1. Name It!
By
QM
Quiz on famous company names. So,
what are you waiting for? Go naming the
companies!!!
2. 1.
1. The company is located in Wilmington,
Delaware.
2.Develops biobutanol – an advanced
premium biofuel molecule.
3.It is assumed that it took its name from its
main product and spiced it up a bit.
4.Butamax is a joint venture between BP
and DuPont.
Id the company.
4. 2.
X is a peer-to-peer communication
technology, meaning one person connects
to another person, via Xservice.So when
they were developing the name, they hit
upon the rather descriptive "Sky peer-to-peer,"
which was shortened.But because
the domain skyper.com was already taken
it was named X.
6. 3.
1.Founded in 2005, the online marketplace
X has amassed over seven million
registered users and saw revenues of just
over $300 million in 2010.
2.Its founder is Rob Kalin.
8. 4.
1.It was widely believed that, in 1995, then-28-
year old software developer Pierre Omidyar
created a website called AuctionWeb so his
fiancée could buy and sell PEZ dispensers.
2.The first item sold on X was a broken laser
pointer.
3.The founder initially planned to use the name
of his computer consulting company,Echo
Bay.
10. 5.
1.When Microsoft was developing the name
for their new search engine, they wanted
something that was a single syllable,
memorable, and easy to spell.
2.The marketers decided to put their money
on X.Not only was it a single syllable, easy
to spell, and easy to remember, it also
sounded like "Bingo," which is usually said
when you've found what you're looking for.
12. 6.
1.One of the fastest-growing websites
around, X was started in 2004 by then-college
students Steve Huffman and
Alexis Ohanian.
2.The site allows community members to
submit links to online content, which is
then voted up or down to decide which
submissions are most worthy of being
read by everyone else.
14. 7.
1.The company name was taken from its
founder Adolf Dassler whose first name
was shortened to the nicakname Adi.
2.Together with the first three letters of his
surname it formed X.
18. 9.
1.Jeff Bezos wanted a name for his
company that began with ‘A’ so that it
would appear early in the alphabetic order.
2.He began looking through the dictionary
and settled on X because it was the river
he considered the biggest in the world, as
he hoped his company would be.
28. 14.
The company name comes from voice,
data, telefone chosen by the company to
"reflect the provision of voice and data
services over mobile phones“.
32. 16.
1.The founder, August Horch found a name
for the company by translating his name,
which means “Hark!”, ”Listen!”, into Latin.
2.His name was already in use by his
previous car manufacturing company.
3. 4 rings represent the Auto Union of X with
DKW, Horch and Wanderer.
34. 17.
1.Named after the company’s first camera,
the Kwanon, in turn named after the
Japanese name of the Buddhist
Bodhisattva of Mercy.
2.In 1935 Kwanon was changed to X to be
better accepted by people worldwide.
38. 19.
1.The brand name X arose when Branson
and Powell were starting their first
business, a record shop.
2.One of the girls suggested: ”What about
X?”
3.Branson has described the "V" in the logo
as an expressive tick, representing its seal
of approval.
40. 20.
1.The company’s name was a shortened form of
‘Integrated Electronics’.
2. The fact that X is the term for intelligence
information also made the name appropriate.
3.It also makes motherboard, chipsets, network
interface controllers and integrated circuits, flash
memory, graphic chips, embedded
processors and other devices related to
communications and computing.
