Q 01/05

What kind of retailer traditionally anchors a shopping mall?

A) Multiplex cinemas

B) Department stores

C) Supermarkets

D) Bookshops

Answer · why

B) Department stores

Department stores. Their powerful brand names and heavy advertising generate the foot traffic, and the whole point of a mall is to let smaller shops s...

Q 02/05

The word 'mall' comes from pall-mall, an old alley game that most resembled which modern one?

A) Croquet

B) Bowls

C) Tennis

D) Skittles

Answer · why

A) Croquet

Croquet. Pall-mall players drove a wooden ball down an alley and through an iron hoop; London's alley became a tree-lined walk called The Mall, and th...

Q 03/05

A shopping centre that has lost its anchor stores and most of its shoppers is popularly known as what?

A) A dead mall

B) A sunset mall

C) A lost mall

D) A hollow mall

Answer · why

A) A dead mall

A dead mall. When the big stores leave, the foot traffic they drew goes with them, so sales fall at nearly every remaining shop and the rents can no l...

Q 04/05

What do Americans call a single row of shops with parking directly in front and no indoor walkway?

A) A lifestyle centre

B) An outlet mall

C) A festival marketplace

D) A strip mall

Answer · why

D) A strip mall

A strip mall. Shoppers can park at the door of the shop they want, a convenience that had visits to strip malls rising in the early 2020s even as many...

Q 05/05

Which city's covered shopping passages, the oldest survivors dating from the 1790s, were forerunners of the modern mall?

A) Milan

B) Paris

C) London

D) Vienna

Answer · why

B) Paris

Paris. One of its oldest surviving passages, the Passage du Caire, was named in tribute to Napoleon's campaign in Egypt; shoppers valued such passages...