DeGroote 101
Fast Mac Facts
Business 101
Mac-tastic
Test your Trivia
100
This is the year the DeGroote School of Business was founded.
1952
100
McMaster was founded in this year.
1887
100
This is what SWOT stands for.
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats
100
This is McMaster's World-Wide Ranking.
69th
Times Higher Education's University Impact Rankings 2021 based on the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations.
100
This country produces the most coffee in the world.
Brazil
200
Two areas of focus available at DeGroote.
Answers may vary but are not limited to:
Accounting, Information Systems, Human Resources Management, Finance (Finance/Business Economics), Marketing, Operations, and Strategic Management
200
McMaster was first established in this city.
Toronto
200
The Fundamental Accounting Equation.
Assets = Liabilities + Owner's Equity
200
These are McMaster's Colours.
Maroon & Grey
200
The unicorn is the national animal of this country.
Scotland
300
Three clubs or committees at DeGroote.
Answers may vary but are not limited to:
Accounting Association (DAA), Finance Council (DFIC), Marketing Association (DMA), Human Resources Association (DHRA), Women in Business (DWIB), Orientation Committee (Greensuits), Mentorship Program (FYOP), and many more!
300
This is the total student population.
28,290 undergraduates and 4,857 graduate students, for a total student population of 33,147
300
Bottom Line vs. the Triple Bottom Line
Bottom Line = Profit
Triple Bottom Line = Planet, Profit, People (i.e., CSR)
300
This is what Orientation/Frosh week is called at McMaster.
Welcome Week
300
This civil rights leader who once said: "A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them."
Mahatma Ghandhi
Fun Fact: A bust of Ghandhi with that exact quote was donated to McMaster by the Government of India and can be found in Gilmour Hall!
400
The opportunity that occurs between Level III and Level IV.
Internship
400
This is the McMaster Mascot.
Mac the Marauder
400
One type of business ownership.
Sole proprietorship, Partnership, Corporation, Franchising and Co-Operative
400
These two comedians graduated from Mac.
Martin Short and Eugene Levy
400
What is the technical name of a hashtag(#) sign?
Octothorpe
500
DeGroote is doing renovations and this is the new building going up next to the DeGroote School of Business.
The McLean Centre for Collaborative Discovery
500
McMaster was one of the first universities in the British Commonwealth to operate a Nuclear Reactor. The McMaster Reactor is one of the world's biggest suppliers of this cancer treatment.
Medical radioisotope iodine-125
500
One of the four components of the business lifecycle.
Launch, Growth, Maturity, Decline
500
It is this physicist's brain that McMaster has one piece floating in a jar of alcohol in the McMaster Science Lab.
Albert Einstein!
Fun Fact: there is 1/5th of Einstein's brain in a McMaster Science lab that has been studied for over 20 years!
McMaster is also ranked as the most research intensive institute in country.
500
The fear of the number 13.
Triskaidekaphobia