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* [[Five Families]] of Cosa Nostra in New York: Gambino, Genovese, Bonanno, Colombo and Luchese. |
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* [[Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China]], pre-1956 |
* [[Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China]], pre-1956 |
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* [[UN Security Council]] permanent members: the People's Republic of China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. |
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In '''sports and entertainment''' |
In '''sports and entertainment''' |
Revision as of 19:39, 19 January 2009
The term Big Five may refer to:
In business and government
- Big 5 sporting goods, a publicly traded (NASDAQ) sporting goods company
- Big Five (Hawaii), an oligarchy of five corporations that ruled over Hawaii
- Big Five (banks), in Canada
- Big Five (California), an informal institution of California's government
- Five Families of Cosa Nostra in New York: Gambino, Genovese, Bonanno, Colombo and Luchese.
- Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China, pre-1956
- UN Security Council permanent members: the People's Republic of China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
In sports and entertainment
- Big Five 1980's European golfers. The five European Major tournament winners between 1979 and 1991. These were Seve Ballesteros, Bernhard Langer, Ian Woosnam, Nick Faldo, and Sandy Lyle.[1] Coincidently, the five were born within 11 months of each other – 9th April 1957 (Seve Ballesteros), to 2nd March 1958 (Ian Woosnam).
- The Big Five Academy Awards, which are: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay.
- Philadelphia Big 5, an association of college athletic programs in Philadelphia
- Big Five Game, a term coined by the hunting fraternity in Africa to refer to the five animals said to be most difficult to hunt: Rhinoceros, Leopard, Cape Buffalo, Elephant and Lion
- Big Five (orchestras), the traditional top five orchestras in America.
- Big Five (Yu-Gi-Oh!), a group of fictional characters in the Yu-Gi-Oh! universe.
- Mighty Handful, 19th century Russian composers known as the Big Five
- Big Five (movie studios), the five most powerful movie studios in Hollywood.
- The Big Five (band) were a new wave Reggae/Funk band from Sydney formed in 1982. The name is derived from a track on the album of the same name by Prince Buster released in 1972.
- The Big Five Sunday morning talk shows
- The Big 5, a bonus round from the game show Snap Judgment
- The Big 5 ITV companies in the United Kingdom from 1968 to 1992: Thames Television, London Weekend Television, Granada Television, Associated TeleVision (Central Independent Television from 1982 onwards) and Yorkshire Television
- Big Five Grand Slam pageants, the five major beauty pageants in the world; Miss Earth, Miss International, Miss Tourism Queen, Miss Universe and Miss World.
Other
- Big Five personality traits, a theoretical construct which describes human personality as organized along five dimensions or factors : extraversion/introversion; friendliness/hostility; conscientiousness/impulsivity; emotional stability/neuroticism; and openness to experience.
- Big5, a character encoding method of unknown origin for Traditional Chinese characters
- The Big 5 referring to Toho Company's 5 most popular monsters in the Godzilla Franchise; it refers to Godzilla, Mothra, Mechagodzilla, King Ghidorah, and Rodan.
- The "Big Five", a term used to describe the five most devastating extinctions of life on planet Earth.
- Big Five, a term used for the US Navy battleships of the Tennessee and Colorado classes
References
- ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/golf/7635290.stm |BBC Golf article about the issue of the Ryder cup captaincy in 2010