Round 1 – Festive Facts

1. On average how much will Welsh people spend on food, drink and entertainment this festive season?

a)    £166.44         b)    £186.44           c)    206.44

2. How many square kilometres of Wales is covered by Christmas trees?

a)    167 sq km      b)    500 sq km       c)    750 sq km

3. Where will you NOT find a reindeer this Christmas?

a)    on the Gower   b)    in Snowdonia National Park    c)    at Celtic Manor resort

4. How much more will Wales’s top earning 10% of men have to spend in Christmas week than the bottom earning 10%? 

a)    £350.50            b)    £575.20           c)           £606.40

5. How many children in Wales will spend Christmas being “looked-after” by a local authority rather than a parent or parents? 

a)    1,232                   b)    2,951                  c)    5,419

6. How does the 2011/12 Winter Fuel Allowance compare with that for 2010/11 for someone over 80 years old? 

a)    It’s £100 less       b)    It’s staying the same      c)    It’s being equalised for men and women.

7. Which local authority in Wales has the highest proportion of people saying they have no religion?           

a)    Rhondda Cynon Taf      b)    Cardiff    c)    Denbighshire

8. How many men in Wales aged over 16 will over indulge on alcohol this Christmas? 

a)    18%                      b)    25%                      c)    34%

9. How many people will be working in the hospitality industries this Christmas in Wales? 

a)    74,200              b)    80,200                c)    88,200

10. True or False? Last year Christmas week had the lowest incidence of food poisoning in Wales 

a)    True                   b)    False

11. How many Welsh people will be in receipt of Job Seekers Allowance this Christmas? 

a)    68,100              b)    78,100           c)    88,100

12.  What percentage of people in Wales could say Happy Christmas to you in Welsh this year (% of welsh speakers in Wales)?

a)    12.8%                b)    17.8%              c)    20.8%

The Answers

Question 1 is a) £166.44 is the average spent on food, drink and entertainment in Wales. The most will be spent in the North East of England (£220.20)

Question 2 is a) just 167 sq km of Wales is planted with conifers (although it seems like more!).

Question 3 is b) Wales’s only reindeer herd is at Poundffald Farm, Gower and Celtic Manor Resort has reindeer on Christmas Eve. Snowdonia may have some deer but these are fallow deer not reindeer.

Question 4 is c)The top-earning 10% of male full-timers earns £892.10 a week compared with £285.70 a week earned by the bottom 10%.

Question 5 is c) 5,419 children were looked-after by local authorities in Wales at 31^st March 2011 – equivalent to 1 in 87 children. The number is up 20% in 5 years.

Question 6 is a) The Winter Fuel Allowance for those over 80 will be up to £300 for 2011/12 compared with up to £400 in the previous 3 years.

Question 7 is a) 25.3% of people in Rhondda Cynon Taf said they had no religion in 2001 (closely followed by Blaenau Gwent at 25.1%). Just  12.9% of people in Flintshire said they had no religion.

Question 8 is c) 34% of men said they had drunk more than 8 units of alcohol on one day in the week before they were asked.

Question 9 is c) 88,200 people in Wales will be working in accommodation or food services this Christmas

Question 10 is True – last year there were under 20 reported incidences of food poisoning in Christmas week compared to 170 incidences in May.

Question 11 is b) A total of 78,100 people will be receiving Job Seekers allowance this Christmas in Wales with 54,000 of those being men and 24,100 being women

Question 12 is b) According to the 2001 census a total of 582,000 people in Wales speak Welsh

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