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Sunday, January 31, 2010

A True Champion!!!

X entered in Cleopatra style, carried aloft in a chair held by four bare-chested muscle men dressed in the garb of ancient slaves. Y followed in a rickshaw drawn by a bevy of scantily-clad models. Y presented X with a giant lollypop and X gave Y a piglet named. What Occasion,Name X and Y.




Good guess by Shrey,but Vineet takes away the honors.
X is Billie Jean King
Y is Bobby Riggs
Occasion:Battle of the Sexes.

Friday, January 29, 2010

Axed!!


Identify this Soldier..And the incident!


Aries1987(Ashish) gets it perfect.It was linked directly to the previous post.He was an American Soldier. Capt. Arthur Bonifas. He was killed using an axe in the "AXE MURDER ACCIDENT" following which the BRIDGE OF NO RETURN was no more used!


Bridge Naming!!!


The name X originates from the fact that prisoners were given the choice to remain in the country of their captivity or cross over to the other country. But if they chose to cross the bridge, they would never be allowed to return.

Name X and it connects which 2 countries.



Vineet gets it right again.
The Bridge is "Bridge of No Return" connects south and north korea.

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Connect...








Good try by Vineet..
Gurbaksh Singh Chahal is the connect.
ClickAgents,BlueLithium and gWallet are the three ventures started
by him.
1st logo is of "valueclick"...it bought "clickagents"...the first
venture of Gurbaksh Singh Chahal.
2nd logo is of "bluelithium"...his second venture.
3rd logo is of 'gWallet"..his third venture.


Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Beware kids!!!!

The first signs of an X are:

  1. Rise in surface pressure over the Indian Ocean,Indonesia, and Australia.
  2. Fall in air pressure over Tahiti and the rest of the central and eastern
  3. Trade Winds in the south Pacific weaken or head east
  4. Warm air rises near , causing rain in the northern Peruvian deserts
  5. Warm water spreads from the west Pacific and the Indian Ocean to the east Pacific. It takes the rain with it, causing extensive drought in the western Pacific and rainfall in the normally dry eastern Pacific
It happens at irregular intervals of 2–7 years and lasts nine months to two years.
The Strong-arms Dude below is a huge hint.
Id "X"













Kaushik,Shrey,Sijut and Vineet(again) get it right.
X is El Nino and the guy is Hanley Ramirez who is known by nick name of El Nino.

Monday, January 25, 2010

Failure Be Thy Name!!!













The logo has come to be synonymous with something. Put fundaes.

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Solve for X!!

He was the third President Tata Steel Union, which was formed in 1920. During those days it was known as The Labour Association.In his avatar of a trade union leader, X was responsible for forcing the Tata Steel management to implement maternity benefit to their employees.On his call, Tata steel had also witnessed first and last ever strike by the workers in 1928. Bowing to the just demands of workers, Tata Steel management and X as President of the workers union signed the historic agreement which gave matenity benefits to the workers. Who is being referred to here as X?

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Have U got the "Moves"?!?!

Complex picture,simple Answer.
Name the above important patent and who holds it.
The patent was used for standard use till 2001.
This guy is a legend in his field and is no more.






Vineet gets the toughie!!
It is Bobby Fischer's digital Chess Clock.

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

The Road Ahead!!

Mr X had an unpleasant time in September last year suffering minor injuries due to an accident.
But then,some comfort came in the form of his country's Prime Minister when he named the highway(on which Mr X had the accident)after Mr X.
An immensely popular Mr X is the "frontrunner" in his field.

Name Mr. X who shares his last name with a 2008 released movie.









Usain Bolt is the answer.Bolt is an animation movie released in 2008.
Highway 2000 was renamed as "Usain Bolt Highway" after his accident in September 2009.
Sijut and Bhavin Bhaiya(welcome again) got it right!!
Good try by Vineet.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Hungry Kya!!!


Logo of a Co. which owns a famous chain.Which?










Went Uncracked.
The Company is Carlson Group which owns the famous chain "T.G.I. Friday"

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Thursday, January 14, 2010

What's the 'connection'?




















Easy One...Identify the product.

Friday, January 8, 2010

Biz games!!

Statistically, X is the world's most popular transportation company. It is estimated that the equivalent of the world's population travel in X every three days. According to United Technologies, X carry the equivalent of the world's population every nine days.

What are we talking about?

PS-Googling will give you the answer but not the satisfaction








Ans: OTIS Elevators

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Oh! Boy




















X is an Indian Christmas Popstar who specialises in comedic remakes of all the classic Christmas Carols. As the lead singer of an Indian boy band, X takes aim at Insufficient Dowries, Internet Dating, Bollywood Hunks, Corrupt Child Sports Stars and Angels with amazing I.T. skills.
Identify X.

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Is Beauty Skin Deep?















Identify the duo & their creation?

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Picture Perfect




















Identify the person & his contribution...

Monday, January 4, 2010

And thy Shall Not Steal!!!

Answer the individual questions and connect them to a single entity...

1."Our mission is to enable users to search complex fields on the Web intelligently. We're starting with health and medicine – an area where many people will appreciate a service that helps them quickly get high value information, and a field where we have expertise based on our work with health-related organizations."
Which company am I talking about?

2.X is a company based in San Francisco, California that is developing a natural language search engine for the Internet.

X is working on building a natural language search engine that can find targeted answers to user questions (as opposed to keyword based search). For example, when confronted with a question like "Which U.S. state has the highest income tax?", conventional search engines ignore the question phrasing and instead do a search on the keywords "state", "highest", "income", and "tax". X on the other hand, attempts to use natural language processing to understand the nature of the question and return pages containing the answer.

3.X was a reverse auction online shopping site website.It is the first website exclusively using "cost per action" for shopping, and the first to give ad revenues to customers, by means of rebates on purchases.
What's X.

4.X was Founded in 2003 by Oren Etzioni (founder of MetaCrawler and a professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington), and has collected over 175 billion airfare observations to date. X's team of data miners use these airfare observations to build algorithms to predict future airfare price movements.
Identify X.

5.X was created in 2006 by Jack Dorsey. Since then it has gained notability and popularity worldwide. It is sometimes described as the "SMS of the Internet" since the use of its application programming interface for sending and receiving short text messages by other applications often eclipses its direct use.
Identify X.