🌟 Celebrity Business Ventures Trivia Questions & Answers
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30 Celebrity Business Ventures trivia questions
Q1. Which founder built Spanx in 2000 from $5,000, becoming the youngest self-made female billionaire?
Answer: Sara Blakely
💡 She got the idea after cutting the feet off her own pantyhose for a smoother look under white pants.
Q2. Which former Disney Channel star launched the cosmetics brand Rare Beauty in September 2020?
Answer: Selena Gomez
💡 The brand's name comes from her song 'Rare,' and a share of every sale supports its charitable impact fund.
Q3. Which actress launched soda brand Betty Buzz before adding the canned cocktail line Betty Booze?
Answer: Blake Lively
💡 She's said the goal was drinks held to the same clean-ingredient standard as food.
Q4. Which pop star's Fenty Beauty makeup line launched globally in September 2017?
Answer: Rihanna
💡 Fenty Beauty launched in roughly 1,600 stores across 17 countries in a single day.
Q5. Which reality star launched the shapewear brand SKIMS in September 2019?
Answer: Kim Kardashian
💡 The debut 36-piece collection reportedly sold out in under ten minutes.
Q6. Paul Newman founded the food brand Newman's Own, donating all profits, in what year?
Answer: 1982
💡 He co-founded it with writer A.E. Hotchner, starting with his own salad dressing recipe.
Q7. Which drinks giant paid George Clooney's tequila brand up to $1 billion in a famous 2017 buyout?
Answer: Diageo
💡 Casamigos was co-founded in 2013 by Clooney, Rande Gerber, and Mike Meldman, originally just for their own parties.
Q8. What is the name of the tequila brand Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson launched in March 2020?
Answer: Teremana
💡 Johnson has called it the fastest-growing tequila brand ever, built from a distillery he personally visited in Jalisco.
Q9. What product did 18-year-old Kylie Jenner launch in November 2015 to start her cosmetics empire?
Answer: Lip kits
💡 The original three shades sold out in under a minute, and the company topped $300 million in revenue within a year.
Q10. In what year did Jay-Z found his entertainment company, Roc Nation?
Answer: 2008
💡 Roc Nation later expanded into full-service sports representation, signing NFL and NBA stars.
Q11. About how much did Apple pay for Dr. Dre's headphone company, Beats, in 2014?
Answer: $3 billion
💡 Dre and co-founder Jimmy Iovine both joined Apple in executive roles right after the sale.
Q12. Beyoncé's clothing line Ivy Park is a joint venture with which sportswear giant?
Answer: Adidas
💡 Their first joint collection sold out on Adidas's website within six minutes of its 2020 launch.
Q13. What venture capital firm did tennis great Serena Williams found in 2014?
Answer: Serena Ventures
💡 It has since backed more than 50 companies with a combined market cap over $33 billion.
Q14. Emma Chamberlain launched her own coffee brand, Chamberlain Coffee, in what year?
Answer: 2019
💡 She was just 19 when she launched it, riding straight off a viral coffee-making video.
Q15. Chip and Joanna Gaines built their Magnolia brand off which hit HGTV show?
Answer: Fixer Upper
💡 The Waco, Texas couple later opened the Magnolia Market at the Silos retail complex.
Q16. What baby-and-home care company did actress Jessica Alba found in the early 2010s?
Answer: The Honest Company
💡 It went public in May 2021 with an IPO that valued the company at roughly $1.44 billion.
Q17. Jessica Simpson's fashion label launched in 2005 as a shoe line with which co-founder?
Answer: Vince Camuto
💡 The brand crossed the billion-dollar sales mark by 2014, at one point out-earning Michael Kors at retail.
Q18. Reese Witherspoon named her Southern brand Draper James after which important people in her life?
Answer: Her grandparents
💡 The brand launched in 2015, a year before she founded her production company, Hello Sunshine.
Q19. Before it was a retail brand, Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop launched in 2008 as what kind of publication?
Answer: A weekly newsletter
💡 The name comes from her initials, G.P., with an extra 'oo' added because, per her advisor, hit internet brands love double O's.
Q20. Which champagne brand did Jay-Z take full ownership of back in 2014?
Answer: Armand de Brignac
💡 Nicknamed 'Ace of Spades' for its playing-card label, it later sold a majority stake to LVMH in 2021.
Q21. Which mobile-payments company bought a majority stake in Jay-Z's Tidal in 2021?
Answer: Square
💡 The $297 million deal made Jay-Z a member of Square's board of directors.
Q22. Reese Witherspoon sold her studio, Hello Sunshine, in 2021 for close to what sum?
Answer: $900 million
💡 The buyer was Candle Media, a firm backed by Blackstone and led by two former Disney executives.
Q23. Oprah Winfrey's OWN cable network launched in January 2011 as a venture with whom?
Answer: Discovery Communications
💡 OWN replaced the Discovery Health Channel and started out as a 50-50 partnership.
Q24. What year did Oprah Winfrey found her production company, Harpo Productions?
Answer: 1986
💡 Harpo is simply 'Oprah' spelled backward.
Q25. Coca-Cola bought 50 Cent's Vitaminwater maker, Glacéau, in 2007 for about how much?
Answer: $4.1 billion
💡 50 Cent had taken an equity stake in the brand instead of a bigger cash endorsement fee.
Q26. Ashton Kutcher co-founded venture fund A-Grade Investments with which manager, in 2010?
Answer: Guy Oseary
💡 The fund's early bets included Airbnb, Uber, and Spotify, long before they were household names.
Q27. Kendall Jenner launched her tequila brand, 818, in what year?
Answer: 2021
💡 It secretly won a 2020 'World's Best Reposado' award before the brand was even announced.
Q28. John Paul DeJoria co-founded which hair-care brand with a stylist, in 1980?
Answer: Paul Mitchell
💡 He started the company on a $700 loan while living out of an old Rolls-Royce.
Q29. Beckham's 2007 LA Galaxy contract let him buy a future MLS team for how much?
Answer: $25 million
💡 He exercised it in 2014, and Inter Miami began play in MLS in 2020.
Q30. What whiskey brand did Drake launch with Brent Hocking back in 2016?
Answer: Virginia Black
💡 It was a decadent blend crafted specifically to appeal to a younger drinking crowd.
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