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AT&T
Who was the third largest sponsor?
text-messaging
What service did AT&T promote on American Idol as a way of voting?
4,349
How many product placements had Idol shown by season six?
PepsiCo
Which major drink manufacturer decided at the beginning of American Idol not to be a sponsor?
The X Factor
What show did PepsiCo begin sponsoring in hopes of not missing another opportunity like American Idol?
PepsiCo
Which soda company did not want to sponsor American Idol?
The X Factor
In hopes of not repeating another mistake, which show did PepsiCo sponsor?
third
PepsiCo fell to what place by 2010, which is in part credited with refusing to sponsor American Idol?
season five
Which season of American Idol had the highest profit on its tour?
M&M's Pretzel Chocolate Candies
What company was a sponsor of the American Idol tour in its ninth season?
a semi-finalist who won a sing-off
Who was added to the tour in season 12?
Kellogg's Pop-Tarts
Who sponsored the first seven tours?
M&M's Pretzel Chocolate Candies
Who sponsored the ninth tour?
season five
Which was the most successful tour?
season seven
When did iTunes become a sponsor on American Idol?
five
For how many seasons did American Idol put out a compilation of hits at seasons end?
iTunes
What company has released studio recordings from American Idol since season seven?
the winner's coronation single
Idol releases both the performances as well as what for sale?
as a compilation album
How were the recordings released for the initial five seasons?
the most successful soundtrack franchise
Because all five were in the top ten of Billboard's charts, this made Idol what?
iTunes
Who joined Idol as a sponsor in season seven?
19 Recordings
What company has the right to all recordings from contestants on American Idol?
UMG
What company took over as American Idols music label in 2010?
BMG
What company had released music from American Idol in addition to Sony Music Entertainment?
19 Entertainment
Who owns 19 Recordings?
19 Recordings
Who owns the rights to all phonographic material done by the contestants?
BMG
Who did 19 initially partner with to distribute the recordings?
Sony Music Entertainment
Who did BMG partner with in 2005-2007?
UMG's Interscope-Geffen-A&M Records
Who replaced Sony in 2010 as Idol's music label?
The Walt Disney Company
What company has a them park attraction known as The American Idol Experience?
2009
In what year did The Walt Disney Company open The American Idol Experience?
2014
In what year did The Walt Disney Company close The American Idol Experience?
19 Entertainment
What company had a partnership with The Walt Disney Company for The American Idol Experience?
February 14, 2009
When did the American Idol Experience open?
Walt Disney World
Where did it open?
Dream Ticket
What did the winner win?
August 30, 2014
When did the Experience close?
over 100
How many different countries air American Idol on television?
CTV
What network broadcasted American Idol live in Canada for thirteen seasons?
2014
In what year did CTV stop showing live broadcasts of American Idol?
Yes TV
What Canadian network began airing American Idol in 2015?
over 100
How many nations receive the Idol broadcast?
CTV and/or CTV Two
Who aired the first thirteen seasons in Canada?
Yes TV
Who stated in August 2014 that they picked up the rights beginning in its 2015 season?
La3
What network in Italy aired American Idol in season twelve?
one
How many days does someone in the United Kingdom have to wait to watch American Idol after its original broadcast?
STAR World
What television network in Asia shows American Idol?
Thursday and Friday
On what days of the week does American Idol air in the Philippines?
STAR World
Who broadcasts Idol in southeast Asia?
La3
Who broadcast the 12th season in Italy?
ringers
Producers have been accused of planting what within the show?
seven
How many consecutive years was American Idol the top rated show?
eight
How many consecutive years did either the performance or results show rank number one?
Canis lupus familiaris
What is the three word Latin name for domesticated dogs?
domestic dog
What is Canis familiaris?
millennia
How long has the domestic dog been selectively bred?
sensory capabilities
Along with various behaviors and physical attributes, what were domestic dogs bred for?
2010s
What decade had significant studies of dog genes to determine origins?
40,000
Testing revealed today's dogs trace back by how many years?
Eurasia
What is the region where domesticated dogs ancestry traces to?
starch-rich
What type of diet can modern domesticated dogs thrive eating that other dogs cannot?
extensive genetic studies
What was undertaken in 2010 to determine where dogs originated from?
man's best friend
What is the most common phrase, or nickname, used by people in the United States to describe dogs in general?
man's best friend
What moniker has been given to dogs in Western cultures?
meat
Dogs are a source of what in some cultures?
dukkōn
What is the Proto-Germanic word that "dog" may have come from?
Proto-Indo-European
What may be the earliest vocabulary that the word "dog" came from?
Old English docga
Where does the word dog originate?
Proto-Indo-European
Dog could also come from the original layer of what vocabulary?
hound
What was the common 14th-century word for dogs for those who spoke English?
mastiff.
What breed was so prolific it became a prototype of hound?
16th
In what century did "hound" start to only apply to hunting dogs?
hound
What was the common term for all domesticated dogs in England during the 14th century?
16th century
When did the word dog become the common term for canines?
hunting
Hound became the term for dogs who did what activity during this time?
*kwon- "dog"
What Proto-Indo-European word is hound from?
a litter.
What are a single birth group of puppies of a dog called collectively?
sire
What is the male who is father of the pups called?
poupée
What is the French word that "puppy" comes from?
whelping
What is giving birth to dogs called?
bitch
What is the English word for female dog that has also become profanity?
bitch
A male canine is called a dog while a female canine is called a what in reference to breeding?
litter
What are canine offspring referred as?
sire
What is the father of a litter referred as?
dam
What is the mother of a litter referred as?
pups
What are the individual litter canines called?
Canis
What is the Latin term for "dog.?"
1758
What year are dogs first listed in Systema Naturae?
Linnaeus
Who published Systema Naturae?
wolf
What is the modern single English word for Canis lupus?
Mammal Species of the World
What 1982 publication listed regular family dogs under wolves?
Canis
What is the Latin word for dog?
family dog
Canis familiaris is the classification for dogs, and is known as what?
Canis lupus
What is the Latin name for a wolf?
Canis dingo
Feral dogs have what Latin classification?
1982
What year was Canis familiaris listed under Canis lupus?
2003
What year was it decided that if wolves and dogs were one species, then their scientific name is the name of the wild variety?
Mammal Species of the World
What 2005 publication in its third edition kept to that ruling?
Canis familiaris.
What Latin dog term is still used because wild and domesticated dogs are recognizably different?
ICZN
What official body recognizes both Canis lupus and Canis familiaris?