Question: Because Ivory soap is one of its oldest and most famous products, the factory of which company located in St. Bernard, Ohio is called 'Ivorydale'?
Answer: Proctor and Gamble (P&G;)

Question: Created by a Canadian Nobel laureate, a Vickrey auction is one where bidders submit secret written bids and in which the highest bidder wins, but the price paid is that of what?
Answer: Second-highest bid

Question: The executive Malcolm T. Stamper is best known for leading 50,000 people in a huge plant at Everett, Washington in the 1960s for the construction of what engineering marvel?
Answer: Boeing 747

Question: What 'enchanting' term informally describes the five leading UK-headquartered law firms?
Answer: Magic Circle

Question: What popular brand of antiseptic connected with personal hygiene is named after the British surgeon who pioneered the idea of sterile surgery?
Answer: Listerine (from Joseph Lister)

Question: The name of what popular sneaker brand introduced by U.S. Rubber in 1916 is a play on a synonym for children and the Latin root for foot?
Answer: Keds (kids + ped)

Question: If Manhattan is the financial hub of New York, the area of Pudong is the similar equivalent for which city?
Answer: Shanghai

Question: In 2009, Warner Bros. created a website called red2blu.com for customers interested in what type of swap?
Answer: HD DVD to Blu-ray

Question: What giant that operates as Asda in the United Kingdom, Seiyu in Japan and Best Price in India is also the biggest private employer in the world?
Answer: Walmart

Question: Since the 1960s, what advertising objects come in three models called GZ-19, GZ-20 and GZ-22?
Answer: Goodyear blimps

Question: Founded in 1946 by Georges Doriot, the firm American Research and Development Corporation (ARDC) is credited with pioneering what concept in the world of business?
Answer: Venture capital (VC)

Question: In economics, what type of commodity is a Giffen good which violates a cardinal law?
Answer: Something that people consume more of when its price increases, violating the law of demand.

Question: What product that makes unpacking fun was invented by sealing two shower curtains together by two engineers who intended it as wallpaper?
Answer: Bubble Wrap

Question: Which company added a soundless digital clock to its new model in 1980 to do something about 'the clock' in its legendary selling line "At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in this new ___-___ comes from the electric clock"?
Answer: Rolls-Royce

Question: Arthur's Day refers to events first organised in 2009 to celebrate the 250th anniversary of what brewing company, the name Arthur being the first name of the founder?
Answer: Guinness

Question: In 2010, which company reportedly bought the domain name of a farm bureau for $8.5 million, clearly interested in the F and the B?
Answer: Facebook

Question: What are 'Gold Panda' in China, 'Maple Leaf' in Canada, 'Philharmoniker' in Austria, 'Tower of David' in Israel, 'George the Victorious' in Russia and 'Sovereign' in UK?
Answer: Gold bullion coins

Question: As of January 2010, Amazon.com is America's largest online retailer. Which company that deals with office supplies is the runner-up?
Answer: Staples Inc.

Question: Which American tycoon and publisher of a magazine was known for his lavish life-style that included a collection of special shape hot air balloons?
Answer: Malcolm Forbes

Question: What is the name of the oil rig that sank and caused the largest offshore oil spill in US history and gave BP a bad rep in 2010?
Answer: Deepwater Horizon

Question: Which dot-com company that had its heyday in the 90s is credited with the development of the Secure Sockets Layer Protocol for secure online communication as well as with JavaScript?
Answer: Netscape

Question: Which company/product connected with transportation is associated with the immensely successful 'Think Small' ad campaign?
Answer: Volkswagen

Question: If you have to name one person associated with the Bangladeshi micro-financing institution 'Grameen Bank', who would it be?
Answer: Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammed Yunus

Question: Which 20th century industrialist known as the father of modern American shipbuilding is also known for organizing a 'permanente' health care system for his workers and their families?
Answer: Henry J. Kaiser (1882-1967)

Question: The town of Bretton Woods in the US was the site of the UN Monetary and Financial Conference in 1944 that led to the establishment of which two seminal world institutions in the subsequent year?
Answer: World Bank and IMF

Question: Red Barn, now a historic site in the US, was the original manufacturing site of which company?
Answer: Boeing

Question: The name of which company was initially proposed as 'Pequod' but the idea was retracted when someone said "No one's going to drink a cup of Pee-quod!"?
Answer: Starbucks

Question: The 19th century American businessman Aaron Montgomery Ward is credited with the invention of what type of business that would have made the postal service happy?
Answer: Mail order business

Question: Which 400-year-old German dynasty from Essen is known for the industrial production of steel and armaments and has been known as the 'Arsenal of the Reich'?
Answer: Krupp family

Question: In the world of business, what phrase describes the process of a product becoming non-functional after a certain period or amount of use in a way that is designed by the manufacturer?
Answer: Planned obsolescence

Question: From the Arabic for 'to make known', what is the correct term for a duty imposed on foreign goods?
Answer: Tariff

Question: In the US, Keogh Plans are full-fledged pension plans for small businesses and what other type of people?
Answer: Self-employed

Question: After a Korean Air Lines flight was shot down after straying into the USSR's prohibited airspace in 1983, President Reagan issued a directive making what technology available for civilian use?
Answer: GPS (Global Positioning System)

Question: George Bailey, the character portrayed by James Stewart in It's a Wonderful Life is loosely based upon which banker who was the founder of Bank of America?
Answer: Amadeo Giannini (1870-1949)

Question: The name of what popular ice cream was named from two made-up words that were meant to look Scandinavian to American eyes?
Answer: Häagen-Dazs

Question: What is the name given to the fraudulent operation that involves paying abnormally high returns to investors out of the money paid in by subsequent investors rather than from revenues generated by any business?
Answer: Ponzi scheme

Question: Appropriately, which company's NYSE symbol is 'BID'?
Answer: Sotheby's

Question: Which legal term describes a brand name that has become synonymous with a particular class of products and whose examples include Scotch Tape, Frisbee, Xerox and Band-Aid?
Answer: Generic trademark

Question: What is the largest single-site employer in the US with more than 66,000 employees, a manifold increase from the 5,500 it employed when it opened in 1971?
Answer: Walt Disney World Resort

Question: The children's literature section of the publisher Penguin Books works under what name?
Answer: Puffin Books

Question: The American inventor Douglas Engelbart is best known for inventing which ubiquitous 'clicking' device?
Answer: Computer mouse

Question: Which company was responsible for the Bhopal disaster in 1984 that is frequently cited as the world's worst industrial disaster?
Answer: Union Carbide

Question: The name of which company is supposedly derived from the transcandental god of Zoraastrianism?
Answer: Mazda

Question: In the list of the largest exporters by value in the US, which company 'takes-off' to the top position?
Answer: Boeing

Question: What is the all time bestselling car in the world?
Answer: Toyota Corolla