5545 World's Richest Companies By Market Cap Trivia Questions with Answers

5545 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?

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

Which company was founded by Larry Ellison in 1977 as Software Development Laboratories?

Answer

Oracle

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

Which pharmaceutical company developed the weight-loss drug Wegovy, approved by the FDA in 2021?

Answer

Novo Nordisk

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

Which payments company operates the VisaNet network and went public in 2008?

Answer

Visa

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

Which semiconductor company acquired CA Technologies in 2018 and Symantec’s enterprise business in 2019?

Answer

Broadcom

Easy Easy difficulty.
World's Richest Companies By Market Cap

Which company launched Amazon Web Services in 2006, helping create the modern cloud-computing market?

Answer

Amazon

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

Which company operates the LinkedIn professional networking platform after buying it in 2016?

Answer

Microsoft

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

Which company created the Java programming language, originally released in 1995?

Answer

Sun Microsystems

Easy Easy difficulty.
World's Richest Companies By Market Cap

Which Saudi company, partly owned by the government, had the world’s largest initial public offering in 2019?

Answer

Saudi Aramco

Easy Easy difficulty.
World's Richest Companies By Market Cap

Which company was founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen and became a leading software company by market capitalization?

Answer

Microsoft

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

Which company introduced the GeForce 256 in 1999 and later became a major chip designer by market capitalization?

Answer

Nvidia

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

Which company did Warren Buffett lead as it became one of the world’s largest public companies by market value?

Answer

Berkshire Hathaway

Easy Easy difficulty.
World's Richest Companies By Market Cap

Which Taiwanese chipmaker is commonly described as the world’s largest dedicated semiconductor foundry?

Answer

TSMC

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

Which company was the first to surpass a $1 trillion market capitalization based primarily on internet advertising?

Answer

Alphabet

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

Which company became the first publicly traded business to reach a $2 trillion market value outside the United States?

Answer

Saudi Aramco

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

Which company was the first to surpass a $1 trillion market capitalization during a trading day?

Answer

Apple

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

Which energy company became the largest company ever to launch an initial public offering?

Answer

Saudi Aramco

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

Which Chinese technology company became Asia’s first publicly traded company valued above US$500 billion in 2017?

Answer

Tencent

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

Which company became the first publicly traded company to reach a $2 trillion valuation in the semiconductor industry?

Answer

Nvidia

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

Which company was the first non-U.S. company to briefly exceed a US$1 trillion market cap?

Answer

PetroChina

Easy Easy difficulty.
World's Richest Companies By Market Cap

What is the stock-exchange ticker for Microsoft, one of the world’s highest-valued companies?

Answer

MSFT

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

Which company was the first publicly traded U.S. corporation to surpass a $2 trillion market cap after Apple?

Answer

Microsoft

Easy Easy difficulty.
World's Richest Companies By Market Cap

Which Saudi company raised about $29.4 billion in the world’s largest initial public offering?

Answer

Saudi Aramco

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

Which company became the first to lose $1 trillion in market value over roughly one year, during the 2022 technology sell-off?

Answer

Amazon

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

Which company briefly became the world's most valuable publicly traded company when it listed in Shanghai in 2007?

Answer

PetroChina

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

Which company founded in 1993 became a market-cap giant by supplying GPUs for artificial intelligence?

Answer

Nvidia

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

Which Taiwan-based chipmaker was among the world's top 10 companies by market cap in 2024?

Answer

TSMC

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

Which Saudi company became the world's first non-technology company valued at $2 trillion?

Answer

Saudi Aramco

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

Which company created the Ryzen processor family and acquired Xilinx in 2022?

Answer

AMD

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

Which Saudi company, listed on the Tadawul exchange in 2019, had the largest IPO in history?

Answer

Saudi Aramco

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

Which company became the first publicly traded company to exceed a $2 trillion valuation, in August 2020?

Answer

Apple

Easy Easy difficulty.
World's Richest Companies By Market Cap

Which company designed the H100 graphics processor, widely used to train large artificial-intelligence models?

Answer

Nvidia

Easy Easy difficulty.
World's Richest Companies By Market Cap

Which company developed the Windows operating system and became the second U.S. company to surpass a $3 trillion market value?

Answer

Microsoft

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

Which company became the first to lose $1 trillion in market value during a single period of falling share prices?

Answer

Amazon

Easy Easy difficulty.
World's Richest Companies By Market Cap

Which company was formerly called Facebook, Inc. before adopting its current name in 2021?

Answer

Meta Platforms

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

Which company’s Class A shares use the ticker BRK.A and rank among the world’s highest-priced stocks?

Answer

Berkshire Hathaway

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

Which company is Warren Buffett’s conglomerate and trades under the Class A ticker BRK.A?

Answer

Berkshire Hathaway

Easy Easy difficulty.
World's Richest Companies By Market Cap

Which company owns Google and has Alphabet as its corporate name?

Answer

Alphabet

Easy Easy difficulty.
World's Richest Companies By Market Cap

Which company introduced the world’s first commercially available smartphone with a multi-touch screen in 2007?

Answer

Apple

Easy Easy difficulty.
World's Richest Companies By Market Cap

Which company’s stock-market value first exceeded $2 trillion in August 2020?

Answer

Apple

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

Which company is the parent of the semiconductor designer Arm after acquiring it in 2016?

Answer

SoftBank Group

Easy Easy difficulty.
World's Richest Companies By Market Cap

Which company was formed in 2015 when Google reorganized under a new parent company?

Answer

Alphabet Inc.

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

Which company’s iPhone became the first smartphone to use Apple’s A-series system-on-a-chip?

Answer

Apple

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

Which company’s B200 processor is designed for generative-artificial-intelligence data centers?

Answer

Nvidia

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

Which company introduced the PlayStation video-game console in 1994?

Answer

Sony

Easy Easy difficulty.
World's Richest Companies By Market Cap

Which electric-car company delivered the first mass-produced Model 3 vehicles in 2017?

Answer

Tesla

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

Which company, founded by Morris Chang in 1987, became the world’s leading dedicated contract chip manufacturer?

Answer

TSMC

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

Which company operates the world’s largest online retail platform and went public in 1997?

Answer

Amazon

Easy Easy difficulty.
World's Richest Companies By Market Cap

Which company owns the Azure cloud platform and is headquartered in Redmond, Washington?

Answer

Microsoft

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

What was the approximate market capitalization of Saudi Aramco when it began trading after its 2019 IPO?

Answer

$1.9 trillion

Easy Easy difficulty.
World's Richest Companies By Market Cap

Which parent company owns Google and became one of the world’s highest-valued companies after its 2015 restructuring?

Answer

Alphabet

← Previous
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
Next →