Weekly Quiz: Which sports stadium is the billionaire Kroenke family upgrading?

Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium in north London. Photo: Adobe Stock

1) The billionaire Kroenke family, which assumed full control of London-based soccer club Arsenal in 2018, said this week it was having “initial conversations” about expanding or upgrading the club’s stadium. What is it called?

• Highbury
• The Emirates
• White Hart Lane

2) Last week International Construction published its latest ICON200 table of the world’s biggest construction contractors. Companies from which country topped the list?

• USA
• China
• Saudi Arabia

3) Spanish conglomerate ACS and German construction company Hochtief agreed to merge their US subsidiaries creating the second largest civil engineering and construction company in North America. What will it be called?

• Flatiron Dragados
• ACS Hochtief USA
• Trouser Press Construyendo

4) Which city is already home to the largest mass timber building in the world and has recently announced plans to build a new world’s tallest?

• Trondheim, Norway
• Osaka, Japan
• Milwaukee, USA

5) The recently elected UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves has cancelled plans to build a £1.7 billion (US$2.1 billion) two-mile tunnel under prehistoric megalithic structure Stonehenge. What reason did she give for the decision?

• The landscape around the monument is packed with millions of archaeological artefacts which the construction work would destroy
• The government needs to fill a £22 billion (US$28 billion) “black hole” in public finances
• The tunnel would have had an adverse impact on ancient druidic rituals

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