Wednesday 8th May 2024
Difficulty: Medium
Failed big ideas I (Quiz #537)
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1. "The Line" is envisaged as a linear city, a few hundred metres wide by 105 miles long, to be built in the desert of Saudi Arabia. Multiple problems have led to the length of the city being scaled back to...how long?
2. Theranos was a startup offering world-changing blood diagnostic technology, which failed amid scandal in 2016. What was the company's valuation at its peak, before its collapse?
3. Which car model, named after the company director's offspring, was a spectacular failure, due to design and reliability problems?
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