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I was born in 1932, not 1738, and began as a modest housewares company that soon bought a bankrupt Vermont furniture factory. In 1939, I launched Early American-style furniture named for a Revolutionary War hero — and I later took his name as my own. I pioneered the sales tactic of displaying furniture in roomlike settings. I don’t just sell — I design and build most of my products, too. Today I sport about 300 sales locations, plus nine manufacturing plants, mostly in the U.S. (About 75 percent of my offerings are made in North America.) Who am I?

Last Week’s Trivia Answer

I trace my roots back to 1965, when a Connecticut teenager started a sandwich business in order to put himself through medical school. Borrowing $1,000 from a family friend, he opened “Pete’s Super Submarines” and sold 312 sandwiches in the first day, for less than 70 cents apiece. I got my current name in 1968. Today I boast more than 44,000 locations in more than 110 countries, all of them franchised. (That’s many more locations than McDonald’s has.) I serve about 7.5 million sandwiches each day. You can’t buy stock in me because I’m privately held. Who am I? (Answer: Subway)