Business Trivia Questions with Answers.

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Business trivia questions and answers.

Fun business trivia questions and answers.

What was the only product ever promoted by Elvis Presley in a television commercial?
A: Donuts--the commercial, for Southern Made Donuts, was aired in 1954.

How did secure, relatively high-yielding stocks get to be called blue chips?
A: The term was taken from the game of poker, where blue hips are more valuable than white or red chips.

What century-old product was originally promoted with the advertising slogan "You press the button--we do the rest"?
A: The Kodak camera. The slogan was first used in 1888.

What company is both the oldest corporate enterprise still in existence and the largest corporate landowner in history?
A: The Hudson Bay Company.  Founded in 1670, its realm once covered nearly 3 million square miles. The company now operates Canada's largest department store chain.

What product was first introduced in 1906 as Blibber Blubber?
A: Bubblegum.   Developed and marketed by the Frank H. Fleer Corporation, it was soon abandoned because it was too sticky and brittle. In the 1920'a the company came up with a winning formula, which it marketed under the name "Dubble Bubble."

Joan Collins, Elizabeth Taylor, and Cher all have marketed perfumes. Can you name their scents?
A: Collins, "Spectacular"; Taylor, "Passion"; and Cher, "Uninhibited."

What is the maximum number of individual memberships--or seats--permitted on the New York Stock Exchange?
A: 1,366. The number is set in the exchange's constitution.

In 1985 officials of a New York supermarket chain advertised for "part-time career associate scanning professionals." What job position were they trying to fell?
A: Checkout Clerk.

In 1985 a Denver hotel published an ad offering guest a "Free Hotel Room" in large type. What was the catch in the fine print below?
A: "Parking $55.00 / night (Parking is mandatory)."

How many miles per gallon did the 22-horsepower, 4-cylinder Model T Ford get when it was introduced in 1908?
A: It got between 25 and 30 miles per gallon.

What was the dowry of Consuelo Vanderbilt, daughter of multimillionaire William Henry Vanderbilt, when she married the Duke of Marlborough in 1895?
A: The duke received $2.5 million in railroad stock.

To celebrate its one-hundredth anniversary in 1860, what did the Lorillard Company put at random in packages of it Century brand of tobacco?
A: $100 bills.

In what year was the first American car sold for export--and where was it shipped?
A: In 1893. An Olds gasoline steam carriage was shipped to Bombay, India, for use by the branch office of a British patent medicine company. It's price: $400.

What famous Christmas legend did a Montgomery Ward advertising man create as part of his job?
A: Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Adman Robert May first wrote of the now famous reindeer in a pamphlet distributed to children by store Santas in 1939.

In 1933, how much did a night's stay in a double room cost at the gfamous Waldorf_Astoria Htel in New York City?
A: In 1933, a double cost $9.00; a single, $6; a suite, $20.00.

What was the first consumer product purchased on the installment plan?
A: A Singer sewing machine, in 1856. It was purchased by Margaret Hellmuth of New York for $50 down, with the remaining $100 paid in six monthly installments. Later customers were able to buy machines for $5 down and payments of $3 a month.

 

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