Disruptors through the Years

1. In what year was the first email sent?

1961
1971
1981

2. What is the first book purchased on Amazon?

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
The Joy of Cooking
Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought

3. True or false: A shortage of hotel rooms for an industry conference in 2008 led to the creation of Airbnb, spawning the short-term rental industry.

True
False

4. What company developed Watson, a computer system that popularized machine learning by competing on Jeopardy?

Oracle
IBM
Apple

5. What company disrupted the manufacturing sector by introducing the first moving assembly line?

Nabisco
General Electric
Ford Motor Co.

6. Which company disrupted traditional retailing by introducing the first successful retail franchising concept?

McDonald's
Rexall
Woolworth's

7. In 1967, the machine now recognized as the first ATM began operating in which country?

Japan
England
The United States

8. In which state was the term “e-commerce” first coined and popularized?

Washington
New York
California

9. What was the first general-purpose credit card, allowing the same card to be used at different retailers?

Visa
Diners Club
MasterCard

10. The Check Clearing for the 21st Century Act (commonly called Check 21), which eliminated the need to return paper checks to payers, was enacted in which year?

2000
2003
2006

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