ACTUAL Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Rockefeller - CORRECT ANSWER - Our Plan, Standard creator, bold vision
Deterding - CORRECT ANSWER - Dutch Oil company, as is, pro nazi, against price cutting,
"unity gives power"
D'Arcy - CORRECT ANSWER - founder of oil industry in ME, concessions in Iran, AIOC,
"syndicate of Patriots" keep russia in check
Gulbenkian - CORRECT ANSWER - Turkish Petroleum Co, Mr.5%, redline agreement,
considered more business architect than oil merchant, sold percent to french
Marcus Samuel - CORRECT ANSWER - Shell, Suez Canal, Combined RD/S and rotheschild
to form Asiatic petroleum co., Coup of 1892, Menace for wanted to convert navy to oil
Abraham - CORRECT ANSWER - Bonero, Established Shell in standard
Bissell - CORRECT ANSWER - Creation and driving force of the modern oil industry,
Chinese salt drilling,
Burton - CORRECT ANSWER - Thermal cracking, standard,
Churchill - CORRECT ANSWER - Commit navy to oil, ownership of AIOC,
Cullinan - CORRECT ANSWER - Founder of Texaco bc of storage facilities
,Doherty - CORRECT ANSWER - Unization of oil fields, against rule of capture
Drake - CORRECT ANSWER - Driller in titusville pa, worked with salt driler uncle billy
Eisenhower - CORRECT ANSWER - saw importance of highway system was needed
Fisher - CORRECT ANSWER - Convinced churchill to switch navy to oil, "god father of oil"
Greenway - CORRECT ANSWER - Bias against jew and germans, AIOC, foe of RD/S, won
over churchill
Guffey - CORRECT ANSWER - spindletop, misreable manager,
Hitler - CORRECT ANSWER - saw importance of nazi germany getting oil in baku
Holmes - CORRECT ANSWER - Arabia father of oil, went to drill for water found oil in
desert instead, appointed by shah amad in kuwait for oil interests
Ibn Saud - CORRECT ANSWER - ruler of arabia, saudi arabia, allowed philby to explore
Ickes - CORRECT ANSWER - managed PAW- rationing and distributing, dealt with
eliminating hot oil
Joiner - CORRECT ANSWER - East Texas "Black Giant" discovery, gave up to hunt,
Mellon - CORRECT ANSWER - gulf oil, pitt banker that financed spindletop
alfred noble - CORRECT ANSWER - dynamite king
, Ledwig nobel - CORRECT ANSWER - oil king of baku, shipping oil in built tankers
Philby - CORRECT ANSWER - advisor for Ibn Saud. brokered western oil concessions,
helped americans keep brits out of middle east and SOCAL
Reynolds - CORRECT ANSWER - AIOC engineer, prevent its failure, Beer and Skittles,
fired and later worked with shell in Venezuela
JDR jr - CORRECT ANSWER - integrity of standard and fired Stewart
FDR - CORRECT ANSWER - WWII, great depression, hot oil, Ickes, lend lease
theo roosevelt - CORRECT ANSWER - muckraker, trust buster, square deal, moderate
domestic reform, conserve national resources, regulate trusts
Rothschild - CORRECT ANSWER - connect Baku to black sea cost, BNITO,
Silliman - CORRECT ANSWER - rock oil in Pa
Tarbel - CORRECT ANSWER - muckraker, end of standard
teagle - CORRECT ANSWER - standard of Nj, oil production abroad in ME, purchase of
Nobel in soviet, big and loud, dealt with mr.5%
Venezuela - CORRECT ANSWER - hit the hardest by Conally Hot Oil act
Kessler - CORRECT ANSWER - advised against merging with standard, "special class
preference stocks"