Famous Bosses in Business Trivia Quiz

Answer: Mark Cuban

Mark Cuban bought into the ownership of the Dallas Mavericks NBA franchise in 2000. He is known to be a colorful and outspoken entrepreneur and is a frequent participant on the successful reality television "Shark Tank". Cuban made his fortune investing in a Business Software company.

He is the owner of Magnolia Pictures and Landmark Theaters and owns a major stake in a cable television company. Cuban's Dallas Mavericks won the NBA title in 2011.

Answer: Larry Page

Lawrence Page (goes by Larry) and I share the same birthday. However, while I went and became a humble teacher, Larry proceeded to become one of the most influential entrepreneurs in the world of computer science. Page created "PageRank" a search algorithm that has made Google one of the most powerful search engines on the World Wide Web. Larry attended the University of Michigan and Stanford University and in 2015 had a net worth in excess of $30 billion.

Answer: Henry Ford

The Model T Ford, or Tin Lizzie, rolled off the assembly line in October of 1908. It was ranked as the most influential car of the 20th century and made automobile ownership affordable to the middle classes. A remarkable vehicle, it still made the Top 10 list of all-time cars sold even as late as 2012.

Henry Ford has been called the most important entrepreneur of the 20th century and today the Ford Motor Company has a net worth in excess of $200 billion.

Answer: Nike

Phil Knight was a successful athlete at the University of Oregon and ran for the legendary Bill Bowerman. In January of 1964 the two men opened Blue Ribbon Sports. The main purpose of their company was to distribute the Japanese Onitsuka (ASICS) running shoes to athletes. Bill Bowerman began to craft his own running footwear and in 1971 Nike Inc. was created along with the patented swoosh logo. The headquarters of Nike is in Beaverton Oregon and the company is named for the winged Greek goddess of victory.

Answer: Richard Branson

Richard Branson is a British billionaire and frequent adrenalin junkie. He is the President and Founder of the Virgin Group which makes up a large number of companies including Virgin records, Virgin Atlantic Airlines and Virgin Megastores. He has often appeared on the top 10 list of richest men in England and Europe. Through the 1990's he made frequent attempts on various hot air balloon records including an aborted round-the-world balloon attempt that ended in the Pacific Ocean in 1998.

Answer: Ray Kroc

Richard and Maurice McDonald opened a little barbeque restaurant in San Bernadino California in 1940. In 1948, the brothers opened a number of fast-food hamburger stands. Then in 1955 in Des Plaines, Illinois, Czech born businessman Ray Kroc bought into the franchise.

In the following years, Kroc bought out the McDonald brother's equity in the business and aggressively grew the restaurant franchise. Today McDonalds is the second largest private employer on the planet (2nd to Wal-Mart), is located in more than 115 countries and serves over 68 million people daily.

Answer: Sam Walton

Born in Kingfisher Oklahoma in 1918, Sam Walton was the founder of both Wal-Mart and Sam's Club. Although he died in 1992, the family continues to own a majority stake in the company. It is the largest grocery store in the United States and employs more people worldwide than any other organization. Wal-Mart is successful in Mexico with over 2,000 stores.

There are also Wal-Mart stores in Canada, England, China, and South Africa.

Answer: Donald Trump

Donald Trump was born in Queens, New York City on June 16th 1946. He is the President and Chairman of the Trump organization which is a successful real estate, multi-media, and entertainment resort industry. The Trump Tower in Manhattan, New York City is one of the city's iconic pieces of architecture.

There is also a skyscraper in Chicago named for Donald Trump. The Trump International Hotel and Tower has 98 stories and is almost 1,400 feet tall. In 2003, Donald Trump became well known as the host and star of the NBC reality show "The Apprentice", and achieved even greater fame when he was elected president of the United States in 2016.

Answer: Amazon.com

"Amazon.com" originally began as an online bookstore in 1994. It has since evolved into one of the most popular and successful e-commerce sites on the web. Today it sells electronics, video games, toys, jewelry and much more. Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com graduated from Princeton with degrees in electrical engineering and computer science.

The idea for Amazon literally grew out of work he did in his garage. In 1999 he earned "Time" magazine's 'Person of the Year' award.

Answer: Bill Gates

Bill Gates was a simply extraordinary teenager. In a world where excellence is dictated by 10,000 practice hours or 10 years of extensive practice, Bill Gates had become a veritable computer virtuoso by the time he graduated from Lakeside High School. An almost perfect SAT score got him into Harvard but he never graduated.

He instead partnered with Paul Allen to help IBM write programming language for its first range of personal computers. Their partnership led to the birth of Microsoft and Bill Gates quickly became one of the richest and most influential businessmen on the planet.