Corporate Pairs Quiz

First	Second	Industry
Abercrombie		clothing
Alexander		food and mixed
Anheuser		beverage
Barnes		retail
Baskin		food
Ben		food
Black		manufacturing
Briggs		manufacturing
Church		household
Deloitte		prof. services
Dun		prof. services
Ernst		prof. services
Faber		publishing
Fisher		toys
Funk		publishing
Goldman		financial
Harley		manufacturing
Hennes		clothing
Hewlett		technology
Ingersoll		industrial
Johnson		household

First	Second	Industry
Lea		food
Lockheed		aerospace
Kimberly		household
Marks		retail
Marsh		financial
McGraw		publishing
Merrill		financial
Mills		publishing
Northrop		aerospace
Pitney		manufacturing
Procter		household
Rand		publishing
Rolls		aerospace
Sears		retail
Schering		pharmaceutical
Sherwin		building
Simon		publishing
Smith		retail
Smith		guns
Tate		food
Taylor		building

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Corporate Pairs Quiz

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Created Feb 4, 2009 in Miscellaneous
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	jmarshallg:	Feb 4th, 2009 at 04:41 GMT		2 points
	This was fairly difficult. I only got 22. Shoulda known Kimberly, Smith and Northrop. Also, it's Anheuser, not Anheiser.

	emh:	Feb 4th, 2009 at 04:46 GMT		22 points
	I though Faber would be Faber-Castell. Never heard of Faber-Faber before.

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	Manders:	Feb 4th, 2009 at 05:10 GMT		3 points
	feels really dumb for missing Hewlett-Packard

	mungar:	Feb 4th, 2009 at 05:27 GMT		3 points
	I'm surprised Lea & Perrins was such a low percentage

	snoozyJ:	Feb 4th, 2009 at 05:27 GMT		0 points
	It is like word association! should I be happy I got 29 or embarrassed? I was surprised there were no fashion houses, and the spelling was really difficult, but otherwise a fun quiz.

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	sjorford:	Feb 4th, 2009 at 08:30 GMT		3 points
	Odd selection - seems like a mixture of US-only, UK-only and worldwide companies. I'm not suprised the success rate is so low.

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	dashoff:	Feb 4th, 2009 at 11:09 GMT		4 points
	I wanted Marks to accept "Morgan". They are a jeweler in the southeast US. Just looked them up, thought it was a bigger company. Oh well. Great (if not difficult) quiz.

	kcap1:	Feb 4th, 2009 at 11:51 GMT		1 point
	That was way harder than I thought it would be. Only got 19. Good thing I live so close to a Northrop office building or I never would have gotten that one.

	davidr:	Feb 4th, 2009 at 12:00 GMT		-2 points
	@pronk: I'm surprised you'd not heard of Northrop-_____ — they built the B-2 Spirit bombers, the Nimitz-class aircraft carriers and many of the US Navy's nuclear subs and they're the world's largest builder of naval vessels. They're a seriously large defense contractor.

	GPS:	Feb 4th, 2009 at 12:10 GMT		0 points
	I couldnt spell the pair for "Funk" although I knew it. Im also kicking myself for missing "Harley" (duhh) and I should have gotten the one for "Rand".

	Kamara853:	Feb 4th, 2009 at 12:22 GMT		2 points
	I was stuck on R ____ thinking they were just cars....gotta love remembering AFTER you hit the "give up" button.

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	DLJessup:	Feb 4th, 2009 at 12:55 GMT		-1 points
	Argh! Missed two I should have gotten (Dun and Rand) and misspelled two others (Funk (not enough Ls) and Pitney (too many Ls)).

	moegoldberg:	Feb 4th, 2009 at 13:20 GMT		17 points
	I was hoping for dunder-mifflin as a bonus answer

	davidr:	Feb 4th, 2009 at 13:24 GMT		1 point
	@TheBluesMan: Castell might be an alternative but Faber and Faber is a major UK publishing house which also operates in the US (though I have no idea how big it is there).

	RobH:	Feb 4th, 2009 at 13:26 GMT		2 points
	@The Blues Man: Faber-Castell? Never heard of them. Definitely Faber-Faber. Got the definite UK ones, but many of these I've never even heard of.

	Booger:	Feb 4th, 2009 at 13:35 GMT		1 point
	An interesting aspect of this list is that while several of the companies started off as the listed pairs, many others paired up as the result of later mergers or acquistions such as Lockheed Martin (was Lockheed and Martin Marietta); Northrop Grumman (they were two separate companies) and Deloitte & Touche - which being hypertechincal, is really Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (Deloitte was by itself, merged with Haskins & Sells and then merged with Touche Ross).

	Michael:	Feb 4th, 2009 at 13:41 GMT		1 point
	Also, Briggs should have 'Riley' as an alternate. Briggs and Riley is one of the nations top luggage manufacturers

	jdawg43:	Feb 4th, 2009 at 14:15 GMT		-2 points
	Where is Pierce & Pierce?

	cassykins:	Feb 4th, 2009 at 14:16 GMT		-1 points
	And here I never knew there was an "s" at the end of Wagnall. You learn something every day!

	banandar123:	Feb 4th, 2009 at 14:29 GMT		-3 points
	Couldn't spell Roebuck for the life of me (Robuck Robuk Reaubuk Reaubuck Roubuck Roubuk) haha...I guess I was making it harder than it really was.

	DWolf:	Feb 4th, 2009 at 14:59 GMT		3 points
	22, and i'm happy with it since I didn't recognize any of the ones I didn't get, except Deloitte, but I've only ever heard the Deloitte half, didn't realize it was a paired name.

	sammyhain2364:	Feb 4th, 2009 at 14:59 GMT		5 points
	The Ben one threw me off as I never thought of trying first names...lol

	Etheridge2:	Feb 4th, 2009 at 15:56 GMT		2 points
	tougher then i thought good quiz

	Lyn_Marie:	Feb 4th, 2009 at 16:25 GMT		1 point
	good quiz. I couldn't spell the Lea one. I thought it was a more complicated spelling. I looked in my pantry and I have two bottles of Worcestershire sauce: Heinz and French's.

	laclasede2010:	Feb 4th, 2009 at 19:49 GMT		1 point
	only knew sears-roebuck thanks to my apush vocab. thanks mr mitchell!

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	Tank:	Feb 4th, 2009 at 20:12 GMT		3 points
	I expected this to be easier, but it was still a fun quiz.

	jayjay:	Feb 4th, 2009 at 20:43 GMT		1 point
	Some of them are US, some are UK and some are international, so it was harder than I thought. Maybe there should be seperate quizzes. Also, I kept thinking I was spelling Castell wrong--turns out it was Faber and Faber.

	DerKomissar:	Feb 4th, 2009 at 21:02 GMT		0 points
	Where's Wells-Fargo?

	springmom:	Feb 4th, 2009 at 22:51 GMT		3 points
	I liked the inclusion of non-US companies! I have traveled enough that many of them were easy, I've actually shopped at one of the stores. Nice quiz! And there are enough left over that there could be a second one quite easily.

	davidr:	Feb 4th, 2009 at 23:30 GMT		4 points
	@Chris: Rolls-_____ Plc makes engines for jet aircraft and ships. They don't make whole planes but they are the world's second biggest builder of jet engines, behind General Electric and ahead of Pratt & Whitney (who could be in a sequel quiz). The luxury car business of the same name was separated off in the 1970s and sold to BMW in 1998.

	rockhopperlad:	Feb 5th, 2009 at 01:38 GMT		5 points
	I got 32. I never heard of some of these. One correction: The correct spelling of the household products company is "Procter & Gamble" with an "E" in "Procter". With an "O", it would go with "Silex".

	NintendoNut777:	Feb 5th, 2009 at 01:41 GMT		0 points
	D'oh (missed barnes and _____)!

	Pi:	Feb 5th, 2009 at 02:27 GMT		-1 points
	Qutie difficult. I hadn't heard of most of these companies and some I just spaced on.

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	americanadian:	Feb 5th, 2009 at 06:29 GMT		2 points
	@Kieran: Rolls Royce has been making aero-engine manufactured products since 1914 and currently have the largest market share of engines for new generation widebodied aircraft (ie. Boeing 747, 777, 787 and Airbus A330, A340, and the A380 behemoth) at 47% of the market.