Q 01/05
A) Integrated Binary Machines
B) International Business Machines
C) Industrial Business Manufacturing
D) International Bureau of Mechanics
Answer · why
International Business Machines: under Thomas J. Watson Sr., the company's revenue doubled within four years of his arrival.
Q 02/05
A) Big Iron
B) The Machine
C) Old Blue
D) Big Blue
Answer · why
It comes partly from the blue logo and partly from the old dress code of white shirts and blue suits.
Q 03/05
A) Endicott, New York
B) Palo Alto, California
C) Armonk, New York
D) Boston, Massachusetts
Answer · why
The company operates in over 175 countries and is one of the 30 stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
Q 04/05
A) Universal Tabulator Company
B) Consolidated Time and Scale Company
C) Standard Recording Company
D) Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company
Answer · why
Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company: the financier Charles Ranlett Flint engineered the 1911 merger that created it.
Q 05/05
A) Britain
B) Canada
C) Germany
D) Brazil
Answer · why
Canada: once the company had expanded abroad, Watson took that more expansive name for the whole firm.
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