Thursday, December 30, 1999
'Made in Cincinnati' quiz
For more than 210 years, commerce has thrived in Greater Cincinnati. From pigs and playing cards to soap and counter tops.
How much do you know about the Tristate's historic business scene? Enquirer reporter Cliff Peale has compiled a trivia quiz to test your knowledge.
The answers are below.
1. What did Cincinnatians pour over their pork as part of the local custom of the mid-19th century?
2. Nicholas Longworth was Cincinnati's first millionaire. What prominent downtown building was his home?
3. A century before the World Peace Bell rings in Newport, what contribution did Cincinnati make to the bell-casting industry?
4. Where did the name Ivory soap originate?
5. What was the first “soap opera.”
6. How did the U.S. Playing Card Co., Cambridge Tile Co. and Clopay Corp. adjust their business plans during World War II?
7. Before it made kitchen counter tops, what was Formica used to make?
8. What did Miami University professor William Holmes McGuffey publish here in 1936?
9. During the height of the Porkopolis era, what was “Bloody Run”?
10. What savings and loan led to the creation of Carl Lindner Jr.'s financial empire?
ANSWERS
1. Sorghum Molasses.
2. The Taft Museum on Fourth Street.
3. The world's largest swinging bell at the time — 30,000 pounds — was cast by E.W. Vanduzen foundry. That bell is now in St. Francis de Sales church in Walnut Hills. E.W. Vanduzen was bought by Verdin Co., which made the mold for the World Peace Bell.
4. This quote from Psalms 45:8 heard in church one Sunday morning by a Procter & Gamble Co. executive produced the name for one of P&G's signature products: “All thy garments smell of myrrh and aloes and cassia out of the ivory palaces whereby they have made thee glad.”
5. Procter & Gamble Co. created “The Puddle Family” in 1932. The next year came “Ma Perkins,” which was sponsored by Oxydol soap powder.
6. U.S. Playing Card made parachutes; Cambridge Tile converted machinery to help make K-rations; and Clopay made blackout shades for air raids.
7. Radios. The high-pressure laminate made sturdy circuit boards in early radios.
8. McGuffey Eclectic Reader, the start of a series that would put more than 122 million copies into print.
9. That was the nickname for the section of Deer Creek between Mount Auburn and Walnut Hills. Packing houses dumped offal into the creek. Eventually, the creek was covered and replaced by a road, which became Victory Parkway after World War I.
10. Hunter Savings Association. Mr. Lindner bought three small S&Ls in 1959 and consolidated them into Hunter Savings. Eventually, the company grew into American Financial Corp.
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