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Question: Which were the 10 largest American companies in 1965?

The Fortune 500 list of the 10 largest American companies in 1965 is as follows:

  1. General Motors
  2. Exxon
  3. Ford
  4. General Electric
  5. Mobile
  6. Chrysler
  7. U.S. Steel
  8. Texaco
  9. International Business Machines
  10. Gulf Oil

Between 1955 and 1965, three companies dropped out of the Fortune 500 Top 10: Esmark; Armour and Dupont.

via CNN Money

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Question: Which 5 countries were the largest economies in the world by nominal GDP in the year 2010?

Via the IMF by way of Wikipedia

  1. United States
  2. China
  3. Japan
  4. Germany
  5. France

In the half decade between 2005 and 2010, China surpassed Japan and Germany to become the 2nd largest economy in the world as measured by nominal GDP in $US as estimated by the International Monetary Fund. In this same time frame, France surpassed the United Kingdom to re-enter the list of the world’s five largest economies as measured by nominal GDP.

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Question: What are the 5 busiest airports in India by passenger traffic?

Via the Airports Authority of India for the year 2023–2024:

  1. Indira Gandhi International Airport – Delhi
    73,673,708 passengers
  2. Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport – Mumbai
    52,820,754 passengers
  3. Kempegowda International Airport – Bengaluru
    37,528,533 passengers
  4. Rajiv Gandhi International Airport – Hyderabad
    25,042,282 passengers
  5. Chennai International Airport – Chennai
    21,207,262 passengers

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Question: How has Japan’s population changed over the last five years?

Via the Demographics of Japan by way of Wikipedia:

  • 2019 = 126,555,000
  • 2020 = 126,146,099 (−408,901)
  • 2021 = 125,502,000 (−644,099)
  • 2022 = 124,947,000 (−555,000)
  • 2023 = 124,352,000 (−595,000)
  • 2024 = 123,802,000 (−550,000)

Bullet list shows total population is each of the last six years followed by absolute numeric decline in population in brackets.

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Question: Which 5 countries were the largest economies in the world by nominal GDP in the year 2020?

Via the IMF by way of Wikipedia

  1. United States
  2. China
  3. Japan
  4. Germany
  5. United Kingdom

In the half decade between 2015 and 2020, the world’s five largest economies as measured by nominal GDP in $US as estimated by the International Monetary Fund remained unchanged in either composition or ranking.

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