Business and Brands trivia

Question packs in this category

• Famous BrandsAbout 250 questions The brands everyone knows: the stories behind logos and mascots, famous slogans, where brand names come from, iconic products and toys, cars and their badges, fashion houses, and the snacks and drinks on every shelf.
• Canadian CompaniesAbout 250 questions Canada's business story: the Hudson's Bay Company and the fur trade, the big banks, railways and airlines, Tim Hortons and other homegrown food brands, retailers that came and went, Canadian tech from BlackBerry to Shopify, famous inventions turned into companies, and the families and founders behind them.
• Economics Made SimpleAbout 250 questions The big ideas of economics in plain words: supply and demand, inflation and prices, interest rates and central banks like the Bank of Canada and the Fed, GDP, recessions and the Great Depression, jobs and unemployment, taxes, trade and tariffs, money through history, and famous economists from Adam Smith to Keynes and Friedman.
• Flops, Scandals and ComebacksAbout 250 questions When business goes wrong, and sometimes right again: famous frauds and Ponzi schemes, accounting scandals, collapses from Enron to FTX, Canada's Bre-X and Nortel, product flops and failed gadgets, format wars, crisis management done well and badly, and the companies that came back from the brink.
• Food and Drink CompaniesAbout 250 questions The companies behind the food and drink we buy every day: Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, Nestlé, Kraft Heinz, Kellogg, General Mills, Mars and Hershey, Canadian names like McCain, Tim Hortons, Molson, Labatt and Saputo, coffee chains, breweries and distilleries, snack mascots and the grocery chains that sell it all.
• Global Trade and Giant CompaniesAbout 250 questions How the world does business: where the giant companies are headquartered, which brands come from which countries, the conglomerates and what they own, the language of imports and tariffs, container ships, ports and canals, trade deals like CUSMA and the EU single market, world currencies and company names borrowed from other languages.
• Business Words and JargonAbout 250 questions Speak fluent office: business acronyms from B2C to EBITDA, buzzwords like table stakes, skin in the game and sacred cows, the money words behind balance sheets and cash flow, who does what in the C-suite, meeting and email shorthand, and the surprising stories behind everyday business phrases.
• Leaders and EntrepreneursAbout 250 questions The people behind the companies: tycoons of the industrial age, modern tech founders and CEOs, women who broke through in business, investors and their famous rules, rags-to-riches stories, famous business quotes and books, and the habits, quirks and big bets of the world's best-known business leaders.
• Marketing and AdvertisingAbout 250 questions The art of selling: famous ad campaigns and the agencies behind them, Super Bowl ads, jingles and catchphrases, Canadian commercials we all remember, infomercials and home shopping, mascots, marketing terms from the four Ps to SEO, online ads, store layouts and packaging, pricing tricks, stunts and viral moments, and the rules that keep advertising honest.
• Money and BusinessAbout 250 questions How money and business work: the history of coins and banknotes, currencies of the world, stock markets, bubbles and crashes, banking and payment firsts, economics in plain words, office and startup jargon, and the famous laws and rules of business.
• Company OriginsAbout 250 questions How famous companies began: garages, dorm rooms and diners, founders and partners, surprising first products, old trading companies, famous rivalries, big acquisitions, and the deals that got away.
• Startups and Silicon ValleyAbout 250 questions Silicon Valley from the HP garage, Fairchild and Intel to today's tech giants: founders and startup stories, venture capital and Y Combinator, unicorns, big acquisitions, headquarters and campuses, startup slang, spectacular failures like Theranos, WeWork and Quibi, and Canada's own tech stars from Nortel and Corel to BlackBerry and Shopify.
• Small Business and EntrepreneurshipAbout 250 questions Going it alone: writing a business plan, sole proprietorships, partnerships and corporations, franchising, companies born in garages, basements and kitchens, crowdfunding and venture capital, Dragons' Den and Shark Tank, side hustles, Small Business Week, cash flow survival tips and founders who started very young.
• Stock Markets and InvestingAbout 250 questions How the stock market works and the people who play it: the NYSE, Nasdaq, TSX, London and Tokyo exchanges, the Dow and the S&P 500, famous ticker symbols, bulls and bears, crashes from 1929 to 2008, dividends, ETFs and bonds explained, legendary investors like Buffett, Graham and Lynch, and RRSPs, TFSAs and 401(k)s.
• Airlines, Hotels and Travel BrandsAbout 250 questions The business of getting away: airlines and where they're from, hubs and the big three alliances, Air Canada and WestJet history, grand hotels and the Canadian railway châteaux, hotel chains, cruise lines, booking sites, car rental companies, airport codes and the loyalty programs that keep travellers coming back.
• Management and the WorkplaceAbout 250 questions Life at work: management ideas from Taylor to Theory Y, famous business books, goal setting and productivity methods, teams and meetings, the history of the office from typewriters to Zoom, hiring and careers, HR and Canadian workplace rules, safety at work, unions and Labour Day, remote and hybrid work, burnout and wellbeing, office jargon, and the TV shows and movies that skewer office life.