Co-operative Enterprise QuizCo-operative Enterprise Quiz

Question 1Question 1

Salud Co-op provide health services to over 4 million people in which country?

A. BoliviaB. ColumbiaC. JapanD. Germany

Answer 1Answer 1

B. Columbia

Question 2Question 2

Rural electricity co‑operatives supply over 36 million households in which country?

A. ChinaB. MexicoC. United StatesD. Argentina

Answer 2Answer 2

C. United States

Question 3Question 3

Who said this?“Co-operatives contribute directly to improving the standard of living of half the World’s population”.

A. Kofi AnnanB. Tony BlairC. Brad PittD. Your head teacher

Answer 3Answer 3

A. Kofi Annan – Secretary General of the United Nations 1997-2006

Question 4Question 4

In which country are these members of a worker co-operative who care for HIV/AIDS sufferers?

A. KenyaB. IndiaC. South AfricaD. Nigeria

Photo: Peter Wilson

Answer 4Answer 4

C. South Africa

Question 5Question 5Kuapa Kookoo, the cocoa farmer producer co-operative – and partner in the Day Chocolate Company is from which country?

A. NigeriaB. GhanaC. South AfricaD. Kenya

Answer 5Answer 5

B. Ghana

Question 6Question 6

IFFCO is a farmers fertilizer co-operative in which country?

A. Slovakia

B. China

C. UK

D. India

Answer 6Answer 6

D. India

Question 7Question 7

In which country have rural electricity co‑operatives enabled education and work?

A. Bangladesh

B. India

C. Pakistan

D. Malaysia

Answer 7Answer 7

A. Bangladesh

Question 8Question 8

Which of these brands are run as co-operatives?

A. Sunkist

B. Crédit Agricole

C. Ocean Spray

D. All of them

Answer 8Answer 8

D. All of them

Question 9Question 9

Founded by the merger of a number of co-op formed trade unions, FairPrice now has 450,000 members, over 100 stores and turnover of over $1 billion pa.In which country is FairPrice based?

A. JapanB. ChinaC. SingaporeD. Mexico

Answer 9Answer 9

C. Singapore

Question 10 Question 10

In what year were Dividend Stamps introduced in the UK?

A. 1927B. 1949C. 1966D. 1985

Answer 10Answer 10

C. 1966

Question 11Question 11

Co-operatives from which country funded the reconstruction of this warehouse in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands after the Tsunami?

A. USAB. UKC. GermanyD. Africa

Answer 11Answer 11

B. UK

Question 12Question 12

What year did the Rochdale Pioneers open their store in Toad Lane?

A. 1828

B. 1834

C. 1844

D. 1862

Answer 12Answer 12

C. 1844

Question 13Question 13

What do these people have in common?

A. They all inspired

co‑operative enterprise

B. They all shopped at the

co‑op

C. They were all members of co‑operatives

D. They all worked in the

Toad Lane store

Answer 13Answer 13

A. They all inspired co-operative enterpriseDr Moses Coady and Father Jimmy Tompkins - whose vision led to the rapid growth of the Antigonish movement in Atlantic Canada in the1930s.

Father Jose Arizmenderrieta who inspired the Mondragon network of co-operatives in the 1940s in Spain.

In 1881, don Lorenzo Guetti, promoted the constitution of the “Consiglio provinciale dell’agricoltura” in Trentino, now in Northern Italy, then part of the Hungaro Austrian Empire – from which the powerful Trentino Co-operative Federation grew.

Question 14Question 14

What is this woman working in a co-operative factory doing?

A. WeavingB. Punching out saucepan

handlesC. ThinkingD. Making boots

Answer 14Answer 14

B. A co-operative employee punching out saucepan handles

Question 15Question 15

What is this?

A. A leather punchB. An early sewing

machineC. A co-operative society

sealD. A stapler

Answer 15Answer 15

C. A co-operative society seal

Where did Stanley Mathews get his football boots from?

A. Manchester & Salford Co-operative Society

B. Shoefayre

C. CWS

D. Clarks

Question 16Question 16

Answer 16Answer 16

C. The boots were manufactured by the CWS

Which International media agency is a co-operative?

A. News Corporation

B. Reuters

C. United Artists

D. Associated Press

Question 17Question 17

D. Associated Press

Answer 17Answer 17

Question 18Question 18

Why was the Queen visiting St Cuthbert’s Co-operative Society?

A. The Queen was buying a new carriage built by St Cuthbert’s

B. The entourage had broken down and St Cuthbert’s were mending the carriages

C. They had the Royal Warrant to take care of the carriages

D. St Cuthbert’s was next to her holiday home that summer

Answer 18Answer 18

C. They had the Royal Warrant to take care of the carriages

Question 19Question 19

What famous movie star earned a living driving a horse-drawn milk float before turning to acting?

A. Richard Burton

B. Cary Grant

C. Sean Connery

D. Albert Finney

Answer 19Answer 19

C. Sean Connery

Question 20Question 20

What were consumer co-operatives the first to introduce into the UK in the 1940s?

A. Dividend

B. Self-Service

C. In Store Bakeries

D. Pre-packaged meals

Answer 20Answer 20

B. Self-service

Question 21Question 21

What was the name of the first ship up the newly built Manchester Ship Canal in 1894?

A. SS Equity

B. SS Robert Owen

C. SS Pioneer

D. SS New World

Answer 21Answer 21

C. SS Pioneer; one of the ships owned by the Co-operative Wholesale Society

The VIPs on SS Pioneer in one of the locks on the Manchester Ship Canal

Question 22Question 22

What does the M&S stand for in the advert?

A. Macclesfield & Southwick

B. Manchester & Salford

C. Mix & Splits

D. Mike & Sal’s

Answer 22Answer 22

B. Manchester and Salford Co-operative Society

Question 23Question 23

These men sitting on a girder above which building?

A. Empire State Building, New York

B. Guy’s Hospital, London

C. Holyoake House, Manchester

D. CIS building, Manchester

D. Co-operative Insurance Society building, Manchester

Answer 23Answer 23

Question 24Question 24

Where do these people work?

A. A co-operative aerated water factory

B. A co-operative armaments factory

C. A co-operative bee factory

D. A co-operative telephone exchange

Answer 24Answer 24

A. The co-operative aerated water factory in Treforest, near Cardiff

Question 25Question 25

What are these co‑operative members queuing for?

A. Discount coupons

B. To return items

C. Dividend

D. An autograph

Answer 25Answer 25

C. Dividend

Question 26Question 26

What are these co‑operative workers packing?

A. Matches

B. Chocolates

C. Soap

D. Batteries

Answer 26Answer 26

C. Soap

Advertisement from 1929

Question 27Question 27

Is this machine?

A. A biscuit stamping machine

B. A circle cutting machine

C. A machine to dye circles onto fabric

D. A medal making machine

Answer 27Answer 27

A. A biscuit stamping machine