FTAV’s Friday charts quiz

CommunitySlacker · 2026-02-12T11:18:24+00:00

The essay discusses the planning of this year's Art of the Chart show, likely occurring in mid-October, and introduces a charts quiz for readers to participate in, providing guidelines for submissions.

CommunitySlacker

2026-02-12 11:18:24

Abstract generation in progress

We’ve begun to plan this year’s Art of the Chart show, which will probably coincide with Alphaville’s 20th birthday in mid-October. If you’re keen we’d suggest that you make no other plans that month, to be on the safe side.

Anyway, on to this week’s charts quiz. But first, a recap for the newbies:

Here are three charts.
You have to guess what they show.
If you think you’ve nailed it, email your guesses to alphaville@ft.com.
Put QUIZ in the subject line.
Let us know if you’d prefer to be anonymous.
The winner is selected at random from the pool of correct entries.
They get a beautiful I❤️Charts T-shirt.

OK here are the three charts. Good luck!

In case it isn’t clear, we only want you to identify the light blue bit.

On this one, we need you to be specific in your guess . . .

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