1. ORIGINS
Round 2

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.

4. 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.

6. Accenture

8. Question 2
X 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.

10. ORACLE

12. Question 3
X 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)

16. Question 4
X 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.

18.  Joystick

20. Question 5
All 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.

24. Question 6
X 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.

26. 3Com

28. Question 7
X 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.

30. Ken Kutaragi

32. Question 8
An 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.

34. mouse

36. Question 9
X 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.

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

40. Question 10
X 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.

42. JAVA

44. Question 11
X 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.

46. XEROX

48. Question 12
X 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)

50. ONIDA