Books
This was the name of the main character in the Roald Dahl book about a chocolate factory.
Who is Charlie?
This “K” Company, founded in Cincinnati, OH in 1883, runs a series of grocery and departmental stores across the United States. These include their own namesake grocery stores, Ralphs, and Food 4 Less.
What is The Kroger Company?
Microsoft reportedly included this one-person card game on its earliest machines because they wanted to calm down users who were intimidated by computers.
What is Solitaire?
Starring Michael Keaton as business mogul Ray Kroc, the 2016 film "The Founder" portrays the origin story of this golden-arches fast-food chain.
What is McDonald's?
The Charlotte Convention Center in North Carolina is home to the hall of fame of this racing association.
What is NASCAR?
This is the name of the donkey in the Winnie the Pooh books.
Who is Eeyore?
The aptly-named Archer Farms is the up-market grocery brand of this U.S. big box store.
What is Target?
This popular operating system, launched in 1991, also has its own mascot, Tux the penguin.
What is Linux?
Outside of its home city, the St. Louis Bread Company is more popularly known as this chain restaurant.
What is Panera?
Later adapted into a 2004 film starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams, this Nicholas Sparks novel tells the love story of a soldier who returns to North Carolina after fighting in World War II.
What is The Notebook?
If you give a mouse a cookie, this is what he will ask for next.
What is milk?
This supermarket chain headquartered in Florida was started by the Jenkins family in 1903 and is the biggest employee-owned company in America.
What is Publix?
When a password is limited strictly to numeric characters, the secret is often referred to as a PIN. This is what that acronym stands for.
What is a Personal Identification Number?
The 2002 Eminem song "Business" is about Eminem's successful partnership with this rapper who went on to found Beats Electronics.
Who is Dr. Dre?
Although the company maintains and distributes many types of open-source software, it is most well-known for its enterprise Linux and virtualization products. This company is headquartered in Raleigh and was purchased by IBM in 2019.
What is Red Hat?
This is where the Wizard lives in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Where is The Emerald City?
This upscale retailer was founded in Austin in 1978 by John Mackey and Renee Lawson. The small store was initially called SaferWay, as a spoof of Safeway.
What is Whole Foods Market?
In an attempt to soften user experience of outages and errors, many websites use "error mascots" (or "fail pets") when things stop working. Famous examples include Twitter's "Fail Whale" and Tumblr's "TumblBeasts". This animal is used for a similar purpose by the browser Google Chrome when it is in offline mode.
What is a T-Rex?
May was a bad month for nationally recognized American brands adversely impacted by the coronavirus. Name either a retailer or automobile industry participant that declared bankruptcy in May 2020.
What is Hertz, JC Penny, J Crew, Neiman Marcus, or Tuesday Morning?
The highest point in North America east of the Mississippi River is found at this alliteratively named North Carolina peak.
What is Mount Mitchell?
In How The Grinch Stole Christmas, this is the name of the town the Grinch steals from.
What is Whoville.
This grocery chain founded by two German brothers in 1946 is known for selling typical supermarket fare at low prices, plus its own custom brands like Grandessa, Millville, Happy Farms, and Simply Nature.
What is Aldi?
This is the color you get if you mix together the two colors that each appear twice in the Google logo.
What is purple?
Employees didn't cheer in 2013 when CEO Marissa Mayer banned remote work at this web services company.
What is Yahoo?
This is the oldest newspaper in North Carolina, first published as the Carolina Observer before changing its name to reflect the city in which it is published.
What is the Fayetteville Observer?