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Business 120 questions.
Commercial enterprises and their dealings
Pub quiz question 3876 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: What does the C stand for in the business organisation the CBI?
  2. Answer: A: Confederation
  3. Categories: Business (3) Acronyms/Abbreviations (3)
Pub quiz question 4848 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which company was the world's largest producer of cars in 2006?
  2. Answer: A: General Motors
  3. Categories: 2000s (6) Business (6) Science (6) Technology (6)
Pub quiz question 6256 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: What was the 1914 Eagle the first example of from the Rolls-Royce factory?
  2. Answer: A: Aircraft engine
  3. Categories: Travel (6) 1910s (6) Business (6)
Pub quiz question 6572 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which registered brand name is now used for the cotton swabs invented in 1923 by Leo Gerstenzang?
  2. Answer: A: Q-Tips
  3. Categories: Business (3)
Pub quiz question 4271 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: What was the Fyffes Line shipping fleet built to carry?
  2. Answer: A: Bananas
  3. Categories: Business (2) Food (1)
Pub quiz question 6079 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which company's TV advert starring David Tennant was pulled (2012) due to a complaint from the BBC about references to Dr Who?
  2. Answer: A: Virgin Media's
  3. Categories: Current Affairs (5) Television (6) Business (7) Entertainment (7) SciFi (7) Advertising (7)
  4. Times used:
Pub quiz question 9235 by pjh
  1. Question: Q: Which phone producer refuses to allow its products to be used on screen by "the baddies"?
  2. Answer: A: Apple/iPhone
  3. Notes: *: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/26/apple-does-not-let-bad-guys-use-iphones-on-screen
  4. Categories: Film/Movies (4) Computing (4) Business (4)
Pub quiz question 7624 by pjh
  1. Question: Q: What began as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, 1911?
  2. Answer: A: IBM – changed name in 1924.
  3. Categories: Business (5) Acronyms/Abbreviations (5) 1910s (7) 1920s (7)
Pub quiz question 5146 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which British tour operator was taken over by the German company Preussag?
  2. Answer: A: Thompson
  3. Categories: Business (5)
Pub quiz question 4226 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: What did H Cecil Booth invent the first powered example of after watching a device used for blowing dust of train seats?
  2. Answer: A: Vacuum cleaner
  3. Categories: Business (3) Science (3)
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