One of the most popular presentations from our Supply Chain Insights Global Summit is the Supply Chain trivia presentation that we play at breaks. Here is the summary from this year's summit.
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How much of OIL DEMAND
is from cars?
Car
s
25%
Transpor
t fuel
except
cars
25%
Other
50%
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How many jelly
beans were used to
make this portrait
of Ronald Reagan?
10,000
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How many more Amazon Prime
members exist in the US
vs. TWO years ago?
22 Million…now @ 85 Million
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What semiconductor chip
manufacturer was initially
named Moore Noyce … a name
that was allegedly rejected
because it sounded like
“More Noise?”
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Of the top
20 UNIVERSITIES
in the world,
how many are
in the
United States?
17
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What chemical company won
an Employee’s Choice Award
in 2014 for being one of
the 50 Best Places to Work?
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How many different
versions of Cheerios are
there today?
Fourteen
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How much of
Domino’s Pizza
ownership did
the owners
trade for a
used Volkswagen
Beetle in 1961?
50%
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How many cans of pork and beans
does the Campbell Soup Company
sell in a year?
100
million
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How much did Amazon pay for Whole
Foods?
$13.7 billion
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Why was a string
added to the Nabisco
Barnum’s Animal
Crackers box?
To hang it on
the Christmas
tree
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In the 1990s, the US
was the largest
MINING COUNTRY in
the world. What was
it in
2013?
7th
after China,
Australia,
Brazil, Russia, &
South America
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What candy is said to be buried
with Frank Sinatra?
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In the late 1940s,
MANUFACTURING
accounted
for 25%
of US GDP
… what was
it in 2013?
12%
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What birthday did
SPAM
celebrate this year?
80years(born in 1937)
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How much
of the
population
is in
Generation Z?
Greatest Gen
1%
Silent
Gen
9%
Baby
Boomers
23%
Gen X
20%
Millennials
25%
Gen Z
22%
22%
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In 1907, what company
offered a FREE box
of cereal to every
woman who would
WINK at her grocer?
(the Battle Creek
Toasted Corn Flake
Company at the
time)
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What percent of
US grocery sales
were made ONLINE
in 2016?
2%
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In 1985, what
animal joined
the marshmallows
in Lucky Charms
cereal?
The whale
(in a limited run)
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How many jobs in capital markets
are expected to be replaced by
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE by 2025?
230,000
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Which company developed the
concept of “just in time” in 1937?
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What is the 2nd largest
SALE DAY
in the US,
after Black Friday?
LABOR DAY
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What company did
this LOGO belong
to until the
1980s?
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Which metro area has the most
MANUFACTURING WORKERS in the
country?
A.Chicago
B.Detroit
C.Los Angeles
D.Philadelphia
C.Los Angeles
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How many O’s
are in a 15
ounce can of
Spaghetti O’s?
1750
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How many gallons of
PAINT does it
take to cover the
White House
exterior?
571
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ANAGRAM QUIZ
What innovative online supply
chain community does this spell?
EBTE USOFIN
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How much time is
spent per person
on phone
applications in
an average day
in the US?
3.5 hours/day
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What is the
first ingredient
listed on every
package of
Goldfish Crackers?
“Smiles”
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By how much does the world
population increase
EVERY SINGLE DAY?
200,000
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How much chocolate and candy does
the average American consume
each YEAR?
25
pounds
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For every iPhone
sold, how many
applications are
downloaded? 199
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The first PEEPS
took 27 hours
to manufacture.
How long does it
take now?
6
minutes
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Dreyer’s in the Western U.S.
is the same as what brand
in the Eastern U.S.?
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What was the
itinerary
of the first
container ship
in 1956?
Newark, NJ Houston, TX
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How many pallets must
you remove from a supply
chain to save ONE tree?
11 pallets
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How many standards of
pallets are recognized
by the ISO?
SIX
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How long does
it take a
recycled
aluminum can
to cycle back
to the shelf?
90 days
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One in every FOUR dollars spent on
groceries in the U.S. is spent at
what retailer?
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What popular condiment
was once manufactured in
slices, like Kraft Singles?
Peanut
butter
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What recently
overtook ketchup as
America’s top selling
condiment?
Salsa!
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How many
paper cups
does Starbucks
use every
YEAR?
4 billion
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How long
does it
take a
ship to
transit
the
Panama
Canal? 8-10 hours
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How many people
does McDonald’s
serve in an
average DAY
globally?
47 million
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All the eggs used in U.S.
McDonald’s pass through what
company’s
plants?
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What was the
first item to
have a
BARCODE?
A pack of
Wrigley’s
gum
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61 cm
How much
room is left
on each side
of the
largest
ships
transiting
the Panama
Canal?
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What is the name for the new
shipping route from China to Europe,
along Russia’s northern coastline?
Northeast
Passage
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What region of the
world produces
nearly 70% of the
world’s cocoa?
West Africa
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The term “supply chain management”
was FIRST used in what year?
1982
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How long is a Maersk Triple E?
Just 2 meters short of
a quarter mile
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What was the
inspiration
for the
barcode?
Morse Code
dashes
and
dots
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In what year did the
US Department of
Labor add a
“logistics and
logistician”
classification?
1990
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What Fortune 100 company
was the first to release
a CSR policy as part of
their annual report?
Dow
Chemical
in 1996
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How many cars could the
Maersk Triple E carry in a
single trip?
36,000
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How many servings of
Coca-Cola products are
consumed
worldwide
in an
average
DAY?
1.9
billion
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How many
Barbies
are sold
in the
world
every
SECOND?
TWO
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What percent
of all Legos
sold each
year are sold
between
Thanksgiving
and
Christmas?50%
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What is
the
average
growing
time for a
standard
Christmas
tree?
7 years
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What state leads
the US in per
capita oatmeal
consumption?
Vermont
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How many gallons of
sap does it take to
get 1 gallon of
maple syrup?
30-50 gallons
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How many
barcodes are
scanned
worldwide in a
SINGLE DAY?
6 billion
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Which logistics
company’s logo includes
a hidden arrow?
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What product was developed in
Germany during WWII due to a
shortage of supplies necessary
to produce Coca-Cola?
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How many whistles
were required for
the 2012 London
Olympics?
4,000
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Auto manufacturers typically shut
down in what month to retool for
the new model car?
June
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In what year did
IBM begin the
first reverse
logistics and
demanufacturing
program?
2002
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Today, 2% of American clothing
is produced domestically.
What was it in 1990?
50%
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How much
of world
sea trade
goes
through
the Suez
Canal?
7.5%