Question 1

True or false: She ran for U.S. President in 2016 and won the New Hampshire primary.

Accepted Answer

False. Fiorina sought the Republican nomination in 2016 but dropped out after the New Hampshire primary, which she lost to Donald Trump.

Question 2

True or false: Fiorina was the first woman to lead a Fortune 20 company as CEO of Hewlett-Packard.

Accepted Answer

True. She became HP’s CEO in 1999, making her the first woman to head a Dow 30 and a Fortune 20 company.

Question 3

True or false: She was fired from HP with a severance package worth over $20 million.

Accepted Answer

True. Fiorina was ousted in 2005 but received a severance of about $21 million, plus stock options, making it one of the largest at the time.

Question 4

True or false: Carly Fiorina was born in England and holds dual citizenship.

Accepted Answer

False. She was born in Austin, Texas, to a law professor father and an artist mother; she is solely a U.S. citizen.

Question 5

True or false: Carly Fiorina once worked as a secretary at a brokerage firm early in her career.

Accepted Answer

True. Before business school, she temped as a secretary at a brokerage, which gave her insight into the corporate world from the bottom up.

Question 6

True or false: Fiorina served on the board of directors for the cybersecurity firm Cybereason.

Accepted Answer

False. She served on boards like Cisco and the National Security Agency’s advisory board, but not Cybereason.

Question 7

True or false: She is a trained opera singer who performed at Carnegie Hall.

Accepted Answer

False. Fiorina studied medieval history and philosophy at Stanford, not opera; no record of her performing at Carnegie Hall exists.

Question 8

True or false: Fiorina once donated a kidney to a complete stranger.

Accepted Answer

True. In 2009, she donated a kidney anonymously to a stranger she met through a matching program, keeping it private for years.

Carly Fiorina Trivia Questions