FiveWire five questions, once a day

No. 21

Tuesday, August 25, 2026

World

Which is the only country that lies on both sides of the equator and the prime meridian?

• Ghana
• Brazil
• Kenya
• Indonesia

Ghana sits just north of the equator and the meridian passes through it — the two lines cross in the Atlantic just off its coast.

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Business

What does a company's "market capitalisation" measure?

• Share price times shares outstanding
• Total debt
• Profit after tax
• Annual revenue

It is what the market says the whole company is worth — not what it earns or owns.

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Tech

In computing, what does "GPU" stand for?

• Grid Processor Array
• Graphics Processing Unit
• Graphical Peripheral Unit
• General Processing Unit

Originally built to render graphics, GPUs now do much of the heavy arithmetic behind machine learning.

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Sports

In basketball, how many points is a standard shot from beyond the arc worth?

• Two
• Four
• Five
• Three

The NBA adopted the three-point line in 1979, having borrowed the idea from the defunct ABA.

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Culture

Which band released the album "Abbey Road"?

• The Rolling Stones
• The Who
• Pink Floyd
• The Beatles

Recorded in 1969 and the last album the four of them made together, though it was released before "Let It Be".

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