WiF History
Name 3 former WiF presidents
Elisa, Nina, Federica, Ana
Name 3 valuation methods
DCF, LBO, trading comps, precedent transactions
Who is the current head of the US federal reserve?
Jerome Powell
A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball. How much is the ball?
$0.05.
What is the capital of Australia?
Canberra
Who is the founder of WiF?
Giada Zhang
What is the beta of a stock?
A stock's beta (β) measures its volatility and systematic risk relative to the overall market, typically represented by a benchmark like the S&P 500, which has a beta of 1.0. A beta greater than 1 indicates the stock is more volatile than the market, a beta less than 1 shows it's less volatile, and a beta of 1 means it moves in line with the market.
What is the largest LBO that has happened?
Electronic Arts (EA)
The distance between NYC and Los Angeles is 1,400 km. A train travels from NYC at 60 km/h and a train travels from Los Angeles at 80 km/h. After how many hours do they meet?
Their relative speed is 60 + 80 = 140 km/h.
Time = 1,400 ÷ 140 = 10 hours.
Which artist headlined the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show?
Kendrick Lamar.
What year was WiF founded?
2017
What is goodwill?
Goodwill is an intangible asset that arises in an acquisition when the purchase price paid exceeds the fair value of the target’s net identifiable assets, reflecting things like brand, customer relationships, and synergies.
what is the current BoE bank rate?
4%
what is the sum of numbers from 1 to 100?
5050
Who won the 2024/25 Champions League?
PSG
How many founding members of WiF were there?
8
What are the three levers of an LBO?
Name 3 M&A deals announced in 2025
EA (Electronic Arts) take-private by Silver Lake, PIF, Affinity (~$55bn)
Prada acquires Versace
Norfolk Southern acquired
Anglo American / Teck merger
Palo Alto Networks acquires CyberArk (~$25bn)
Grant Thornton US acquires affiliates in France/Spain/Belgium
TGI Triumph Group sale
Chevron / Hess Corporation deal
UniCredit acquires Aion Bank / Vodeno
Nordic Capital takes Hargreaves Lansdown private (~$7bn)
Three boxes are labeled “Apples,” “Oranges,” and “Mixed,” but all labels are wrong. You may pick one fruit from one box. How do you correctly label all three?
Pick from the “Mixed” box (since it’s wrong). Whatever you draw is that box’s true single fruit. Use that to deduce the other two: the box labeled with that fruit must be “Mixed,” and the remaining box is the other single fruit.
Which country won the latest Eurovision?
Austria
Name 3 former Head of Mentorship
Giulia L, Elisa, Claudia
What did IFRS 16 change?
Before IFRS 16, lessees classified leases as either operating leases (kept off balance sheet, only rent expense shown in P&L) or finance leases (capitalized on balance sheet); under IFRS 16, nearly all leases must now be capitalized on the balance sheet as a right-of-use asset with a matching lease liability.
Name an IPO that has happened in 2025
Netskope, Inc.
StubHub Holdings, Inc.
HBX Group (Hotelbeds owner)
SailPoint Technologies
CoreWeave
CATL
Venture Global
you have 4 numbers: 2, 4, 6, 8 and you can use them only once, and you need to arrive to 25.
you can only use addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
(2/8+6)*4
There are only two landlocked countries in the world that are completely surrounded by other landlocked countries. Name one.
Liechtenstein (surrounded by Switzerland and Austria) and Uzbekistan (surrounded by Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Turkmenistan — all landlocked).