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Straight Up Trivia #9: World's Richest People

Ninth in a series of themed trivia quizzes. Answer these questions inspired by the ten richest people, in order of estimated wealth in 2024. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World%27s_Billionaires
Quizzes in this series: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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Bernard Arnault, $233b. Arnault made his fortune as the founder and chairman of the French luxury goods company LVMH. Name any of the four words that LVMH stands for.
Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy
Elon Musk, $195b. The musk scent was originally named because of the strong odor obtained from the musk variety of what kind of animal?
Deer
Jeff Bezos, $194b. The Amazon River drains 6.2 million square kilometers of land. What river has the second largest drainage basin, 3.7 million square kilometers?
Congo
Mark Zuckerberg, $177b. What lead singer of Nine Inch Nails won the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Social Network, which dramatizes the origin of Facebook? He shared the award with Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste.
Trent Reznor
Larry Ellison, $141 billion. Ellison made his fortune as co-founder of Oracle. The Oracle of Delphi was where a priestess delivered prophecies inspired by what god?
Apollo
Warren Buffett, $133 billion. Buffett was born in and is known as the oracle of what city? Buffett's most well-known company, Berkshire Hathaway, is based there.
Omaha
Bill Gates, $128b. Gates, along with Microsoft cofounders Paul Allen and Monte Davidoff, are known for creating the first microcomputer version of what programming language? The language was designed to be easy to use for Beginners.
BASIC
Steve Ballmer, $121b. Ballmer owns the Los Angeles Clippers, the oldest North American professional sports team never to have played in a championship game. They came closest in 2021 despite losing what star small forward, nicknamed The Claw, to injury?
Kawhi Leonard
Mukesh Ambani, $116b. Although Ambani and his company, Reliance Industries, are Indian, he was born in what largest port city of Yemen?
Aden
Larry Page, $114b. Page was born in what U.S. state capital? The city is where Ransom Olds founded the company that would eventually be Oldsmobile.
Lansing
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