The Decade in Review: Trivia

As we count down the minutes until 2020, Morning Brew is returning to our bread-and-butter: business news trivia. We're quizzing you on your knowledge of the 2010s, from famous quotes to baby names. For the most part, you'll find the answers at the bottom of each section (so don't peek).

Alright, take out your pencils and good luck!

Investing

We're going to start things off with a classic fill in the blank: According to Bank of America, if you invested $1 in _______ in 2010, you’d have over $90,000 today.

You get the entire article to think about it. See you at the bottom.

Which came first?

1. “Gangnam Style” released // “Harlem Shake” went viral

2. Vine shut down // Pokémon Go was launched

3. Amazon Alexa announced // iPhone 7 announced

4. Microsoft hit a $1 trillion market cap // Apple hit a $1 trillion market cap

5. President Trump elected // U.K. votes to leave the EU

Answers:
1. “Gangnam Style” 2. Pokémon Go 3. Alexa 4. Apple 5. Brexit

Guess the company

Can you name these prominent companies from the last decade? (H/t to the NYSE for the idea.)

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

Answers:
1. Bed Bath & Beyond 2. Planet Fitness 3. Square 4. Southwest Airlines 5. Foot Locker

What color is this dress?

Sorry, but we had to resurface this viral debate from 2015. Do you see black and blue or white and gold? There is a correct answer.

Answer:
Black and blue.

The A-list of the decade

So many good movies this decade...so many good looking people who appeared in them. In this game, we'll give you a few cast members; you have to name the film.

1. Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Maya Rudolph (2011)

2. Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer (2017)

3. Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Bradley Cooper (2014)

4. Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page, Joseph Gordon-Levitt (2010)

5. Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford (2017)

6. Charlize Theron, Tom Hardy, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (2015)

Answers:
1. Bridesmaids 2. Call Me By Your Name 3. Guardians of the Galaxy 4. Inception 5. Get Out 6. Mad Max: Fury Road

Earnings

This chart from Recode shows one company's quarterly operating income over the decade. What's the company?

Athletes take the mic

This decade, athletes surprised us with their physical dexterity and their interlocution. Can you name the athlete behind the quote?

1. “You know, when I was with the Yankees and we won the world championship and you’re wearing the pinstripes, you think you are pretty cool. But then when you hang out with Jennifer, people confuse me as a security guard all the time.”

2. "We have pink hair and purple hair. We have tattoos and dreadlocks. We've got white girls and black girls and everything in between. We've got straight girls and gay girls…HEYYY!"

3. “This is our f****** city.”

4. "We'll never change the name. It's that simple. NEVER—you can use caps."

5. “Growing up I wasn’t the richest, but I had a rich family in spirit. Standing here with 19 championships is something I never thought would happen. I went on a court just with a ball and a racket and with a hope.”

6. "I view this situation as one big lie that I repeated a lot of times."

Answers:
1. Alex Rodriguez 2. Megan Rapinoe 3. David Ortiz 4. Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder 5. Serena Williams 6. Lance Armstrong

What shall we name the baby?

All businesspeople were once babies, right? The Social Security Administration dropped the top baby names of the decade this month. We'll give you the first letter for the top five names in each gender; you have to fill out the rest. (Line length is not indicative of baby name length.) (The first one is not Nyoda.)

Boys

1. N_______
2. L_______
3. J_______
4. M_______
5. W_______

Girls

1. E_______
2. S_______
3. O_______
4. I________
5. A_______

Answers:
Boys: Noah, Liam, Jacob, Mason, William // Girls: Emma, Sophia, Olivia, Isabella, Ava

Investing answer:
Congrats on making it to the end of the article. The answer to the first fill in the blank question is bitcoin.