Tech Company Origins

What this quiz asks

• Google's name is a play on the word 'googol'. What is a googol?
• Apple's very first logo, drawn in 1976, showed which scientist sitting under a tree?
• Before it became Amazon, Jeff Bezos's company was briefly registered under which name?
• Bill Hewlett and David Packard tossed a coin to decide whose name would come first in their company's name.
• In which US city did Bill Gates and Paul Allen found Microsoft in 1975?
• What does the Korean company name Samsung mean?
• Long before it made phones, Nokia began as what kind of business?
• Did Apple have a third co-founder, alongside Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, when it was set up in 1976?
• Walt Disney's studio bought eight units of HP's first product to prepare the sound for Fantasia. What was it?
• Select ALL of these companies that were founded in Europe.
• In 1993 Jensen Huang and two fellow engineers planned the company Nvidia over coffee at which kind of place?
• YouTube's three founders, Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, had all worked at which company?
• In its early days, the company that became Sony built an electric rice cooker, but the product was a flop.
• Twitter began in 2006 as a side project inside which start-up?
• Select ALL of these companies whose names come from a real person.
• Before 2003, the Chinese computer maker Lenovo sold its products under which English name?
• Order these companies by the year they were founded, earliest first.
• In 1924 Thomas J. Watson renamed his company International Business Machines. What had it been called?
• In what year did Fredrik Idestam open the mill that grew into Nokia?
• In 1957 the 'traitorous eight' walked out of William Shockley's laboratory and founded which company?