Q 01/05

Which novelist and future philanthropist helped start Amazon in 1994 with her then husband, Jeff Bezos?

A) Melinda French Gates

B) MacKenzie Scott

C) Laurene Powell Jobs

D) Priscilla Chan

Answer · why

B) MacKenzie Scott

MacKenzie Scott. She worked on the business plan with Bezos on the drive west, then kept the accounts and handled shipping from the garage; their 2019...

Q 02/05

The arrow in Amazon's logo runs from A to Z; what else does it draw?

A) A river

B) A conveyor belt

C) A smile

D) A bag handle

Answer · why

C) A smile

A smile. The redesign flipped the old logo's downward-curving underline into a curve that starts under the a and ends in a dimple under the z, to show...

Q 03/05

Under what name was Amazon originally incorporated in July 1994?

A) Relentless

B) Cadabra

C) Bookstop

D) Everything Store

Answer · why

B) Cadabra

Cadabra. The magic-word name lasted only months: Bezos's lawyer warned him that, over the phone, people heard it as 'cadaver'.

Q 04/05

Which industry did Jeff Bezos leave to start Amazon?

A) Finance

B) Publishing

C) Software

D) Retail

Answer · why

A) Finance

Finance. At the hedge fund D. E. Shaw his job had been to think up new business ideas, and when he saw how quickly the internet was growing he quit to...

Q 05/05

Who replaced Jeff Bezos as Amazon's CEO in July 2021?

A) Jeff Wilke

B) Dave Clark

C) Andy Jassy

D) Werner Vogels

Answer · why

C) Andy Jassy

Andy Jassy. The head of Amazon's cloud business took over on 5 July 2021, 27 years to the day after Bezos founded the company, and Bezos moved up to e...