AlaBiz QuizHistory Take the March 2025 AlaBiz Quiz Challenge yourself with these Alabama business-related puzzlers from the past. By Nedra Bloom - March 19, 2025 Which Alabama steel maker has announced a $1.2 billion expansion? AlaBiz Quiz - March 2025 1) MARCH 2025: One of Alabama's steel makers has announced plans for an additional $1.2 billion plant to make specialty steel used in electric vehicles, batteries and more. Which existing plant will it join?(Required) AM/NS Calvert O'Neal Steel, BIrmingham U.S. Steel, Birmingham Nucor Steel, Decatur 2) FEBRUARY 2025 (one month ago): A youth organization broke ground on a $17 million facility at McWane Economic Education Center in Birmingham. What organization?(Required) Junior Achievement Boy Scouts Girl Scouts YMCA 3) MARCH 2024 (one year ago): Alabama set a record for exports in 2023. Which of these countries was not one of the state's top five trading partners?(Required) Canada Mexico South Korea United Kingdom 4) MARCH 2020 (five years ago): Vulcan Value Fund founder C.T. Fitzpatrick and his wife, Kelley, made a $20 million gift to one of Alabama's universities, making them the school's largest cash donors. Which university received the gift?(Required) Samford University Auburn University Tuskegee University University of Alabama 5) MARCH 2000 (10 years ago): We featured Danny Lipford, a Mobile entrepreneur who parlayed his local business into a TV show that reached 97% of the nation's TV markets. What was the name of the show?(Required) "Brew It Yourself" "Golf Guru" "Invest Like an Expert" "Today's Homeowner" 6) 5) MARCH 2000 (25 years ago): We reported on a $30 million investment from the Retirement Systems of Alabama as it entered a new business line and created a new business partner, Point Clear Holdings. Which property was the first for PCH?(Required) RSA Tower, Montgomery National Alabama Rail Car, Shoals Cloudmont Ski and Golf Resort, Mentone Grand Hotel, Point Clear This quiz appeared in the March 2025 issue of Business Alabama.
