Origins Quiz — Friday, October 9, 2026

What brand got its name around 1925 from an auto-body painter's insult? Testing a masking strip that 3M's Richard Drew had glued only along the edges, the painter told him to take it back to his 'stingy' bosses. The insult used a slur on one nationality's supposed thrift. The company kept the jab, and in 1930 attached it to Drew's transparent version. (Two words: 6, 4 letters)

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