(AOL Autos) -- With car companies going in into bankruptcy and shedding famous names left and right, it's important to remember that today's automotive titans started out as tiny startups, not unlike Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. 

General Motors was almost called International Motors Co. 

Names like Ford, General Motors, Chrysler, Toyota and Porsche call to mind the huge corporate successes of the past and the great automotive families that survive today. 

But behind every brand name, there is a flesh-and-blood inventor, entrepreneur or industrialist. Most of the time, they gave their name to the companies. And that fame was often about all they ended up with. 

David Buick, who invented the overhead valve engine, founded the Buick Motor Car Co. in 1903. William C. Durant, the industrialist who would eventually found GM, took over the company in 1904, when it ran into financial trouble. 

Buick stayed on as a director, but left in 1908, never making much money from the enterprise. He reportedly died in 1929, unable to afford one of his cars. 

Durant kept the name for one of his company divisions and for the car, even though he worried that people might pronounce it "Boo-ick," according to one author. Strangely enough, the man who practically created General Motors single-handedly never really liked the idea of a 'Durant' car. 

In another example, Robert Hupp invented the Hupmobile,'a two-seat runabout, in 1908. But he sold his stock in his Hupp Motor Car Company in 1911. He turned around and founded the Hupp Corp. that same year. Investors in his first firm took him to court to make him drop the "Hupp" from his new company's name and they won. His own automotive glory quickly faded, although the Hupmobile survived until the 1940s.  QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. What company nearly bore the name International Motors?
2. Which enterprise almost had the name international motors?
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Q2:
1. What was the name of the overhead valve engine's inventor?
2. Who came up with the idea for the overhead valve engine?
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Q3:
1. What company did David Buick found?
2. What was David Buick's company called?
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Q4:
1. Who took over the Buick Motor Company from David Buick?
2. Who succeeded David Buick as head of his company?
3. 
Q5:
1. When did William Durant take over the Buick Motor Company?
2. What was the year when William Durant took the reins at Buick Motor Company?
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Q6:
1. What did Buick do once William Durant was in charge of it?
2. What action did Buick take with William Durant at the head?
3. 
Q7:
1. Did William Durant become rich?
2. Did William Durant make a large amount of mmoney?
3. 
Q8:
1. When did William Durant die?
2. In what year was William Durant's passing?
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Q9:
1. What made William Durant nervous regarding Buick?
2. What about Buick made William Durant anxious?
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Q10:
1. How did William Durant worry that people would pronounce Buick?
2. What mispronounciation of Buick did WIlliam Durant fear would happen?
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Q11:
1. What was the name of the Hupmobile's inventor?
2. Who came up with the Hupmobile?
3. 
Q12:
1. When did Robert Hupp invent the Hupmobile?
2. What was the year of the Hupmobile's invention?
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Q13:
1. At what point did the Hupmobile disappear?
2. When was the Hupmobile discontinued?
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