Official Languages
What is the largest country (by population) where Portuguese is an official language?
Brazil
In 2011, Google launched what they thought would be a social media competitor to Facebook. What was this Google site called?
Google Plus
In the early 1900s, the founder of this hotel chain was well known in the hotel industry as the "king of hoteliers and hotelier to kings". He redefined luxury accommodation in Europe with his management of a hotel in Paris and a hotel in London.
Ritz Carlton
Founder: Cesar Ritz
Paris Hotel: The Ritz
London Hotel: Carlton Hotel
The object of the game is to determine who murdered the game's victim, where the crime took place, and which weapon was used
Clue
A Tale of Two Cities is set in which two cities?
London and Paris
What is the largest country (by population) where English is an official language?
India
Which social media site is dubbed as "the front page of the internet"?
In 1981, which airline (strapped for cash) offered a lifetime flying pass for $250k. This lifetime flying pass offered buyers unlimited first class travel on any of the airline's flights worldwide. The offer was later terminated (even to those who bought it) as it lost the company lots of money.
American Airlines
In 1997, Garry Kasparov, widely considered among the most brilliant chess players of all time, lost a match to an IBM. What was the name of that computer?
Deep Blue
Which astrological sign is represented by twins?
Gemini
What is the largest country (by population) where Spanish is the de facto official language?
Mexico
Which Instagram account has the highest number of folloewers?
Cristiano Ronaldo (@cristiano)
In the business of travel, after adjusting for inflation, the nightly rate this company put in its name in 1962 is now $51
Motel 6
Though it had plenty of ardent fans in Cuba, which board game fell victim to a ban in 1959 when Fidel Castro seized power?
Monopoly
A game so blatantly driven by capitalist ideals had no place in the socialist nation, so all versions, including a Cuban knockoff called "Capitolio" that features the streets of Havana, were ordered destroyed.
Which two-river system was the foundation for Mesopotamia?
What is the largest country (by population) where Arabic is the official language?
Egypt
What is the most followed Twitter account?
@BarackObama
Most of this firm’s 90,000 seasonal white-collar employees work only four months a year.
H&R Block
Which game from India was originally known as Moksha Patam? The game illustrates the role of karma where you might move up or down the board (although by a dice roll). The term "back to square one" may have originated from this game.
Snakes and Ladders
Part of Act 1 Scene 1, which Shakespearean play includes the lines "Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble."?
Macbeth
(line is said by the three witches)
What is the largest country (by population) where French is an official language?
Democratic Republic of the Congo
(87M in DRC vs 67M in France)
Which youtube video has the highest number of views of all time? (7.56B views)
Baby Shark Dance
Monitor Group was a well known strategy consultancy which later when bankrupt and then bought out by Deloitte. From 2005-2011, Monitor controversially provided consulting services to which dictatorship?
Muammar Gaddafi (Libya)
The name of this game (although not technically played on a board) is based on the Swahili word meaning "to build." Players typically yell this namesake word when a round ends with one of the players losing
Jenga
Name two past Chairs of the Federal Reserve
Yellen, Bernanke, Greenspan, Volcker, etc.
Current: Jerome Powell