Go Naming Companies!
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Name It!
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QM
Quiz on famous company names. So, what are you waiting for? Go naming the companies!!!
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.
Answer
Butamax
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.
Answer
It’s the Skype!
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.
Answer
Etsy
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.
Answer
eBay
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.
Answer
Bing
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.
Answer
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.
Answer
Adidas
8.
The name came from the stream that ran behind the house of the co-founder John Warnock.
Answer
Adobe
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.
Answer
Amazon
10.
1.The company was named for the Greek Goddess of Victory.
2.It has the symbol of swoosh which symbolises Her Flight.
Answer
Nike
11.
1.The company’s name is a shortened version of Nippon Kogaku.
2.Meaning:Japanese Optical.
Answer
Nikon
12.
The company was earlier known by the name Nippon Sangyo which means ‘Japan Industris’
Answer
Nissan
13.
1.The company was started as a wood-pulp mill.
2.The company had expanded producing rubber products in a Finnish city.
Answer
Nokia
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“.
Answer
Vodafone
15.
1.The company is from Germany.
2.The name means ‘people’s car’ in German.
Answer
Volkswagen
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.
Answer
Audi
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.
Answer
Canon
18.
1.The company’s name was a combination of the Danish “Leg Godt”, which means to “play well”.
2.X also means “I put together” in Latin.
Answer
LEGO
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.
Answer
Virgin
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.
Answer
Intel
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