Walmart Trivia
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100 free Walmart trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
60 free Walmart trivia questions with answers. Walmart is the biggest retailer on Earth, and its story is far stranger than the blue vests suggest. This quiz walks through the whole thing: the Ben Franklin franchise Sam Walton ran before the first Wal-Mart Discount City opened in 1962, the private satellite network that once linked every store, the Supercenter and Sam's Club formats, the private-label brands in your pantry, and the overseas ventures that succeeded in Mexico and flopped in Germany. It works for a company trivia night, a business class, or anyone who has ever wondered why there is a greeter at the door. The first questions are easy enough for casual shoppers; later ones dig into stock listings, acquisitions and executive history that only retail nerds will know. Every answer was checked against the Wikipedia articles on Walmart, Sam Walton and the Walmart greeter, and each question shows the sentence that supports it once you answer. Fifty questions, free, no signup.
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Q 01In which Arkansas city does Walmart have its headquarters?
Bentonville
Bentonville had fewer than 3,000 people when the founder opened his five-and-dime there in 1950, and only about 11,000 when he died in 1992 at the head of America's biggest retailer.
Q 02Which skill brought 11-year-old Mason Ramsey fame when he was filmed performing a country classic in a Walmart in 2018?
Yodelling
Yodelling Hank Williams's 'Lovesick Blues' in the aisles turned the boy into a viral star: within weeks he had sung at the Coachella festival and signed a record deal.
Q 03In which Arkansas town did the first Wal-Mart store open in 1962?
Rogers
Rogers saw a late start: the founder was already 44, with seventeen years of running variety stores behind him, when he opened the first Wal-Mart there.
Q 04What is the name of Walmart's chain of membership warehouse clubs?
Sam's Club
Sam's Club began in 1983 as Sam's Wholesale Club, pitched first at small-business owners buying in bulk; 'Wholesale' was later dropped from the name.
Q 05Roughly how many people worked for Walmart worldwide in 2025?
2.1 million
2.1 million, a hundred times the 21,000 it employed in 1980: no other private employer in the world had a bigger payroll that year, and about 1.6 million of those jobs were in the United States.
Q 06Which chain's name did Walmart's founder say he 'really liked' when naming Wal-Mart?
FedMart
FedMart belonged to Sol Price, and the founder admitted he had 'borrowed' as many ideas from Price as from anyone, later copying his warehouse-club format as well.
Q 07Before starting Walmart, its founder ran a group of stores under which five-and-dime name?
Ben Franklin
Ben Franklin. When its executives turned down his idea for a chain of discount stores, he went ahead and built one himself.
Q 08Walmart's founder trained at which department-store chain before buying his first store?
J. C. Penney
J. C. Penney hired him straight from college as a $75-a-month management trainee in Des Moines; he left early in 1942 because he expected to be called up for the war.
Q 09The five-and-dime that Walmart's founder opened in 1950 later became what?
The Walmart Museum
The Walmart Museum. He had picked the town because his wife insisted on small-town life and its spot near four state lines gave him more quail-hunting seasons.
Q 10What is Walmart's best-known store-brand grocery label?
Great Value
Great Value reached shelves in 1993 as the cheaper companion to a premium house label, a price-driven line built to undercut the name brands on the same shelves.
Q 11Which dog-food brand is Walmart's own store label?
Ol' Roy
Ol' Roy is named after the founder's own bird dog, and by 2003 the store label had overtaken Purina as the top-selling dog food.
Q 12Which advertising slogan replaced 'Always Low Prices, Always' in 2007?
Save money. Live better.
'Save money. Live better.' ended a 19-year run for the old motto and echoes one of the founder's last speeches, which promised to help the world 'save and have a better life'.
Q 13Walmart's 2008 logo dropped the star between 'Wal' and 'Mart' and added which symbol?
A spark
A spark. The star had stood in for the hyphen in Wal-Mart since 1992; ten years after the logo closed up the name, the company's legal name dropped the hyphen too.
Q 21Walmart bought the Woolco chain's stores in 1994 to enter which country?
Canada
Canada. The deal gave Walmart well over a hundred ready-made stores in a country where it had none, and Canadian TV news had to explain to viewers what Walmart was.
Q 22Which British supermarket chain did Walmart buy for $10B in 1999?
Asda
Asda. Walmart agreed to merge it with rival Sainsbury's in 2018, but competition regulators blocked the deal, so it sold control to new owners in 2021 instead.
Q 23From which European country did Walmart withdraw in 2006 after years of losses?
Germany
Germany. After nine years of losing out to Aldi and other local discounters, Walmart handed all 85 of its stores there to the rival chain Metro.
Q 14Where in New York did Walmart's founder dance the hula in a grass skirt?
Wall Street
Wall Street. He had pledged to dance there if the company's pre-tax profit topped 8 percent, and when it did he put on the skirt and paid up.
Q 15What did Walmart's first Supercenter add in 1988?
A grocery store
A grocery store. Selling food beside general merchandise turned a small-town discounter into one of America's biggest grocers, and groceries became the core of its business.
Q 16Which famous investor bought the grocery distributor McLane from Walmart in 2003?
Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett. He agreed the deal in a single two-hour meeting and a handshake, and skipped the usual checks because he trusted Walmart's numbers.
Q 17The Walmart cheer ends by asking 'Who's number one?', to which staff shout back what?
The customer
The customer. The founder brought the cheer home in 1975 after watching workers at a tennis-ball factory he visited in Asia perform one together.
Q 18Walmart's small-format grocery stores, launched in 1998, go by what name?
Neighborhood Market
Neighborhood Market stores are about a fifth the size of the chain's giant outlets, built to fill the gaps between them with groceries and a pharmacy.
Q 19Which was the last US state to get a Walmart, in 1995?
Vermont
Vermont. Opposition from preservationists and local businesses held the chain off, so the state was still without a store when the other 49 each had one.
Q 20Walmart's first international store opened in 1991 in which country?
Mexico
Mexico. The first store was a members' warehouse club in Mexico City, opened with local retailer Cifra, a partner Walmart later took over and renamed after itself.
Q 24Which Asian market did Walmart exit in 2006, selling all 16 outlets to local retailer Shinsegae?
South Korea
South Korea. Shinsegae, which owned the country's biggest discount chain, had all 16 stores trading under its own E-mart name within months.
Q 25Which Indian e-commerce company did Walmart buy a 77% stake in for $16B in 2018?
Flipkart
Flipkart was started in 2007 by two former Amazon employees as an online bookshop, and Walmart had to outbid Amazon itself to buy it.
Q 26The supermarket chain Seiyu, which Walmart owned outright from 2008, trades in which country?
Japan
Japan. Walmart built its holding up from a minority stake to full ownership, then reversed course and sold most of the chain to KKR and Rakuten in 2021.
Q 27Buying control of the retailer Massmart in 2011 gave Walmart its first stores on which continent?
Africa
Africa. South African government ministries fought the takeover through the courts over fears for local suppliers and jobs, and the last challenge failed only in 2012.
Q 28Which e-commerce site did Walmart buy for $3.3B in 2016, then shut down in 2020?
Jet.com
Jet.com. Its co-founder Marc Lore was put in charge of Walmart's own US online business, and Jet's staff and shoppers were steadily moved over to Walmart.com.
Q 29Which television maker did Walmart acquire for $2.3B in December 2024?
Vizio
Vizio. Walmart wanted its smart-TV screens as a place to sell advertising, then began pulling the sets from rival retailers to make Vizio a brand of its own.
Q 30The membership programme launched in 2020 to compete with Amazon Prime is called what?
Walmart+
Walmart+ arrived in September 2020 with free delivery from local stores and fuel discounts, and two years later threw in a Paramount+ streaming subscription at no extra charge.