>"Our collective performance last year was not among our best, with five wrong answers. Following polling at the time, we discounted Trump’s re-election chances. Japanese interest rates did rise above zero; investors didn’t move back into bonds as expected; X didn’t go bankrupt; and there was no deal, yet, to return the Parthenon marbles to Greece. Single minds, it seems, can sometimes beat 20: two entrants to our reader competition got all 20 questions right, and the overall winner, Ercole Durini of London, was even spot on with the tiebreaker."

>"Our collective performance last year was not among our best, with five wrong answers. Following polling at the time, we discounted Trump’s re-election chances. Japanese interest rates did rise above zero; investors didn’t move back into bonds as expected; X didn’t go bankrupt; and there was no deal, yet, to return the Parthenon marbles to Greece. Single minds, it seems, can sometimes beat 20: two entrants to our reader competition got all 20 questions right, and the overall winner, Ercole Durini of London, was even spot on with the tiebreaker."

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