Business Blunders
This technology company lost billions in 2016 after multiple instances of its Note 7 phone's Li-ion batteries bursting into flames:
What is Samsung?
This McKinsey Alum is now the CEO of Google
Who is Sundar Pichai?
Since 2023, BUCC has been managed under "co-presidents." These are the names of all 6 co-presidents since then:
Who are Verna Zhu, Grace Berlier, Colin Hatfield, Derek Han, Luca Silva-Celiberto, Luke Border?
Before Ohio State's historic run in this year's CFP, this was the last year OSU won a national championship in football:
What is 2014?
This BUCC member accidentally posted a public snapchat story about him being drunk and lost in the streets of Barcelona
Who is Jayden Sussman
This video-rental giant declined to buy Netflix for $50 million in 2000. They went out of business 14 years later:
What is blockbuster?
After his career at McKinsey, Jeff Skilling became CEO of this infamous energy company, which was the center of arguably the largest fraud scandal in recent history:
What is Enron?
This is the year that BUCC was founded
What is 2011?
This OSU professor won the Nobel Prize in physics in 2023:
Who is Pierre Agostini?
This BUCC almost crashed a plane to the point where the instructor had to take control
Who is Sashwat Patcha?
This beverage's 'New' version of its original recipe in 1985 was such a massive failure, it was switched back just 80 days later:
What is Coca-Cola?
This Booz Allen Hamilton Employee leaked thousands of classified NSA documents in 2013, creating one of the largest US whistleblowing cases ever:
Who is Edward Snowden?
This non-profit BUCC worked with on a project in 2024 was founded by OSU Alumni Larry Sanger in 2001:
What is Wikipedia?
This alcoholic beverage that is famous for mixing malt liquor with caffeine was invented by Ohio State graduates in 2005, although since then, the FDA made them remove the caffeine:
What is Four Loko?
This BUCC member was told she looks like Devi from Never Have I ever by a lady at TJ Maxx
Who is Namrata Bala?
This gaming company has the most downvoted reddit post in history, when it said its $80 in-app purchase to play as Darth Vader was designed to give gamers a feeling of "pride and accomplishment"
What is EA (Electronic Arts)?
Before his career as a senator and run as a 2008 presidential candidate, this politician worked at BCG, and also served as the CEO of Bain in the 80s:
Who is Mitt Romney?
This is the largest number of BUCC applicants to ever apply in a single semester (+- 5)
What is 195?
In 2023, OSU became the first University in the United States to receive government permission to grow this illicit plant for research:
Psychedelic Mushrooms
This BUCC member thinks Anna from Frozen has no aura
In the 90s, this F500 company was sued for false advertising after it failed to deliver on its promise of a Harrier Fighter Jet to a customer who had saved up enough rewards points to redeem for it:
What is Pepsi?
This singer released his first demo album while a consultant at BCG in 2000, and is now a world famous singer with 13 Grammy awards:
Who is John Legend?
This Spring's CEP was given 1 of 2 prompts in the first group case interview. These are the names of both companies that this semester's candidates could have received:
What are Deutsch Tires and Ideate In Light?
This building on the oval is the oldest standing building on Ohio State's campus:
What is Hayes Hall?
This BUCC member got into a fight with a squirrel on the Oval
Who is Claire Berlier?