I'm in an internet pub quiz with my girlfriend, and we need help!

Why don't you just google it?

the smiley face?

i tried googling it, but nothing seems to come up. that's why! i should try again, probably!

you're in an internet pub quiz with your girlfriend.

you need help.

From the Straight Dope:
"But who invented the original smiley face? The best bet is that the smiley Bernard and Murray had seen floating around was created circa December 1963 for a subsidiary of the State Mutual insurance company by Harvey Ball, a graphic artist in Worcester, Massachusetts. Harvey got the assignment from the company's promotions director, Joy Young, who wanted a smile button for a morale boosting campaign ordered up by her boss. Harvey, not a man to waste ink, initially drew just the smile. Pondering the result, he realized that if you turned the button upside down, it became ... a frown! To head incipient wise-arsedness off at the pass, he added two eyes, which of course you could also turn upside down, but then it meant ... I'm standing on my head!--a more ambiguous sociopolitical message. He made the thing yellow to give it a sunshiny look, and State Mutual, whom nobody would accuse of rashness, printed up 100. The buttons were a big hit, the company began handing them out by the thousands, and the rest you know. Mr. Ball's total take: his $45 art fee. State Mutual, not very quick on the uptake, didn't make any money either."

Hstencil wins.

it's fun!!!! and it IS the smiley face! thanks a lot. thread closed. unless you want to analyze me and my girlfriend's relationship any further ... which is okay with me.

did you use the American spelling of "Advertizing"?

rather, next time, use the American spelling etc.

nevermind

I thought Forrest Gump came up w/ the smiley face.

"....it happens."

How does an internet pub quiz work? Oh, hang on, I don't want to know.