During the Teapot Dome Scandal this company was determined to be a mechanism by which prominent oil men received kickbacks in the form of governments Liberty Bonds on purchases of oil.

• A. Continental Trading
• B. Standard Oil
• C. Gulf Oil
• D. Texaco

Answer: (A)

The item tests your knowledge of how the Teapot Dome scandal operated and who was behind the kickbacks. In this case, the bribes offered to the Interior Secretary came through the Mammoth Oil Company, which was controlled by Standard Oil. The kickbacks were paid in the form of Liberty Bonds tied to oil leases, making Standard Oil the correct association because its subsidiary was the vehicle through which these illicit payments flowed. The other options aren’t linked to this scandal in the same way—Continental Trading isn’t the entity tied to the Teapot Dome kickbacks, and Gulf Oil and Texaco weren’t the channels used in this particular case.