#3740, aired 2000-12-01 | CORPORATE AMERICA $100: In 1998 Georgia teen Mike Cameron got suspended for wearing this rival's T-shirt on "Coke in Education Day" Pepsi Cola |
#3740, aired 2000-12-01 | CORPORATE AMERICA $200: In a 1997 agreement this brand became "The Official Skate of New York City Parks" Rollerblade |
#3740, aired 2000-12-01 | CORPORATE AMERICA $300: In 1998 former Clinton economic advisor Laura Tyson became Bankamerica dean at this oldest UC campus UC-Berkeley |
#3740, aired 2000-12-01 | CORPORATE AMERICA $400: In 2000 the town of Halfway, Oregon renamed itself this, after a website with discounts of at least 50% Half.com |
#3740, aired 2000-12-01 | CORPORATE AMERICA $500: According to the World Almanac, U.S. enrollment in these medical "organizations" grew tenfold from 1976 to 1998 HMOs (Health Maintenance Organizations) |
#3614, aired 2000-04-27 | CORPORATE AMERICA $200: In 1994 Viacom acquired Paramount & this corporation where you may be asked, "Be Kind, Please Rewind" Blockbuster |
#3614, aired 2000-04-27 | CORPORATE AMERICA $600: The first McDonald's was in California; the second, in this state, now home to the corporate headquarters Illinois |
#3614, aired 2000-04-27 | CORPORATE AMERICA $800: The Canadian arm of this Pennsylvania corporation makes Eat-More Candy Hershey's |
#3614, aired 2000-04-27 | CORPORATE AMERICA $1000: This Auburn Hills, Michigan-based company is the nation's third-largest auto maker Daimler Chrysler |
#2847, aired 1997-01-07 | CORPORATE AMERICA $100: While Alco Standard distributes paper products, ALCOA is known for products made of this material Aluminum |
#2847, aired 1997-01-07 | CORPORATE AMERICA $200: In 1995 this fast food division of Pepsico, Inc. introduced a "stuffed crust" product Pizza Hut |
#2847, aired 1997-01-07 | CORPORATE AMERICA $300: This bookstore chain founded by Larry Hoyt in 1933 was named for an inspirational pond Waldenbooks |
#2847, aired 1997-01-07 | CORPORATE AMERICA $400: This media company's NYSE symbol is TWX Time Warner |
#2847, aired 1997-01-07 | CORPORATE AMERICA $500 (Daily Double): Named for the Mississippi area it served, this airline began in 1924 as a crop-dusting service Delta Airlines |
#2840, aired 1996-12-27 | CORPORATE AMERICA $100: This duplication company's New York Stock Exchange symbol is XRX Xerox |
#2840, aired 1996-12-27 | CORPORATE AMERICA $200: In 1994 this company launched Winterfresh, its first sugar-based chewing gum in almost 20 years Wrigley |
#2840, aired 1996-12-27 | CORPORATE AMERICA $300: In 1995 it became the only U.S.-based express service with direct flights to China Federal Express |
#2840, aired 1996-12-27 | CORPORATE AMERICA $400: This toy retailer opened its first franchise store in Dubai, United Arab Emirates in 1995 Toys R Us |
#2840, aired 1996-12-27 | CORPORATE AMERICA $500: Hoover's Handbook says this South Dakota mail-order computer firm is the USA's fastest-growing company Gateway 2000 |
#2816, aired 1996-11-25 | CORPORATE AMERICA $200: In the 1970s, its ads called it "The Great American Shoe Store" Kinney Shoes |
#2816, aired 1996-11-25 | CORPORATE AMERICA $400: In 1984 this American company introduced its first minivan Chrysler |
#2816, aired 1996-11-25 | CORPORATE AMERICA $600: Intuit's Checkbook program; it was first worked out in a dorm at Stanford in 1983 Quicken |
#2816, aired 1996-11-25 | CORPORATE AMERICA $800: These brothers, William & Andrew, became known as "Trade" & "Mark", the words under their pictures on the box the Smith Brothers |
#2816, aired 1996-11-25 | CORPORATE AMERICA $1000: This man whose company built the Flamingo & Sahara hotels in Las Vegas opened his first Sun City in 1960 Del Webb |
#1928, aired 1993-01-13 | CORPORATE AMERICA $200: It's the middle name of Aaron Ward, who started a mail-order business in 1872 Montgomery |
#1928, aired 1993-01-13 | CORPORATE AMERICA $400: He bought Walter Jacobs' car rental firm in 1923, sold it to GM in 1925 & bought it back in 1953 John Hertz |
#1928, aired 1993-01-13 | CORPORATE AMERICA $600: The top jeans maker in the U.S. is VF Corporation, VF standing for this lingerie line it owns Vanity Fair |
#1928, aired 1993-01-13 | CORPORATE AMERICA $800: George Bush co-founded Zapata Petroleum, which later merged into this top U.S. motor oil company Pennzoil |
#1928, aired 1993-01-13 | CORPORATE AMERICA $1,300 (Daily Double): In 1934 a Wooster, Ohio company turned from balloons to dustpans under this brand name Rubbermaid |
#1665, aired 1991-11-22 | CORPORATE AMERICA $100: The root beer this pharmacist created in the mid-1800s originally had a low alcohol content Hires |
#1665, aired 1991-11-22 | CORPORATE AMERICA $200: "Two beautifully embossed, chocolate flavored wafers with a rich cream filling", 1st seen in 1912 Oreos |
#1665, aired 1991-11-22 | CORPORATE AMERICA $300: In 1896 Leo Hirschfield "roll"ed some chocolate for this daughter of his Tootsie |
#1665, aired 1991-11-22 | CORPORATE AMERICA $400: Ezra Cornell, who endowed a university in 1865, was the chief stockholder in this telegraph co. Western Union |
#1665, aired 1991-11-22 | CORPORATE AMERICA $500: Pepsi became Pepsico, Inc. when it bought this chip company in 1965 Frito-Lay |
#1200, aired 1989-11-17 | CORPORATE AMERICA $100: Joyce Hall began this Kansas City company selling postcards Hallmark |
#1200, aired 1989-11-17 | CORPORATE AMERICA $200: G.E. was instrumental in starting this communications giant which it bought in 1986 RCA |
#1200, aired 1989-11-17 | CORPORATE AMERICA $300: This company's founder invented condensed milk Borden |
#1200, aired 1989-11-17 | CORPORATE AMERICA $400: Dole is the best-known brand name of this company founded by missionaries in Hawaii Castle & Cooke |
#1200, aired 1989-11-17 | CORPORATE AMERICA $500: This company that sells Kleenex & Huggies was founded in Neenah, Wisc. in 1872 & is still there KImberly-Clark |
#995, aired 1988-12-23 | CORPORATE AMERICA $200: Since 1985 Philip Morris has owned this largest U.S. food company, maker of Jell-O & Kool-Aid General Foods |
#995, aired 1988-12-23 | CORPORATE AMERICA $400: This newspaper deliberately designed its blue and white boxes to look like TV sets USA Today |
#995, aired 1988-12-23 | CORPORATE AMERICA $600: Zale Corporation is the nation's largest chain of stores dealing in this merchandise jewelry |
#995, aired 1988-12-23 | CORPORATE AMERICA $800: In 1938 Pocket Books began publishing paperbacks by issuing this Pearl Buck novel The Good Earth |
#995, aired 1988-12-23 | CORPORATE AMERICA $1000: R. Campeau won a long battle to take over this department store chain that owns Bloomingdale's Federated |
#970, aired 1988-11-18 | CORPORATE AMERICA $100: To promote this park in San Antonio, Southwest Airlines painted a plane to resemble Shamu Sea World |
#970, aired 1988-11-18 | CORPORATE AMERICA $200: Nabisco is hounding the bad doggie breath problem by adding this flavor to its Milk-Bones mint |
#970, aired 1988-11-18 | CORPORATE AMERICA $300: The "Al" in Alcoa stands for this aluminum |
#970, aired 1988-11-18 | CORPORATE AMERICA $400: Automaker whose ad campaign centers around "The heartbeat of America" Chevrolet |
#970, aired 1988-11-18 | CORPORATE AMERICA $500: According to USA Today, 4 of the 5 biggest corporate takeovers in U.S. history were in this industry Oil |
#960, aired 1988-11-04 | CORPORATE AMERICA $200: In December 1987 the Baer brothers of Colorado bought this "Famous" cookie company Famous Amos |
#960, aired 1988-11-04 | CORPORATE AMERICA $400: Procter & Gamble is test marketing this type of product in different colors, pink & blue disposable diapers |
#960, aired 1988-11-04 | CORPORATE AMERICA $600: In '88 this popcorn developer received an honorary doctorate in agriculture from Purdue Orville Redenbacher |
#960, aired 1988-11-04 | CORPORATE AMERICA $800: The Senate's "Bork Bill" aims to bar these businesses from revealing what you rented from them video rentals |
#788, aired 1988-01-27 | CORPORATE AMERICA $200: At a factory in Ocala, Florida, Royal Oak presses out 236,000 of these an hour charcoal briquets |
#788, aired 1988-01-27 | CORPORATE AMERICA $400: The bottling of this is credited with making more millionaires than any other type of product soda pop |
#788, aired 1988-01-27 | CORPORATE AMERICA $600: Miss Skeel's handpainted labels featuring pears, cherries & grapes gave this fabric co. its name Fruit of the Loom |
#788, aired 1988-01-27 | CORPORATE AMERICA $800: Car company which calls its logo a bowtie Chevrolet |
#788, aired 1988-01-27 | CORPORATE AMERICA $1000: His financial wizardry helped create the U.S. Steel, General Electric, & Western Union companies J.P. Morgan |
#736, aired 1987-11-16 | CORPORATE AMERICA $200: First successful 5 & 10; from August '82 to August of '87, it outperformed all other stocks on the Dow Jones Industrial Average Woolworth's |
#736, aired 1987-11-16 | CORPORATE AMERICA $400: This largest U.S. hot dog maker also makes sauerkraut & pickles which can go with the hot dogs Oscar Mayer |
#736, aired 1987-11-16 | CORPORATE AMERICA $600: 1 of the 7 regional phone companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange & commonly called the "Baby Bells" (1 of) Ameritech, Bell Atlantic, BellSouth, NYNEX, Southwestern Bell, Pacific Telesis, or US West |
#736, aired 1987-11-16 | CORPORATE AMERICA $800: On August 19, 1987, the AFL-CIO ended its 10-year old boycott of this Colorado-based company Coors |
#736, aired 1987-11-16 | CORPORATE AMERICA $1000: After creating the US Steel corporation, he went on to head the Bethlehem Steel corporation Charles Schwab |
#633, aired 1987-05-13 | CORPORATE AMERICA $200: For Expo '86, this company built a McBarge, its 1st floating restaurant McDonald's |
#633, aired 1987-05-13 | CORPORATE AMERICA $400: In 1904, it was founded by Amadeo Peter Giannini as the Bank of Italy, but became this in 1930 Bank of America |
#633, aired 1987-05-13 | CORPORATE AMERICA $600: A 3M scientist who sang in his church choir 1st used this lightly glued paper product to mark place in hymnal Post-It |
#633, aired 1987-05-13 | CORPORATE AMERICA $800: Waldenbooks, which recently bought Brentano's, is owned by this #2 U.S. retailer Kmart |
#633, aired 1987-05-13 | CORPORATE AMERICA $1000: In 1895, he led bankers who lent U.S. Treasury $31 million so it didn't need to stop currency redemption (J.P.) Morgan |
#566, aired 1987-02-09 | CORPORATE AMERICA $100: Selling "Little Dot" perfume door-to-door in 1886, Mrs. Albee is considered the 1st of these saleswomen Avon lady |
#566, aired 1987-02-09 | CORPORATE AMERICA $200: Once advertised as "The Slow Ketchup", it now comes in a squeeze bottle Heinz |
#566, aired 1987-02-09 | CORPORATE AMERICA $300: The families of John Knight & Herman Ridder merged their businesses to form a large chain of these newspapers |
#566, aired 1987-02-09 | CORPORATE AMERICA $400: This company holds the patent on marking the sweetener Aspartame until 1992 NutraSweet |
#566, aired 1987-02-09 | CORPORATE AMERICA $500: According to the Fortune 500, this food maker can say, in sales, "We're...#1" Beatrice |
#554, aired 1987-01-22 | CORPORATE AMERICA $200: U.S. corporation earning the largest profit in this computer maker IBM |
#554, aired 1987-01-22 | CORPORATE AMERICA $600: 19th century immigrant Eberhard Faber made his mark in the U.S. as a manufacturer of these pencils |
#554, aired 1987-01-22 | CORPORATE AMERICA $800: Majority of flashlight & radio batteries sold in the U.S. are made by this company Eveready |
#554, aired 1987-01-22 | CORPORATE AMERICA $1000: Aptly enough, 1 of 3 companies currently under contract to bake these is the Little Brownie Company Girl Scout cookies |
#554, aired 1987-01-22 | CORPORATE AMERICA $1,600 (Daily Double): Of hard work, intelligence or knowing right people, more feel this is needed for success, said Newsweek knowing the right people |
#450, aired 1986-05-30 | CORPORATE AMERICA $100: When they pleaded guilty to check-kiting charges in May 1985... people listened E.F. Hutton |
#450, aired 1986-05-30 | CORPORATE AMERICA $200: Publishing firm founded by Bennett Cerf & Donald Klopfer to publish luxury editions of books "at random" Random House |
#450, aired 1986-05-30 | CORPORATE AMERICA $300: The sponsor of "Let's Dance" on NBC Radio in 1934 was this baker, then also known as "N.B.C." National Biscuit Company |
#450, aired 1986-05-30 | CORPORATE AMERICA $400: 3M is offering "blank" video cassettes with this pre-recorded on the tape promos (ads) |
#450, aired 1986-05-30 | CORPORATE AMERICA $500: Some thought WWII-era Levi's were fakes because this was painted on to conserve thread the seam on the pocket (pocket trim) |
#368, aired 1986-02-05 | CORPORATE AMERICA $200: This company's tours became so successful in 1973 it built a simulated chocolate factory Hershey |
#368, aired 1986-02-05 | CORPORATE AMERICA $400: Every year, this company delivers more than a billion packages, more than the Post Office UPS (United Parcel Service) |
#368, aired 1986-02-05 | CORPORATE AMERICA $600: 1980 failure of "Heaven's Gate" led Transamerica to sell this movie company to MGM United Artists |
#368, aired 1986-02-05 | CORPORATE AMERICA $800: Company that is Delaware's largest single employer DuPont |
#368, aired 1986-02-05 | CORPORATE AMERICA $1000: In 1982, this huge city became #1 beer-producing area in U.S. L.A. |
#296, aired 1985-10-28 | CORPORATE AMERICA $100: Castle & Cooke, maker of Dole products, is 4th largest landholder there Hawaii |
#296, aired 1985-10-28 | CORPORATE AMERICA $200: Campbell's #1-selling soup tomato |
#296, aired 1985-10-28 | CORPORATE AMERICA $300: Since it makes this #1 selling candy bar, M&M/Mars "laughs" all the way to the bank Snickers |
#296, aired 1985-10-28 | CORPORATE AMERICA $400: Most stores in chain founded by S.S. Kresge have now taken this terse title Kmart |
#296, aired 1985-10-28 | CORPORATE AMERICA $500: Once notorious for providing strike-breakers, it's still largest armed guard company the Pinkerton Company |
#188, aired 1985-05-29 | CORPORATE AMERICA $100: Recently created "Saturn" is the 1st new nameplate of this automaking giant since 1918 General Motors |
#188, aired 1985-05-29 | CORPORATE AMERICA $200: Toy company whose name is acronym for the Connecticut Leather Company, name it started under Coleco |
#188, aired 1985-05-29 | CORPORATE AMERICA $300: A copy of this best-seller was given for taking a Chrysler test drive in Jan. '85 Iacocca |
#188, aired 1985-05-29 | CORPORATE AMERICA $400: In April '84, this maker of the "Dustbuster" bought G.E.'s small appliance division for $300 million Black & Decker |
#188, aired 1985-05-29 | CORPORATE AMERICA $500: Virgin Air Ways offered a free trip to London to passengers who did this during the flight "entertain" the passengers |
#136, aired 1985-03-18 | CORPORATE AMERICA $200: N.Y. street synonymous with advertising Madison Avenue |