Business & Corporate Blunders Trivia Quiz

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Business and Corporate Blunders

Answer 17 questions on disastrous mistakes from American business history.

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What film company was #1 in camera sales in 1996, but nosedived after it failed to embrace digital photography for fear of losing film sales?

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What company passed on buying Netflix for $50 million in 2000?

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What company merged with AOL in January 2000, right before the tech bubble burst, creating a comically overvalued $350 billion behemoth?

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In an attempt to compete with Apple in smart phones, what company did Microsoft purchase for $7.2 billion in 2014, only to sell it for $350 million two years later?

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What airline dragged a physician off a flight who refused to give up his ticketed seat to off-duty airline staff, which turned into a viral video and public relations disaster in 2017?

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What retail chain's sales plummetted after Ron Johnson, former mastermind of Apple Stores, implemented a policy of no sales or coupons?

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What company turned down an offer to buy Google for $1 million in 1998, then turned down another offer for $5 billion in 2002?

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What company bought MySpace for $580 million in 2005, a year before Facebook expanded from universities to the public?

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In what company did Ron Wayne, the 3rd co-founder, sell his entire stake for $2300 in 1976?

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What retailer tried to expand to Canada in 2013, only to close all 133 stores two years later for a $5.4 billion loss?

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What company launched the Zune music player to compete with Apple's iPod, only to retire it 5 years later with over $1 billion in losses?

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What retailer combined in a $11 billion merger with Sears in 2005, only to create more inefficiences and overhead, leading to its ultimate nosedive into irrelevancy?

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What company introduced a "Crystal" version of its soda in the 1990s, failing with $100+ million in losses?

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What oil company was responsible for the 2016 Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico, costing the business over $65 billion?

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What company released the infamous E.T. game, often cited as the worst video game ever made?

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What bank purchased Countrywide Financial in 2008 for $4 billion, ultimately losing $40 billion (not a typo) from write-downs, bad loans, and legal settlements in the aftermath of the housing crisis?

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What company had a Reality Labs division develop a "metaverse", only to fail spectacularly and discontinue it, with total losses of $100 billion?

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One thought on “Business & Corporate Blunders Trivia Quiz”

  1. I got quite a few wrong but still scored better than average. I’m not quite sure how to take that 🤔

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