8.     Starbucks                                                                                                         
        the premiere purveyor of fine coffees with more than 12,000 retail locations

        Where does the word "Starbucks" come from?  (choose the one best answer)

A.    Named after U.S. Figure Skating Champion (and owner) Jo Jo Starbuck.
B.    Literary reference, from Herman Melville's epic 1851 novel Moby Dick.
C.    The funny pages, it's Daddy Warbucks' pet name for Little Orphan Annie.
D.    1920's slang, a unit of currency equal to $50, or 5 sawbucks ($10 each).

   
        
In 1971 as Kenneth Shelley and Jo Jo Starbuck were putting the pairs competition on ice, three Seattle slackers named Jerry Baldwin, Gordon Bowker and Zev Seigl were busy reinventing the corner coffee shop.

For their logo, they chose the two-tailed siren (common in medieval literature) as a symbol of strength and power.

For the name of their now ubiquitous java huts, they borrowed that of Captain Ahab's java-swilling first mate -- so B is correct.


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