BIG FOUR

'Big Four' or 'The Big Four' may refer to:

Contents

Companies

Places

Countries

Politics and military

Sport

Education

Law firms

Music and media

Others

References

Companies

:''See also: Big Four (companies) and Big Four (banks).''

★ Big Four auditors, the largest international professional services firms: PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Ernst & Young and KPMG.

★ Big Four pageants, which regularly receive the largest number of delegates from all over the world: Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International and Miss Earth.

★ The Big Four, owners of the Central Pacific Railroad: Leland Stanford, Collis P. Huntington, Mark Hopkins and Charles Crocker

★ Big Four British railway companies, the four largest railway companies in the United Kingdom in the period 1923-1947

★ The 'Big Four' Japanese motorcycle manufacturers: Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki, and Yamaha

Places

★ Big Four, West Virginia, United States.

★ Big Four Bridge (Louisville), Kentucky, United States. [Harrowdown Hill]

★ Big Four Mountain, Snohomish County, Washington, United States.

Countries

★ The biggest countries (China, Soviet Union, United Kingdom, and United States) that founded the United Nations.

★ The biggest English-speaking countries in the world (Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and United States).

Politics and military

★ The leaders who attended the Paris Peace Conference, 1919: Woodrow Wilson/U.S.A., David Lloyd George/U.K., Vittorio Orlando/Italy, and Georges Clemenceau/France).

★ The Great Offices of State in the British government: Prime Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Foreign Secretary and Home Secretary.

★ The biggest British trade unions affiliated with the Labour Party: Amicus, the GMB, the Transport and General Workers' Union, and UNISON.

★ The only pieces of information a prisoner of war is required to give to a captor under the Third Geneva Convention (name, date of birth, rank, and service number).

Sport

:''See also: Big Four (sport).''

★ The Big Four (college athletics), the four Atlantic Coast Conference institutions in North Carolina: Duke University, North Carolina State University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Wake Forest University.

★ The Big Four (football), the four highest-income clubs in the English Premier League in the early 21st century: Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, and Manchester United.

★ Big Four of Maryland Thoroughbred racing, American Thoroughbred horse trainers in Maryland, U.S.A., in the 1960s and 1970s: John J. Tammaro, Jr., Richard E. Dutrow, Sr., King T. Leatherbury and Grover G. "Bud" Delp.

Education

★ The Little Big Four, elite Ontario, Canada independent University-preparatory schools (Ridley College, St. Andrew's College, Upper Canada College, and Trinity College School).

★ The biggest universities of Sydney, Australia: University of Sydney, University of New South Wales, University of Technology, Sydney, and Macquarie University.

★ The largest English language schools in Japan: Nova, AEON, GEOS, and ECC.

Law firms

★ The largest law firms in the United Kingdom: Clifford Chance, Allen & Overy, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, and Linklaters. Despite being physically smaller, Slaughter & May is usually added to this list of "magic circle firms" due to its sheer profitability and quality of work.

★ The largest law firms in Japan: Nishimura & Asahi, Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu, Mori Hamada & Matsumoto, and Anderson Mōri & Tomotsune.

Music and media

★ The four dominating American thrash metal bands during the 1980s; Slayer, Anthrax, Megadeth, and Metallica.^[1][2][3][4]

★ The top selling and most well-known grunge bands from Seattle: Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, and Soundgarden.^[5]

★ The most successful, enduring and critically acclaimed rock bands of the 1960s British Invasion: The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who and The Kinks.^[6]

★ The major media giants which dominate the World music market (EMI, Sony BMG, Warner Music Group, and Universal Music Group).

★ The major U.S. television networks (ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox).

★ The ITV companies in the period 1956 to 1968, in the U.K. (Associated-Rediffusion/Rediffusion London, ATV, ABC, and Granada Television).

Others

★ ''The Big Four'' (novel), by Agatha Christie.

★ Big Four (Indian snakes), the deadliest of India's venomous snakes: Indian cobra, Common krait, Russell's viper and Saw-scaled viper.

★ Big Four (American snakes)There also happen to be four venomous snakes that naturally inhabit the United States: Diamondback rattlesnake, Copperhead, Coral snake and the Cottonmouth or Water Mocassin.

★ Big Four (African snakes), the most dangerous of Africa's venomous snakes: Black Mamba, Saw-Scaled Viper, Green Mamba, and the Puff adder.

★ The largest Internet Relay Chat networks: EFNet, IRCNet, Quakenet, and Undernet.

★ In medical records, the History and Physical Examination, Consultation Report, Operative Report, and Discharge Summary.

References

1. Stylus Magazine
2. Cleveland Scene Magazine
3. Kane County Chronicle
4. 93X Minnesota
5. [1]
6. Blender Magazine