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In May 2005, an American hotel heiress announced plans to marry a Greek shipping heir. And both were named for what city?
If you're a numismatist with lots of valuable old coins in your collection, you'd be rich as Croesus. In fact, where Croesus issue the world's first coins?
When would you be charged an agio?
What president opposed 1908 legislation to put "In God We Trust" on all US coins, feeling that it was blasphemous?
In the 1860s, where did Philip Morris run a tobacco shop in which he sold his hand-rolled cigarettes?
Because it is ever-so-slightly heavier, which side of a penny is actually slightly more like to land face up?
What US President's portrait is found on the quarter coin and the one dollar bill?
Americans use dollars. What do Britons use?
How often do publically traded companies announce their earnings?
What corporation once used the motto, "You press the button, we do the rest"?
William Lear of jet fame helped invent what automotive item, on which Motorola built its business?
In Blue Earth, Minnesota, there is a 55-foot statue of what advertising icon?
Before a wave of mergers, what professional field was ruled by the Big Eight: Arthur Andersen; Coopers and Lybrand; Deloitte Haskins and Sells; Ernst and Whinney; Peat Marwick Mitchell; Price Waterhouse; Touche Ross; and Arthur Young?
In 1909, the ILGWU led the "Uprising of the 20,000," in which female workers in what New York industry rose up against oppressive work conditions?
Samsung is one of the largest chaebol, or family conglomerates, in what country?
Karl Schwarzler developed a plan that allows corporations to rent out the entirety of what country, even to extent of branding major buildings?
What "Host of the Highways" was once known for its orange roofs?
What imaginary creature's name has been used for many products, including a pizza, a skateboard, an Internet search engine and a monster truck?
What Sony videotape standard was chased out of the market, in part because the technically inferior VHS cornered the market in porn?
Minnesota hockey player Scott Olson launched what company after fiddling around with some wheels?
In 1961, Procter and Gamble introduced what shampoo, which used zinc pyrithione to stop the excess cell growth on our scalps that leads to dandruff?
In 2005, who became the first Canadian to appear on a general-circulation coins?
Just outside of Beaumont is an oil field called Spindletop, which in 1901 became the first major oil field in the United States. Where is it?
What Seattle-based company was known as B&W and as Pacific Aero Products before adopting its current name (more or less) in 1917?
In 1914, who cut the workday from 9 to 8 hours and raised daily pay from $2.34 to $5, but only for workers whose morals passed muster with the company's Sociological Department?
With the press watching, what company sent its "Service Department" to beat male (and female) UAW pamphleteers in the "Battle of the Overpass" in 1937?
In a $12.3 billion deal, Kmart merged with what other failing retailer?
Cyrus Harvey named his company for two Englishman: a 17th-century English conservationist named John and an 18th-century horticulturalist named George. What company?
The name of what African nation is also two brands of soap?
At 2.268 grams, which US coin is lightest?
The longest standing sponsor, what company has been sponsoring the Olympics since the 1928 Amsterdam games?
Until the 1800s, what country held a world monopoly on diamonds, which were set into the Peacock Throne on which its Mogul emperor sat?
In 1866, some farm children in the Orange Free State set off a diamond rush when they found a 22.5-carat hunk in what present-day country, which thanks to De Beers now controls the world diamond trade?
For a mere 6,300, Cecil Rhodes bought the Kimberley mine from under the two Afrikaner brothers, Johannes and Diedrich, for whom what company is now named?
What company, which insists that "diamonds are forever," was caught funding African warlords by buying conflict diamonds?
Tired of dealing with forgetful husbands, the American National Jewelers' Association adopted a system for this, which the British adapted in the 1930s. What?
What city in upstate New York was the birthplace of Kodak, Xerox and Bausch & Lomb?
When he vanished in New Guinea on an anthropology project in 1961, his father was governor of New York, and his great-grandfather had been an oil tycoon. Who was he?
What whaler had a red star tattoo on his hand, which became the symbol of his store?
When this city was trendy in the 1990s, it was home to Microsoft, Amazon.com, Nintendo, Boeing, Nordstrom and Starbucks. What is it?
If you're a numismatist with lots of valuable old coins in your collection, you'd be rich as Croesus. In fact, where Croesus issue the world's first coins?
When would you be charged an agio?
What president opposed 1908 legislation to put "In God We Trust" on all US coins, feeling that it was blasphemous?
In the 1860s, where did Philip Morris run a tobacco shop in which he sold his hand-rolled cigarettes?
Because it is ever-so-slightly heavier, which side of a penny is actually slightly more like to land face up?
What US President's portrait is found on the quarter coin and the one dollar bill?
Americans use dollars. What do Britons use?
How often do publically traded companies announce their earnings?
What corporation once used the motto, "You press the button, we do the rest"?
William Lear of jet fame helped invent what automotive item, on which Motorola built its business?
In Blue Earth, Minnesota, there is a 55-foot statue of what advertising icon?
Before a wave of mergers, what professional field was ruled by the Big Eight: Arthur Andersen; Coopers and Lybrand; Deloitte Haskins and Sells; Ernst and Whinney; Peat Marwick Mitchell; Price Waterhouse; Touche Ross; and Arthur Young?
In 1909, the ILGWU led the "Uprising of the 20,000," in which female workers in what New York industry rose up against oppressive work conditions?
Samsung is one of the largest chaebol, or family conglomerates, in what country?
Karl Schwarzler developed a plan that allows corporations to rent out the entirety of what country, even to extent of branding major buildings?
What "Host of the Highways" was once known for its orange roofs?
What imaginary creature's name has been used for many products, including a pizza, a skateboard, an Internet search engine and a monster truck?
What Sony videotape standard was chased out of the market, in part because the technically inferior VHS cornered the market in porn?
Minnesota hockey player Scott Olson launched what company after fiddling around with some wheels?
In 1961, Procter and Gamble introduced what shampoo, which used zinc pyrithione to stop the excess cell growth on our scalps that leads to dandruff?
In 2005, who became the first Canadian to appear on a general-circulation coins?
Just outside of Beaumont is an oil field called Spindletop, which in 1901 became the first major oil field in the United States. Where is it?
What Seattle-based company was known as B&W and as Pacific Aero Products before adopting its current name (more or less) in 1917?
In 1914, who cut the workday from 9 to 8 hours and raised daily pay from $2.34 to $5, but only for workers whose morals passed muster with the company's Sociological Department?
With the press watching, what company sent its "Service Department" to beat male (and female) UAW pamphleteers in the "Battle of the Overpass" in 1937?
In a $12.3 billion deal, Kmart merged with what other failing retailer?
Cyrus Harvey named his company for two Englishman: a 17th-century English conservationist named John and an 18th-century horticulturalist named George. What company?
The name of what African nation is also two brands of soap?
At 2.268 grams, which US coin is lightest?
The longest standing sponsor, what company has been sponsoring the Olympics since the 1928 Amsterdam games?
Until the 1800s, what country held a world monopoly on diamonds, which were set into the Peacock Throne on which its Mogul emperor sat?
In 1866, some farm children in the Orange Free State set off a diamond rush when they found a 22.5-carat hunk in what present-day country, which thanks to De Beers now controls the world diamond trade?
For a mere 6,300, Cecil Rhodes bought the Kimberley mine from under the two Afrikaner brothers, Johannes and Diedrich, for whom what company is now named?
What company, which insists that "diamonds are forever," was caught funding African warlords by buying conflict diamonds?
Tired of dealing with forgetful husbands, the American National Jewelers' Association adopted a system for this, which the British adapted in the 1930s. What?
What city in upstate New York was the birthplace of Kodak, Xerox and Bausch & Lomb?
When he vanished in New Guinea on an anthropology project in 1961, his father was governor of New York, and his great-grandfather had been an oil tycoon. Who was he?
What whaler had a red star tattoo on his hand, which became the symbol of his store?
When this city was trendy in the 1990s, it was home to Microsoft, Amazon.com, Nintendo, Boeing, Nordstrom and Starbucks. What is it?