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
Before the rise of the automobile, John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil primarily dominated the market by refining crude into which lighting fuel?
Kerosene