Fortune 500 Quiz: How Well Do You Know the World’s Largest Companies?
In 1955, ,Fortune magazine published its first list of the 500 largest companies in the U.S. by revenue.
Challenging Questions About Fortune 500 Leaders
- Which company topped the list for the 11th consecutive year in 2024?
- Which company was at the top of the list when Fortune magazine published its first ranking of the 500 largest companies in the U.S. by revenue in 1955?
- Which American business magnate founded Amazon?
- Which multinational corporation, operating a chain of membership-only warehouse stores, ranked number 20 on the list in 2024?
- Which company, named after a Serbian-American inventor, appeared for the first time on the Fortune 500 list in June 2017?
- Which Fortune 500 company paid 25 billion dollars due to the 'Dieselgate' scandal?
- Which integrated electronics company made the first commercially available microprocessor?
- What is Nike's famous three-word slogan?
- Which American manufacturer of power tools merged with Stanley Works in 2010?
- Which company did Exxon merge with in 1999?
- Which company, formed in 1905 by the merger of the 'Anglo-Swiss Milk Company,' is still on the Fortune 500 list?
- Which Fortune 500 company is the world’s largest home improvement retailer?
- One of the best-known investors in the world, name the 2024 chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway?
- Which company, based in Crystal City, Virginia, was formerly known as the Pacific Aero Products Company?
- Which company is represented by its Golden Arches?
- Which word, thought to mean 'a cool kid who has lots of energy,' was adopted as the name of a footwear and apparel company that made its debut on the Fortune 500 in 2023?
- Who became the youngest CEO of a Fortune 500 company in 2013?
- Which company became the first technology firm to break into the top 10 of the Fortune 500 list in 1964?
- The pharmaceutical company J&J is better known by what name?
- Which American multinational energy corporation features a double V-shaped pattern in its logo?
- The General Motors Company is headquartered in which city?
- Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc., is one of the five Big Tech companies, alongside Amazon, Meta, and which other two?
Answers
- Walmart
- General Motors
- Jeff Bezos (Jeffrey Preston Bezos)
- Costco
- Tesla
- Volkswagen
- Intel
- Just Do It
- Black & Decker
- Mobil (to form ExxonMobil)
- Nestle
- The Home Depot
- Warren Buffett
- Boeing
- McDonald's
- Skechers
- Mark Zuckerberg
- IBM
- Johnson & Johnson
- Chevron
- Detroit, Michigan
- Apple and Microsoft