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60 free Walmart trivia questions with answers. Walmart is the biggest retailer on Earth, and its story is far stranger than the blue vests suggest. This quiz walks through the whole thing: the Ben Franklin franchise Sam Walton ran before the first Wal-Mart Discount City opened in 1962, the private satellite network that once linked every store, the Supercenter and Sam's Club formats, the private-label brands in your pantry, and the overseas ventures that succeeded in Mexico and flopped in Germany. It works for a company trivia night, a business class, or anyone who has ever wondered why there is a greeter at the door. The first questions are easy enough for casual shoppers; later ones dig into stock listings, acquisitions and executive history that only retail nerds will know. Every answer was checked against the Wikipedia articles on Walmart, Sam Walton and the Walmart greeter, and each question shows the sentence that supports it once you answer. Fifty questions, free, no signup.
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Q 01In which US state is Walmart headquartered?
Arkansas
The Home Office is in the same small town where the founder opened his five-and-dime in 1950.
Q 02Who founded Walmart along with his brother in 1962?
Sam Walton
His brother James, known as Bud, was a wartime pilot and co-owned the family's early stores.
Q 03In which town did the first Wal-Mart Discount City open on July 2, 1962?
Rogers, Arkansas
That original building is now a hardware store and antiques mall; Store #1 moved to a Supercenter a few blocks west.
Q 04What is the name of Walmart's chain of membership warehouse clubs?
Sam's Club
The first one opened in 1983 in Midwest City, Oklahoma, as Sam's Wholesale Club.
Q 05Roughly how many people did Walmart, the world's largest private employer, employ in 2024?
2.1 million
It also topped both the Fortune 500 and the Fortune Global 500 in 2024.
Q 06Which company's name inspired the founder to call his chain 'Wal-Mart'?
FedMart
He said he 'really liked' Sol Price's name for his 1954 discount chain and borrowed the format.
Q 07Before starting his own chain, the founder ran a franchise of which variety-store brand?
Ben Franklin
He bought his first one in Newport, Arkansas in 1945 with a $20,000 loan from his father-in-law and $5,000 in Army savings.
Q 08The founder had worked for which department-store chain before buying his first store?
J. C. Penney
He worked at a DuPont munitions plant and served in Army Intelligence before deciding retail was his calling.
Q 09The founder's downtown five-and-dime store, opened in 1950, later became what?
The Walmart Museum
He named it 'Walton's Five and Dime' after losing the lease on his first store in Newport.
Q 10What is Walmart's best-known store-brand grocery label?
Great Value
About 40 percent of what Walmart sells is private label, including the Equate health brand.
Q 11Walmart's first private-label brand, launched in 1991, was a line of what?
Drinks
Sam's Choice was so popular that by 1993 it was the third-best-selling beverage brand in the United States.
Q 12Which advertising slogan replaced 'Always Low Prices, Always' in 2007?
Save money. Live better.
The old tagline had been in use since 1988.
Q 13When Walmart dropped the hyphen from its logo in 2008, what symbol replaced the star?
A spark
Critics wondered whether the new mark was as bold as Target's bullseye or as iconic as the 18-year-old design it replaced.
Q 21Walmart entered Canada in 1994 by buying 122 stores from which chain?
Woolco
Its Canadian Supercentres, spelled the Canadian way, did not open until 2006.
Q 22Which British supermarket chain did Walmart buy for $10B in 1999?
Asda
A planned 2018 sale to Sainsbury's was blocked by UK regulators; Walmart sold a majority stake in 2021 instead.
Q 23From which European country did Walmart withdraw in 2006 after years of losses?
Germany
It had captured just 2 percent of the local food market, far behind Aldi, and losses were estimated at around 3 billion euros.
Q 14Walmart's 2018 crowdsourced delivery service using drivers' own cars shares its name with what?
The symbol in the company logo
In 2021 it was opened up to other businesses as a white-label service to compete with Postmates.
Q 15In which year did the first Walmart Supercenter open, in Washington, Missouri?
1988
Its precursor was the short-lived Hyper-Mart, four 1980s stores that mixed groceries, pharmacies and even video arcades.
Q 16The largest Supercenter in the world, spread over two floors, is in which city?
Albany, New York
It covers 260,000 square feet at Crossgates Commons, versus a typical store's 178,000.
Q 17Roughly how many items does a typical Supercenter stock?
120,000
Walmart's online store, by contrast, lists around 35 million products.
Q 18Walmart's smaller grocery format is about a fifth the size of a Supercenter. What is it called?
Neighborhood Market
The concept debuted in 1998 with three stores in Arkansas, but the company did not lean into it until the 2010s.
Q 19Which was the last US state to get a Walmart, in 1995?
Vermont
Five years earlier the company had no stores at all on the West Coast or in the Northeast.
Q 20Walmart's first international store opened in 1991 in which country?
Mexico
That division is still the largest outside the US, with more than 2,800 stores including Bodega Aurrera.
Q 24Which Asian market did Walmart exit in 2006, selling all 16 outlets to local retailer Shinsegae?
South Korea
It had entered that market in 1998; the sale fetched US$882 million.
Q 25Which Indian e-commerce company did Walmart buy a 77% stake in for $16B in 2018?
Flipkart
The deal beat a rival bid from Amazon and remains one of the biggest e-commerce acquisitions ever.
Q 26Walmart's Japanese subsidiary, wholly owned by 2008, was which supermarket chain?
Seiyu
It later sold most of it to a KKR and Rakuten joint venture, keeping 15 percent and a board seat.
Q 27Which South African retailer did Walmart buy in 2010 for over $4B, its first foothold in Africa?
Massmart
The purchase brought stores across a dozen African countries under the Walmart umbrella.
Q 28Which e-commerce site did Walmart buy for $3.3B in 2016, then shut down in 2020?
Jet.com
Co-founder Marc Lore stayed on to run Walmart's US e-commerce operation after the deal.
Q 29Which television maker did Walmart acquire for $2.3B in December 2024?
Vizio
The goal was to grow its advertising business through the TV maker's smart-TV platform.
Q 30The membership programme launched in February 2020 to compete with Amazon Prime is called what?
Walmart+
It has been bundled with Paramount+ streaming as a further lure.