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Quiz
- In which American city are the headquarters of eBay?
- In September 2020, eBay celebrated which anniversary?
- What was the first item sold on the website? It was broken and sold for 14 dollars and 83 cents.
- Which company did eBay acquire for 1.5 billion dollars in 2002?
- What was eBay's original name?
- The most expensive item ever sold on eBay was designed by Frank Mulder and sold for 168 million dollars - what was it?
- In the eBay logo, what colour is the letter 'y'?
- In the second quarter of 1997, eBay sold a Sesame Street Big Bird jack-in-the-box toy, what was its significance?
- Who was the founder of eBay?
- According to the founder, what does the 'e' in eBay stand for?
- A woman sold a piece of chewing gum spat out at Wembley Arena in 2000 for 14,000 dollars - whose chewing gum was it?
- What did the founder want to originally name the website however the name was already taken by a Canadian company?
- In May 2005, which British online classified advertisement and community website was acquired by eBay's classifieds group?
- What is the significance of a CD by a German rock band called The Scorpions?
- Which country tops the per capita purchases on eBay more than any other country?
- In 2012, what was purchased by two Vietnamese buyers on eBay for 900,000 dollars in a record time of 11 minutes?
Answers:
- San Jose (in California)
- 25th anniversary
- Broken laser pointer
- PayPal
- AuctionWeb (which was officially renamed eBay in 1997)
- A yacht
- Green
- One millionth item
- Pierre Omidyar
- Electronic Bay
- Britney Spears
- EchoBay
- Gumtree
- First item sold on the UK's eBay
- United Kingdom
- A town (called Buford in Wyoming)