Fun business trivia questions
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What enduring advertising symbol was created by a Virginia
schoolboy as part of a drawing competition held in 1916?
A: Mr. Peanut--the trademark of Planters Peanuts. Schoolboy Antonio
Gentile of Suffolk, Virginia, received $5 for his winning entry.
When Gillette first marketed its safety razor at the turn of the
century, it sold 20 blades for $1.00 How much did the razor handle
cost?
A: $5.
What was the name of the first major deodorant company in the United States?
A: Odorono - its magazine ad mentioning underarm odor in 1919 led
hundreds of offended women to cancel their subscriptions to the
"Ladies Home Journal."
What actress was billed as "Miss Deepfreeze" when she toured the
country demonstrating refrigerators?
A: Kim Novak.
On a February afternoon in 1959, the TV game show "Haggis Baggis"
was interrupted with the announcement, "Ladies and gentlemen, Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt." What followed?
A: A commercial for Good Luck Margarine delivered by the former
First Lady.
"She kissed the hairbrush by mistake. She though it was her
husband Jake." What is the origin of this rhyme?
A: Burma Shave roadside jingle 1940.
All automaker Henry Ford's cars were black until 1925, when he
introduced two new colors. What were they?
A: Green and maroon.
What are the street lights in Hershey, Pennsylvania designed to
look like?
A: Foil-wrapped Hershey's chocolate kisses.
What U.S. department store was the first to install electric
lighting?
A: Wanamaker's of Philadelphia, in 1878.
What was sold in the Burpee mail-order catalog when it was
introduced by 17-year old Washington Atlee Burpee in 1876?
A :Chickens. Burpee soon added chicken feed and then the
vegetable and flower seeds the catalog has long been famous for.
What product used Bobby Darin's 1958 hit song "Splish Splash" in
its commercials?
A: Drano.
What famous American, in a bid to show the commercial potential
of the soybean, appeared at a convention in 1939 outfitted in
clothes made entirely from that very versatile vegetable?
A: Henry Ford. His shoes were the only part of his wardrobe not made
from soybeans.
The first paid radio commercial ever aired promoted a cooperative
apartment house in New York City in 1922. The ad cost $100. How long
did it last?
A: 10 minutes.
Where did Uniroyal get the steel frame for the 80-foot tall tire
that stands near Detroit's Edsel Ford Freeway?
A: It was the Ferris wheel at the 1964 New York World's Fair.
What was unusual about the Sexto-Auto manufactured by the
Reeves Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Indiana, in 1912?
A: It had six wheels--two in front and four in the rear. The
same company previously had manufactured the eight-wheel Octo-auto.
The Ford Motor Company manufactured one million cars for the
first time in 1922. In what year did it hit the two-million mark?
A: In 1923.
What were Kleenex tissues marketed as when the were first
introduced in 1924?
A: A cold cream remover.
