Can you name the companies or brands from their generic web site urls?

URL	Company/Brand
www.bleach.com
www.toys.com
www.peanutbutter.com
www.books.com
www.school.com
www.pickles.com
www.baking.com
www.underwear.com
www.towels.com
www.scotch.com
www.sauce.com
www.tires.com

URL	Company/Brand
www.coffee.com
www.soups.com
www.cereals.com
www.motorcycles.com
www.dogfood.com
www.mobile.com
www.toothpaste.com
www.bubblegum.com
www.newton.com
www.network.com
www.burgers.com
www.birthdaycard.com

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Generic URLs Quiz

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Published: April 15th, 2009
Category: Miscellaneous
Plays: 69,942

Tags: Company Quizzes, url, brand, web, site, generic

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	MusicNutMeggie:	Apr 15th, 2009 at 05:01 GMT	21 points
	Definitely turned into a "hmm...what is the name of that OTHER company that makes cereal? No? Uh...how about THIS one?" kind of game, but fun. Just the right amount of time, too!

	Chris:	Apr 15th, 2009 at 05:09 GMT	-3 points
	This is one of the first quizzes I cheated on more than a few times... Like Megan, I kept thinking of brands but just not the correct ones :P

	ku_sucks:	Apr 15th, 2009 at 05:22 GMT	26 points
	i should have realized towels referred to paper towels. i mean, its not like there are any well known towel companies, are there?

	SowCrates:	Apr 15th, 2009 at 05:33 GMT	12 points
	Can't say I did well on this quiz...google search eliminates the need such a stab in the dark as to type something generic in as a URL. Isn't curiosity the only reason you'd ever try typing in something like sauce.com to see where you end up? Also, just how entertaining could "sauce.com" or "towels.com" be in your head before you try it?

	jawa88:	Apr 15th, 2009 at 05:34 GMT	4 points
	yeah....i've never heard of half of these companies.....otherwise awesome quiz!

	AtomicIce:	Apr 15th, 2009 at 05:47 GMT	37 points
	Was anyone else thinking scotch tape when they saw scotch.com? Also, I was thinking it was a cloth towel company, not paper towels. The tires one I should have got right, I've seen ads for them enough times.

	eln77:	Apr 15th, 2009 at 05:50 GMT	2 points
	the towels one I actually got right off the bat. I was definitely thinking 3M for scotch, and had to switch gears a bit on that one. For bubble gum I picked hubba bubba on a lark just because I think it's such a ridiculous name. On network, I thought Cisco at first, but then I remembered Sun's silly "the computer is the network" slogan of a few years back. But yah, lots of clues where I guessed about 5 different companies before getting (or failing to get) the right one.

	pete:	Apr 15th, 2009 at 06:00 GMT	3 points
	maybe take CK for Calvin Klein? granted i was running out of time when I guessed it and probably would have typed the whole thing if i wasn't in panic mode...but ck is a pretty common abbreviation - their main website for underwear is actually cku.com

	dummo:	Apr 15th, 2009 at 06:26 GMT	7 points
	For people who like cheating on sporcle quizzes, that was way to easy (that was a joke)

	Breaker1:	Apr 15th, 2009 at 06:47 GMT	35 points
	On a different but related note, one of my favorite domains owned by a company is 466453.com owned by Google, which they bought so that when someone accidentally forgets to turn on text mode trying to enter google.com on their cell phone, they're still directed to the Google home page.

	davidr:	Apr 15th, 2009 at 06:55 GMT	20 points
	@Breaker1: My favourite is www.ankerfurniture.com , which I saw on the side of a truck a few months ago. It appears to be an entirely legitimate office furniture business; obviously, somebody wasn't thinking too hard (no pun intended). Right up there with the old chestnuts of powergenitalia.com and antiquesexchange.com .

	Breaker1:	Apr 15th, 2009 at 07:02 GMT	24 points
	@davidr: You know what, you reminded me of a few websites I saw on the show QI, such as the fantastic website name for Pen Island ...www.penisland.net ... talk about not thinking hard about a website name

	jaspa:	Apr 15th, 2009 at 07:17 GMT	23 points
	@Breaker1: My favorites are www.speedofart.com, showing the 'speed of art' and www.gotahoe.com, which advertises tourism to Lake Tahoe.

	Lulu:	Apr 15th, 2009 at 07:23 GMT	20 points
	There is also 'Therapist Finder', whose website is www.therapistfinder.com

	Breaker1:	Apr 15th, 2009 at 07:29 GMT	16 points
	I also just remembered the website to find the agent or representative for an actor: www.who represents.com (without the space)

	MrEnglishman:	Apr 15th, 2009 at 08:01 GMT	9 points
	Not the most transatlantic of quizzes. Maybe half of those brands are recognized in the small town east of New York.

	XYlophonetreeZ:	Apr 15th, 2009 at 08:16 GMT	8 points
	Really? No credit for typing out "a-n-d" for Barnes and Noble, instead of writing it with an ampersand?

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	Fenwicky:	Apr 15th, 2009 at 08:39 GMT	8 points
	Is it me or is that quiz reeeeeaaalllllyyyy hard? I kept guessing brands that COULD have used those names, but not the right ones. Got 1, toys r us. i completely sucked at that...

	Edd:	Apr 15th, 2009 at 09:43 GMT	3 points
	Ill have you know Bounty is changing its name to Plenty! WHy, i have no idea.

	davidr:	Apr 15th, 2009 at 11:22 GMT	5 points
	By the way, what's newton.com doing in this quiz? Newton is (or, at least, was until ten years ago) an Apple brand name so their use of it is not generic. If the intended `generic' meaning was the biscuit/cake thing, that fails too because it's a Nabisco trademark.

	alicealice:	Apr 15th, 2009 at 12:43 GMT	3 points
	I think the quiz is great - just the right amount of time :) but some of the answers are a bit picky, like it didn't seem to accept just 'discount tires' or 'peets coffee' which I found a little bit unfair. :/ and @Edd: it's because it 'soaks up plenty of liquid', 'does plenty of jobs', and you can 'rinse and reuse one sheet plenty of times' :P haha, I love that advert

	Tapestry:	Apr 15th, 2009 at 12:47 GMT	0 points
	Got 13 right I was thinking of Vlasic but Claussen owns them. Didn't know HubbaBubba was still around kept thinking Topps baseball cards for bubble gum. Funny how the mind works ;-)

	sub:	Apr 15th, 2009 at 13:31 GMT	0 points
	It didn't accept Johnny Walker, but I like that Wrigley's works instead of Hubba Bubba.

	Giants2082:	Apr 15th, 2009 at 15:21 GMT	2 points
	great quiz! the newton one is very clever.

	Nuclear_Knuckles:	Apr 15th, 2009 at 15:51 GMT	8 points
	I guess I'm retarded...I'm missing the joke in ankerfurniture. I read it over and over and don't see what else it could say. Please help, and downgrade me as you see fit.

	gp2387:	Apr 15th, 2009 at 16:18 GMT	2 points
	most are second/third guesses. interesting.

	BigThing:	Apr 15th, 2009 at 16:20 GMT	3 points
	I was just about to post that, Nuclear_Knuckles. I only got four on this one (toys, underwear, bubblegum and birthdaycard) - misspelled scotch and should obviously have gotten soups from the famous Warhol painting. We do things differently in the Netherlands

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	isaac:	Apr 15th, 2009 at 16:54 GMT	5 points
	@ eboi, the quiz is not about which company is more popular. Its about which company owns the domain. And Knuckles, I'm like you, I don't understand ankerfurniture.

	Breaker1:	Apr 15th, 2009 at 17:22 GMT	5 points
	@Knuckles & isaac: I think the problem is the www comes right before anker, forming the word wanker (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wanker) ... At least I hope that's what davidr meant, otherwise I didn't get the joke either :)

	davidr:	Apr 15th, 2009 at 17:41 GMT	1 point
	@Breaker: That's exactly what I mean. If they hadn't put `www' before `ankerfurniture.com', everything would have been fine.

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	kwelly15:	Apr 15th, 2009 at 19:16 GMT	3 points
	Hardees should be accepted for Carl's Jr.

	Chiaprofessor:	Apr 15th, 2009 at 19:38 GMT	4 points
	A couple of these are way too regional, e.g. Discount Tire, Peets Coffee. And, I never think of Johnie Walker for scotch, I think of it as just whiskey, maybe I don't get out enough.

	davidr:	Apr 15th, 2009 at 20:10 GMT	10 points
	@Selz: I'm as much for inclusivity of the international audience as the next man, woman or child. But in the last three days, there have been quizzes about the Premier League, the BAFTAs and Cannes, none of which is in the USA. There have been quizzes about boxing, the English language, the Lord of the Rings and a song by Madonna (OK, she's American but she's kinda popular in Europe, too). There have been two quizzes about American sports in the last week, when there's normally about one a day. Yes, it's a shame that this quiz consists mainly of US companies that we've not heard of in Europe but it's not like we're short of European or culturally-neutral quizzes at the moment.

	rondo723:	Apr 15th, 2009 at 20:18 GMT	4 points
	I hope Sporcle has some nice advertisement deals set up behind the scenes. Imagine how many people went to all the sites after playing this one!

	MetaphysicalMan:	Apr 15th, 2009 at 20:21 GMT	1 point
	Can someone explain how newton is a generic?

	davidr:	Apr 15th, 2009 at 22:03 GMT	1 point
	@MetaphysicalMan: No. I've already explained how it isn't, in two different ways.

	Kapi:	Apr 15th, 2009 at 22:05 GMT	3 points
	I was so bad at this! I hadn't heard of half those companies ;_; Yes, whoever thought of scotch TAPE, I know where you're coming from...and I just couldn't get my head around the fact cereals.com isn't Kellogs O_o