

No estimate

Never

Read more about what the head of Uber has to say about Vancouver here: https://www.biv.com/article/2016/2/uber-ceo-says-vancouver-has-rules-need-bend-ride-s/

Explanation

Read more about what the head of Uber has to say about Vancouver here: https://www.biv.com/article/2016/2/uber-ceo-says-vancouver-has-rules-need-bend-ride-s/

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