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• Lamar Hunt, founding member of the American Football League, coined the name "Super Bowl" after watching his children playing with what toy?
  During the NFL-AFL merger discussions, one of the AFL's founders and Kansas City Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt had jokingly referred to the proposed inter league championship as the "Super Bowl". Hunt thought of the name after seeing his children playing with a toy called a Super Ball. (source)
  
• What did NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle want to call the Super Bowl?
  According to NFL Films President Steve Sabol, then NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle wanted to call the game "The Big One". (source)
  
• What NFL team won the first Vince Lombardi Trophy?
  The Vince Lombardi Trophy was first awarded to the Baltimore Colts at Super Bowl V in Miami. The trophy was named in Vince Lombardi's honor following his death in September 1970. (source)
  
• What industry's profits surpassed the movie industry in 2004?
  The VideoGame industry. (source)
  
• Analysts predicted that broadband internet usage would rise from 6% of U.S. users in June 2000 to 62% by 2010. What percent of U.S. internet users were connected via broadband by February 2007?
  By February 2007, over 80% of US Internet users were connected via broadband. There were 77.4 million broadband subscribers in the US in December 2008(source)
  
• What date did Apple introduce the iPod?
  Apple introduced the first iPod on October 23, 2001(source)
  
• What year was Amazon.com founded?
  It was founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos, and launched in 1995 (source)
  
• What is the legend concerning where Jeff Bezos and his wife were when they wrote the Amazon.com business plan? Company lore says Bezos wrote the business plan while he and his wife drove from New York to Seattle (source)
  
  
• On November 21, 2005, Amazon entered the S&P 500 index, replacing what OLD-LINE American institution? "Old Line" American institution? AT&T, of course! (source)
  
  
• Where are the three Amazon fulfillment centers in the state of Indiana?
  Whitestown, Munster, and Plainfield Indiana (source)
  
• The first version of Microsoft Windows was released November 20, 1985. The original plans were to call the product by a different name. What did Microsoft originally plan to call the product? It was originally going to be called "Interface Manager" but Rowland Hanson, the head of marketing at Microsoft, convinced the company that the name WINDOWS would be more appealing to consumers (source)


• What percentage of the market was still using Windows XP as of August 2009? 66.2% (down from a high of 76.1% in January 2007) according to Wikipedia (source)


• What date was Windows XP released to the public? October 25, 2001 according to Wikipedia (source)


• What was the internal code name for Windows XP at Microsoft? According to Wikipedia, during development the project was codenamed "Whistler", after Whistler, British Columbia, as many Microsoft employees skied at the Whistler-Blackcomb ski resort. (source)


• "most searched-for" term in Indianapolis for the last 12 months according to Google.com? "Indiana" - According to Google Insights for Search


• What website domain did the founder of the Echo Bay Technology Group register when he found that echobay.com was already taken? eBay.com (source)


• The parachute was invented in 1783 (long before the airplane) by Frenchman Louis Lenormand for what purpose? To save people who had to jump from burning buildings (source)


• What consumer product's name was derived from the product claim of "no eczema"? In 1899, a pharmacist named George Bunting blended his own cold cream, which, in addition to removing makeup and relieving sunburn, gained popularity for its ability to cure eczema. The product's claim of "No Eczema" led to its name, Noxzema. (source)