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Question 1 - Which supercar manufacturer used to make tractors?

Question 2 - Which South Korean conglomerate started business as a grocery store?

Question 3 - Which self-made billionaire was rejected a job at KFC and failed his English proficiency exam three times before becoming an English teacher in China?

Question 4 - What did Chinese entrepreneur Chen Guangbiao sell (in cans) having spotted an opportunity in response to the pollution in large cities in China?

Question 5 - Which company did Ronald Wayne co-found but sold his shares for only $800 after just 12 days?

Question 6 - Which package delivery / courier company was founded by two teenagers with a bicycle and $100 borrowed from a friend?

Question 7 - In 1999, a web portal company called Excite passed on the offer to buy which Internet giant for $1 million?

Question 8 - Which coffee shop chain deliberately uses small round tables to make those drinking coffee on their own feel less alone?

Question 9 - Which computer company was started by a 19-year old teenager with just $1,000 capital?

Question 10 - In response to his secretary being late to work one day due to having car problems, which entrepreneur bought her a brand-new Jaguar later that day?

Question 11 - Which Internet company offers its employees "death benefits" where upon death the employee's spouse receives half of the employee's salary for 10 years?

Question 12 - Which car rental company was originally called Rent-a-Car Inc.?

Question  13 - Which online payment platform was originally called Confinity?

Question 13 - McDonald's first menu items were not hamburgers – what did the company originally sell?

Question 15 - The world’s second best-selling consumer product of all time is Apple’s iPhone. Which toy outsells the iPhone?

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Question 3 - In 1974, which courier company was on the verge of bankruptcy before the founder gambled the last $5,000 of the firm’s assets in Las Vegas?

Question 4 - In 2000, Blockbuster Video declined the offer to buy which one-year-old company for $50 million?

Question 5 - Which international shipping company uses the corporate slogan “Go Brown”?

Question 6 - Which web portal and online service provider was previously called Quantum Computer Services?

Question 7 - Which country used the ‘Zloty’ as its official currency?

Question 8 - Which US carmaker sold its first 1,000,000th car back in 1922?

Question 9 - Which US retail giant serves over 100 million customers every week, earning profits in excess of $1.8 million per hour?!

Question 10 - Which company’s logo depicts delivery of every product from A to Z, with a smile?

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Question 1 - Which social media giant uses blue in its logo as the CEO and co-founder suffers from red-green colour blindness?

Question 2 - McDonald's first menu items were not hamburgers, but what product instead?

Question 3 - According to The Economist, more people in the world have mobile phones than what essential item?

Question 4 - Which self-made multi-billionaire ran a pinball repair service as a high-school student in Omaha, and was later rejected by Harvard Business School?

Question 5 - Which major sports brand is named after the Ancient Greek goddess of victory?

Question 6 - Which famous pizza restaurant was founded by two brothers - James and Tom Monaghan, but with James selling his half of the business to his brother just After 8 months later in exchange for a used Volkswagen Beetle?

Question 7 - Which coffee chain is named after a character in Moby Dick by Herman Melville?

Question 8 - Which European carmaker owns the brands Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Audi, Ducati, and Porsche?

Question 9 - The rice cooker was the first consumer product sold by which Japanese electronics company?

Question 10 - Which social media company’s former CEO (from 2010 to 2015) used to work as an improvisational comedian, including a stint at the legendary Second City in Chicago?

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