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QUIZ 62 – Business

1 Who was Chairman and CEO of General Electric from 1981 to 2001?

2 Which German company was the originator and first marketer of aspirin (patented in 1899)?

3 Named after a Belgian-born designer, what was the first company founded by a woman to make the Fortune 500?

4 Which Panamanian law firm’s files have been leaked as the Panama Papers?

5 Which bank took its name from the son-in-law of co-founder John Freame?

6 Which author bought the company Glidrose to hold the rights to his writing?

7 Founded by Ezra Cornell, which company introduced both the stock ticker and money transfer?

8 The Danish company Novo Nordisk manufactures which products?

9 Which furniture company opened its first store in Älmhult in 1958?

10 Noah Dietrich was chief aide to which US tycoon for more than 30 years?

11 Which footwear brand was founded in 1856 as the North British Rubber Company?

12 Which UK-based company is Europe’s biggest defence contractor?

13 Which US investor wrote the 2000 personal finance book Rich Dad, Poor Dad?

14 Founded at a coffee house on Tower Street in 1688, which insurance market has the motto Fidentia (Latin for ‘confidence’)?

15 The world’s biggest home appliance maker, which Chinese company was founded in 1984 as Qingdao Refrigerator Co.?

16 Which financial services company was founded in Berlin in 1890 by Carl von Thieme and Wilhelm von Finck?

17 Which Reliance Industries chairman owns the Mumbai home, Antilia – the world’s most expensive private residential property?

18 The title of the Michael Moore documentary Roger & Me refers to which CEO?

19 Which NBA team is owned by the Shark Tank TV star and businessman Mark Cuban?

20 The pictured banknote comes from which county?


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