Which of these social-media-related stories is not true?
Retired MLB star Jose Conseco announced plans to auction his shot-off middle finger on Ebay
Inspired by Charles Manson’s storybook prison wedding, David “Son of Sam” Berkowitz signed up for OKCupid
The mother of “hot felon” Jeremy Meeks, whose soulful mugshot went viral, tried to crowdsource his legal fees on GoFundMe
A man in Minnesota was arrested after checking Facebook during a burglary and leaving the page open on his victim’s computer
Billionaire venture capitalist Timothy Draper proposed
Dividing California into six states
Renaming Virginia “East Virginia”
Declaring Delaware a duchy
Switching North Dakota with South Dakota to see if anyone notices
McDonald’s drew attention by doing all the following except
Reassuring consumers that its food does, in fact, rot
Releasing a limited edition black cheeseburger in Japan
Introducing “Happy,” a wild-eyed, toothy mascot that social media instantly renamed “McScary” and “McCreepy”
Producing its own “Avengers” movie in which Bruce Banner cries “Super-size me” before turning into the Hulk
Which of the following was not stolen from a small business
200,000 gallons of used cooking oil from several New England restaurants
A jar full of cuticles from a Denver manicurist
A toilet tank from a Seattle sandwich shop
A casket from a Texas funeral home
Which of the following trademark-related legal actions did not take place?
Saks Fifth Avenue sent a cease and desist letter to the pet-treat company Snaks 5th Avenchew
The New Jersey Turnpike Authority sued a pizza shop for using a logo that resembles one for the Garden State Parkway
The founder of Tesla demanded a cologne company pay him royalties from sales of its new scent “Elon Musk”
The singer Chubby Checker settled a lawsuit with Hewlett Packard over its “Chubby Checker” app, which measures penises
Which of these offerings did not debut in the U.S. market?
A plush toy Ebola virus
A variation on ant farms that lets kids raise their own scorpions
A service that shoots your deceased pet’s remains into space
Weight-loss underwear infused with caffeine
All the following occurred at a Starbucks outlet, except
A man protested his banning from a Houston store by hurling a Chihuahua at its window
A Florida man ordered an $83.75 latte with 101 shots of caffeine
A barista in Michigan, frustrated that too many people had the same name, asked customers for their social security numbers to write on their cups
Some customers used an Austin store to perform an exorcism
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published which of these findings?
Investors prefer to fund ideas pitched by handsome men
Negotiators willing to Taser their adversaries come out on top
Salespeople who answer every question with another question rarely close
Employees prefer that leaders who manage by walking around wear bells around their necks
Which of the following is a real confession by a celebrity entrepreneur?
Steve Wozniak revealed that the original Macs prototypes were not built in Steve Jobs’ garage
Mark Zuckerberg admitted that he always wears hoodies because he needs practice using a zipper
Gary Veynerchuck explained that most of his wealth comes from the millions of dollars he’s deposited in a swear jar
Pierre Omidyar said the story about starting eBay as a way to help his fiancée collect Pez dispensers—later revealed to be a publicity ploy—was true after all. To which he added, “Psych!!!”
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charged a company with forcing workers to
Line up next to each other every morning wearing “I’m with stupid” T-shirts
Follow a spiritual system called Onionhead that required them to thank God for their jobs and tell managers and colleagues they loved them
Act as the CEO’s “royal taster”
Practice job rotation until they got dizzy and fell over