Current company or brand when given a name it used to go by Quiz

Former Name	Now Known As
Datsun
AuctionWeb
Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web
Stag Party
Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo K.K.
Lucky and Goldstar Co., Ltd.
Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation
Diet Deluxe
Backrub
Marafuku Company
Service Game Company
Brad's Drink
Matsu****a Electric Corporation of America
Quantum Computer Services
Fashion 21
The Haloid Company
DriveUrSelf
Blue Ribbon Sports
Firebird (browser, not car)
Peter's Super Submarines

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What's It Called Now? (Companies) Quiz

by MSUKent

Created Jan 7, 2012 in History
Featured Jan 23, 2012
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	DanUK:	Jan 23rd, 2012 at 05:17 GMT		19 points
	Hmm. I missed Playboy, Pepsi, Subway and Nintendo. My status as a man has just been revoked.

	Rob42:	Jan 23rd, 2012 at 07:33 GMT		12 points
	Fun quiz, but I find the former names of most of these companies amazing.

	EmYanks2001:	Jan 23rd, 2012 at 07:43 GMT		6 points
	google = backrub haahha

	CraigBerger:	Jan 23rd, 2012 at 07:52 GMT		-2 points
	was SURE Matsu****a Electric Corporation was going to be Mattel Electronics...

	Bobman1:	Jan 23rd, 2012 at 08:17 GMT		7 points
	Reminds me of the old SNL skit spoofing the TV ads: "with a name like Smuckers, it's got to be good." With a name like Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation... we haven't got a future.

	mdpaul314:	Jan 23rd, 2012 at 09:07 GMT		19 points
	Yeah, Googling something sounds much better than Backrubbing it.

	Statto2:	Jan 23rd, 2012 at 10:13 GMT		8 points
	I was a little surprised how many people had missed Nissan. Then I realised that, unlike me, many people doing this quiz were not even born when the name changed in the UK and US sometime in the early 80s.

	sufradley:	Jan 23rd, 2012 at 10:31 GMT		7 points
	Can't understand why Marafuku Company felt the need to change...

	Zak6009:	Jan 23rd, 2012 at 11:13 GMT		-3 points
	lol "Matsu****a"... guess we know why they changed that!

	TAR2:	Jan 23rd, 2012 at 11:37 GMT		6 points
	@mdpaul314: I don't know. backrubbing sounds pretty good to me.

	Benjay:	Jan 23rd, 2012 at 11:51 GMT		2 points
	You should probably take "Mozilla Firefox" as well as "Firefox."

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	Evil44:	Jan 23rd, 2012 at 12:28 GMT		1 point
	Interesting. I would also suggest accepting the roman numerals in the answer for Fashion 21, as that is what is displayed on many store signs.

	RockMontage:	Jan 23rd, 2012 at 12:30 GMT		3 points
	Those are some terrible names. I guess people who work in marketing aren't completely useless wastes of life.

	brownstown511:	Jan 23rd, 2012 at 12:39 GMT		1 point
	Great quiz! One I thought would be on here was United Fruit Company = Chiquita Banana

	WyattsTorch:	Jan 23rd, 2012 at 12:42 GMT		1 point
	Of all of these, Hertz has the best chance of successfully re-rebranding itself...

	Blimpyboy:	Jan 23rd, 2012 at 13:44 GMT		2 points
	Actually, I think they all did a pretty good job of successfully re-branding themselves.

	twarner50:	Jan 23rd, 2012 at 13:49 GMT		1 point
	You should probably clarify what you're looking for with Blue Ribbon Sports, because there is a pretty successful line of annual college sports publications released by a company called Blue Ribbon. If anyone is familiar with that company, that could cause confusion. Maybe add a tag that says "(not the sports yearbook company)" or something along those lines, similar to what was done with Firebird? Great quiz regardless.

	Statto2:	Jan 23rd, 2012 at 13:56 GMT		3 points
	@m0ckers - marathon/snickers and opal fruits/starburst are examples of individual products that changed their name rather than brands. Also, I think for each of the examples you gave, the new UK name was one that had previously been used in other countries so therefore they wouldn't be appropriate for this quiz.

	Osiriz:	Jan 23rd, 2012 at 13:56 GMT		0 points
	Wow i was terrible on this one.

	monstro:	Jan 23rd, 2012 at 14:09 GMT		4 points
	I thought maybe "Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo K.K." was the old name of the Nikkei Index. Typed it in--nope. Then I thought maybe I was misspelling it, so just in case I tried "Nikei" instead. And that's how I got Nike.

	bookbomb:	Jan 23rd, 2012 at 14:55 GMT		10 points
	if you dont know the answer backrub it?

	RufusTFirefly:	Jan 23rd, 2012 at 15:03 GMT		1 point
	Huh...I was looking for St. Louis Bread Co. (Panera)

	DragonNo4:	Jan 23rd, 2012 at 15:52 GMT		1 point
	Hertz is where OJ'll pick you up.

	gellchom:	Jan 23rd, 2012 at 16:51 GMT		1 point
	Great idea for a quiz, really fun, and good research on your part. Thanks!

	MasterNachosII:	Jan 23rd, 2012 at 17:27 GMT		6 points
	Considering how influential Nintendo is and has been in the video game industry, it's easy to forget that it was founded in 1889.

	jshorne:	Jan 23rd, 2012 at 17:29 GMT		0 points
	I got Playboy. I'm a subscriber. I like reading the articles.

	Not_Shirley:	Jan 23rd, 2012 at 19:22 GMT		1 point
	Good thing Google changed their name. I can't imagine this happening: Person1: Hey, do you know what the capital of Kyrgyzstan is? Person2: I don't know, just backrub it.

	Tony_A:	Jan 23rd, 2012 at 19:48 GMT		4 points
	Actually, Datsun didn't "become" Nissan. They both co-existed for several years until Nissan disbanded the Datsun brand.

	eab21:	Jan 23rd, 2012 at 20:28 GMT		-4 points
	Well, it's a good thing they changed it to Google. I don't think that I could answer the question "What's the capital of _____?" by saying "I don't know, I'll go Backrub it."

	SexualCamel:	Jan 23rd, 2012 at 20:30 GMT		1 point
	Didn't do so well. Nailed the Stag Party one though!

	eab21:	Jan 23rd, 2012 at 23:20 GMT		2 points
	@Not_Shirley: Sorry, didn't realize I made almost the same comment you did until it was too late.....hangs head in shame

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	aznemesis:	Jan 24th, 2012 at 02:41 GMT		1 point
	"I was a little surprised how many people had missed Nissan. Then I realised that, unlike me, many people doing this quiz were not even born when the name changed in the UK and US sometime in the early 80s." Datsun made me feel nostaligic. I used to ride around in my aunt's ugly little Datsun when I was a kid. I don't think there was a single Datsun model that wasn't completely hideous.

	baltero:	Jan 24th, 2012 at 17:01 GMT		1 point
	This was very entertaining and funny although I didn't know many of them :)