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The Verified Answer for Corporate trademark that was inspired by an Ivy League mascot is:
- MGMLION
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Hint 1: Clue Explanation
▼It’s not terribly hard to go through life without watching a lot of televised Ivy League sports, but I did know a couple of mascots, including the University of Pennsylvania’s Quaker (oats?) and the Yale bulldog (Mack trucks?), but it took some crosses to get the MGM LION, based on the football mascot for Columbia University. The lion was chosen for the school in 1910 and later for the film studio by an alumnus and ad executive Howard Dietz; when the logo first roared to announce MGM productions, the sound came courtesy of a gramophone in the theater, as it preceded the ubiquity of the talkies.