| Hint | Answer | Worth |
| Creator of Microsoft,software visionary regains title as the world's richest man despite losing $18 billion in the past 12 months. | |
| Last year America's most beloved investor was the world's richest man. This year he has to settle for second place after losing $25 billion in 12 months. | |
| Economic downturn and plunging peso shaved $25 billion from the fortune of Latin America's richest man. | |
| Bought BEA Systems for $8.5 billion last year. | |
| Started selling furniture in 1947. Opened first Ikea store 50 years ago; stores's name is a combination of initials of his first and last name. | |
| Germany's richest person and owns discount supermarket giant Aldi Sud. | |
| Has yet to move into his 27-story home that he's building at a reported cost of $1 billion. Ardent fan of Bollywood films. Wife, Nita, oversees school named after his father. | |
| Indian immigrant heads world's largest steel company; ArcelorMittal was formed via hostile takeover 3 years ago. | |
| Runs discount supermarket group Aldi Nord; firm holding up amid economic downturn. | |
| Railway worker's son started as a gofer in a shirt store. With then-wife Rosalia Mera, also now a billionaire, started making dressing gowns and lingerie in their living room. | |