TEN!, Week One, Thursday

[Pastor Fireball]

Last category of the week, with the first of four general knowledge quizzes coming tomorrow.

BUSINESS & INDUSTRY

No money on offer here. Just points. Deadline is Saturday at 6 PM Eastern... though the answers won't be posted until much later as one of my closest friends and I will be checking out the Tupac Shakur biopic "All Eyez on Me", which opens nationwide tomorrow. (Yes, I know that comment should have introduced the movie round on Monday. So sue me. I dare you.)

1. In 2015, AT&T was removed from the Dow Jones Industrials Average after 99 years. What company replaced it?
A. Progressive
B. CVS
C. Apple
D. Facebook

2. One of the most powerful women in the world, Indra Nooyi has been the CEO of what company since 2006?
A. Pepsi
B. Costco
C. IBM
D. Ford

3. What was the name of the accounting firm that infamously helped cook the books for one-time energy giant Enron?
A. Deloitte & Touche
B. Crowe Horwath
C. Arthur Andersen
D. Armitage & Norton

4. Everybody should be familiar with the commercial catchphrase, "Think with your dipstick, Jimmy!" But what brand of motor oil was actually peddled in that popular commercial?
A. Valvoline
B. Castrol
C. Quaker State
D. Pennzoil

5. What is mined at Yeelirrie in Australia?
A. Diamonds
B. Copper
C. Uranium
D. Platinum

6. What video game character lends its name to a form of business acquisition?
A. Donkey Kong
B. Sonic the Hedgehog
C. Lara Croft
D. Pac-Man

7. What kind of restaurant franchise was established in 1994 by Florida brothers Chris and Robin Sorensen, who each served with the Jacksonville Fire Department?
A. Breakfast diner
B. Sandwich shop
C. All-you-can-eat buffet
D. Sports bar and grill

8. Until 1958, what multibillion-dollar company was known as Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo?
A. Bridgestone
B. Mitsubishi
C. Komatsu
D. Sony

9. By 1913, the Standard Oil monopoly was broken up into 34 smaller companies. Which of these modern oil companies was not a byproduct of Standard Oil?
A. Texaco
B. Marathon
C. Mobil
D. Amoco

BONUS: In a year full of public relations disasters, April 2017 was certainly a hot mess. Drumpf bombed Syria and Afghanistan, then almost started World War III with North Korea. Press Secretary Melissa McCarthy tried to explain why Hitler wasn't so bad. However, this airline company managed to be worse than all of them, when they dragged a Kentucky doctor named David Dao off of a plane in order to seat one of its own employees. Which airline will you probably not be flying again any time soon, lest you get tossed?

[Pastor Fireball]

1. In 2015, AT&T was removed from the Dow Jones Industrials Average after 99 years. What company replaced it?
A. Progressive
B. CVS
C. Apple
D. Facebook

Apple is the fourth NASDAQ-traded company to appear in the NYSE average. Cisco, Intel, and Microsoft are the others.

2. One of the most powerful women in the world, Indra Nooyi has been the CEO of what company since 2006?
A. Pepsi
B. Costco
C. IBM
D. Ford

3. What was the name of the accounting firm that infamously helped cook the books for one-time energy giant Enron?
A. Deloitte & Touche
B. Crowe Horwath
C. Arthur Andersen
D. Armitage & Norton

4. Everybody should be familiar with the commercial catchphrase, "Think with your dipstick, Jimmy!" But what brand of motor oil was actually peddled in that popular commercial?
A. Valvoline
B. Castrol
C. Quaker State
D. Pennzoil

5. What is mined at Yeelirrie in Australia?
A. Diamonds
B. Copper
C. Uranium
D. Platinum

Considering its commodity, it should come as no surprise that Yeelirrie comes from an Aboriginal phrase that means "place of death".

6. What video game character lends its name to a form of business acquisition?
A. Donkey Kong
B. Sonic the Hedgehog
C. Lara Croft
D. Pac-Man

We're talking about the "Pac-Man defense", where a company counters a hostile takeover by attempting to buy out its attacker.

7. What kind of restaurant franchise was established in 1994 by Florida brothers Chris and Robin Sorensen, who each served with the Jacksonville Fire Department?
A. Breakfast diner
B. Sandwich shop
C. All-you-can-eat buffet
D. Sports bar and grill

"Fire Department" were the keywords, as the restaurant is called Firehouse Subs.

8. Until 1958, what multibillion-dollar company was known as Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo?
A. Bridgestone
B. Mitsubishi
C. Komatsu
D. Sony

9. By 1913, the Standard Oil monopoly was broken up into 34 smaller companies. Which of these modern oil companies was not a byproduct of Standard Oil?
A. Texaco
B. Marathon
C. Mobil
D. Amoco

Though Texaco has since merged with Chevron (formerly Standard Oil of California), the Texas Fuel Company was never a part of Standard Oil.

BONUS: In a year full of public relations disasters, April 2017 was an absolute hot mess. Drumpf bombed Syria and Afghanistan, then almost started World War III with North Korea. Press Secretary Melissa McCarthy tried to explain why Hitler wasn't so bad. However, this airline company managed to be worse than all of them, when they dragged a Kentucky doctor named David Dao off of a plane in order to seat one of its own employees. Which airline will you probably not be flying again any time soon, lest you get tossed?

United Airlines

Things certainly haven't gotten any better for the carrier. A few days after that scandal, United was also responsible for the death of a giant bunny named Simon.