Old Logos Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. A company-history display includes an old circular badge with a fish, a striking contrast to the company's later mobile-phone wordmark. Which company is being featured?
Ericsson
Siemens
Motorola
Nokia
2. A restaurant logo uses three dots on a domino tile, originally representing the chain's first three locations. Which brand does it identify?
Domino's
Little Caesars
Pizza Hut
Papa Johns
3. You are cataloguing a sharp, angular 1980 wordmark whose striped letters resemble a heavy-metal band logo. Which technology company used it?
Atari
Commodore
Microsoft
Adobe
4. An early online-bookstore logo features a large black letter “A” crossed by a winding river or road. Which company later replaced it with a wordmark and smile-shaped arrow?
Amazon
Barnes & Noble
AOL
eBay
5. An early petroleum-company emblem looks like a realistic black-and-white scallop shell rather than a modern colored symbol. Which company is it associated with?
Texaco
Shell
Gulf
Mobil
6. A 1924 corporate emblem shows a globe encircled by the words “International Business Machines.” Which company's initials eventually replaced that design?
GE
IBM
ITT
HP
7. Before its Golden Arches became dominant, which restaurant chain used “Speedee,” a winking chef mascot with a hamburger-shaped head?
Dairy Queen
A&W
McDonald's
White Castle
8. An ornate 1976 emblem shows Isaac Newton sitting beneath an apple tree, surrounded by a ribbon-like border. Which company introduced this logo?
Apple
IBM
Microsoft
Xerox
9. You find a brown circular coffee-shop badge from 1971 featuring a detailed, twin-tailed siren. Which brand used it?
Caribou Coffee
The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf
Costa Coffee
Starbucks
10. A telecommunications archive displays an old bell enclosed by a circle, reflecting the company's ties to the Bell System. Which company is most closely associated with it?
Motorola
AT&T
Sprint
Verizon
11. Which sportswear brand introduced the trefoil—a three-leaf emblem crossed by three stripes—in 1972?
Puma
Nike
Reebok
Adidas
12. A vintage soft-drink sign has a red, white, and blue bottle-cap symbol with a cursive name running across its center. Which brand does it advertise?
RC Cola
Coca-Cola
Pepsi
7 Up
13. A 1930s camera logo depicts Kwanon, a Buddhist figure whose name also inspired the product's original name. Which later brand grew from it?
Olympus
Canon
Nikon
Kodak
14. Before adopting its familiar blue oval wordmark, which electronics company used logos containing three stars?
Samsung
LG
Sony
Panasonic
15. Which fast-food chain used a long-running logo in which its name appeared between two rounded bun shapes?
Wendy's
Hardee's
Jack in the Box
Burger King
16. Which social-media platform originally used a detailed retro camera icon with a rainbow stripe, resembling an instant camera?
Flickr
Pinterest
Instagram
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