1. This American businessman, designer, entrepreneur and inventor also changed the film industry by investing in this fledgling film animation company in 1986. Name both the visionary and the company he saved.

2. These top U.S. entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution are known for their ingenuity and vision but also share the fact that they left their colleges or universities before obtaining either their undergraduate or graduate degrees. Can you name them? For bragging rights, name the companies they founded.

3. These were the three classes of free citizens in ancient Rome. Name them.

4. Throughout the Middle Ages, society was also organized into a type of caste or pyramid structure. Can you name this system?

5. This recent movement was formed to demonstrate the gulf between the rich and the poor in the United States — where a small minority of the population owns most of the country's wealth. Name the movement.

6. This theorist asserted that ancient societies had three main classes, each with distinct functions: the first judicial and priestly; the second connected with the military and war; and the third class focused on production, agriculture, craft and commerce. Name him.

7. In 1826, the mayor of New York, Philip Hone, raised $8,500, and the people of Philadelphia and Baltimore added $5,000 and $3,000, respectively, to ensure that this former United States president would die solvent. Name this cash strapped President.

8. The $16,500 raised for the president in the last question was very small compared with the $350,000 contributed by the people of the United States and financier Cyrus W. Field for the support of the first family. Name the presidential family who received this generous donation. For bragging rights, name the circumstances.

9. True or false: Nearly 50 percent of U.S. Congress members are millionaires.

10. Name the top three richest countries in the world based on gross domestic product.

Answers

1. Steve Jobs. Pixar.

2. Bill Gates and Paul Allen, co-founders, Microsoft; Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook; Lawrence Ellison, Oracle; Steve Jobs, Apple; Michael Dell, Dell, Inc.; Larry Page and Sergey Brin (graduate school), Google.

3. The upper class was called patricians and the senators that ruled came from this group. Below them were the equites, made up of merchants and bankers and sometimes civil servants or army officers. All other free people were called plebeians.

4. The feudal system.

5. The Occupy Movement.

6. Georges Dumezil.

7. Thomas Jefferson.

8. The wife and children of 20th U.S. President James A. Garfield were given these funds after his assassination. During the three months that the president fought for his life, Lucretia Garfield's grief and devotion won the respect and sympathy of the country.

9. True: According to the Center for Responsive Politics, "About 47 percent of Congress, or 249 current members are millionaires." The Center's research also revealed, "In 2010, the estimated median net worth of a current U.S. senator stood at an average of $2.56 million."

10.The U.S, China and Japan.

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