Guess the movie from its financial plot, omnibus edition

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It’s just two weeks until the FT Alphaville Pub Quiz returns to London, and we’re hard at work* writing a new set of diabolic sadistic stimulating questions.

As ever, the quiz’s contents will be kept under wraps until the big day, but we can reveal one important change: the infamous Plotted round — a stalwart of FTAV quizzes since we relaunched in 2022, and the only round to get Louis repeatedly booed — will not be appearing.

If you haven’t encountered Plotted before, it’s our version of a movie (/books, once) round. As we tell our victims quizzers:

Every story is a business story. In this round, we want you to match the financial plot to the fictional movie. Please note these are not always the entirety, or even an important part, of the plot in question.

To celebrates its disappearance (for now), we’ve compiled all 70 previous Plotteds together in one mega interactive quiz, which you can find below.

Due to technical limitations, we can’t do any fancy “enter the answer” stuff, so instead this will operate with a honesty system: when you think you have an answer — or you’ve given up — just hit the button then “submit”, and we’ll show the correct response. At which point you are free to yell “Yes!”, “No!” or “I was about to say that!” as you see fit.

Usual rules apply:

— The quizmaster is always right
— Even if you submit an answer that could be right but isn’t, the right answer is the right answer

Enjoy!

Well done, you’ve reached the bottom of the article. If you’re now thirsting for more financial trivia, recent quizzes can be found here and here and here and here and here and here and here.

*if that can be called work.