Question: In what year did Columbia Phonography Company form?
Answer: 1888

Question: In what year did ARC take over Columbia Phonography Company?
Answer: 1934

Question: Who bought out ARC?
Answer: Columbia Broadcasting System

Question: In what year was ARC bought?
Answer: 1938

Question: What did CBS call ARC after buying it?
Answer: Columbia Recording Corporation

Question: Who was the head of CBS at the time?
Answer: William S. Paley

Question: Who convinced Paley to buy ARC?
Answer: RCA Victor Records executive Ted Wallerstein

Question: In what year was Epic Records created?
Answer: 1953

Question: What company created Epic Records?
Answer: Columbia

Question: Who was one of the creators of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences?
Answer: Conkling

Question: What did Conkling later go on to lead?
Answer: Warner Bros. Records

Question: What type of music was Date Records known for?
Answer: rockabilly

Question: In what year was Mercury Records (US) bought out?
Answer: 1961

Question: Who acquired Mercury Records (US)?
Answer: Philips Records

Question: What is the name of CBS' Mexican record label?
Answer: Discos CBS

Question: What 4 areas of the country did Columbia Records have manufacturers in?
Answer: Los Angeles; Terre Haute, Indiana; Bridgeport, Connecticut; and Pitman, New Jersey

Question: What lable was bought by CBS in the UK?
Answer: Oriole Records.

Question: CBS began thinking of a name change to their record label in what year?
Answer: 1965

Question: Date Records gave rise to the group "Peaches and Herb" in what year?
Answer: 1965

Question: Date Records released what major success in 1969?
Answer: "Time of the Season" by the Zombies

Question: What place on the charts did Date Records' big success land on?
Answer: #2

Question: Despite the success, in what year did Date Records cease to exist?
Answer: 1970

Question: Who ran CBS-Columbia Group starting in 1966?
Answer: Leiberson

Question: In what year did CBS and Sony come together?
Answer: 1968

Question: In what year did CDs come to the American market?
Answer: 1983

Question: In what year was Clive Davis let go at CBS Records Group?
Answer: 1972

Question: How many people signed a petition to boycott Sony Music in 2016?
Answer: over a hundred thousand

Question: What search engine company giant has Sony sent requests to regarding content on a website?
Answer: Google

Question: What website does Sony have complaints against?
Answer: Wikipedia.org

Question: In what year did Sony pull out of the Greek market?
Answer: 2013

Question: What label for the Greek market were artists on under the Sony umbrella?
Answer: Feelgood Records

Question: In what year did Sony shut down their offices in the Philippines?
Answer: 2012

Question: What famous music producer became CEO of Epic Records?
Answer: L.A. Reid

Question: Who joined the CEO of Epic Records in becoming the CEO of Sony Music?
Answer: Doug Morris

Question: In what year did he become the CEO of Sony Music?
Answer: 2011

Question: Who became the CEO of RCA Records?
Answer: Peter Edge

Question: What labels did RCA disband in 2011?
Answer: Arista, J Records and Jive Records

Question: Name 3 artists that CBS Associated Records signed on in the 80s and 90s?
Answer: Ozzy Osbourne, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Electric Light Orchestra, Joan Jett, and Henry Lee Summer

Question: In what year did CBS sell CBS Songs?
Answer: 1986

Question: How much was the sale of CBS Songs?
Answer: $125 million

Question: Who were the 3 people who bought CBS Songs?
Answer: Stephen Swid, Martin Bandier, and Charles Koppelman

Question: In what year was CBS the only network to also have a record company?
Answer: 1987

Question: What label did ABC sell in 1979?
Answer: MCA Records

Question: What label did NBC sell in 1986?
Answer: RCA

Question: Who bought RCA?
Answer: Ge

Question: In what year did SCA buy CBS Records?
Answer: 1987

Question: Who was the biggest artist that CBS had?
Answer: Michael Jackson

Question: How much did SCA pay for CBS Records?
Answer: $2 billion

Question: In what year did the CBS Corporation begin another CBS Records?
Answer: 2006

Question: Who distributes CBS Records material?
Answer: Sony through its RED subsidiary

Question: In what year did CBS Records buy out Tree International Publishing?
Answer: 1989

Question: How much did CBS Records pay for Tree International Publishing?
Answer: $30 million

Question: In what city was Tree International Publishing located?
Answer: Nashville

Question: In what year did CEO of RCA/Jive Barry Weiss leave?
Answer: 2011

Question: What company did Barry Weiss move to?
Answer: Island Def Jam and Universal Republic

Question: When did Barry Weiss become CEO of RCA/Jive?
Answer: 2008

Question: When did Barry Weiss become head of Jive Records?
Answer: 1991

Question: Who was promoted to Executive VP of Label Strategy in 2011?
Answer: Mel Lewinter

Question: Who became President of Global Digital Business and US Sales in 2012?
Answer: Dennis Kooker

Question: In what year did Sony and BMG Germany merge?
Answer: 2004

Question: In what year did Sony take BMG's half stake in the company?
Answer: 2008

Question: Name one of the final albums to ever have the Sony BMG label?
Answer: Thriller 25 by Michael Jackson, I Am... Sasha Fierce by Beyoncé, Keeps Gettin' Better: A Decade of Hits by Christina Aguilera, and Safe Trip Home by Dido

Question: When was Sony's new logo revealed to the public?
Answer: 2009

Question: What labels strove to support indie labels and music rightsholders?
Answer: SME and IODA

Question: In what year did they partner in order to do so?
Answer: 2009

Question: Who did Sony partner with to create the biggest deal ever?
Answer: Michael Jackson Company

Question: How much was the partnership worth?
Answer: $250 million

Question: In what year was the partnership initiated?
Answer: 2010

Question: Columbia Pictures has been owned by Sony since what year?
Answer: 1989

Question: Who is the CCO of Sony Music?
Answer: Clive Davis

Question: In what year did the merger take place?
Answer: 1995

Question: In what year did the name Sony Music Entertainment become the new name of Sony's record label?
Answer: 1991

Question: In what year did CBS Associated become Epic Associated?
Answer: 1991

Question: What is the only country where Sony has no rights to the Columbia label?
Answer: Japan

Question: Who owns the rights to the Columbia label in Japan?
Answer: Nippon Columbia

Question: What is the capital of Oklahoma?
Answer: Oklahoma City

Question: Which city is the largest in Oklahoma?
Answer: Oklahoma City

Question: What was the population of Oklahoma city in 2014?
Answer: 1,322,429

Question: Which region is Oklahoma City a part of?
Answer: Great Plains region

Question: What offices employ US transportation and Air force bases?
Answer: Tinker Air Force Base and the United States Department of Transportation's Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center

Question: What corridor is Oklahoma City situated in?
Answer: I-35 Corridor

Question: When was the city founded?
Answer: 1889

Question: When was the Oklahoma City bombing?
Answer: 1995

Question: What was the name of the building involved in the bombing?
Answer: Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building

Question: What was the name of the land before being called Oklahoma City?
Answer: Unassigned Lands

Question: Who was an early leader of the city?
Answer: James W. Maney

Question: What year was Oklahoma city entered into the Union?
Answer: 1907

Question: What was the capital of Oklahoma before Oklahoma city?
Answer: Guthrie

Question: What route made Oklahoma city a major stop?
Answer: Route 66

Question: Who wrote the Jazz oldie "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66"?
Answer: Bobby Troup

Question: Which artist made Bobby Troup's song famous?
Answer: Nat King Cole

Question: When was oil discovered in the city limits?
Answer: 1928

Question: What routes used Oklahoma City as a major route change?
Answer: I-35, I-40 and I-44