Deficit? Debt? Help! Take this quiz to know the difference

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Like football's offside rule lots of us *think* we know what words like "deficit" and "surplus" mean.

It's important we understand because Chancellor George Osborne has announced a new law requiring British governments to run a budget surplus in "normal times".

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