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Begun in 1887 to raise funds for 22 different agencies, the Charity Organization Society is known as this today
Answer: The United Way
Fiat began building automobiles in this European country in 1899
Answer: Italy
Dow Jones & Co. began publishing this newspaper July 8, 1889
Answer: The Wall Street Journal
A criminal who has “cooked the books” has engaged in what kind of illegal behavior?
Answer: Accounting Fraud
His "The Wealth of Nations" was one of the first books bought to stock the new Library of Congress
Answer: Adam Smith
$10 million worth of this was dug out of Canada's Klondike region in 1898
Answer: Gold
When Cecil Rhodes died in 1902, his fortune went to establishing scholarships to this school
Answer: Oxford University
In the agency abbreviation “EEOC,” the first E stands for “equal” and the second stands for what?
Answer: Employment
Which stock control system was introduced in American supermarkets in 1974?
Answer: Bar Codes
On the 2010 Fortune Global 500 list of the world’s largest companies, 3 of the top 4 were in what sector?
Answer: Oil
In 1928, this company drove up new business with the purchase of Dodge & the introduction of the Plymouth
Answer: Chrysler
This "24-hour" activity of buying & selling stocks for short-term gain boomed in the '90s
Answer: Day trading
What is the name of the Tokyo Stock Market Index?
Answer: Nikkei
In 1947, Denmark, Norway & Sweden combined their major airline companies into this one.
Answer: Scandinavian Airlines
What city is home to Amazon.com's headquarters?
Answer: Seattle
In which European city are the headquarters of OPEC?
Answer: Vienna
What New York City thoroughfare is synonymous with the American advertising industry?
Answer: Madison Avenue
What do we call the currency of India?
Answer: Rupee
Prized by collectors, $20 U.S. gold coins minted from 1849 to 1933 are known by what name?
Answer: Double Eagles
With the 1989 opening of the Mirage, this casino mogul launched a new building boom in Las Vegas.
Answer: Steve Wynn
This business was born in Seattle in 1971 & named for the first mate in "Moby Dick".
Answer: Starbucks
Johnson & Johnson has been "stuck on" this product for 85 years.
Answer: Band-Aids
The mailing address for this company is P.O. Box 57, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15230.
Answer: Heinz
After taking over this company, Thomas Watson ordered "THINK" signs placed in every company room.
Answer: IBM
Shh! This 2-word company had a link for "most-loved bras ...inspire desire ...giving & getting".
Answer: Victoria's Secret
In the 1980s, this Atlanta business adopted the slogan "We Run the Tightest Ship in the Shipping Business".
Answer: United Parcel Service (UPS)
He's the T of TBS.
Answer: Ted Turner
This Japanese company made the Gameboy & the Game Cube.
Answer: Nintendo
Spielberg, Katzenberg & Geffen are the SKG on the bottom of this movie studio's logo.
Answer: DreamWorks
The term for regular payments you get from your employer after retiring.
Answer: A pension
NASDAQ deals in OTC stocks, OTC standing for this.
Answer: Over the counter
U.S. firms operating in the investment field have to answer to the SEC, this group.
Answer: Securities And Exchange Commission
In this type of "fight", shareholders can vote in a board that will allow a takeover of the company.
Answer: Proxy fight
Before founding his own corp., John K. Northrop was chief engineer for this company & designed its Vega airplane.
Answer: Lockheed
Which kind of bulbs were once exchanged as a form of currency?
Answer: Tulips
In the insurance business, what is the name of a person whose job it is to analyze statistics to calculate risks and price premiums accordingly?
Answer: Actuary
What company logo, featured in the movie "Cast Away", contains an arrow between two of the letters?
Answer: FedEx
Upstanding citizens have been driving this make of Honda around the city since 1972.
Answer: Civic
Scrape together 100 pence & trade it into the Bank of England for 1 of these.
Answer: Pound
The "Cheeseburger Bill" tried to protect companies from consumer lawsuits claiming this & associated problems.
Answer: Obesity
What notorious British joint-stock company was founded in 1711 to trade slaves? The company would quintuple in value before collapsing in late 1720, ruining many of its investors.
Answer: South Sea Company
Originally, Amazon only sold what kind of product?
Answer: Books
Since 2003, what company has employed the advertising slogan “Imagination at work”?
Answer: General Electric
The 1929 stock market crash occurred in what month of the year?
Answer: October
Last name of the brothers whose "Steamer" company lost steam with the popularity of gas cars & went bankrupt in 1924.
Answer: Stanley
This word for a government's administration system has come to suggest inefficiency, waste & red tape.
Answer: Bureaucracy
What event led to the creation of the Superfund?
Answer: Love Canal Disaster
Steve Ballmer became the president & CEO of Microsoft after this man stepped aside.
Answer: Bill Gates
You are now free to move about the country on this airline, founded in Texas in 1971.
Answer: Southwest
What is the term for a market structure with only a few large sellers?
Answer: Oligopoly