Friday, August 10, 2012

The Brands Quiz!

1. In 1982, forty-something programmers John Warnock and Charles Geschke quit their work at Xerox to start a software company. They named it X, after a creek that ran behind Warnock's home. Their first focus was to create PostScript, a programming language used in desktop publishing .They asked family and friends to help out: Geschke's 80-year-old father stained lumber for shelving, and Warnock's wife Marva designed X's first logo. Identify X.

2.Rumor has it that the bite  was a nod to Alan Turing, the father of modern computer science who committed suicide by eating a cyanide-laced apple. Janoff, however, said in an interview that though he was mindful of the "byte/bite" pun. What are we talking about?


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   Significance of this image?

4. In 1865, Knut Fredrik Idestam established a wood-pulp mill in Tampere, south-western Finland. It took on the name X after moving the mill to the banks of the Nokianvirta river in the town of X. The word "X" in Finnish, by the way, means a dark, furry animal we now call the Pine Marten weasel.  What is X?




5. Identify the Company from its old logo...


Answer in the comments pls....

2 comments:

  1. 1.adobe
    2.Apple
    3.burnin man festival
    4.nokia
    5.palm..must be...

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  2. correct...2.first google doodle!

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