Question: Independent advertisements generally contained what phrase?
Answer: "[Organization name] is responsible for the content of this advertisement"

Question: What was the tag line requirement before?
Answer: Previously, television advertisements only required a written "paid for by" disclaimer on the screen.

Question: What action suggested by a state, would have affecting the outcome of the electoral votes?
Answer: ballot initiative in Colorado, known as Amendment 36

Question: What unique change to the electoral voting process did Colorado suggest should happen?
Answer: under the amendment Colorado would have assigned presidential electors proportionally to the statewide vote count, which would be a unique system

Question: Which two states designated their assigned votes based on their districts?
Answer: Nebraska and Maine assign electoral votes based on vote totals within each congressional district)

Question: Did everyone agree that Amendment 36 was a good idea?
Answer: Detractors claimed that this splitting would diminish Colorado's influence in the Electoral College

Question: Did Amendment 36 get passed?
Answer: the amendment ultimately failed

Question: What was the original name of IBM?
Answer: Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company

Question: What does IBM stand for?
Answer: International Business Machines

Question: In what year was CTR created?
Answer: 1911

Question: What was the unofficial name given to IBM by analysts?
Answer: Big Blue

Question: Who created the IBM name?
Answer: Thomas J. Watson

Question: In what year did the company that was to become IBM form?
Answer: 1911

Question: What was the name of the company that eventually became IBM?
Answer: Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR)

Question: In what year did IBM get its name?
Answer: 1924

Question: What nickname was given to IBM?
Answer: Big Blue

Question: What is one parent company of the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company?
Answer: Computing Scale Company

Question: How many employees did IBM have in 2012?
Answer: 435,000 worldwide

Question: What was the ranking in terms of market cap for IBM in 2012?
Answer: fourth largest

Question: In 2011 Forbes, by revenue, ranked IBM at what rank globally?
Answer: 31st largest

Question: At what rank was IBM rated as a global brand by Interbrand?
Answer: №2

Question: In 2012 Fortune ranked the largest US firms by number employees, what was IBMs rank?
Answer: second largest

Question: Under what name do research laboratories operated by IBM work under?
Answer: IBM Research

Question: How many research labs does IBM have world wide?
Answer: 12 research laboratories worldwide

Question: In 2013 how many years had IBM generated the most patents by a business?
Answer: 22 consecutive years

Question: How many Nobel Prizes have been won by IBM employees?
Answer: five Nobel Prizes

Question: This IBM invention is known by the acronym UPC, what is the full name?
Answer: Universal Product Code

Question: What was IBM's operating margin in 2004?
Answer: 16.8%

Question: What were the net profit margins of IBM in 2004?
Answer: 9.0%

Question: IBM's net profit margins were 16.5% in what year?
Answer: 2013

Question: IBM's operating margin in 2013 was what?
Answer: 24.3%

Question: IBM focusing on markets like business continuity, business intelligence, security, and cloud computing is an example of IBM doing what?
Answer: exiting commoditizing markets

Question: In what year did IBM acquire Kenexa?
Answer: 2012

Question: IBM made an acquisition in 2009, name it.
Answer: SPSS

Question: IBM span off its printer manufacturer in 1991, what was its name?
Answer: Lexmark

Question: IBM sold two product lines to Lenovo, name them.
Answer: personal computer and x86 server

Question: What was the name of the company that IBM Micro Electronics was offloaded to?
Answer: GlobalFoundries

Question: On what date did the companies that became the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company get consolidated?
Answer: June 16, 1911

Question: Name the individual that consolidated the companies that were to become the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company.
Answer: Charles Ranlett Flint

Question: In what year did the companies owned by Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company finally integrate?
Answer: 1933

Question: Where was the CTR Business office?
Answer: Endicott

Question: In 1933 the four companies owned by CTR had how many employees?
Answer: 1,300 employees

Question: In what year did Thomas J. Watson, Sr. join CTR?
Answer: 1914

Question: Thomas J. Watson Sr. was fired from what company?
Answer: National Cash Register Company

Question: What was the favorite slogan of Thomas J. Watson Sr.?
Answer: THINK

Question: The revenues did what under the first 4 years of Watson being president?
Answer: more than doubled to $9 million

Question: The name International Business Machines was first used in what year?
Answer: 1917

Question: What what was the name of the subsidiary working in Germany during World War 2?
Answer: Dehomag

Question: Records for how many people were maintained by IBM in 1937?
Answer: 26 million

Question: What service did IBM provide for the Nuremberg Trials?
Answer: translation services

Question: What year did IBM open its first office in Bahrain?
Answer: 1947

Question: What was the eventual name of the company that IBM operated in Saudi Arabia?
Answer: Saudi Business Machines

Question: Thomas Watson Sr. stepped down in what year?
Answer: 1952

Question: In 1956 the company demonstrated the first example of what?
Answer: artificial intelligence

Question: What computer did Arthur L. Samuel program to play checkers in 1957?
Answer: an IBM 704

Question: In 1957 the FORTRAN language was created, what is FORTRAN short for?
Answer: FORmula TRANslation

Question: In 1961 who became the president of IBM?
Answer: Albert L. Williams

Question: One company that IBM acquired in 2002 is?
Answer: PwC consulting

Question: In 2003 IBM hosted an online discussion with how many employees?
Answer: 50,000 employees

Question: What technology did IBM use for its 2003 internet-based discussion?
Answer: Jam technology

Question: What did IBM use to analyze the results from the online discussion?
Answer: eClassifier

Question: How many employees took part in the subsequent online discussion in 2004?
Answer: 52,000 employees

Question: IBM sold its personal computer business to what company?
Answer: Lenovo

Question: In what year did IBM sell its personal computer business?
Answer: 2005

Question: What was the design for low cost data encryption named?
Answer: Secure Blue

Question: SPSS Inc. was acquired in what year?
Answer: 2009

Question: This program was awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
Answer: Blue Gene

Question: IBM acquired digital assets of this company on October 28, 2015.
Answer: The Weather Company

Question: What will IBM use to analyze weather and make predictions?
Answer: Watson

Question: When did the sale of Weather Company assets close?
Answer: January 29, 2016

Question: The Weather Channel entered into what with IBM?
Answer: long-term licensing agreement

Question: Bain Capital is a holding company of which company?
Answer: The Weather Company

Question: IBM has how many members on its Board of Directors?
Answer: 14

Question: What board member resigned in November 2010?
Answer: Cathie Black's

Question: What year did William R. Brody join the IBM Board of Directors?
Answer: '07

Question: Kenneth Chenault is affiliated with what company?
Answer: American Express

Question: Who is the most recent member to join the IBM Board of Directors?
Answer: Andrew N. Liveris

Question: How large of a drop in sales did IBM report for fiscal year 2013?
Answer: 5% drop

Question: What date did IBM announce that its executives would forgo bonuses for fiscal year 2013?
Answer: January 21, 2014

Question: IBM committed to an expansion totaling this dollar amount in 2014?
Answer: $1.2bn