Business 1
1. Which technology company has the slogan “Quietly brilliant”?
HTC
2. Which petrol company's logo features a white star in a red circle?
Texaco
3. Mike Costin and Keith Duckworth formed which UK engineering company in 1958?
Cosworth
4. What website did Google buy in 2006 for 1.65 billion US dollars?
YouTube
5. In 2012, the world’s first teletext service was switched off. What was it called?
Ceefax
6. TV ‘Dragon’ Theo Paphitis was the chairman of which London football club for eight years until 2006?
Millwall
7. What 2 colours are the first and last letters of the Google logo?
Blue and red
8. Between 1910 and 1963, what were Avro famous for making?
Aircraft
9. Accounting for approximately 30% of global revenues, what did France introduce in 1954, the UK in 1973 and China in 1984?
VAT
10. What are the first names of former hippies called Cohen and Greenfield who sold their successful business to Unilever in April 2000?
Ben and Jerry
Business 2
1. What does Barclays Bank call its 7,000 IT help staff initiative, launched 2013?
Digital Eagles
2. What does the title of the publication FHM stand for?
For him magazine
3. Monsanto is a globally dominant corporation in which sector?
Agriculture (chemicals and seeds)
4. “Once you pop, you can’t stop” is the slogan for which product?
Pringles
5. What part of the body is on the Nokia logo?
Hands
6. Which household device, invented in 1869 was originally called “the whirlwind”?
Vacuum cleaner
7. What was "The Daily Herald" renamed in 1964, after having been sold to
Rupert Murdoch? The Sun
8. Which New York City street is synonymous with the US advertising industry?
Madison Avenue
9. In the 1950’s, Brooke Bond was the largest seller of what product in the world?
Tea
10. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are companies within what field in the USA?
Mortgages
Business 4
1. Le Coq Sportif is a famous French brand who specialise in what?
Sportswear (it means the athletic rooster)
2. Which profession traditionally wears a toque blanche hat with a hundred folds?
Chef (or Cook - supposedly the 100 folds in a chef's white toque hat are said to represent the many ways an egg can be cooked)
3. According to official US figures, 1 in 8 Americans have worked for which US fast food company?
Mcdonalds
4. What Is the company Fry and Son credited with making the first of in 1847?
Chocolate bar
5. In regards to the media network CNN, what does the ‘C’ stand for?
Cable
6. What product is made in a Gin Mill?
Cotton
7. Since 1948 which company has sold the most cars?
Matchbox
8. Which cylindrical food container was so prized by its inventor Fred Bauer that he had his ashes buried in one?
Pringles can
9. What does the WD stand for in the spray oil WD40?
Water Displacement
10. Wrigley's gum was the first product to come with what item of technology?
Bar code
Business 5
1. Which British newspaper was launched with the slogan “it is, are you”?
The Independent
2. Kilner, Mason, and Weck are brands of what?
Glass jars
3. How many dots make up the BlackBerry symbol logo?
Seven
4. Founded in 1827 by Karl Baedeker and run by his family until 1984, the German company is famous for what?
Travel guides
5. Lafarge, Holcim, and Heidelberg are among the world's leading producers of what?
Cement (and stone-based construction materials)
6. On the ebay website logo, what colour is the letter Y?
Green
7. Considered the UK's oldest still operating manufacturing company, established in 1570, what does the Whitechapel Foundry make?
Bells
8. What are you shopping for if you use a brannock device to work out your size?
Shoes
9. The Chinese company Baidu is one of the world's largest internet companies. What is it?
A search engine
10. The most popular brand of fridge in the uk comes from which Turkish brand?
Beko
Business 6
1. What is the name of a tradesperson who specializes in horseshoes?
A farrier
2. "Connecting People" is the slogan for which company?
Nokia
3. What do DC Thomson and Co publish?
Comics
4. The UK-based ASOS company is a leading international online provider in which sector?
Fashion
5. What name is shared by a famous manufacturer of firearms and a famous manufacturer of personal care and shaving products?
Remington
6. The 1916 photograph of Jesse Schwayder, his father and brothers standing on luggage still serves as the logo for which company?
Samsonite
7. Which city is the German stock exchange based in?
Frankfurt
8. From which country does the Haribo brand come from?
Germany
9. Sabatier, Victorinox and Füritechnics are leading makers of what?
Knives
10. Dr Edwin Land invented the instant camera in which decade?
1940’s
Business 7
1. What mark does the British standards institute use to identify products manufactured to meet their standards?
Kitemark
2. In which London shop were the first escalators installed in the UK in 1898?
Harrods
3. Which famous shop had its Royal warrant removed in February 2000?
Harrods
4. QR, Aztec, Cyber, and Data Matrix are types of what used in modern businesses?
Barcodes
5. Amazon's next-day delivery service is called what?
Prime
6. Which paper manufacturers were purchased by a tobacco company in 1997?
Rizla
7. The Motley fool is a website that deals with what?
Finance
8. "Just do It" is the advertising slogan for which company?
Nike
9. What famous headwear and safety harness brand name came from the original raw materials of silk, angora and wool?
Kangol
10. Which company’s mission statement is to “organise the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful”?
Business 8
1. Which country was the Pentax camera company formed in?
Japan
2. In which US State was Microsoft founded?
New Mexico
3. The Rochdale Principles guide the operation of which kind of organisation, linked to food?
Co-operatives
4. Which motor manufacturer makes the car the Rio?
Kia
5. George Eastman formed which photographic company?
Kodak/Eastman Kodak
6. The famous 'Kitemark' quality symbol, registered in England in 1903, one of the world's oldest trademarks still in use, contains which two letters (besides the 'V' shape)?
B and S (for British Standards Institution)
7. Coffee company Douwe Egberts was founded in which European country in 1753?
The Netherlands
8. n 1999, two British men started a fashion business which copied clothes worn by popular celebrities. What is the name of the brand they created?
ASOS (As seen on screen)
9. What type of paper, used for copying, was invented in 1806 in England by Ralph Wedgwood?
Carbon
10. Tamara Mellon co-founded (with the person after whom the company is named) what handmade ladies shoe fashion label?
Jimmy Choo
Business 9
1. At the age of 23, Karren Brady took over as Managing director of which football club?
Birmingham city
2. Turkish-Cypriot tycoon Asil Nadir's vast corporation which crashed after a fraud investigation in 1990 was called what?
Polly Peck
3. Agent Provocateur is a famous brand of what?
Lingerie
4. Nixdorf, Tulip, Sinclair and AST were early brands in what field?
Computing
5. Gaffer tape gets its name from which industry?
Films
6. What litter on UK beaches reduced by 36% in a year after a usage levy was introduced to businesses in 2015?
Plastic carrier bags
7. Linn, Bose, Cyrus, and Bang & Olufsen are brands that make what?
Music systems
8. The German Pritt company invented and launched the first what in 1969?
Glue-stick (hence Pritt-stick)
9. What article of clothing was originated by Scottish chemist Charles Macintosh (1766-1843)?
Mac (raincoat)
10. Which house builder is the biggest construction company in the UK (as of 2024)
Barratt
Money 1
1. Who became the governor of the Bank of England on the 1st July 2013?
Mark Carney
2. Which two famous Charles' have appeared on a British ten-pound note
Darwin and Dickens
3. What word means to lend money at exorbitant interest rates?
Usury
4. What was the highest value British banknote in legal circulation before it was withdrawn in 1943?
£1,000
5. In slang, how much money is a ‘monkey’?
£500
6. The oldest bank in the world has been trading continuously since 1472. Which country is it in?
Italy
7. A 1999 report conducted in London found that 92% of banknotes contain traces of what?
Cocaine
8. What is the highest value Euro banknote?
500
9. Which country's central bank is called the Central Bank of China?
Taiwan
10. What is the only bank note issued by the bank of England to show two portraits on the reverse?
£50.00
Money 2
1. Where on a coin would you find reeding?
On the edge
2. Which currency was introduced as an accounting currency on 1st January 1999, before going into full circulation 3 years later?
Euro
3. In the US, how many cents make up a nickel?
5
4. Apart from English, there are 2 other languages used on English currency. What are they?
Latin and Welsh
5. The reverse of the current £50 note shows two people. Name either one
Matthew Boulton and James Watt
6. The US dollar sign comes from the abbreviation of which other currency?
Spanish Peso
7. In pre-decimal currency in the UK, how many florins were in a pound?
10
8. The inspiration for the Euro currency sign came from which Greek letter?
Epsilon
9. What value is a purple Euro note?
500 Euros
10. In the board game Monopoly, what is the highest denomination banknote in ‘pounds’ sterling?
£500