Monday (no.com)
Website Development
HR? Boring.
We Heard.
CIA
Project Peony
400

Monday, July 1 1907: This company changed Valentine’s Day forever by manufacturing kisses for the first time.

What is Hershey’s Chocolate company?

400

The founder of this famous dating site, Gary Kremen, lost his girlfriend to a man she met on the site he created.

What is match.com?

400

This company takes the slogan “the customer is always right” to another level by not allowing their employees to correct customers. So if you want to call it an izzy-phone or make-book, go ahead.

What is Apple? 

400

This person said: “You should really hire someone who knows something about that.”

Who is Stephanie? 

400

This President created the CIA and National Security Act in 1947. It really was his show.

Who is Truman? 

400

During food shortages of World War II, this flower’s bulbs were eaten to help curb hunger

What are tulips? 

800

Monday, October 16, 1950: Closets everywhere became magical places after this book, written by C.S. Lewis was published.

What is the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe?

800

In 2012, this pizza chain’s website was taken down by a hacker group who claimed the company had taken “2 hours longer than expected to deliver their food.”

What is Papa John's?

800

This smelly clothing company had very specific looks required for employees. Acceptable hair must appear “sunkissed” with “subtle highlighting”.

What is Abercrombie & Fitch?

800

This person said, “Creativity needs to have failures. And that’s a failure"?

Who is Becca? 

800

This coffee chain’s store number one serves the CIA headquarters… but they can’t ask customers for names to write on the side of the cup.

What is Starbucks? 

800

This flower’s color is determined by the acidity of the soil its planted in.

What are hydrangeas? 

1200

Monday, February 14, 2005: The world no longer had to imagine their days without videos of  cats riding vacuum cleaners, because this online video platform was born.

What is Youtube?

1200

This website is one of the oldest on the internet and began in 1990 as a list of “actresses with beautiful eyes.” Going beyond eyes, it now displays facts about many entertainers.

What is IMDb? 

1200

The happiest place on earth? Until 2001 employees playing the same character at this theme park  had to share every detail of costumes - including undergarments!

What is Disney World?

1200

This person said, “And then the kids get plugged into the W W W.”

Who is Brandon? 

1200

The ending of the book 1984, written by this author, was changed in the movie production. That’s because the CIA actually bought the rights to the book secretly after the author’s death. This is still controversial.

Who is George Orwell? 

1200

The roots of these flowers were used to help clean up water contamination after the Chernobyl disaster because they remove up to 95% of radioactivity. Seeds and selfies aren’t the only thing they’re famous for!

What are sunflowers? 

1600

Although the fateful event that caused the tragedy occurred on Sunday, this boat didn’t sink until the next day, Monday April 15, 1912.

What is the Titanic?

1600

The original name of this now widely used and famous website was Backrub.

What is Google? 

1600

This online shoe retailer has a clause that allows them to fire any employee, no questions asked, as long as they pay a $3,000 severance

What is Zappos? 

1600

This person was overheard saying, "This is why I don't like people as friends." 

Who is Bridget? 

1600

The headquarters of the CIA are in this Virginia town.

What is Langley, VA? 

1600

Vegetable? Nope. This plant, eaten as a vegetable, is actually a flower that is harvested before buds are fully open.

What is broccoli?

2000

Monday, May 17, 1954: The U.S. Supreme Court announces one of its biggest civil rights decisions in Brown v. Board of Education, effectively ending this in public schools.

What is segregation? 

2000

elgoog.com (google backwards) has a huge following in this country because search results are given backwards, avoiding detection by the government’s search filters.

What is China? 

2000

This baseball team expressly forbids any facial hair, mutton chops, or sideburns  besides mustaches. So much for the freedom implied in their name.

Who are the Yankees? 

2000

This person said, "I want to show you something and then I’ll stop wasting your time. Look at how neat I can write”. 

Who is Keith? 

2000

During the secret operation Project Bluebird, the CIA famously experimented with mind control. Later it was revealed they dosed around 7,000 military personnel with this drug - without their consent.

What is LSD? 

2000

This nobleman is paid one daffodil a year as rent for his lands on the Island of Scilly and off the coast of Cornwall. Surprisingly he is not paid in camellias.

Who is Prince Charles? 

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