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1. What is the home of DuPont Chemical?
2. What city has lived with the ups and downs of The Boeing Company since the 1910s?
3. These two major corporations call the same southern city their home: Home Depot and Coca-Cola. What is this home town?
4. Across Lake Washington from Seattle is a Fortune 500 company American corporation. Its success has brought immense riches to its co-founders. Its home town is Redmond.
5. A little north of Redmond is the home where another Pacific Northwest success started up, a retailer in the Fortune list 500 after only twenty years of existence. You who shop there may find that the name of this home town is a dead giveaway: Kirkland, Washington.
6. The little Michigan town of Ada is birthplace and home to an enterprise which considers that its kind of sales scheme epitomizes the American way to achieve capitalistic business success. What's its name?
7. Michigan: whose home town is Battle Creek?
8. Michigan: which company employs a lot of the people who live in Midland and vicinity?
9. What Midwestern America city had a serious local recession when one of its biggest corporate citizens, the Studebaker Company, stopped building automobiles there some forty years ago?
10. Akron, Ohio has been hometown to not just a big company, but a whole industry. Several of the big names in this business have their origins, headquarters, or operations in the Akron area. What do they manufacture?
11. Which of these Fortune 500 retailers has Boise, Idaho as its corporate home town?
12. What company's success has made its home town of Round Rock, Texas very happy over the last few years?
13. Name the state that contains the home town of the very successful creator of Scotch Tape and Post-It Notes?
14. There's a very special town that is named for the company that is there. Name the state that contains the chocolate-flavored town of Hershey.
15. Not far from Hershey is a city named for its resident Fortune 500 company -- or maybe it's the other way around. Anyway, it's in upstate New York, near the Finger Lakes. What's that city?
16. Adolphus Busch, with financial help from his father-in-law, Eberhard Anheuser, developed a business that is today the pride of a large mid-American city. Which city?
17. What's the home town of Kodak?
18. H. J. Heinz started a line of food products in his home town. Once upon a time the line numbered '57 varieties,' but I'll bet the count is much higher now. Where is Heinz headquartered?
19. Where does Harley-Davidson produce its great products. You know, Harleys? Hogs?
20. The Number 1 corporation in the USA, in terms of sales revenues, was founded by a man named Sam in a small city in Arkansas. Don't name the town. Instead, give us Sam's last name.
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