Business & Industry Flashcards
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1986 this company was forced out of the instant camera market, having violated 7 Polaroid patents
Kodak
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1957 the Leo Burnett advertising agency created Cornelius the Rooster to appear on the box of this cereal
Corn Flakes
$600 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| It precedes “XM” in the name of an entertainment company–ooh, I love this song! Turn it up!
Sirius
$800 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1926 a “beater bar” was added to this company’s product; it tapped the carpet to loosen ground-in dirt
Hoover
$2400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1907 9-year-old Michael Brady posed for this company’s symbol wearing overalls, a cap & wooden shoes
Dutch Boy Paints
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This company inadvertently reenergized its brand by introducing a new formula that flopped in 79 days
Coca-Cola
$800 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| <a>This</a> Japanese car company is the only one that makes gas, Diesel & rotary internal combustion engines
Mazda
$1200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Catherine Zeta-Jones did ads for this telecom firm, the first to offer cell service on both sides of the Atlantic
T-Mobile
$1600 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This company had a thinnovation with its “Air” computer
Apple
$2000 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This corporation has a library of more than 5,000 characters, including Dr. Strange
Marvel Comics (or Marvel Entertainment)
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This food company is named for a coffee blend made for a Monterey, Ca. hotel; it means “of the mountain” in Spanish
Del Monte
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1963 Charles Tandy bought this nearly bankrupt electronics parts supplier & made it into a top retail chain
RadioShack
$600 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This credit card company publishes travel & leisure & is the world’s largest issuer of traveler’s checks
American Express
$800 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Big Brother could tell you this term for a corporation that controls another company, like AMR does for American Airlines
a parent (or holding) company
$1000 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This company began selling apple butter in 1900; it had to be good–a full line of jams & jellies followed
Smucker’s
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In Forbes magazine’s 2007 list of billionaires, this Omahan was again ranked No. 2, behind Bill Gates
Warren Buffett
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1990 United Brands changed its name to this to take advantage of its name recognition as a banana producer
Chiquita
$600 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Legend has it that the design of this company’s Monsieur Bibendum logo was inspired by a pile of rubber tires
Michelin
$800 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Her red spoon logo was introduced in 1954 & now appears on more than 200 products
Betty Crocker
$1000 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1978 he was fired as the president of Ford, only to become the new president of Chrysler
Lee Iacocca
$None ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Just for grins, in 1986 this industrialist acquired a stake in Church & Dwight, maker of a baking soda
Armand Hammer
$None ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| On July 16, 1995 this company made its first sale, a science textbook
Amazon.com
$None ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Most of this firm’s 70,000 seasonal white-collar employees work only 4 months a year
H&R Block
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In the 1940s Borden’s came up with this companion for Elsie to be the symbol for its new white glue
Elmer
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| His first appearance on the cover of Mad was in 1956 as a write-in candidate for president
Alfred E. Neuman
$600 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1957 the New York Evening Enquirer expanded its scope & renamed itself this
the National Enquirer
$800 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Unhappy with the quality of these, Dr. Amar Bose designed his own & formed a company to sell them
speakers
$1000 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Milan company known for its tires & sexy calendars
Pirelli
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1898 Frank Seiberling founded this tire company named for the inventor of vulcanized rubber
Goodyear
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This business chain, begun in Memphis in 1974, was named for a Mr. Ross who gave great haircuts
Fantastic Sam’s
$600 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Originally, this red “Officer’s Knife” included a can opener, a blade, a screwdriver & a reamer
Swiss Army Knife
$800 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| The first Japanese auto company to use a name from its own language, its logo, six stars, represents the Pleiades
Subaru
$1000 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| A color version of this toy was introduced in 1993 & it didn’t use a stylus & aluminum powder
Etch A Sketch
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Although the NYSE is considered to be on this street, its main building is actually located on Broad Street
Wall Street
$800 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1943 the son of this Wisconsin-born architect sold the rights to his creation Lincoln Logs to Playskool
Frank Lloyd Wright
$1200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This Freeport, Maine retail outlet’s first product was the Maine Hunting Shoe, first sold in 1912
L.L. Bean
$1600 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This Coventry, England company made its first motorcycle in 1902 & began making its own engines in 1905
Triumph
$2000 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Procter & Gamble has been headquartered in this city since 1837
Cincinnati
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This company serving about 30 million customers features the following in its ads [(actor walking across the <i>Jeopardy!</i> stage) <i>Can you hear me now? Good! Can you hear me now? Good!</i>]
Verizon Wireless
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| It was once described as 2 “beautifully embossed, choc. flavored wafers with a rich cream filling”
Oreo cookies
$600 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This Australian-born moguls’s first U.S. newspaper acquisition was the San Antonio Express & News
Rupert Murdoch
$800 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| The “K” in K-Mart’s name stands for this founder
S.S. Kresge
$1000 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| The lion on this French auto company’s logo was adopted from Belfort, the city where an early model was made
Peugeot
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In January 1970 Boeing introduced this first wide-bodied jumbo jet; it could seat up to 452 passengers
747
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| BUD is the New York Stock Exchange symbol for this brewing company
Anheuser-Busch
$600 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This Dallas-based electronics firm started out as Geophysical Service, an oil exploration company
Texas Instruments
$800 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| For over 75 years, Wrigley made only these 3 gums
Spearmint, Doublemint & Juicy Fruit
$1000 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1973 this then Memphis-based hotel chain opened its own university in Mississippi to train personnel
Holiday Inn
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 2001 this sandwich chain surpassed McDonald’s in the number of U.S. restaurants
Subway
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This company was founded in 1948 as the baby furniture & toy supermarket; its present name came in 1957
Toys “R” Us
$600 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This athletic wear company best known for its shoes began in Oregon as Blue Ribbon Sports
Nike
$800 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| A New Bern, North Carolina pharmacist invented this drink in 1898, claiming it cured dyspepsia
Pepsi (or Pepsi-Cola)
$1000 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This longest-listed company on the NYSE was first listed in 1824 as the New York Gas Light Company
ConEdison
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This lemon-lime soft drink debuted in October 1929 in green 7-ounce bottles
7-Up
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| He made M’m! M’m! Good! when he joined a Camden, N.J. canning company in 1869; he later took it over
Joseph Campbell
$600 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1930 Sears transferred this tire brand name to its insurance division
Allstate
$1200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Entrepreneurs William Russell, Alexander Majors & William B. Waddell founded this in 1860; it lasted 18 months
the Pony Express
$1000 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This athletic shoe company’s internet store is located at catshack.com
Puma
$None ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| These 2 companies whose products complement each other are the only 2 that have ever topped the Fortune 500
General Motors & Exxon
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| When this product was first released in 1944, it carried a picture of an Indian chief & the slogan “Don’t be a paleface”
Coppertone
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This firm began in 1897 as Nippon Gakki Company, an organ manufacturer; electronic organs came along in 1959
Yamaha
$600 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This animal feed company began using its familiar red & white checkerboard trademark around 1900
Ralston-Purina
$800 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Now a clothing retailer, it began in 1963 as a Chicago-based mail-order supplier of sailboat equipment
Land’s End
$1000 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Named for its 2 owners, it introduced the first commercial drink mixer in 1911
Hamilton-Beach
$None ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Bluelight.com is the internet shopping site of this retail chain
Kmart
$None ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Founded as Pacific Aero Products in 1916, today this company is America’s largest exporter, in total revenue
Boeing
$100 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| The name of this Japanese electronics company comes from the Latin word for “sound”
Sony
$300 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 2000 Lukoil, Russia’s largest oil company, bid on the gas stations that were part of this man’s oil empire
J. Paul Getty
$500 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| The Boulevard des Invalides is home to this French pharmaceuticals company, the maker of RU-486
Roussel Uclaf
$None ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| “Built From Scratch” is a book on how Bernie Marcus & Arthur Blank remodeled this chain founded in 1978
Home Depot
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1926 the Peet Bros. merged their soap company with this one, which then merged with Colgate
Palmolive
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In the 1950s Dannon popularized this product in the U.S.
Yogurt
$600 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This family’s Texas “ranch” covers 825,000 acres, an area bigger than Rhode Island
King Ranch
$800 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In the 1970s, this white buck-shoed singer & his family endorsed the West Bend coffee maker
Pat Boone
$None ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This U.S. firm is the world’s largest processor of tomatoes
H.J. Heinz
$None ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1903 Morris Michtom of New York began marketing these with presidential permission
Teddy Bears (named after Theodore Roosevelt)
$None ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| McDonald’s’ 2 most successful promotional campaigns both involved these Happy Meal toys
Beanie Babies
$None ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1998 this 106-year-old company became the first in the U.S. to top $300 billion in market value
General Electric
$100 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Barbie accounts for about 40% of this toymaker’s revenue
Mattel
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| It’s said this soft drink’s name is the most recognized commercial symbol in the world
Coca-Cola
$300 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1994 this retailer transferred its ownership in the world’s then tallest building to a trust
Sears
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This London news agency was founded in 1851 & named for a German baron
Reuters
$100 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| A big name in computers, this company is known as HP for short
Hewlett-Packard
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Ernie is the chief spokes-elf for this snack food company
Keebler
$300 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| The name of this photocopy store chain refers to the curly hair of its founder Paul Orfalea
Kinko’s
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| According to its ads, this hotel chain by Marriott was “designed by business travelers”
Courtyard
$700 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This cruise line was launched in 1972 with just one ship, the Mardi Gras
Carnival Cruise Lines
$100 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Projects of the giant Bechtel group include the BART system & the Bay Bridge in this city where it’s based
San Francisco
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| As an alternative to Starbucks, Lipton opened an establishment of this type in southern California in 1996
Tea salon
$300 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1997 she bought her own Lifestyles magazine & TV show from Time, Inc.
Martha Stewart
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Known as D&B, this corporation markets Moody’s bond ratings & Nielsen’s TV ratings
Dun & Bradstreet
$500 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Under this name from 1899 to 1970, what’s now Chiquita Brands dominated the Central American banana trade
United Fruit Company
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In the late 1940s, this firm began the practice of selling underwear in cellophane bags, 3 to a bag
Fruit of the Loom
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| On July 19, 1970, after 70 years of business, this chocolate company ran its first consumer ad
Hershey’s
$600 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1992 Playskool overhauled this toy by replacing its wooden rods & spools with plastic parts
Tinkertoys
$800 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1949 this German small appliance firm introduced the world’s first electric foil shaver
Braun
$500 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This athletic shoe company was named for an African gazelle admired for its swiftness
Reebok
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In May 1997 this cereal company introduced new Cocoa Frosted Flakes
Kellogg’s
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1989 Ruth M. Owades launched Calyx & Corolla, a mail order company that sells these
Flowers
$600 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This leading textbook publisher was formed in 1864 as a partnership, Hurd & Houghton
Houghton Mifflin
$1500 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1997 this parent company of CBS acquired The Nashville Network
Westinghouse
$100 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| 30-second TV ads for this January 26, 1997 sporting event sold for an average of $1.2 million
Super Bowl XXXI
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| The 1997 model of this Chevrolet sports car is only the 4th redesign since its 1953 introduction
Corvette
$300 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In December 1996 Steve Jobs returned to this company as a consultant when it bought NeXT Software, Inc.
Apple
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In the 1940s Benjamin Green used his own bald head to test this suntan lotion
Coppertone
$500 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This company, the owner of Radio Shack, closed its Incredible Universe stores in 1997
Tandy Corporation
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Every year this greeting card company produces 19,000 card designs in 20 languages
Hallmark
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| When its Beautyrest mattress was introduced in 1925, Henry Ford endorsed it in advertisements
Simmons
$2000 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Co-founder Frank Seiberling added the winged foot to this tire company’s logo
Goodyear
$800 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Formally organized in March 1901, it was the first billion-dollar corporation
U.S. Steel
$1000 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This San Francisco-based company is the USA’s largest canner of fruits & vegetables
Del Monte
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| On October 14, 1996 this stock index closed above 6,000 points for the first time
the Dow Jones Industrial Average
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| You could wash down some of this company’s famous frozen cheesecake with its Douwe Egberts coffee
Sara Lee
$600 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Kimberly-Clark makes these diapers, America’s best-selling brand
Huggies
$800 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This computer company’s new Presario 4402 features an infrared remote control
Compaq
$1000 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| The Tax Reform Act of 1986 set the tax on these, profits from sold assets, at the same rate as other income
capital gains
$100 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This Pittsburgh-based food entrepreneur was once known as the “Pickle King”
H.J. Heinz
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This company gets its name from the snappy carbonated apple juice it introduced in 1978
Snapple
$300 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| The USA’s top producer of jams, jellies & preserves, it’s located on Strawberry Lane in Orrville, Ohio
Smuckers
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1926 this automaker introduced the Imperial 80; the number refers to its top speed on a straightaway
Chrysler
$500 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Student Carolyn Davidson was paid $35 for designing this shoe company’s “Swoosh” logo
Nike
$100 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| A 1996 Business Week survey called this soup company’s board of directors “America’s Best”
Campbell’s
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1996 companies that produce these consumables announced an end to their ban on TV & radio ads
Liquor
$300 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This battery maker introduced the Copper Top tester in 1990
Duracell
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In August 1995 this nation’s first stock exchange, based in Ulan Bator, began trading
Mongolia
$500 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This firm owned by the Seagram Company is the leading seller of pasteurized orange juice
Tropicana
$100 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1921 this medical products company introduced the Band-Aid
Johnson & Johnson
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1938 this electronics firm was founded in David Packard’s Palo Alto, California garage
Hewlett-Packard
$300 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This yogurt company’s name is derived from the name of Daniel Carasso, son of its founder
Dannon
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Brand names owned by this company include Paper Mate, Right Guard, Foamy & Trac II
Gillette
$500 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This retailer opened its first “Discount City” in 1962 in Rogers, Arkansas
Wal-Mart
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1996 this fast food chain introduced its “Deluxe Line” for grown-ups
McDonald’s
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This internet provider’s 1996 switch to flat-rate pricing generated more business than it could handle
America Online
$600 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1996 Michael Jordan starred in this shoe company’s first live sports production, “Hoop Heroes” in Japan
Nike
$800 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This third-largest U.S. automaker owns Dollar & Thrifty Car Rental agencies
Chrysler
$1000 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1993 Gold Bond-Good Humor merged with this “All Natural” ice cream company
Breyers
$None ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| First sold in 1912, the Maine hunting shoe was his first retail product
Leon Leonwood (L.L.) Bean
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. is also known as this, for its popular floor-care products
Johnson Wax
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| The Brown Shoe Company debuted this comic strip spokesman in 1904
Buster Brown
$600 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This company’s washers and dryers come with an ol’ lonely warranty
Maytag
$800 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In August 1996 this chain, the world’s largest retailer, opened its first outlets in China
Wal-Mart
$1000 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Brothers Tom & David Gardner started this America Online investment guide in 1994
The Motley Fool
$100 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In the 1930s this cereal maker introduced Bisquick; Cheerios came along in 1941
General Mills
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| The automotive safety products division of this salt maker is one of the USA’s leading air bag makers
Morton (Thiokol)
$300 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Some of this toy retailer’s stores have in-store specialty shops, including the Lego Store & The Learning Center
Toys “R” Us
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| The smallest of the big 6 accounting firms, it’s well-known for tallying the votes for the Oscars
Price Waterhouse
$500 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This drugstore chain once known for its soda fountains leads U.S. retailers in filling prescriptions
Walgreens
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This Japanese photo film company outbid Kodak as a 1984 Olympics sponsor
Fuji
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1982 this aluminum foil company introduced its product plastic wrap
Reynolds
$600 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1962 this chain opened its first budget motel, a 52-unit complex in Santa Barbara, California
Motel 6
$800 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Despite its name, this Wooster, Ohio housewares company makes most of its products from plastic
Rubbermaid
$1000 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1922 it introduced the Gyrofoam, the first washing machine to clean with water action
Maytag
$100 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| “Choosy Moms Choose” this brand of peanut butter
Jif
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This company’s new computer products include the Aptiva S & the Thinkpad 560
IBM
$300 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This product claims it’s “The Pain Reliever Hospitals Use Most”
Tylenol
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| The Parker Duofold Red Jasper, one of these, features a nib split by hand
Pen
$500 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1970 “Twister” inventor Reynolds Guyer created a 4” foam ball named this by Parker Bros.
Nerf
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Recent versions of this company’s flagship product include Dr. Barbie & Teacher Barbie
Mattel
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This salt company’s “Umbrella Girl” is one of the most famous brand icons in the United States
Morton
$600 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This company introduced Kleenex in 1924
Kimberly-Clark
$800 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This Connecticut-based company is the leading producer of mailing equipment & postage meters
Pitney-Bowes
$1000 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This Wisconsin-based mail order clothing company has a mailing list of 20 million names
Land’s End
$None ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| “America’s Favorite Food”, a book about this company, contains 12 pages of Andy Warhol’s art
Campbell Soup Company
$100 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This underwear manufacturer’s New York Stock Exchange symbol is FTL
Fruit of the Loom
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This company’s beer is “Brewed in Golden, Colorado with Rocky Mountain water”
Coors
$300 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1995 this firm released an upgraded version of its Newton messagepad, a hand-held computer
Apple
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| It owns the world’s largest fleet of cargo delivery planes
Federal Express
$500 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| The Golden Gate Bridge was among the structures erected by this 2nd-largest American steel company
Bethlehem Steel
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| It has over 9,700 tax preparation offices worldwide
H&R Block
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1961 this firm introduced its Selectric typewriter, which used a spherical typing element
IBM
$600 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1934 he plugged Bulova “Lone Eagle” watches
Charles Lindbergh
$800 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Only Philip Morris & this Cincinnati-based firm have yearly ad expenditures exceeding $2 billion
Procter & Gamble
$600 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1811 this German family began its steel-making business by constructing a plant in Essen
Krupp
$100 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This No. 1 U.S. bleach company was originally known as The Electro-Alkaline Company
Clorox
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| When this soda company jokingly offered a Harrier jet for 7 million points, John Leonard tried to claim it
Pepsi
$300 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1993 Louis V. Gerstner became the first outsider to head this computer giant
IBM
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Delta Airlines moved its headquarters from Monroe, La. to this city in 1941
Atlanta, Georgia
$500 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This 825,000 acre Texas ranch introduced the Santa Cruz, a new breed of beef cattle, in 1995
The King Ranch
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Colgate merged with this soapmaker in 1928
Palmolive
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Budget Rent-A-Car in Boston now rents these “hogs” at a rate of $50-$60 an hour
Harley-Davidsons
$600 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| The Green Giant works for this company with another jolly spokesfigure, the Doughboy
Pillsbury
$1000 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This Seattle-based coffee chain was named for the first mate in “Moby Dick”
Starbucks
$100 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Eastman Chemical Company was spun off from this photo giant in 1993
Kodak
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This fruit accounts for about 60% of Chiquita Brands International’s income
the banana
$300 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This company has been the world’s top commercial aircraft maker for more than 30 years
Boeing
$500 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This chain holds 29% of the seafood restaurant market
Red Lobster
$None ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| A 60-foot steel likeness of a transistor stands at its Holmdel, N.J. office
Bell Labs
$100 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Broken Hill, this country’s largest company, took its name from a small town in New South Wales
Australia
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This largest European tire maker is headquartered in Clermont-Ferrand, France
Michelin
$300 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Comau, a subsidiary of this Italian company, makes the robots that build its cars
Fiat
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Johnson & Johnson owns Acuvue, the world’s leading disposable brand of these
Contact Lenses
$500 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Phil Knight, founder of this Oregon-based athletic shoe company, owns about 35% of its stock
Nike
$None ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| It’s the biggest single customer of the domestic airline industry, using about 15,000 flights a day
the US Postal Service
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1894 this inventor sold all of his shares in General Electric, but stayed on as a consultant
Thomas Edison
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1914, 1-pound cartons of this product came on the market under the brand name Jolly Time
popcorn
$600 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1988 she became chairman of Playboy Enterprises
Christie Hefner
$800 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| It’s IBM’s “colorful” nickname
“Big Blue”
$1000 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1946 this tool company marketed its first electric drill for home use
Black & Decker
$100 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| These organizations called BBBs protect consumers from unethical business practices
Better Business Bureaus
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1906 this auto firm introduced its Silver Ghost model
Rolls-Royce
$300 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Before moving to Chicago in 1856, this department store owner clerked in a Pittsfield, Mass. dry goods store
Marshall Field
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This stagecoach company owned the Pony Express during the last few months of its existence
Wells Fargo
$500 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1962 he founded Electronic Data Systems after working for IBM for 5 years
Ross Perot
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This Kansas City-based greeting card company began marketing Christmas ornaments in the 1970s
Hallmark
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Aluminum Company of America, popularly called this, was the first industrial user of power from Niagara Falls
Alcoa
$600 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1983 this Bentonville, Arkansas-based retailer opened Sam’s Wholesale Club warehouse chain
Wal-Mart
$800 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This company first marketed tires under the Allstate brand; insurance followed in 1931
Sears Roebuck
$1000 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In April of 1995 this beverage company agreed to buy 80% of MCA, Inc. from Matsushita
Seagram’s
$None ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| 1 of the top 10 companies that operated food services in 1964, in 1994 its lunch counters ranked No. 264
Woolworth’s
$100 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This insurance company’s trademark came from a signature on the Declaration of Independence
John Hancock
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| The cover of the 1894 edition of this company’s famous catalog called it the “cheapest supply house on earth”
Sears
$300 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1967 Douglas Aircraft merged with this military aircraft supplier
McDonnell
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1907 this Phildelphia-based company introduced the paper towel
Scott
$500 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Founded in 1884, this Dayton, Ohio company controlled the country’s cash register business by 1910
NCR (National Cash Register)
$100 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Phillip Morris is the largest customer of Universal Corporation, the world’s largest dealer in this commodity
Tobacco
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This founder of Wal-Mart began his retail career as a J.C. Penney management trainee
Sam Walton
$300 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| The parent company of this railroad also operates U.P. Resources, a gas & oil exploration business
Union Pacific
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1988 this Swedish company acquired Britain’s Leyland Bus Company
Volvo
$500 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Holly Farms & Tasty Bird are brand names of this Arkansas-based poultry producer
Tyson Foods
$100 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| It can take gov’t about 20 months to process 1 of these applications & you may need a working model
patent
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This company operates the 4 most popular theme parks in North America
Disney
$300 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This former VP appeared in an ad during the 1994 Super Bowl for Lay’s Potato Chips
Dan Quayle
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Kathleen Sullivan’s progress on this company’s “Superstart!” program was shown in TV ads
Weight Watchers
$500 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| The Sheraton Hotel & Towers in this South American capital offers a “tango special” package
Buenos Aires
$100 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Henry Ford introduced this model in 1908 & dropped all his other models the next year
Model T
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Dorothy Hope Smith’s charcoal sketch of a baby is a trademark of this baby food company
Gerber
$300 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Cummins Engine Company is the world’s largest maker of this type of truck engine
Diesel
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This second-largest U.S. breakfast cereal maker owns the Red Lobster & Olive Garden restaurant chains
General Mills
$500 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This company markets paint under the Kem-Tone & Krylon labels as well as under its own hyphenated name
Sherwin-Williams
$100 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| About 30% of the world’s banana’s are sold under this No. 1 brand name
Chiquita
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Since 1924 this department store has sponsored the annual Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City
Macy’s
$300 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1952 this company introduced the “Flo-Thru” tea bag
Lipton
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This toothpaste “with Flouristan” was advertised in the 1950’s with special paintings by Norman Rockwell
Crest
$500 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This spice company that owns Schilling is the largest producer of dehydrated garlic & onions
McCormick
$100 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1972 this company introduced its SX-70 instant camera, which was only one inch thick when closed
Polaroid
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This baby food company once used the slogan “Babies Are Our Business, Our Only Business”
Gerber
$300 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This package delivery firm was founded in 1907 as the American Messenger Company
UPS (United Parcel Service)
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This winery in Modesto, California is the world’s largest, & accounts for more than 25% of the U.S. market
Ernest & Julio Gallo
$1000 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1952 Kemmons Wilson opened the first motel in this chain, on the outskirts of Memphis
Holiday Inn
$100 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1986 this athletic shoe company introduced Weeboks for infants & toddlers
Reebok
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This company sells about 50% of the bleach in the U.S.
Clorox
$300 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Founded by an Austrian in 1896, the name of this candy roll co. was taken from his daughter’s nickname
Tootsie Roll
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This retailing giant owns the Allstate Insurance group
Sears
$500 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| With sales of over $1 billion yearly, this brand of tortilla chips is Frito-Lay’s top product
Doritos
$None ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| The Brooklyn Flint Glass Works changed its name to this after moving to a N.Y. town of the same name
Corning
$100 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| “Mama Mia!”; since purchasing Ronzoni, this #1 U.S. chocolate maker has become #2 in pasta
Hershey’s
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| “Like a good neighbor”, this company has been selling folks insurance since 1922
State Farm
$300 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1990, to boost U.S. sales, this Korean auto company introduced its sporty Scoupe
Hyundai
$700 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| A leading maker of athletic shoes, this company was named for a swift antelope
Reebok
$500 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In July, 1992, this last U.S. consumer typewriter company announced it’s moving its factory to Mexico
Smith-Corona
$100 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Kimberly-Clark first advertised these tissues as a disposable cold cream remover
Kleenex
$700 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| The original sketch of Ann Turner, seen in the following, is kept in this company’s vault:
Gerber
$300 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Headquartered in St. Louis, it’s the largest single brewing organization in the world
Anheuser-Busch
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| With help from Mitsubishi, this company manufactured the first Korean automobile in 1976
Hyundai
$500 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In May 1991 this entertainment giant replaced USX on the Dow Jones Industrial Average
Disney
$None ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| The oldest U.S. food trademark still in use, a red devil, was granted to this company in 1870
Underwood
$100 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This biggest computer company is biggest also among companies in philanthropic contributions
IBM
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| The first major U.S. company to publish solely paperbacks, it’s named for where their books could fit
Pocket Books
$300 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| They claim to run “the tightest ship in the shipping business”
UPS
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This company introduced the Band-Aid to America in 1920
Johnson & Johnson
$500 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This peanut-packed candy bar, the 1st successful one by Mars, is the current top seller
Snickers
$100 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This rubber company spends over $7 million a year just to maintain & operate its blimps
Goodyear
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| After marrying its president, Joan Crawford became a spokesperson for this beverage co.
Pepsi-Cola
$300 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| After 42 years, this French co. has ceased making its turtle-shaped car, the Deux Chevaux
Citroen
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Whirlpool makes a line of products under this brand name for Sears, Roebuck
Kenmore
$500 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| It was first incorporated in 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co.
IBM
$None ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This company was incorporated in 1946 as Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation
Sony
$100 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Through a licensing agreement with this company, Sears has opened stores called McKids
McDonald’s
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| 90% of Florida’s orange crop is used to make this
Orange Juice
$300 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| The Weekend 35 is a disposable underwater camera sold by this maker of the disposable Fling
Kodak
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| U.S. automaker that owns 15% of Maserati & 100% of Lamborghini
Chrysler
$500 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| The Pacific Aero Products Company, founded in Seattle in 1916, is now called this
Boeing
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| These fig-filled items weren’t named after a fruit-struck scientist but for a town near the factory
Fig Newtons
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Tab was the leading diet cola before this soft drink was introduced in 1982
Diet Coke
$600 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Though it owns them both, this company doesn’t use a Fruit Loop filling for its Mrs. Smith’s pies
Kellogg’s
$800 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Coors beer is brewed in this Colorado city
Golden
$1000 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Among the brand names in this Anglo-Dutch company’s stable are Ragu, Close-Up, Q-Tips & Wisk
Unilever (Lever Brothers)
$None ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| The Welch’s Company has its corporate headquarters in this Mass. town
Concord
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| U.S. pioneers in this industry include Little, Brown & Co., 1837 & Houghton Mifflin Co., 1832
Publishing
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Nestle became “contented” when it acquired this company in 1985
Carnation
$600 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| These new Nabisco animal cookies were almost called “Grrrrahams”
Teddy Grahams
$800 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Edward VII’s authorization in 1901 allowed John Doulton’s Co. to market porcelain under this name
Royal Doulton
$1000 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Catalog shoppers know Lillian Katz better by this name
Lillian Vernon
$100 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In August of 1987, Joan Kroc, widow of the founder of this company, donated a million dollars to the Democratic Party
McDonald’s
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| To compete with electronic watches, SMH created this inexpensive Swiss watch
Swatch
$300 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Texas-raised Angora goats provide almost 95% of the US production of this Angora fiber
mohair
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In April 1987, Avia was bought by this major competitor
Reebok
$500 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| The Chicago Board of Trade is the world’s largest of these
futures (or commodities) exchange
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| They’ve provided insurance for Liz Taylor’s diamonds, Liberace’s fingers & Jimmy Durante’s nose
Lloyd’s of London
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Florida earns more money from this “industry” than any other
tourism
$600 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| America’s #2 & #3 makers of jeans, they announced plans to merge in 1986
Lee & Wrangler
$800 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| The largest grossing U.S. retail drug chain, it 1st put the ice cream in a chocolate malted milk
Walgreens
$1000 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| True to his middle name, in his 1st “Golden Rule” store in Kemmerer, Wyo., he demanded “cash only”
J.C. Penney
$100 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| It’s the “rock” in Prudential’s ads
Gibraltar
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| A high recognition factor prompted Lever Bros. to bring back the “Ta-ta-ta-da” ad for this
Imperial Margarine
$300 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| TV rights to it in 1980 cost $87 million; in 1984, $225 million; & for 1988, $300 million
the Olympics
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In March 1986, a Pittsburgh car dealer gave Cadillac buyers these Eastern European cars, free
the Yugo
$500 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| For the past 3 years her cosmetic co. has topped the Savvy magazine list of businesses run by women
Estée Lauder
$None ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This company’s figures show about 7% of present U.S. work force got its start working for them
McDonald’s
$800 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| An estimated 79% of sales revenues of this “fade cream” are spent on advertising
Porcelana
$1000 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This type of retail store sells more shampoo & makeup than any other
food stores (supermarkets)
$None ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Country that manufactures the most cars per year
Japan
$None ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Automaker that introduced the alternator, power steering & electric ignition
Chrysler
$200 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| “Body-building” brand of bread from “the bakery people of IT&T”
Wonder Bread
$400 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| In 1978, this German co. became first foreign automaker to make cars here
Volkswagen
$600 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| This company owns the world’s tallest building
Sears(-Roebuck)
$800 ||| Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ||| Piggly Wiggly stores were the first of these
supermarkets
