Q 01/05

What color were the original Post-it Notes?

A) Light blue

B) Canary yellow

C) Pale pink

D) Mint green

Answer · why

B) Canary yellow

Canary yellow was an accident: the lab next door to the Post-it team at 3M happened to have scrap paper of that shade, so the first notes were made on...

Q 02/05

What did the three Ms in 3M originally stand for?

A) Modern Milling and Manufacturing

B) Michigan Machines and Materials

C) Midwest Metals and Minerals

D) Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing

Answer · why

D) Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing

Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing began in 1902 at Two Harbors, Minnesota, trying to mine corundum; it failed and pivoted to sandpaper, tape and even...

Q 03/05

US Labor Day, first celebrated with a New York City parade in 1882, falls on the first Monday of which month?

A) November

B) September

C) August

D) October

Answer · why

B) September

September; the first parade, on September 5, 1882, was organized by the Central Labor Union.

Q 04/05

International Workers' Day on 1 May commemorates the 1886 Haymarket affair, a rally for the eight-hour day, in which US city?

A) Detroit

B) Pittsburgh

C) Chicago

D) New York

Answer · why

C) Chicago

Chicago: after a bomb broke up the Haymarket rally, four defendants were hanged, and in 1893 Illinois governor John Peter Altgeld pardoned the survivo...

Q 05/05

Which carmaker switched its factory workers to a five-day, 40-hour week in 1926?

A) Studebaker

B) General Motors

C) Chrysler

D) Ford

Answer · why

D) Ford

Ford: Henry Ford said it was 'high time to rid ourselves of the notion that leisure for workmen is either lost time or a class privilege.'