Monopolies Trivia
From Rockefeller's kerosene to Google’s search bar, prove you're the ultimate trust-buster without actually going to jail for price-fixing.
EXAMPLE QUESTIONS
By establishing trade with China and later founding plantations in India, the East India Company transformed which luxury item into a staple British beverage?
Tea
In 2012, Lorillard became the first major U.S. tobacco company to pivot into which growing market by acquiring the brand Blu?
E-cigarettes
In 1602, the Dutch East India Company was granted a 21-year monopoly on all trade between the Netherlands and which vast geographic region?
Asia
Comprising up to 90% of the Central Pacific workforce, emigrants from which country were responsible for the dangerous task of blasting through the Sierra Nevada?
China
What geographic feature provided deep-water ports and shipping routes that allowed Texas oil companies to bypass Standard Oil’s monopoly in the early 1900s?
The Gulf Coast