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40 free Target trivia questions with answers. Target is the discount store people pretend is a boutique, and there is a real history behind the joke: a Minneapolis dry-goods company started beside a burned-down church, a discount spin-off deliberately named to hide its parentage, a mascot played by a rotating cast of female bull terriers, and a run of designer collaborations that made 'cheap chic' a thing. This quiz covers the founding and the Dayton family, the logo and the dog, the store formats from SuperTarget to CityTarget, the REDcard, the Starbucks counters, the 2013 data breach, the two-year Canadian disaster, the sports naming rights and the odder corners like Target's forensic labs. About a third of the questions are easy for anyone who shops there; the rest suit a retail buff. Every answer has been checked against a primary source, mostly Wikipedia's Target articles, and each question shows its citation.
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Q 01In which city is Target Corporation headquartered?
Minneapolis
Its downtown headquarters complex, built for about $260 million, houses roughly 6,000 office employees.
Q 02What is the name of Target's dog mascot?
Bullseye
The role is always played by female bull terriers, with the logo painted around the left eye in non-toxic make-up.
Q 03Target's canine mascot is what breed of dog?
Bull terrier
The original, an AKC champion nicknamed 'Smudgie', debuted in a 1999 commercial; several dogs share the part today.
Q 04Where and when did the first Target store open?
Roseville, Minnesota, 1962
By the end of that first year there were four stores, all in Minnesota; the original site is now a SuperTarget.
Q 05Target began as a discount offshoot of which Minnesota department-store company?
Dayton's
George Dayton got into retail in 1902 by building a store for the Goodfellow Dry Goods company; the parent was renamed Target Corporation in 2000.
Q 06Why was the new discount chain given a name and logo unconnected to the company that owned it in 1962?
To hide its department-store roots
Publicity director Stewart Widdess came up with 'Target'; Douglas Dayton was its first president.
Q 07The company that became Target was founded in 1902 under what name?
Goodfellow Dry Goods
It became Dayton's Dry Goods in 1903 and the Dayton Company in 1910; the department store had started as a tenant in a building George Dayton put up beside his church.
Q 08What does Target call its customers, a habit borrowed from Disney in 1989?
Guests
Employees are 'Team Members' and supervisors 'Team Leaders'.
Q 09The joke pseudo-French pronunciation 'Tar-zhay' is first recorded in which year?
1962
That was the year the very first store opened; Target later leaned in with a 'Targét Couture' line.
Q 10Which architect designed the Washington Monument's restoration scaffolding, then Target's first designer line in 1999?
Michael Graves
Target had also contributed $6 million to the monument's restoration; the housewares line launched the 'cheap chic' strategy.
Q 11Target's slogan pairs 'Expect More' with what?
Pay Less
The company is known for trend-forward merchandise at discount prices, which is the whole idea behind the line.
Q 12What discount did Target's REDcard introduce on every purchase in 2010?
5%
The 5% discount launched in October 2010 and carried over to the renamed Circle Card; the debit version pulls straight from a checking account, and TD Bank issues the credit cards through 2030.
Q 13Roughly how many customers were affected by Target's December 2013 data breach?
Up to 110 million
Encrypted PIN data was among what was stolen; the chief information officer resigned the following March.
Q 21Target Field, opened in 2010, is the home ballpark of which Major League Baseball team?
Minnesota Twins
It sits in the historic warehouse district of downtown Minneapolis.
Q 22The Dayton family tradition, later followed by Target, was to give what share of taxable income to charity?
5%
It inspired the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce's '5% Club'; Forbes once ranked Target the highest cash-giving company in America by percentage of income.
Q 23Which department-store chains did Target Corporation sell off in 2004 to focus on its discount stores?
Marshall Field's and Mervyn's
Q 14Target expanded into which country in 2013, only to close all 133 stores by April 2015?
Canada
It took over former Zellers leases, lost $2.1 billion, and was called 'a gold standard case study in what retailers should not do'.
Q 15Which coffee chain's counters became a Target fixture through a partnership expanded in 2003?
Starbucks
Many stores also have Pizza Hut Express counters in the snack bar.
Q 16Which pharmacy chain bought Target's in-store pharmacies and clinics in 2015 for about $1.9bn?
CVS Health
More than 1,600 Target pharmacies were rebranded, and the clinics became MinuteClinics.
Q 17The first SuperTarget hypermarket, with a full grocery department, opened in 1995 in which city?
Omaha, Nebraska
It built on the 'Target Greatland' format launched in Apple Valley, Minnesota, in 1990.
Q 18Target's grocery-expansion store prototype introduced in 2008 was called what?
PFresh
It boosted grocery selection in ordinary stores by more than 200%, and garden centres were closed in 2010 to make room.
Q 19Which grocery-delivery start-up did Target acquire in December 2017 for more than half a billion dollars?
Shipt
Shipt is based in Birmingham, Alabama, and still runs as an independent subsidiary.
Q 20Target owns the naming rights to the home arena of which NBA team?
Minnesota Timberwolves
Target Center opened in 1990; the company also bought naming rights to the Twins' ballpark, Target Field, which opened in 2010.
Marshall Field's went to May Department Stores; Mervyn's fetched $1.65 billion from an investor group.
Q 24A 2012 New York Times story revealed Target's data model spotted a customer was what before her father knew?
Pregnant
The father complained about pregnancy coupons sent to his teenage daughter, then discovered they were accurate.
Q 25A 2006 Washington Post report revealed Target runs two of what unusual facilities?
Forensics laboratories
They have assisted the FBI, the Secret Service and the ATF on cases unrelated to shoplifting.
Q 26Which online retailer ran Target.com's fulfilment and customer service from 2002 to 2011?
Amazon
Target broke away on August 23, 2011, after deciding to build its own site.
Q 27Some Target stores near major airports have what painted on their roofs?
The bullseye logo
The Inglewood store by LAX goes further, with an LED bullseye made of solar panels.
Q 28What was Target's first in-house charge product, launched in 1995, called?
Guest Card
By 1998 it had nine million accounts, and a Target Visa followed for shoppers who preferred bank cards.
Q 29Which retailer offered to buy Target's parent company for $6.82 billion in the 1990s and was rebuffed?
J. C. Penney
Penney was then the fifth-largest US retailer, Dayton-Hudson the fourth; analysts thought the offer too low.
Q 30Target's parent gained the 'Hudson' half of its 1969 name by merging with a department store from which city?
Detroit
J. L. Hudson's flagship in Detroit made the combined firm the 14th-largest US retailer; the Hudson's stores were renamed Marshall Field's in 2001.