It’s that time of year again boys and girls!
Time to turn off your computer, shut down the phone, and go jump in some water? Well, yes, but only after you partake in the annual Ask an Expert summertime biz quiz. This year, it’s the TV edition.
1. Walter White on Breaking Bad was one of the most fascinating television entrepreneurs ever. Why did he adopt the alter ego name of “Heisenberg”?
A. Because he had had an evil step-father named John Heisenberg
B. Because Werner Heisenberg was a scientist famous for the Uncertainty Principle
C. Because Werner Heisenberg was a doctor famous for a cancer breakthrough
D. Because “Los Pollos Hermanos” is called “Heisenberg’s” in Germany
2. Maybe the greatest episode in this greatest of series was the third-to-last, called Ozymandias. What is Ozymandias?
A. A form of Mayan murder
B. A sonnet by English romantic writer Percy Shelly
C. An Aztec ruin
D. The name of Jesse Pinkman’s car
3. Speaking of Ozzies, what did Ozzie Nelson do for a living on Ozzie and Harriet?
A. He was an architect
B. He was an importer-exporter
C. He was retired
D. Nothing
4. Speaking of architects, Mike Brady on The Brady Bunch once won a super special award. What was it?
A. He was named “Step-father of the year”
B. He was named “Top architect”
C. He was named “Father of the year”
D. World’s grooviest daddio, man
5. Who is Sam Drucker?
A. Sam Malone’s stepbrother
B. Diane Chambers’ brother
C. Owner of Drucker’s General Store in Hooterville
D. Owner of the Cheers bar before Sam bought it
6. How did Lori Grenier on Shark Tank get her start?
A. She invented a zipper for a dress and sold it to Sears
B. She invented and patented an earring organizer that made her rich
C. She took over her mother’s business
D. She inherited a ton of dough
7. Mark Cuban is famous for, among other things, owning the Dallas Mavericks. In 1998, his first business, Broadcast.com, made about $100 million. How much did he sell it for to Yahoo the next year?
A. $200 million
B. $2 billion
C. $5.7 billion
D. $500 million
8. What is the name of Kevin O’Leary’s first book?
A. Cold Hard Truth
B. They Call Me Mr. Wonderful
C. They Call Me Mr.
D. I Did It My Way
9. Oprah Winfrey is one of the great entrepreneurs of our time. How did she get the name Oprah?
A. It was her grandmother’s name
B. A mispronunciation of her birth certificate name
C. It means “Lovely One” in Swedish
D. She gave it to herself when she first started on TV
10. Which one of these is a real Michael Scott quote?
A. “I have some bad news. Meredith was hit by a car. I took her to the hospital. And the doctors tried to save her life, they did the best they could. And she is going to be ok.”
B. “That’s what she said.”
C. “If I had a gun, with two bullets, and I was in a room with Hitler, Bin Laden and Toby, I would shoot Toby twice.”
D. All of the above.
11. Which of these was not one of Kramer’s entrepreneurial ideas on Seinfeld?
A. A golf ball that chirps when you hit it in the rough
B. A coffee table book about coffee tables
C. A make your own pizza shop
D. The Mansieere / Bro
12. John O’Hurley famously played clothing entrepreneur J. Peterman. What happened to the real Peterman?
A. There was no real Peterman
B. He tried to open a chain of stores during the Seinfeld years and went bankrupt
C. He got lost in the Amazon, searching for an incredible 100% cotton twill trench coat with buttoning epaulettes at the shoulder and flap sleeves that were a thing of beauty.
D. He went into show business.
13. Don Draper was another great businessperson. In season 7 he famously walked out of a meeting and drove west. What was the meeting he walked out of?
A. A pitch for the soon-to-be iconic Miller Lite “Taste’s great . . . Less filling” ad
B. A meeting with Volkswagen for the “Think Small” campaign
C. A meeting for Goodyear’s Polyglas tires
D. The “Winston tastes god like a cigarette should” pitch meeting
14. In The Simpsons, what have been Apu’s occupations?
A. Owner of the Kwik-E-Mart
B. A Ph.D.
C. Disciple Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
D. The 5th Beatle due to his friendship with Paul McCartney
E. All of the above
15. Who said, “The sea was angry that day my friends, like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli.”
A. Chandler Bing
B. Larry David
C. Tony Soprano
D. George Costanza
Answers: 1. B, 2. B, 3. D, 4. C, 5. C, 6. B, 7. C, 8. A, 9. B, 10. D, 11. A, 12. B, 13. A, 14 E, 15. D