ORIGINS

Round 2

Rules Questions will be asked sequentially. Correct answer to a direct question fetch 20

points and a passed question fetch 10 points. There are no negative points for wrong

answers. The question is simply passed onto the next team.

Question 1

X was started as ‘Anderson Consulting Company’. Now it is known by X which means ‘accent into the future’. It’s official tagline is : High performance. Delivered. Id X.

Accenture

Question 2X was co-founded by Larry Ellison as software development laboratories(SDL) , later relational software Inc.(RSI) and later changed to something else. The current name is got from the company’s 1st top secret project from CIA. Id X.

ORACLE

Question 3X was started as Galvin manufacturing corporation in 1928. The current name is the brand name of the car radios marketed by the company. Id X. (Hint: A part of it was bought recently by Google)

Question 4X was developed in Germany in 1944 and was 1st used for aiming bombs. It was also used to control a rocket. It is now used as a game controller. Id X.

Joystick

Question 5All three founders: Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Javed Karim were working for Paypal when they started X. This was used to stream videos across their campus. Id X.

Question 6X used to manufacture products like ethernet, ethercom and other products under the name “ether”. The company takes its name from “communication, compatibility and computers”. Id X.

3Com

Question 7X is the former Chairman and chief executive officer of Sony Computer Entertainment (SCEI), the video game division of Sony Corporation. He is known as "The Father of the PlayStation", and its successors and spinoffs, including the PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, and the PlayStation 3. Id X.

Ken Kutaragi

Question 8An innovation by Douglas Engelbart, X was initially patented to be a planar position indicator. We all use this product while working on a computer. Id X.

mouse

Question 9X is a venture capital funded company founded by ex-Managing Director of Texas Instruments' India Srini Rajam in 2001, developing Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Systems. The name “X" is derived from the English translation of a famous quote "Cogito ergo sum" by René Descartes. Id X.

"Cogito ergo sum" ="I Think, Therefore I AM."

Question 10X was originally designed for interactive television, but it was too advanced for the digital cable television industry at the time. The language was initially called Oak after an Oak tree that stood outside Gosling's office; it went by the name Green later, and was later renamed X, from a list of random words. Id X.

JAVA

Question 11X was started as Haloid company. It is now named after the copier they marketed. It is also the place where the first GUI was developed. Id X.

XEROX

Question 12X was started by G.L Mirchandani and Vijay Mansukkani in 1981 in Mumbai and it is one of India’s leading electronics brand. Id X.(Hint: It released ‘iTube’, internet enabled LED TV recently)

ONIDA