The 2021 Big Business Quiz

2021 Year-End Round-Up Trivia: 21 hand-picked questions (and answers) about prominent business companies from our daily and weekly news quizzes in 2021. Who is the world’s richest person? What’s Libor? Which companies are worth over $2 trillion? And who is Andy Jassy? Take the 2021 Big Business Quiz, and find out!

2021 Big Business Trivia Quiz

2021 Quizzes: 21 general knowledge multiple-choice questions about big business and billionaires in 2021. Click "start quiz."

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1. Who is the world's richest person in 2021?

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2. After disappearing from the public eye since Oct. 2020, Chinese billionaire Jack Ma made a rare appearance on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. What was the occasion?

Photos: © WTO/ Cuika Foto, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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3. Do Ben & Jerry's make ice cream for dogs?

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4. What’s Libor?

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5. Gap Inc is a clothing retail company that also owns which chains?

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6. What is the Robinhood app?

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7. What is Fastly?

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8. What is Square Inc?

Image: Square Inc

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9. In 2020 McDonald’s led U.S. burger restaurant chains in sales. Who was number 2?

Screenshot: Wendy’s on Youtube.

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10. Which phone giant owned Yahoo and AOL until 2021?

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11. Which giant owns Oral B, Gillette, Pampers, and Tampax?

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12. Which American phone giant owns CNN, HBO, and Cartoon Network?

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13. Which American company owns Lonely Planet, CNET, TV Guide, Metacritic, and GameSpot?

Image: CNET

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14. Which company owns TMZ?

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15. How many zeros in a trillion (in the UK/US English meaning)?

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16. Which of these companies are worth over $2 trillion?

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17. Who is Andy Jassy?

Screenshot: Amazon Web Services on YouTube.

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18. According to billionaire Jeff Bezos, who paid for his space adventure?

Screenshot: Blue Origin on YouTube

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19. With which company does billionaire Elon Musk plan to take his first space trip?

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20. How is the Chinese government limiting online gaming for children?

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21. Which food products were in short supply in the UK in 2021?

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  • Who is the world's richest person in 2021?

    Pictures: White House
    Elon Musk
    Jeff Bezos
    Bill Gates
    Mark Zuckerberg

    After disappearing from the public eye since Oct. 2020, Chinese billionaire Jack Ma made a rare appearance on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. What was the occasion?

    Photos: © WTO/ Cuika Foto, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    Joe Biden’s inauguration.
    China’s Star market’s first anniversary.
    His daughter’s birthday.
    An online ceremony of the annual Rural Teacher Initiative.

    Do Ben & Jerry's make ice cream for dogs?

    Yes!
    No way.

    What’s Libor?

    Leveraged International Official Rate.
    London Interbank Offered Rate.
    The Roman god of viticulture and wine, fertility and freedom.
    A person born between Sep. 23 and Oct. 22.

    Gap Inc is a clothing retail company that also owns which chains?

    H&M, COS and Cheap Monday.
    Old Navy, Banana Republic and Athleta.
    Zara, Zara Home and Pull and Bear.
    Uniqlo, J Brand and Helmut Lang.

    What is the Robinhood app?

    A DIY app.
    A gaming app.
    A music streaming app.
    A stock trading app.

    What is Fastly?

    A content-delivery network, or CDN, provider.
    A telemedicine and virtual healthcare company.
    A cybersecurity company.
    A videotelephony and online chat company.

    What is Square Inc?

    Image: Square Inc
    Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s digital payments firm.
    Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s space tourism firm.
    Tesla founder Elon Musk’s investments firm.
    Microsoft founder Bill Gates’s microchips firm.

    In 2020 McDonald’s led U.S. burger restaurant chains in sales. Who was number 2?

    Screenshot: Wendy’s on Youtube.
    Wendy’s
    Burger King
    White Castle
    In-n-Out

    Which phone giant owned Yahoo and AOL until 2021?

    AT&T.
    Verizon.
    T-Mobile.
    Vodafone.

    Which giant owns Oral B, Gillette, Pampers, and Tampax?

    Kimberly-Clark.
    Johnson & Johnson.
    Unilever.
    Procter & Gamble.

    Which American phone giant owns CNN, HBO, and Cartoon Network?

    AT&T.
    Verizon.
    T-Mobile.
    Vodafone.

    Which American company owns Lonely Planet, CNET, TV Guide, Metacritic, and GameSpot?

    Image: CNET
    National Amusements.
    Red Ventures.
    The Walt Disney Company.
    News Corporation.

    Which company owns TMZ?

    Fox Corp.
    WarnerMedia.
    NBC Universal.
    The Walt Disney Company.

    How many zeros in a trillion (in the UK/US English meaning)?

    Photo: Manuel Dohmen, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    12.
    11.
    10.
    9.

    Which of these companies are worth over $2 trillion?

    Apple Inc. and Amazon.
    Apple Inc. and Microsoft.
    Amazon and Alphabet Inc.
    Alphabet Inc. and Facebook.

    Who is Andy Jassy?

    Screenshot: Amazon Web Services on YouTube.
    Legendary tennis player.
    Cuban-American actor.
    So You Think You Can Dance Judge.
    President and CEO of Amazon.

    According to billionaire Jeff Bezos, who paid for his space adventure?

    Screenshot: Blue Origin on YouTube
    Every Amazon employee, and every Amazon customer.
    He said he did it on his own.
    The American taxpayer.
    Every citizen on earth.

    With which company does billionaire Elon Musk plan to take his first space trip?

    Photo: NORAD and USNORTHCOM Public Affairs, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
    Branson’s Virgin Galactic.
    Bezos’ Blue Origin.
    His own SpaceX.
    Musk isn’t flying to space.

    How is the Chinese government limiting online gaming for children?

    Photo: Liuxingy, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    By restricting violent games to 17 and older.
    By banning online gaming altogether.
    By banning minors from playing online games for more than three hours a week.
    By alerting parents to online gaming dangers.

    Which food products were in short supply in the UK in 2021?

    Screenshot: McDonald’s UK on YouTube
    McDonald’s milkshakes.
    Nando’s chicken.
    Marmite.
    All of the above and more may follow.