|
|
Fun Business Trivia Questions with Answers. Topics include: Planters Peanuts, Gillette, Hershey's Chocolate Kisses, Ford Motor Company, Burpee Mail-order Catalog and More!Business Trivia: Burpee, Ford Motor, Hershey's, Planters, Gillette, Ladies Home Journal, and more. |
|
Fun business trivia questions with answers about Hershey's, Burpee, Ford Motor Company, Gillette Razors, and more.Fun trivia questions and answers - business. What enduring advertising symbol was created by a Virginia
schoolboy as part of a drawing competition held in 1916? 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? What was the name of the first major deodorant company in the
United States? What actress was billed as "Miss Deepfreeze" when she toured the
country demonstrating refrigerators? 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? "She kissed the hairbrush by mistake. She though it was her
husband Jake." What is the origin of this rhyme? All automaker Henry Ford's cars were black until 1925, when he
introduced two new colors. What were they? What are the street lights in Hershey, Pennsylvania designed to
look like? What U.S. department store was the first to install electric
lighting? What was sold in the Burpee mail-order catalog when it was
introduced by 17-year old Washington Atlee Burpee in 1876? What product used Bobby Darin's 1958 hit song "Splish Splash" in
its commercials? 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? 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? Where did Uniroyal get the steel frame for the 80-foot tall tire
that stands near Detroit's Edsel Ford Freeway? What was unusual about the Sexto-Auto manufactured by the
Reeves Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Indiana, in 1912? The Ford Motor Company manufactured one million cars for the
first time in 1922. In what year did it hit the two-million mark? What were Kleenex tissues marketed as when the were first
introduced in 1924?
Free Trivia Quizzes
|
|
|