The John Fredriksen Quiz Question Title * 1. What was Fredriksen's first job in shipping? Tea boy Shoe-shine boy Messenger boy Bergesen CEO Question Title * 2. What did Fredriksen's father work as? Shipbroker Ship's chef Shipyard welder Charlie Chaplin impersonator Question Title * 3. When did Fredriksen buy his first ship? 1968 1973 1978 2010 Question Title * 4. How long did the shipowner spend in jail in the 1980s awaiting a crude cargo fraud trial? A day Four months 18 months Seven years Question Title * 5. How did he use the time spent in jail Learned to play the mandolin Learned to tango Learned to knit Learned to mind-read Question Title * 6. Due to his tanker trading activities during the first Gulf War, what was his regular table at Oslo’s Theatrecafeen nicknamed? Ayatollah's Lifeline Kharg Island Tehran Table Poop Deck Question Title * 7. Who are Fredriksen's two daughters? Cecilie and Kathrine Cecile and Katherine Cecilie and Kathryn Taylor and Billie Question Title * 8. Which of these is not a private Fredriksen company? Hemen Greenwich Famatown Lazytown Question Title * 9. What is the tycoon's London residence known as? The New Manse The Old Rectory The Grange Mojo Dojo Casa House Question Title * 10. From whom did Fredriksen buy the house for about £40m? John Angelicoussis George Procopiou Theodore Angelopoulos Paul McCartney Question Title * 11. Who tried to buy this property for $100m in 2004? The Barclay Brothers Roman Abramovich Marc Saverys JK Rowling Question Title * 12. What had Fredriksen given up drinking in 2014, according to a TradeWinds interview? Wine Beer Spirits Absinthe Question Title * 13. Fredriksen is a citizen of which country? UK Cyprus Norway Russia Question Title * 14. Which football club did he once invest in? Molde Vaalerenga Barcelona Wrexham Question Title * 15. How much did a Fredriksen-backed company pay for Equinor's Oslo-area offices this year (excluding a private share placement)? $0.09 $1 $9.99 $150m Question Title * 16. How much did Fredriksen pay to take over Swedish OBO owner Frontline in 1996? $50m $100m $150m $1 and a signed poster of ABBA Question Title * 17. How much did Fredriksen offer the writers of a new biography about him (Big Wolf) not to publish it? $2m each $5m each $7m each $40m each Question Title * 18. For which country did his company Ocean Tanker import oil in 1978? Iran Russia East Germany Nauru Question Title * 19. Which former boxer tried to collect debt from and sell police information to Fredriksen in the 1980s? Harald Skog Sugar Ray Leonard Alan Minter Rocky Balboa Question Title * 20. What is Fredriksen's favourite pastime? Chess Salmon fly fishing Stamp collecting Breakdancing Question Title * 21. To what was Fredriksen referring when he said “My hair turned white; I started smoking again?” The Sea Empress oil spill The Saverys family blocking his Euronav takeover His 1980s jail term One Direction splitting up Done