Q 01/05
A) Integrated Binary Machines
B) International Business Machines
C) Industrial Business Manufacturing
D) International Bureau of Mechanics
Answer · why
The name had first been used by the company's Canadian division before it was adopted for the whole firm in 1924.
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) American Tabulating Machines
B) Hollerith Electric Company
C) United Business Machines
D) Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company
Answer · why
Charles Ranlett Flint merged four companies making scales, time clocks, tabulators and meat slicers.
Q 05/05
A) 1911
B) 1924
C) 1933
D) 1945
Answer · why
Thomas Watson Sr. hated the clumsy hyphenated name.
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