Big Five

The term Big Five may refer to:

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 politics), an informal institution of California's government
• Five Families of Cosa Nostra in New York: Gambino, Genovese, Bonanno, Colombo and Luchese.

Sports and entertainment

• The Big Five Academy Awards, 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
• The Five, also known as the Mighty Handful, group of 19th century Russian composers
• Big Five (movie studios), the five most powerful movie studios in Hollywood
• Big Five, a 1972 album by Prince Buster
• The Big Five Sunday morning talk shows
• The Big 5, a bonus round from the game show Snap Judgment
• Big 5, the most popular monsters of the Japanese media company Toho: Godzilla, Mothra, Mechagodzilla, King Ghidorah, and Rodan
• The Big Five (band), a new wave Reggae/Funk band from Sydney, Australia formed in 1982

Science and technology

• Big Five personality traits, a theoretical construct which describes human personality as organized along five dimensions or factors
• Big5, a character encoding method for Traditional Chinese characters
• 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
• Big Five Weapons, five biological weapons developed by the United States Army

See also

• Big One (disambiguation)
• Big Two
• Big Three (disambiguation)
• Big Four (disambiguation)
• Big Six (disambiguation)
• Big Seven (disambiguation)
• Big Eight (disambiguation)

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