Home Depot Trivia
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52 free Home Depot trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
55 free Home Depot trivia questions with answers. The Home Depot was born out of a firing. In 1978 Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank lost their jobs at a California hardware chain, and a year later they opened two enormous stores in leased Atlanta buildings. This quiz follows the company from there: the NASDAQ listing that raised barely $4 million, the year it overtook Lowe's, the mascot Homer D. Poe, the slogans, the CEOs from Nardelli to Ted Decker, the exclusive brands in every aisle and the ventures abroad that worked (Canada, Mexico) and didn't (Chile, Argentina, China). It suits a store trivia night, a business class, or anyone who spends Saturdays in the orange aisles. Early questions are easy for regular shoppers; later ones dig into acquisitions, sponsorships and store-size records that only retail nerds will know. Every answer was checked against the Wikipedia articles on the company, its founders and its executives, and each question shows the sentence that supports it once you answer. Free, no signup.
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Q 01Home Depot's founders wrote which 1999 memoir?
Built from Scratch
Built from Scratch, written with Bob Andelman, is subtitled 'How a Couple of Regular Guys Grew The Home Depot from Nothing to $30 Billion.'
Q 02In which metro area did The Home Depot open its first two stores in June 1979?
Atlanta
Atlanta, where its warehouse stores were built larger than any competitor's and dwarfed the competition.
Q 03Bernard Marcus and Arthur Blank founded The Home Depot after being fired from which chain?
Handy Dan
Handy Dan, where Marcus was CEO and Blank ran finance until Daylin chief Sanford Sigoloff fired them both in 1978.
Q 04Which investment banker organised the financing that let Marcus and Blank found The Home Depot?
Ken Langone
Ken Langone, who had earlier persuaded Ross Perot to let his firm handle the IPO of Electronic Data Systems.
Q 05What is The Home Depot's signature colour, used on signs, equipment and employee aprons?
Orange
Orange, officially PMS 165 (hex FF6600); one British DIY rival even changed its corporate colour to the same shade in the 1990s.
Q 06What is the name of the cartoon character used in The Home Depot's advertising since 1981?
Homer D. Poe
Homer D. Poe, whom illustrator Gwyn Raker designed to be a funny guy next door who wasn't intimidating.
Q 07On which exchange did The Home Depot first go public, in September 1981?
NASDAQ
NASDAQ, where the offering raised just $4.093 million; the company moved to the New York Stock Exchange in April 1984.
Q 08In 1989 Home Depot overtook which rival to become the largest home improvement retailer in the US?
Lowe's
Lowe's, overtaken barely a decade after Home Depot opened its first two stores in 1979.
Q 09Which US state was the first outside Georgia to get Home Depot stores, in 1981?
Florida
Florida, where its first out-of-state stores opened in Hollywood and Fort Lauderdale.
Q 10The Home Depot entered Canada in 1994 by buying a 75% stake in which hardware chain?
Aikenhead's
Aikenhead's, bought from brewer Molson for $150 million; its stores were later converted to Home Depots.
Q 11Where is The Home Depot headquartered?
Cobb County, Georgia
Cobb County, Georgia, where the company calls its head office the Store Support Center.
Q 12Which privately held home improvement chain, based in Wisconsin, competes with Home Depot in the Midwest?
Menards
Menards, still owned by its founder John Menard Jr., is headquartered in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
Q 13Which longtime Home Depot finance chief became CEO of UPS in 2020?
Carol Tomé
Carol Tomé, who joined Home Depot in 1995 and was its CFO from 2001 to 2019, had sat on the UPS board since 2003.
Q 21Since 2007, The Home Depot has sponsored which ESPN college football pregame show?
College GameDay
College GameDay, which ESPN officially brands as 'ESPN College GameDay built by The Home Depot'.
Q 22Jurors awarded $15 million after Home Depot copied a contractor's guard for which in-store tool?
Radial arm saws
Radial arm saws: Michael Powell developed his guard after workers were injured on them, then Home Depot had another company build near-identical copies.
Q 23In 2017 Home Depot bought which bedding and bath brand, founded in 1911?
The Company Store
The Company Store, an online seller of bedding and bath textiles; its five retail stores were left out of the deal.
Q 14Which former General Electric executive became Home Depot's CEO in December 2000?
Robert Nardelli
Robert Nardelli, who had just lost the three-way race to succeed Jack Welch as GE's chief to Jeff Immelt.
Q 15In 2020 Home Depot agreed to pay a record $20.75 million penalty for breaking rules on what during home renovations?
Lead paint
Lead paint: the EPA found its contractors often lacked certification, skipped lead-safe work practices and failed to clean up afterwards.
Q 16After leaving The Home Depot in 2007, its former CEO became chairman and CEO of which automaker?
Chrysler
Chrysler, which he ran from August 2007 to April 2009, through the carmaker's bankruptcy.
Q 17Which lawyer and former GE executive became The Home Depot's CEO in January 2007?
Frank Blake
Frank Blake took charge after his predecessor resigned amid complaints over his huge pay package.
Q 18Who became CEO and president of The Home Depot in 2022?
Ted Decker
Ted Decker, announced in January 2022 after 22 years with the company; he added the chairman's title that October.
Q 19Home Depot's 2014 breach exposed 56 million cards, more than the 40 million compromised in which retailer's 2013 hack?
Target
Target, whose breach was broken by security reporter Brian Krebs, the same journalist who first spotted Home Depot's stolen cards in 2014.
Q 20Which slogan did The Home Depot adopt in December 2019?
How Doers Get More Done
How Doers Get More Done replaced 'More saving. More doing.', which the company had introduced in a March 2009 circular.
Q 24Which of these paint brands is sold exclusively at The Home Depot?
Behr
Behr, owned since 1999 by Masco, makes the paints, primers and stains sold exclusively at The Home Depot.
Q 25Which of these tool brands is a Home Depot house brand?
Husky
Husky, a tool line founded in 1924 that is now sold only at Home Depot, which owns the name.
Q 26Home Depot's viral 12-foot Halloween lawn decoration, first sold in 2020, is a giant what?
Skeleton
Skeleton: fans nicknamed it Skelly, and demand has been so strong that it keeps selling out before Halloween.
Q 27Which NASCAR driver won two of his three championships in the Home Depot No. 20 for Joe Gibbs Racing?
Tony Stewart
Tony Stewart, who won the 2002 and 2005 titles in the No. 20, then a third in 2011 after leaving to co-own his own team.
Q 28Which retailer took over from Home Depot as main sponsor of Joe Gibbs Racing's No. 20 car?
Dollar General
Dollar General, which backed Matt Kenseth in the No. 20 from 2013 to 2016; Home Depot ended its NASCAR sponsorship after 2014.
Q 29The Home Depot Center in Carson, California, opened in 2003 as the home of which MLS team?
LA Galaxy
LA Galaxy, who moved there from the Rose Bowl in Pasadena; the venue is now called Dignity Health Sports Park.
Q 30Which NFL franchise did Home Depot co-founder Arthur Blank buy in February 2002?
Atlanta Falcons
Atlanta Falcons, which he bought from Taylor Smith, son of team founder Rankin Smith.