Business Quiz 5-1-25

This week's Quizizz is titled "What Mr. Tappa has been Reading/Watching/Doing." The Tappas just watched Season 3 of this show, starring Alan Ritchson.

• The Boys
• Hawkeye
• Daredevil
• Reacher

Reacher is based on a series of books by author Lee Child. You can buy the complete set of ___ Reacher books on Amazon for $244.99.

• 15

• 20

• 29

• 36

Mr. Tappa read a book about Brian Chesky, Nathan Blecharczyk, and Joe Gebbia, founders of short-term homestay company ___.

• Booking.com
• Airbnb
• Expedia
• Vrbo
• Vacasa

This is an interior picture of an Airbnb property in Iola called The Mink. Where is it located?

• On the Car Show grounds

• On Lake Iola

• On Main Street by Too-Dars

• Between Iola and Scandinavia

Mr. Tappa read a book called The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager. When did the term "teenager" first gain widespread use as a marketing tool to describe people your age?

• 1880s

• 1920s

• 1940s

• 1960s

Then Mr. Tappa read a book about this guy: Jack Ma, who built ___, one of the world's largest retailers and e-commerce companies.

• Amazon

• eBay

• Temu

• Alibaba Group

After that Mr. Tappa read Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall. According to one source, there were about 1,500 malls in the U.S. in 2005, and about ___ malls in 2022.

• 900
• 1,150

• 2,500
• 1,450

A Capitol One Shopping report estimates there could be as few as ___ malls remaining in the U.S. by 2032.

• 150

• 250

• 575

• 900

The first indoor mall was Southdale Center in ___.

• Naperville, Illinois

• King of Prussia, Pennsylvania

• Plano, Texas

• Edina, Minnesota

Conversely, strip malls are thriving. There are ___ strip malls in the U.S., more locations than McDonald's.

• 68,000

• 100,000

• 23,000

• 34,000