S17 E6 - You're in Good Company - a podcast by Quiz and Hers

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This week, it’s another classic Q&H word game, because Hallie has written six trivia questions about people and things who share their names with big companies! We also talk classic literature, some spy history, and mythology!


2:14: Q1 (Times & Places): The original surname of what World War I spy is the same as the name of a United States-based digital payments network owned by seven of the largest banks in the country?


9:41: Q2 (Arts & Literature): The chief mate of the Pequod in Moby-Dick has the same name as what world’s largest chain of coffeehouses?


14:05: Q3 (Sports & Games): The largest exporter of beef in the United States, what Fortune 500 company is also the surname of an athlete who became infamous in the late 1990s after mutilating Evander Holyfield?


25:22: Q4 (Movies & TV): The main character in the musical Funny Girl has the same first name as that of what company, officially called the Federal National Mortgage Association?


31:34: Q5 (Everything Else): The name of what company was chosen by founder Phil Knight while at the Temple of Athena in Greece?


35:32: Q6 (Music): What singer/songwriter, known for “Try a Little Tenderness” and “These Arms of Mine” has the same name as a company with the slogan “Made to move you”?


Theme music: "Thinking it Over" by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY 2.0


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