Big Four

Big Four or The Big Four may refer to:

Companies

*Big Four (companies)
**Record labels: Sony BMG, EMI, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group
**American television networks: ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX
*Big Four (banks), in various countries
*Big Four auditors, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Ernst & Young, and KPMG
*The "Big Four" law firms or "Global Quartet", i.e. the Magic Circle minus Slaughter and May which has in general not pursued international expansion
*The Big Four, owners of the Central Pacific Railroad
*The Big Four railway companies in Argentina, prior to railway nationalisation in 1948, were the broad-gauge British-owned Buenos Aires Western, the Buenos Aires and Pacific, the Central Argentine and the Buenos Aires and Pacific Railway.
*Big Four British railway companies, the four largest railway companies in the United Kingdom in the period 1923-1947
*Zaibatsu: Mitsubishi, Mitsui, Sumitomo and Yasuda are the most historically significant zaibatsu groups
*The Big Four (WWI), leaders who met in France after an armistice of World War I, including Woodrow Wilson of the United States, David Lloyd George of Britain, Vittorio Orlando of Italy, and Georges Clemenceau of France.
*Big Four Railroad, another name for the now defunct Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway

port

* The Big Four major sports leagues in North America: The National Football League, Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, and the National Hockey League
* Big Four (English football), Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool, who have been the dominant forces in the Premier League in recent years.
*Big Four of Maryland Thoroughbred racing

Places

*Big Four, West Virginia, United States.
*Big Four Bridge (Louisville), Kentucky, United States. [Harrowdown Hill]
*Big Four Mountain, Snohomish County, Washington, United States.

nakes

*Big Four (Indian snakes), the deadliest of India's venomous snakes.

Other

* The Big 4 is a daily lottery game held by the Pennsylvania Lottery since 1980, and has been drawn twice-daily since 2003. [ [http://www.palottery.state.pa.us/games.aspx?id=434 Pennsylvania Lottery - Benefits Older Pennsylvanians. Every Day ] ]
* The 'Big Four', the dominant diplomatic figures at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 (Georges Clemenceau, Prime Minister of France; David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States; and Vittorio Orlando, Prime Minister of Italy)
* "The Big Four" (novel), by Agatha Christie.
* Chicago's Big Four (debutantes), four prominent Chicago debutantes during World War I.
* The "Big Four Biker Gangs" - according to the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), the four largest Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs (OMG)
* The "Big Four" American thrash metal bands: Anthrax, Megadeth, Metallica and Slayer.
* The "Big Four" American grunge bands: Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains and Soundgarden.
* The "Big Four" progressive metal bands: Dream Theater, Pain of Salvation, Porcupine Tree and Opeth.
* The "Big Four" countries of the European Union (Germany, France, Italy and the United Kingdom).
* The "Big Four" countries of the Eurovision Song Contest (Germany, France, Spain and the United Kingdom) who since 2000 are automatically qualified for the final regardless of their results from the previous year.

References

ee also

* Big One
* Big Two
* Big Three
* Big Five
* Big Six
* Big Seven
* Big Eight