Business Terminology
General Business
Business English
English Trivia
General English
100

In the C-Suite, the CEO is the Chief Executive Office, the COO is the Chief Operating Officer, and the CFO is the Chief ______ Officer.

Financial

100

What was Jeff Bezos previous job before creating Amazon?

Hedge funder/banker

100

You are in a business meeting negotiating a new contract with an important client. After hearing your price, they say ‘That’s a deal breaker for us’.
What do they mean?

They cannot accept your price

100

There are too ________ cars on the road during rush hour it causes a traffic____________

Many


Jam

100

Carl lives alone in ___ one-bedroom apartment.

a

an

the

no article

a

200

Define " cooling off period" and give one example

Cooling off period is the time you have to change your mind and return/cancel a sales agreement

200

In 2022, Elon Musk bought Twitter. For how much?

$44 Billion

200

Your boss tells you to ‘go the extra mile’ for a special client.
What do they mean?

You should give them more than they expected.

200

What is the most common adjective in the English language?

Good

200

As we drove through the darkness, we saw another car coming __________ the bend in the road. 

through 

under

over 

around

around

300

One strategy for assessing business operations is using BCG matrix or the growth share matrix, which stands for ______, _______, ______, 

Boston, Consulting, Group

300

 The US Dollar and the European Euro are the two most-traded currencies globally. What is the third?

Japanese Yen

300

To ‘learn the ropes’ means what?

To learn how to do a new job

300

How many people in the world use English as their first language? Chose the correct answer from the list provided.

Approximately. 360-400 million, 700-950 million

More than 2 billion

 

300

Some people have difficulty understanding business because they are not__________ .

Business-ready

Business-savvy 

Business-intelligents

communicate

400

In real estate, what does it mean to be 'Gazumped' ?

To refuse to sell a house that you own to someone you have agreed to sell it to, and to sell it instead to someone who offers to pay more for it: Sally's offer for the house has been accepted, but she's worried she might be gazumped.

400

What are the top five largest companies in the world by market cap (in order!)?

Bonus: what is the current approx. market cap of number 1?

Apple, Microsoft, Saudi Aramco, Alphabet (Google), Amazon.


Apple: $2.9 trillion 

Microsoft: $2.75 trillion

400

In the BCG matrix, If a product is a 'Dog' for a company, what does it mean?

The product holds a low market share in a slow-growth market.
In other words, this is a products that breaks even=usually just brings you what yuou've invested-nothing more!

400

How do we call a baby goat in English?

a kid

400

How many consonants are there in the English alphabet?

There are 21 consonants in the English alphabet : B, C, D, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, P, Q, R, S, T, V, W, X, Y, Z. 

Keep in mind that “Y” can sometimes function as a vowel (which is known as a semivowel).

500

What is the definition of "equity"?

the value of the shares issued by a company.

500

What is the common five-word business rule or maxim that has been attributed to consumer-focused entrepreneurs such as H. Gordon Selfridge and John Wanamaker?
 

The customer is always right

500

If a client asks you for a 'ballpark figure' for the cost of a service, what does it mean?


Bonus: where does this phrase originate from?

an estimate of what something might amount to numerically when a more accurate number is assessed


Bonus: Baseball. Back in the day, the commentator would estimate how many fans were in the seats and this became known as the "ballpark figure".

500

What is hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia?

The fear of long words!

500

What are the 8 parts of speech (when expressing yourself) in the English language?

noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.

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