Who bought a thousand barrel a day well located in a church cemetery?

• A. John D. Rockefeller
• B. Lamar Hunt
• C. Howard Hughes
• D. William C Mellon

Answer: (D)

This item tests a notable anecdote about early oil investment and who it’s attributed to. The story goes that William C. Mellon bought a 1,000-barrel-per-day oil well located in a church cemetery. It highlights how oil men often pursued seemingly unlikely opportunities and valued small, overlooked wells, illustrating the opportunistic mindset that could still yield real production and profit. The other well-known figures listed are associated with different achievements or stories in oil history, not this cemetery-well vignette. So the figure connected to this specific anecdote is William C. Mellon.