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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• World's Richest Companies By Market Cap

Which company was the first publicly traded energy producer to reach a $2 trillion market capitalization?

Answer

Saudi Aramco

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• World's Richest Companies By Market Cap

Which company became the first Asian technology company valued above $500 billion?

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Tencent

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• World's Richest Companies By Market Cap

Which company became the world's most valuable semiconductor company after passing a $3 trillion market cap in 2024?

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Nvidia

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• World's Richest Companies By Market Cap

Which company set a record by reaching a $1.9 trillion valuation in its 2019 IPO?

Answer

Saudi Aramco

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• World's Richest Companies By Market Cap

Which company became the first publicly traded company to exceed a $1 trillion market cap during trading in 2018?

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Apple

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• World's Richest Companies By Market Cap

Which company became the first to reach a $1 trillion market capitalization in the Asia-Pacific region?

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PetroChina

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• J.R.R. Tolkien

What is Tolkien’s invented name for the world containing Middle-earth and Valinor?

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Arda

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• J.R.R. Tolkien

Which Tolkien character is known as the Steward of Gondor before Aragorn’s return?

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Denethor II

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• J.R.R. Tolkien

Which character physically destroyed the One Ring in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings?

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Gollum

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• J.R.R. Tolkien

Which Tolkien work was published posthumously in 1977 as an account of Middle-earth’s Elder Days?

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The Silmarillion

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• J.R.R. Tolkien

What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s first university teaching post?

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University of Leeds

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• J.R.R. Tolkien

What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s first published Middle-earth story, written as a children’s book?

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The Hobbit

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