200 Business Trivia Questions (Ranked From Easiest to Hardest)

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200 Business Trivia Questions Ranked From Easiest to Hardest (Updated for 2025)

1. Starring Michael Keaton as titular business mogul Ray Kroc, the 2016 film "The Founder" portrays the origin story of what golden-arches fast-food chain?

Answer: McDonald's

2. After a sudden $180 billion loss from his peak net worth of $300 billion, what South African-born businessman was recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records in 2023 as experiencing the "largest loss of personal fortune in history?”

Answer: Elon Musk

3. In 2011, which coffee company claimed it was the first business to launch a mobile payment platform?

Answer: Starbucks

4. The term that describes the specific market that your business serves may or may not have inspired the name of what big, red, U.S. retailer that’s a bullseye for folks looking to do all their shopping in one place?

Answer: Target

5. No lie: Burger King in Russia briefly launched a cryptocurrency named after what signature burger?

Answer: Whopper

6. Which S-word that comes before “proprietor” makes it sound like a business is being run by a pair of shoes, but actually means that it’s run by one person?

Answer: Sole

7. Not loving it! In early Spring 2023, which fast-food giant temporarily closed its U.S. offices ahead of a big round of layoffs?

Answer: McDonald's

8. What building, the home to a real estate empire (among other businesses) and is named after its owner, is at 721 5th Avenue, New York City?

Answer: Trump Tower

9. He attended the University of Georgia and owned several agribusinesses before entering politics. He has served as the Secretary of State in his home state while in the midst of an extremely close governorship election. He received national attention when his state was one of the first to start the "re-opening" process during the COVID-19 pandemic. Who is this man?

Answer: Brian Kemp

10. The 2002 Eminem song "Business" is about Eminem's successful partnership with what rapper who went on to found Beats Electronics?

Answer: Dr. Dre

11. What is the last name of the business tycoon behind the "No. 5" perfume?

Answer: Chanel

12. When you’re the only owner of your business and also the person who runs it, it’s known as what type of proprietorship or tradership? (Hint: The term would be very apt if you happened to sell shoes)

Answer: Sole

13. By the end of 2025, a Dutch company is hoping to start production on the first affordable solar-powered car on the market. What is the car manufacturer's name, the same as the surname of a character from "Toy Story"?

Answer: Lightyear

14. Bloomin' Brands owns over 1,500 restaurant chains, including what Australian-themed restaurant that’s known for its Bloomin' Onion?

Answer: Outback Steakhouse

15. Reflecting its headquarters at Love Field in Dallas, as well as an old marketing campaign in which in-flight snacks were called "love bites" and "love potions," LUV is the stock ticker symbol of what directionally named airline?

Answer: Southwest

16. What food manufacturing company headquartered in Battle Creek, Michigan, uses several animal mascots to sell its cereals, such as Newton the Owl, Tony the Tiger, and a rooster named Cornelius?

Answer: The Kellogg Company (Kellogg's)

17. Fair Isaac Corporation came up with a way to calculate your creditworthiness, but you probably know the company as what four-letter acronym that's associated with your credit score?

Answer: FICO

18. Founded in 1858, what famous red-starred department store serves as a “sister store” to Bloomingdale’s and whose flagship store is located in Manhattan?

Answer: Macy's

19. Depending on your company’s product and business structure, you might consider providing what kind of sales-based compensation for your employees that rewards the best-sellers with higher earning potential?

Answer: Commission

20. Money back guaranteed if you don't like this question: What three-letter network has made home shopping into a multi-billion dollar business? But wait, there's more! It's owned by Qurate Retail Group. HSN is its sister station. Lori Greiner is its "Queen." Operators standing by for your answer.

Answer: QVC

21. First opened in 1966 by Richard Schulze and his business partner, “Sound of Music” was the original name of what alliterative retailer that specializes in selling the latest in tech and electronics and is best recognized by its yellow-tagged logo?

Answer: Best Buy

22. The introduction of a bottle with what zoological shape launched Ralph and Luella Gamber's three-hive honey business into a worldwide brand worth millions in yearly profits?

Answer: Bear

23. What confectionery company was reported in November to be using Celonis’ process mining platform to deliver cost-saving results to its business, as well as enable its digital transformation?

Answer: Mars

24. Which “F” term describes the year as it pertains to figuring out your business’s annual budget and other finances? For example, looking at quarterly statements and getting your taxes in order.

Answer: Fiscal

25. The Supply Chain Council provides a model of the business practices that lead from production to consumer satisfaction, a model known by what four-letter acronym? It sounds like a word from the first sentence of the Gettysburg Address, minus the “E.”

Answer: SCOR

26. Though its CEO has described fintech company Chime as a "transaction-based, process-based business model", in May 2021, California regulators ruled that the company had to stop referring to itself as what?

Answer: A Bank

27. Broadway St in Cincinnati is home to a Casino based on what musical business franchise, often associated with a chain of cafes and its collection of music memorabilia? Bands associated with its titular genre include Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin.

Answer: Hard Rock Casino

28. A metric that indicates the total revenue a business can reasonably expect from a single customer account throughout the business relationship, what does CLTV stand for?

Answer: Customer Lifetime Value

29. What oil and gas company started out as a little London business you might expect to be run by someone named Sally on the shore, if the rhyme is to be believed. Its name is a big clue, so what did they sell before they got into the petroleum biz?

Answer: Shell Oil Company

30. During a brainstorming session with Nike executives just before his star client committed to Nike as his apparel sponsor, Michael Jordan's agent David Falk came up with what iconic two-word brand name?

Answer: Air Jordan

31. Which word that starts with “E” is another term for the market value of a business? It’s also the name of a rent-a-car company that has a market value of over $23 billion.

Answer: Enterprise

32. What caregiver designation describes the holding company that controls one more subsidiary (or “child” you could say…)?

Answer: Parent

33. What two-word Latin term is an allowance given to employees for travel-related business expenses, such as meals and lodging?

Answer: Per diem

34. Which U.S. bus line set off with its first route in Hibbing, Minnesota, in 1914 when Eric Wickman, Andy "Bus Andy" Anderson, and C. A. A. "Arvid" Heed started a business to take iron ore miners two miles from Hibbing to the town of Alice for 15 cents per ride? In 1929, the company took on the name it’s known by today, which it shares with a very speedy pup.

Answer: Greyhound

35. In the insurance business, what is the name for a person whose job it is to analyze statistics to calculate risks and price premiums accordingly?

Answer: Actuary

36. THINK was the motto for more than 40 years, and the company was often referred to as "Big Blue." What’s the frequently-acronymed company?

Answer: IBM

37. This common manufacturing philosophy is the combination of a number and a Greek letter. Together, they refer to a set of techniques and tools for process improvement. Jack Welch made it central to his business strategy at General Electric in 1995. What is the two-word name of this technique?

Answer: Six Sigma

38. Later in his life, Tony Hsieh’s work included the Downtown Project, a revitalization effort for the central business district of Las Vegas. His connection to the city was previously cemented as the CEO of what alphabetically opposite online shoe retailer that Amazon scooped up in 2009?

Answer: Zappos

39. When the stock market index S&P 500 is referenced in the U.S., technically, "S&P" no longer stands for anything. However, what did these two letters previously stand for?

Answer: Standard and Poor's

40. Referring to efforts to verify identity, suitability, and risk in a business relationship, the fintech abbreviation KYC stands for "know your” WHAT?

Answer: customer

41. If you’re borrowing money to finance your business and you want to know how much interest you’ll pay on it in a year, look for the APR. What is APR an acronym for?

Answer: Annual Percentage Rate

42. What is the common five-word business rule or maxim that has been attributed to consumer-focused entrepreneurs such as H. Gordon Selfridge and John Wanamaker?

Answer: The customer is always right

43. Founded by Austrian activist, attorney, and author Max Schrems, the acronym in the non-profit organization NOYB, European Center for Digital Rights stands for what phrase that seemingly advises others to mind their own and to not be nosy?

Answer: None Of Your Business

44. What mythical term was first popularized in 2013 by venture capitalist Aileen Lee to describe a startup with a market valuation of more than $1 billion?

Answer: Unicorn

45. What is the name of the Austin-based software business founded by brothers David and Donald Yonce, considered to be in the middle of the December 2020 Federal government hack?

Answer: SolarWinds

46. What document can be defined as a statement of financial position, listing a company’s assets, liabilities, and equity? It can be used to determine financial return and a business’s capital structure.

Answer: balance sheet

47. Which American technology giant started in 1911 when a New York businessman founded it as a holding company for people who made record-keeping systems (which explains its original name, the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company)?

Answer: IBM

48. Named the World's Most Powerful Woman by Forbes Magazine in 2021, MacKenzie Scott's roughly $50 billion fortune is thanks to her 4% stake in which company, one of the "Big Five" tech companies, alongside Alphabet, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft?

Answer: Amazon

49. In 2001, Goldman Sachs coined the phrase BRIC as an acronym for the four biggest developing economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China. Located on Cape Agulhas, what fifth country added an “S” to the acronym in 2010?

Answer: South Africa

50. What company, started in South Grafton, Massachusetts and named after its founder, has become world famous for plastic containers, plates, bowls, and other household items?

Answer: Tupperware

51. Also a company that is traded on the exchange, the ASX is the main stock exchange in which country?

Answer: Australia

52. Both the tax preparation application TurboTax and the small business accounting program QuickBooks are products owned and sold by what publicly-traded company?

Answer: Intuit

53. Founded in 1983 in Mountain View, CA, what accounting software was imagined as Quicken for small business owners?

Answer: QuickBooks

54. Which multinational corp based in China that’s one of the biggest e-commerce platforms in the world got the top spot in IPO history after it hit $231 value in 2019 (Hint: You might need “One Thousand and One Nights” to go through all the listings of things you could buy from the website…)?

Answer: Alibaba

55. Often expressed as a percentage, which “M” term refers to how much money your product has earned after you take your expenses into account?

Answer: Margin

56. What is the "trashier" name for a "high yield bond" that is typically issued by companies with low credit ratings?

Answer: Junk bonds

57. In which year did BCG officially open for business in Kuala Lumpur? In the same year, a city founded by Carthaginian general Hamilcar Barca hosted a global sporting event.

Answer: 1992

58. Name the company: Founded in 2003; Won a Codie award for "Best Business Intelligence Solution" in 2008; Acquired by Salesforce in 2019.

Answer: Tableau

59. Which “bullseye” term would you use to describe the customer market that your business is “zeroing in on?”

Answer: Target

60. In 2023, the San Francisco Business Times named Verkada in its top 10 "Best Places to Work in the Bay Area" as part of the "largest" company size category - what was the minimum number of employees needed to qualify for this category? It is also the minimum seating required for a theater to be considered "Broadway size", the length in miles of the main event in IndyCar racing, and the name of a card game based on Euchre.

Answer: 500

61. American engineer Dean Kamen is perhaps better recognized as the inventor of what two-wheeled, self-balancing transport that also sounds like a verb meaning “to transition another subject?”

Answer: Segway

62. What athleisure brand was once designed with a specific "muse" in mind: a 32-year-old woman named Ocean making $100,000 a year?

Answer: Lululemon

63. Paul Allen, an American billionaire who passed away in 2018, was the owner of the Portland Trailblazers (NBA), Seattle Seahawks (NFL), and a part owner of the Seattle Sounders (MLS). Before entering the world of sports ownership, Allen was best known for co-founding what company?

Answer: Microsoft

64. Like a monopoly but make it a double! What term applies to a situation where two companies have control over one market and they are pretty much only competing with each other?

Answer: Duopoly

65. What Tampa, Florida theme park, which first opened in 1959, was originally developed as a marketing vehicle for the owner's beer business, and featured stables housing some of the world's most famous Clydesdales?

Answer: Busch Gardens

66. In the 1930s, long before Instacart, Keedoozle failed spectacularly at being the first fully automated version of what kind of store?

Answer: Grocery

67. What set of processes was introduced by Motorola employee Bill Smith in 1986? It solidified its spot in the business world after Jack Welch made it a central part of his strategy at General Electric in 1995?

Answer: Six Sigma

68. The Anglo-Persian Oil Company was founded in 1908 following the discovery of a large oil field in Masjed Soleiman, Iran. Now associated with Deepwater Horizon, by what name is this company known today?

Answer: BP

69. What numerical chapter of bankruptcy under the U.S. bankruptcy code allows a company to reorganize?

Answer: Chapter 11

70. Which type of payment method has a name that might remind you of birthday parties and circus clowns, but refers to when a borrower pays most of the amount they borrowed at the end? (For example, they make monthly payments on interest only, then pay back the principal balance when the loan comes due).

Answer: Balloon

71. Your taxable income is your gross income minus your deductions. You can either take the standard deduction or, if you’re able to keep track of what you spend on your business, what other kind of deduction can you take that might reduce your taxes owed even more?

Answer: Itemized

72. Although he was born in Ohio, this man moved to Savannah at the age of nine with his family and became associated with Georgia for much of his life, as he founded, grew, bought, and sold multiple businesses, including the state's MLB baseball team, while living there. Who is this man, the Co-Chairman of the Nuclear Threat Initiative?

Answer: Ted Turner

73. If you’re trying to get the word out about your business, you might give a free sample of your product to a social media influencer and have them post about it. Then, you could reward that person or pay them based on how many customers their posts bring to you. Which A-term describes this kind of marketing strategy?

Answer: Affiliate

74. Marginal cost refers to how much money your business would spend to make how many additional units of your product?

Answer: one

75. Which company’s first logo, created and used in 1976, features a drawing the famous scientist Sir Isaac Newton?

Answer: Apple

76. Which payroll software co-founded by Parker Conrad might make individual transactions for your business seem like a drop in a big pond, given the natural, watery, image its name evokes?

Answer: Rippling

77. What C-word type of liability insurance protects people and/or small businesses that help people fix or build things—think electrical wiring for a new house, installing a garage door, putting in new plumbing, or setting up a heat pump?

Answer: Contractor

78. Although it may sound like fish eggs, the term ROE in venture capital terms is a measure of profitability. It stands for “Return on …..” what?

Answer: Equity

79. Started by Richard Brandon as a part of the Virgin group of companies in 2004, the first ever space tourism is called Virgin ….. what?

Answer: Galactic

80. He worked as a Consultant and Project Leader at BCG between 1979 and 1982 before leaving to start his own company. He eventually entered academia as a professor at Harvard Business School. His theory of "disruptive innovation", introduced in his book “The Innovator's Dilemma,” has been called the most influential business idea of the early 21st century. Who is this man?

Answer: Clayton Christensen

81. In the world of appropriate ticker symbols, $CRM refers to which $200B San Francisco company that hosts an annual conference called Dreamforce?

Answer: Salesforce

82. "RegTech” uses tools like SaaS and cloud computing to help businesses ensure they’re following all the rules they must follow? What’s the “reg” part short for?

Answer: Regulation

83. Which eyewear startup, founded in 2010, began with an online-only business model and promised to donate one pair of glasses for every pair purchased?

Answer: Warby Parker

84. Which Asian country’s stock exchange has an index called the PSEI?

Answer: Philippines

85. Named after Syrian-Saudi-Canadian businessman Wafic Rida Saïd, the Saïd Business School is the business school of which British university?

Answer: University of Oxford

86. What kind of investor provides capital for a start-up business, in exchange for ownership equity? They probably get their incredibly positive name from taking a risky investment at an early stage.

Answer: Angel Investor

87. Although mostly known for being the largest for-profit genealogy company in the world, what is the name of the Levi, Utah-based company that has also sold more than 20 million DNA kits to customers?

Answer: Ancestry.com

88. The Italian company Piaggio manufactures a vehicle under an iconic brand synonymous with their style of a painted, pressed steel unibody vehicle. What is the name, which is inspired by the Italian word for "wasp?”

Answer: Vespa

89. In June 2022, which Maryland-based global hotel chain experienced its third major cybersecurity breach in four years, with guest credit card data and internal business info being among the data compromised by the hack (which was an attempt to extort money from the company)?

Answer: Marriott

90. What famous drink was introduced as "Brad's Drink" in New Bern, North Carolina, in 1893 at a drugstore? The product was renamed five years later after the Greek "p" word for "digestion."

Answer: Pepsi Cola

91. Kenneth Lay started which Texas based energy company that went broke in 2001, thus spurring an award winning documentary?

Answer: Enron

92. Born and raised in the Texas-Arkansas border town of Texarkana, what U.S. businessman was the founder of Electronic Data Systems and later ran two of the most successful third-party presidential campaigns in U.S. history?

Answer: Ross Perot

93. Not the place where you’d shop for used items, what term refers to the value of your company’s reputation and brand, and is considered an intangible asset?

Answer: Goodwill

94. Known widely as "il Commendatore" or "il Drake," what famous motor racing driver became a household name once his surname became attached to an automobile brand?

Answer: Ferrari

95. Most famous for its iconic trench coats, what British fashion company was founded in 1856 in Basingstoke, England?

Answer: Burberry

96. What Canadian retail business, now a department store owner in modern-day Canada, was a largely fur trading company that traded with Indigenous Canadians starting in the 17th century? It was named for a large bay that touches four provinces, discovered by Sir Henry in 1610.

Answer: Hudson's Bay Company

97. While it’s trendy for bottled water brands to claim it’s from a natural source, that’s not so for which Coca-Cola-owned brand that, despite sounding like it comes from a refreshing spring, is really just purified tap water?

Answer: Dasani

98. Canada's vertical $10 banknote features a portrait of what successful Black businesswoman who was jailed, convicted, and fined for defiantly refusing to leave a whites-only area of a movie theatre in 1946?

Answer: Viola Desmond

99. With an initial enrollment of 50 students and the name Business Training College, what is the downtown Pittsburgh university that currently has over 3,000 undergraduate students and Pioneers as its nickname?

Answer: Point Park University

100. With alumni including Elon Musk and Sundar Pichai, what is the name of the University of Pennsylvania's renowned business school?

Answer: Wharton School

101. What business-related list was first created by editor Edgar P. Smith in 1955?

Answer: Fortune 500

102. Which business concept is like business-to-business (B2B) but is where people provide goods and services to other people—for example, on eBay? It’s shortened as C2C and there are two words that work for C—one is “customer.”

Answer: Consumer

103. Vernon Rudolph bought a sweet yeast-raised recipe from a New Orleans chef, rented a building in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and started a company in 1937. Fast forward almost 100 years, what alliterative company started by Rudolph is still headquartered in North Carolina, featuring a classic red-and-green logo?

Answer: Krispy Kreme

104. What is the name of a type of rigid airship named after its German inventor, who first flew commercially in 1910 and carried tens of thousands of fare-paying passengers before World War I slowed down the airship business?

Answer: Zeppelin

105. What company, when measured by market cap, is the largest company in South Korea. This company is well known around the world.

Answer: Samsung

106. In finance, what two-word term is used for one hundredth of one percent?

Answer: Basis point

107. The richest man in Georgia is the Chairman of what conglomerate that contains a cable television business, a media business, and an automotive-related business?

Answer: Cox Enterprises

108. Reflective of Dubai's shift away from an oil-based economy towards the information and tourist sectors, what is the alliterative name of the coastal central business district that was built with over 200 buildings in the 21st century?

Answer: Business Bay

109. When the country's oldest surviving African-American bank was founded by a businesswoman in 1903 in Richmond (as St. Luke Penny Savings bank), who became the first female bank president in the U.S.?

Answer: Maggie Walker

110. What London-based fintech company with a Plaid-like technology declares the following: "We build intelligent infrastructure that puts fintech at people's fingertips. Empowering businesses in every industry to create first-class financial experiences.”

Answer: TrueLayer

111. What “W” insurance company, whose name is a contraction of a three-word phrase about career/home balance, is part of the Cameron Insurance Group? In addition to liability insurance, they also offer personal and business plans.

Answer: Woligo Insurance

112. What “L” drug testing company, founded in 1978 in North Carolina, offers 36 processing locations across the country? Its name implies the clinical nature of its business.

Answer: Labcorp

113. A couple of German immigrants started a monocle business in Rochester, New York: those are the humble-ish beginnings of what contact-lens-makin' juggernaut?

Answer: Bausch + Lomb

114. Howard Aiken received a PhD in Physics from Harvard in 1939, and in 1944 he installed the Harvard Mark I, a computer designed for what giant company in the computer field?

Answer: International Business Machines

115. A museum in Dover, DE that is dedicated to 19th and 20th century businessman E.R. Johnson, is particularly focused on what “V” invention made by his company, one of the leading phonographs and record players of the early 20th century?

Answer: Victrola

116. Who was nicknamed "The Prophet of Spindletop" for his work in the Texas oil business? He leased the land on Sour Hill Mound to Anthony Lucas for drilling, resulting in the gusher that changed the oil industry.

Answer: Patillo Higgins

117. Got an idea for a new product? Before you open a business, which key principle of startups would you use to confirm people want to buy what you want to sell?

Answer: Market validation

118. In 2012, President Barack Obama signed the JOBS Act (also known as the CROWDFUND Act) into law to help small businesses in the U.S. get funded. What does the acronym JOBS stand for?

Answer: Jumpstart Our Business Startups

119. If you want to make a business idea come to life, first you need to have an MVP—a very basic, but functional, version of your product that you can test out with potential investors and buyers. Not quite your “Most Valuable Player,” but what does MVP stand for?

Answer: Minimum Viable Product

120. Which term describes a group of businesses built on the same property that make use of renewable resources and recycling?

Answer: Eco-Industrial Park

121. Zoho's a suite of web-based business tools includes a password manager that shares its name with which super-secure storage container that's usually guarded with a combination lock and found in banks (or perhaps hidden behind a painting in your office)?

Answer: Vault

122. Thanks to its business-friendly corporate laws, Delaware is the official home to two-thirds of the companies on what magazine's annual list of largest U.S. corporations?

Answer: Fortune

123. Shillito's was Cincinnati's first business of what type, followed later by stores like Lazarus and Abraham & Straus?

Answer: Department Store

124. Which online insurance broker by Aon lets small businesses easily compare quotes from places like Liberty Mutual, Chubb, Progressive, and CNA to find the most cost-effective plan to—as its name suggests—safeguard their monetary assets?

Answer: Coverwallet

125. Which beverage company based in Japan is rooted in a brewery business dating back to 1888 and has a unique modern-day offering of a frozen beer that it claims stays cold for a half hour?

Answer: Kirin

126. After being inspired by the Bon Marche in Paris, which American businessman brought the idea of the department store to U.S. shores in 1875?

Answer: John Wanamaker

127. When brothers Rudolph and Adi Dassler were trying to get their footwear business going in the early 1920s, they sometimes had to power their production by peddling a stationary bicycle because electricity wasn't always available. What German sports shoe brand with an animalistic name did they become known for?

Answer: Puma

128. Also referred to as "consolidators," an unlicensed travel agency used by airlines to sell off some excess-capacity seats is sometimes referred to by what nickname that can also apply to a business that facilitates stock-market gambling?

Answer: Bucket shop

129. Which business in Niles where you could stay overnight and have something to eat is recognized as being the oldest business in the state of Michigan that’s still in its original building (from 1835)?

Answer: Old Tavern Inn

130. According to a Fox Business article, only three new car models have a starting price of under $20,000, including the Mirage hatchback from what Japanese automaker?

Answer: Mitsubishi

131. If it turns out your business is contributing to polluting the Earth in some way, what kind of liability insurance policy can help cover the costs of remediation?

Answer: Environmental

132. What American mathematician and abolitionist is sometimes referred to in the United States as "the father of life insurance?" He campaigned to regulate the insurance business, requiring among other things that insurance companies provide "surrender values" to policyholders on request.

Answer: Elizur Wright

133. Which phrase is used to describe the unseen force that moves the economy toward the most efficient use of resources as a consequence of people and businesses in a free-market economy making financial choices that benefit them the most?

Answer: Invisible Hand

134. What American agribusiness company, best known for producing Roundup glyphosate herbicide, has also controversially produced genetically-modified "Roundup Ready" crop seeds?

Answer: Monsanto

135. What e-commerce company, which allows small-business sellers to peddle handmade and vintage goods to a wide audience, was founded in 2005 in Brooklyn, New York?

Answer: Etsy

136. What sort of rewards are described as recognition that carry personal value, but little or no monetary value? This may be praise or recognition of work done by employees, or an email of positive feedback sent to the business.

Answer: Intangible rewards

137. What is the name of the fast, cloud-powered business analytics service that you can use to build visualizations, perform analysis, and quickly get business insights from your data

Answer: Amazon QuickSight

138. Which German company, well known for their conveyor systems, started business in 1948 and is headquartered in the city of Leipzig?

Answer: Takraf

139. What is the name for medical malpractice by an entity not in the business of offering medical services? (An example might be malpractice by an on-site nurse at a factory.) This malpractice would be covered by a general commercial liability policy.

Answer: Incidental

140. What size "cap" do companies that have a market capitalization of over $10 billion have?

Answer: Large

141. What is the term for what happens when a cardholder successfully disputes a transaction that was processed by your business, and it has to be reversed on their VISA or MasterCard account?

Answer: Chargeback

142. What Cary-based software analytics company, whose namesake software is used by most Fortune 500 companies, is the world's largest privately held software business?

Answer: SAS Institute

143. Owing to their business being not as affected by the COVID pandemic, which company surged to the top of the list of hiring the most college graduates in 2020 and 2021?

Answer: Amazon

144. What sort of entity is someone who is directly related to the business that they are paid by, or not “at arms length?”

Answer: Closely held entity

145. What two-word term describes the business of collecting and monetizing people’s personal information at scale, and the companies that are involved in this business?

Answer: Surveillance economy

146. The AFIS certification developed by the International Risk Management Institute is designed to educate insurance professionals about issues facing insurers in what field?

Answer: Agriculture

147. In 1967, ServPro was founded by Ted and Doris Isaacson as a painting business in what California city?

Answer: Sacramento

148. Robert Silber, who had previously started a cigarette rolling-paper business, founded what coffee company on a whim after tasting the coffee of a local shop in Vermont?

Answer: Green Mountain Coffee Roasters

149. What term beginning with “I” is an award, monetary or non-monetary, paid for results achieved incremental to base remuneration for achievements set by the business?

Answer: Incentive

150. Which British city council effectively declared itself bankrupt by stopping all nonessential spending after having to deal with nearly $US 1 billion worth of equal pay claims?

Answer: Birmingham

151. What two-word term is business intelligence software from SAP that is designed to enable organizations to analyze large data sets and predict future outcomes and behaviors?

Answer: Predictive analytics

152. The story goes that in 1910, businessman J. C. Hall moved to Kansas City with little more than two shoe boxes of postcards. What company, now known internationally, did he go on to found?

Answer: Hallmark Cards

153. Which famous name in pottery and ceramics, who also happens to be Charles Darwin’s grandfather, became the world’s first cost accountant when in a business slump in 1772, he analyzed where profits and losses in his factory were going?

Answer: Josiah Wedgwood

154. What long-standing and successful retail brand began as a Dallas department store, founded in 1907 by a businessman named Herbert, his sister Carrie, and her husband Abraham?

Answer: Neiman Marcus

155. The Harvard Business Review was the first publication to use the term “information technology.” In which decade did the term first appear in that journal?

Answer: 1950s

156. What coverage protects owners or operators of wharves or piers for liability that arises out of their business, including loss or damage to the property of others?

Answer: Wharfinger Liability Insurance

157. Catahoula-LaSalle Bank, Jackson Parish Bank, and The Mer Rouge State Bank are some state-chartered banks in what pretty guessable U.S. state?

Answer: Louisiana

158. Enacted as early as the 4th century in Rome, blue laws are designed to ban or restrict individuals from engaging in certain activities or business practices during what day of the week, due to religious reasons?

Answer: Sunday

159. After getting serious about their new insurance business geared toward federal employees, Leo and Lillian Goodwin moved from San Antonio, Texas, to Washington D.C. in 1937. No word on whether they had a pet gecko, but in any case, what was the name of their company which is today headquartered in nearby Bethesda, Maryland?

Answer: GEICO

160. Which American energy company based in Houston, TX, came about in 1987 when two oil tool companies merged their business and names? Today, it's led by CEO Lorenzo Simonelli.

Answer: Baker Hughes

161. Which business theory holds that productivity will increase if you make jobs easier to do and more optimized? It’s sometimes referred to as Taylorism, after Frederick Taylor, the fella who came up with it and described it with much more technical terminology.

Answer: Scientific management

162. San Fransisco may not have been in his genes since he was German, but what businessman’s iconic jeans still have a headquarters there over 170 years after the company was founded?

Answer: Levi Strauss

163. The GMAT is an often-required standardized test for admission to graduate business schools in the United States. What does the letter "M" stand for in this initialism?

Answer: Management

164. Don't laugh: Named after a pet of its creator, what is the biggest-selling chocolate bar in the world, as of the end of 2022?

Answer: Snickers

165. The first chocolate manufacturer started its business in 1765, on the banks of the Neponset River, in what New England state?

Answer: Massachusetts

166. What type of laws refer to state-level securities regulations aimed at protecting investors from fraud and ensuring fair and honest securities transactions?

Answer: Blue Sky Laws

167. Former J.P. Morgan Chase employee Bruno Iksil acquired what large mammalian nickname after losing the company a staggering $6.2 billion with a 2012 trade?

Answer: London Whale

168. What is the combination of technical and business processes used to combine data from disparate sources into meaningful and valuable information?

Answer: Data integration

169. What company (headquartered in Washington, not Alaska) traces its roots to a 1930s company started by Linious McGee to help support his fur trading business?

Answer: Alaska Airlines

170. Whose principle, often used in business (aka the “80/20 rule”), states that 80% of the outcomes come from 20% of the causes?

Answer: Pareto

171. MYOB is a business software company that was foundedby Brad Shofer in 1991 in which English-speaking country?

Answer: Australia

172. The second season of the Bloomberg-produced podcast "Foundering" was released in 2021 and focused on the dramatic rise of the app TikTok. The prior year's first season focused on the rise and fall (and rise again?) of what company founded by Adam Neumann?

Answer: WeWork

173. The oldest company on the New York Stock Exchange is the Bank of New York Mellon Corporation which was founded in 1784 by which individual, who has had a pop-culture resurgence in recent years?

Answer: Alexander Hamilton

174. What colorful poker term refers to a ginormous, high-performing company that would be considered a “safe bet"?

Answer: Blue Chip

175. Actress Joan Crawford was appointed in 1955 to the Board of Directors of which multinational carbonated drink company thanks to marrying and outliving CEO Alfred Steele?

Answer: Pepsi

176. As the go-to resource for millions of online business reviews, it’s hard to believe that it was once a simple email exchange concept a couple of former PayPal employees came up with. Which startup company did Jeremy Stoppelman and Russel Simmons found in 2004, inspired by Stoppelman’s trouble finding reviews of a doctor online when he was down with the flu?

Answer: Yelp

177. In the standard financial reporting metric EBITDA, what does the "A" stand for?

Answer: Amortization

178. The musician and actor born Calvin Broadus launched a digital media business in 2015 named Mary Jane that was focused on news about marijuana. By what moniker is Broadus more generally known?

Answer: Snoop Dogg

179. Board games manufacturers Parker Brothers and Milton Bradley merged in 1998 to form what well now well-known company?

Answer: Hasbro

180. Founded in 1883, which Singaporean company celebrated its 100th year of business in 1983 with the launch of the isotonic sports drink 100plus?

Answer: Fraser and Neave (F&N)

181. What two-word term is a record of a company’s shareholders, ownership percentages, and other equity-related details?

Answer: Cap Table

182. What two-named American financial and investment company was founded in 1869 by one of its namesakes, first name Marcus, in a simple basement office that had a humble view of a coal chute?

Answer: Goldman Sachs

183. What American businesswoman wrote a book encouraging women to "Lean In" to their work and stated the following? "A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes."

Answer: Sheryl Sandberg

184. Which then-Australian inherited the Adelaide Advertiser newspaper from his father on his 21st birthday in 1952?

Answer: Rupert Murdoch

185. In economics, what nine-letter word means simultaneously buying an asset in one market and selling the asset in another to take advantage of price differences between markets?

Answer: Arbitrage

186. If your business offers a product or proprietary technology, what type of formal agreement can customers pay for that gives them permission to use it while you still own the rights?

Answer: License

187. In 1936, it was founded in San Antonio, Texas. In 1974, it began insuring the general public as opposed to simply government peeps. In 1996, it became a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway. What company is it?

Answer: GEICO

188. Ding-dong! Which Amazon communication service for businesses lets you chat with folks in real-time using whichever method serves you best?

Answer: Chime

189. Kongo Gumi, a construction company, is believed to be the oldest business (it was formed in 578 AD!) that’s still operating today. What country is it in?

Answer: Japan

190. Also known as an HR 10, what is the term for a qualified retirement plan for self-employed who do not incorporate their business?

Answer: Keogh Plan

191. On the New York stock exchange, what company has the one-letter stock ticker symbol “F?”

Answer: Ford

192. What two-C-word alliterative term are the capabilities and advantages of a business or an individual that sets them apart from the competition?

Answer: Core competencies

193. E-commerce businesses generally need two types of liability insurance: commercial and what P-word type that covers them in case something they made causes bodily or property damage?

Answer: Product

194. In the context of business card acquisition, what does the acronym SME, which might apply to a local mom-and-pop shop, stand for?

Answer: Small and Medium Enterprises

195. October 29, 1929, is a day on which the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 11% in a single day. It’s commonly known by what dark two-word phrase?

Answer: Black Tuesday

196. Founded in 1884 in Leeds, the acronym M&S refers to what UK retail giant whose products include clothing, home accessories, flowers, and furniture?

Answer: Marks & Spencer

197. Charles H. Taylor is one of six businessmen who founded a company in 1872 that still exists in present day Boston. What is the company, which was purchased in 2013 by Boston Red Sox and Liverpool F.C. owner John W. Henry for $70 million?

Answer: The Boston Globe

198. "Cap" is short for which term that refers to the total market value of all of a company's stock?

Answer: Capitalization

199. What communications giant goes by the stock symbol T on the New York Stock Exchange?

Answer: AT&T

200. What best-selling self-help book by Dale Carnegie, first published in 1936, helps people navigate business and social interactions with chapters like “Be A Leader?”

Answer: How To Win Friends And Influence People

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