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55 free Home Depot trivia questions with answers. The Home Depot was born out of a firing. In 1978 Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank lost their jobs at a California hardware chain, and a year later they opened two enormous stores in leased Atlanta buildings. This quiz follows the company from there: the NASDAQ listing that raised barely $4 million, the year it overtook Lowe's, the mascot Homer D. Poe, the slogans, the CEOs from Nardelli to Ted Decker, the exclusive brands in every aisle and the ventures abroad that worked (Canada, Mexico) and didn't (Chile, Argentina, China). It suits a store trivia night, a business class, or anyone who spends Saturdays in the orange aisles. Early questions are easy for regular shoppers; later ones dig into acquisitions, sponsorships and store-size records that only retail nerds will know. Every answer was checked against the Wikipedia articles on the company, its founders and its executives, and each question shows the sentence that supports it once you answer. Free, no signup.
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Q 01In which year was The Home Depot founded?
1978
Its founders had just been fired from a rival chain a few months earlier.
Q 02In which metro area did the first two stores open in June 1979?
Atlanta
The stores in Doraville and Decatur were built in spaces leased from J. C. Penney that had been Treasure Island hypermarkets.
Q 03Bernard Marcus and Arthur Blank founded The Home Depot after being fired from which chain?
Handy Dan
Marcus had been CEO of the Los Angeles-based home improvement chain and Blank was its vice president of finance.
Q 04Which investment banker organised the financing that let Marcus and Blank start the company?
Ken Langone
He had earlier persuaded Ross Perot to let his firm handle the IPO of Electronic Data Systems.
Q 05What is the company's signature colour, used on signs, equipment and employee aprons?
Orange
It is officially PMS 165, hex FF6600; British rival B&Q even copied the shade for its warehouse stores in the 1990s.
Q 06What is the name of the cartoon character used in the company's advertising since 1981?
Homer D. Poe
Illustrator Gwyn Raker designed him to be a funny guy next door who wasn't intimidating; he has a wife named Daisy and a dog named Carl.
Q 07On which exchange did The Home Depot first go public, in September 1981?
NASDAQ
The offering raised just $4.093 million; the company moved to the New York Stock Exchange in April 1984.
Q 08In which year did the company overtake Lowe's as the largest US hardware and DIY retailer?
1989
Ten years earlier it had only two stores.
Q 09Which US state was the first outside Georgia to get Home Depot stores, in 1981?
Florida
The first out-of-state stores opened in Hollywood and Fort Lauderdale.
Q 10The company entered Canada in 1994 by buying a 75% stake in which hardware chain?
Aikenhead's
The $150 million deal created Home Depot Canada, which now has stores in all ten provinces.
Q 11Where is The Home Depot headquartered?
Cobb County, Georgia
It uses an Atlanta mailing address.
Q 12Roughly how much revenue did the company report for fiscal 2024?
$159.5 billion
The company employed roughly 470,100 associates that year.
Q 13Where does The Home Depot rank among US-based employers globally?
Seventh
It is the largest home improvement retailer in the United States.
Q 14Which former General Electric executive became Home Depot's CEO in December 2000?
Q 21Which of these was the company's slogan from 1999 to 2003?
First In Home Improvement!
'Low prices are just the beginning' dates from the early 1990s; the other two were Lowe's slogans.
Q 22How large is an average Home Depot store?
105,000 sq ft
The two biggest, in Vauxhall, New Jersey and Anaheim Hills, California, top 200,000 square feet.
Q 23Where is the largest Home Depot store, at 217,000 square feet?
Vauxhall, New Jersey
Anaheim Hills is second at 204,000 square feet.
Robert Nardelli
Nicknamed 'Little Jack', he had been one of three men competing to succeed Jack Welch at GE.
Q 15The CEO's departure in January 2007 drew criticism over a severance package of roughly how much?
$210 million
Critics noted that his pay had gone up while the stock went down against Lowe's.
Q 16After leaving the retailer in 2007, its former CEO became chairman and CEO of which automaker?
Chrysler
He held the job from August 2007 to April 2009, through the company's bankruptcy.
Q 17Which lawyer, a former GE colleague of his predecessor, became CEO in 2007?
Frank Blake
He had been Editor-in-Chief of the Columbia Law Review and took a far more modest pay package.
Q 18Who became CEO and president of The Home Depot in 2022?
Ted Decker
He was announced in January 2022 after 22 years with the company, and became chairman that October.
Q 19How many credit card numbers were stolen in the 2014 payment-system breach?
56 million
Security reporter Brian Krebs first spotted the stolen numbers being sold online in September 2014.
Q 20Which slogan did The Home Depot adopt in December 2019?
How Doers Get More Done
It replaced 'More saving. More doing.', which had been introduced in a March 2009 circular.
Q 24Contractors make up about 5% of customers but account for what share of the company's annual sales?
45%
The company is building flatbed distribution centres specifically for builders who arrive in trucks.
Q 25Which of these paint brands is sold exclusively at The Home Depot?
Behr
Husky tools, Homelite outdoor equipment and Hampton Bay are among its other exclusive brands.
Q 26Which of these tool brands is a Home Depot house brand?
Husky
It also served as the secondary sponsor of the No. 20 NASCAR car after Dollar General took over as primary.
Q 27The Homer Fund, a charity for associates, is named after what?
The advertising character
The Homer Fund takes its name from Homer D. Poe, who has been in company ads since 1981.
Q 28Which NASCAR driver won two of his three championships in the Home Depot No. 20 for Joe Gibbs Racing?
Tony Stewart
He drove the car until 2008, when Joey Logano took over and won twice in it.
Q 29Between which years was The Home Depot a major sponsor of Joe Gibbs Racing in NASCAR?
1999 to 2014
Its arrival coincided with Tony Stewart's move from the Indy Racing League to the Cup Series.
Q 30The Home Depot Center in Carson, California, was home to which MLS team?
LA Galaxy
The venue, also once home to Chivas USA, is now called Dignity Health Sports Park.