7.     Cisco                                                                                                               
        worldwide technological leader in networking solutions for the internet

        Where does the word "Cisco" come from?  (choose the one best answer)

A.    It's a loan-word from the animal kingdom, where a "cisco" is a fish.
B.    A toponym, or place-name, it derives from the city of San FranCISCO.
C.    Literary reference to that Kid in O. Henry's Robin Hood of the West.
D.    An acronym, it stands for Computer Interactive Sciences COmpany.

            

There really is a trout-like freshwater herring called the 'cisco,' there really is a company called Computer Interactive Sciences, and Pancho's sideburned sidekick in O. Henry's yarn really is called The Cisco Kid.

But none of these facts were factors in the naming of this networking king.

As their Golden Gate Bridge logo suggests, the name is deconstructed from the last five letters of that City by the Bay where the venture capital dough once flowed like water -- so B is correct.


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