FIRM FAVOURITES

Business

1. The original logo of which company, founded in 1976, featured a picture of Isaac Newton sitting under a tree?

2. The badge of which Japanese car company features a representation of the star cluster known as Pleiades or the Seven Sisters?

3. And which Japanese car company takes its name from a Zoroastrian god?

4. Which two sports brands were the result of a bitter falling out between the Dassler brothers in Germany in the 1940s?

5. Which technology company was initially called BackRub before adopting a much better known corporate identity?

6. What objects prompted Marcus Samuel to expand his business as an antique dealer in London in the 1830s to import them? They gave rise to a different business which still bears their name today.

7. Which company had the advertising slogan “Think Different”?

8. And which company had the slogan “A Diamond is Forever”?

9. And whose slogan was “Fly the Friendly Skies”?

10. Which company’s slogan was “Have It Your Way”?

11. And who had the slogan “Think Small”?

12. Which company used the slogan “We Try Harder”?

13. What do the initials in the name J. C. Penney stand for?

14. And what about the initials in F. W. Woolworth?

15. What do the initials stand for in L. L. Bean?

16. How did A&M records get its name?

17. How did JCB get its name?

18. What does IKEA stand for?

19. M&Ms are a popular snack. What do the initials stand for?

20. What does LVMH stand for?

21. Which company shares its name with a race of legendary beings in Gulliver’s Travels?

22. What do the initials stand for in IBM?

23. What does BMW stand for?

24. What do the initials in FIAT stand for?

25. What do the Ms stand for in 3M?

26. And what do the initials stand for in LG electronics?

27. Which Formula 1 motor racing world champion quit the sport in 1979 to run the airline he established the same year?

28. The logo of Chupa Chups, a popular brand of lollypop, was designed by which well-known artist?

29. Patrick Bateman, anti-hero of the novel American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, worked for which fictional Wall Street investment firm?

30. George Clooney plays Ryan Bingham of the Career Transitions Corporation, firing people for a living on behalf of firms laying off staff, in which film?

31. In the film Blade Runner, Ridley Scott’s dystopian vision of the future, what is the name of the powerful high-tech firm responsible for building replicates, including (spoiler alert) Harrison Ford’s character, Deckard?

32. In which film does a piece of technology deliver this line: “I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois, on the 12th of January 1992”?

33. What fictional airline is used in several films, TV programmes and books which feature plane crashes or other aviation disasters, including Lost, Executive Decision, Diagnosis Murder and the X-Files?

34. Britain’s first purpose-built international airport was located in which suburb of London?

35. Until the construction of Orly in 1932, which was Paris’s only international airport? It is still in use today.

36. Which American artist summed up his approach to his work with this quote: “Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art”?

37. Which American president said “the chief business of the American people is business”?

38. Which hugely successful American investor remarked: “In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield”?

39. Which British statesman said: “Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon”?

40. Which country is the world’s biggest producer of natural gas?

41. Which country was the world’s biggest producer of crude oil in 2016?

42. Which country is the world’s biggest coal producer?

43. Which country’s residents are the biggest beer drinkers per head of population?

44. Which French firm is the world’s biggest-selling cosmetics business?

45. What is the name of the media conglomerate that counts NBC, Universal Pictures, Working Title Films and GolfNow among its subsidiaries?

46. Which tech company was formed by Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce?

47. Which company did Larry Page and Sergey Brin found?

48. Which company was founded by Jack Ma?

49. Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp founded which company?

50. Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in 1995. But which newspaper did he buy in 2013?