Question 759: No Fear

__X__ was launched by four Harvard students on January 7, 1999. Most of its users were high school and college-going students. It was acquired by Barnes and Noble in 2001 for approx. $3,555,000.

Many teachers accused __X__ of being a cheating tool but __X__ condemns the idea of cheating.

"When your books and teachers don't make sense, we do." is their slogan.

Identify X and explain the title.

Question 742: "SmacK" That around a bit

Nonsensical title, but used to describe a nonsensical world which is yet to make sense. A massive advertising campaign aimed at kids(which 1 isn't), ID the company & the person blanked out (said person is the mascot)
#brownie points for the name of the campaign, which is what you need to sit through an episode of it.

Question 715: Get it On

Amongst the most celebrated ads regarding this product, this ad from __X__ who have gone as far as to congratulate the people who don't use their products, bypassed laws regarding lewd behaviour to bring this classic.

ID the company

Question 707 : You Flubbing Idiot

Question 636: Problem? Solve it.

For TWENTY points.

But the question's big, but so are the points.

So give it a go!

Greek & Latin transliterated(X)

Yeah, nobody can quite understand the above process. Don't bother.

B had A to thank in a BIG way during a crucial time in the 20th century.

If you feel like, mention how A helped B.

And after cracking all of this, try and link the obscure diagram above to the chap A

Both A and B were very, very popular with the masses, for different reasons.

A

A

B

A was an industrialist, and pretty enterprising. He started this major event, and this gave many of his fellow specimens the opportunity to meet up and.. and have fun.
No, don't ID every single personality there.
Just what it is.

c

d

For all twenty, id A, B, X, and (C&D)
C&D are not two separate things.

Question 633: If you don't look good, we don't look good

__X__ was born to Jewish parents on January 17th, 1928 in Hammersmith, London. His father was from Thessaloniki, Greece, and his mother had Spanish origins. __X__ was placed in a Jewish orphanage for seven years and attended Essendine Road Primary School, a Christian school, before being evacuated to Holt, Wiltshire. Upon his return to London he left school at the age of 14 and worked as a messenger before starting a ___________ apprenticeship. Although too young to serve in the Second World War, he became a member of the 43 Group, a Jewish veterans' militia organisation that broke up Fascist meetings in East London after the end of the war. In 1948 he joined the Israeli Defence Forces to fight in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.


He eventually rose to prominence as his work garnered appreciation for it's geometric aspects.

He had sold his name to a famous multinational but later sued them for allegedly destroying his brand. The suit was however settled before trial.

Id X and his line of expertise.

Question 631: That's What She's Saying

The current logo is almost universally associated with the brand, but few know of its origins.

The original logo resembled something of a brown cigar bran cover, featuring a rare version of the Siren, a woman with a mythological reputation. The obvious specialties of this version of the siren did not go unnoticed, more so because of her twin assets - an extremely uncommon image rarely associated with her more popular present persona. Many enjoyed the exotic connotations associated with her symbolism then, catapulting the brand into popular culture.

A few years later, it got re-imagined to more closely resemble the  present day toned down version. The chest was flattened, the belly button erased and a gentler smile on her face welcomed millions of people to the shops the world over, as the franchises spread.

Today, she bears only a faint resemblance to her original visage, with her most unique attributes hidden in the zoomed-in version of her image.

Give me the brand she stands for.

You need to pay close attention to the space ABOVE the derriere to notice the subtlety. Nice.

[this logo here is only for your amusement]
(Question has been editted)

Question 630: Mansion I'd like to Find?

___XXX___ was a realty company started sometime back and has gained notoriety on the internet for their name, as well as their slogan, epitomized in this picture. Its not known if many people have availed of their services (be it raunchy or realty), but they have become quite the phenom

So:
Id the company
(the variable name chosen should give you a hint
smirk)

Question 625: SLEIGHt of hand

A

B

Identify A and B. Connect them. Connect to title.
Make your answers interesting. More so because the question isn't.

Question 601.h: Another (Phone) Brick In the Wall

ID the man making the call and the company which manufactured the phone. After this occasion, the company rose to prominence
#brownie points for the Phone's Name.

Question 601.g: Smell of Napalm in the Morning

The basic premise of the project was to create a weapon capable of shooting a jet of flame high and wide enough to force incoming bomber pilots to either pull out of their dive or brave a pillar of flame potentially capable of damaging or destroying their plane.

The most effective was a design submitted by the __X__ car company, which fired eight gallons of a diesel oil/tar fuel mixture per second, igniting to produce a continuous gout of flame with a range of nearly 100 feet (30 m), which at its widest point was roughly 30 feet (10 m) in diameter. According to Gerald Pawle, an engineer working on the project, the __X__ flamethrower universally inspired both awe and horror in all staff officers invited to watch the demonstrations. Further refinements were made to the design which increased its effective range to 200 feet (61 m), though a much larger quantity of fuel was needed to maintain the flame for any significant period of time.


So Connect __X__ with the following:

Question 601.f: Alpha Tango Oscar Zulu

__X___ is a 1995 book by Douglas Hofstadter and other members of the Fluid Analogies Research Group exploring the mechanisms of intelligence through computer modeling. It contends that the notions of analogy and fluidity are fundamental to explain how the human mind solves problems and to create computer programs that show intelligent behavior. It analyses several computer programs that members of the group have created over the years to solve problems that require intelligence.


The book is a collection of revised articles that appeared in precedence, each preceded by an introduction by Hofstadter. They describe the scientific work by him and his collaborators in the 1980s and 1990s. The project started in the late 1970s at Indiana University, where Hofstadter collaborated with Marsha Meredith and Gray Clossman. In 1983 he took a sabbatical year at MIT, working in Marvin Minsky's Artificial Intelligence Lab. There he met and collaborated with Melanie Mitchell, who subsequently did her Ph.D. with him, David Rogers, and Marek Lugowski. Subsequently Hofstadter moved to the University of Michigan, where the FARG (Fluid Analogies Research Group) was founded. Eventually he returned to Indiana University in 1988, continuing the FARG research there. The book was written during a sabbatical year at the Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica in Trento, Italy.

Given that mouthfull, what place does this have on this particular theme?
#brownie points for __X__, if you can remember the whole name.
& the title explanation.

For TLDR Quizzers like me, & Tineyers (No connection)

Question 601.e: Make Up for the Monitor

Note:


Question 601.a has been edited, check it out when you can to crack the theme.
Regards
Pai.


A Redditt Article about an update from the company __X__ about its Product ___Y__

"One intrepid Reddit user tried out __X__'s __Y__ new Content Aware filter (basically, it can fill in or erase content areas through the power of wizards and gum drops). Unfortunately, the test proved less than fruitful when attempting to get a dress off of Olivia Munn. Technology…not taking us quite far enough.

Though it’s disappointing that the Content Aware filter didn’t seem to work as well as you’d hope, just think: It’d be much worse if it did work and that was still the output. For all we know, Olivia Munn may very well have aliens attempting to burst out of her rib cage as evidenced by this photo. And that’s the story I’m sticking with until Olivia Munn attempts to discredit me by sending us nude pictures. It’s my job and duty to you, as a reporter and chronic masturbator, to investigate this to the fullest extent. Prove me wrong, Munn. Prove me wrong."

& as much as this seems like Nihar's doing, especially the desperate plea and the "prove me wrong" part,  this was written by someone else about the product.

SInce there was no dearth of funny pictures, have your pic(k) for identifying __X__ & __Y__.

Question 601.d: Vonamore of the Punjabi Spirit(s)?

Taken from the group's very own website, ir reads

"The beginnings were humble - classic example of the enterprising Punjabi spirit. The founders Pahwa Brothers dreamt of giving the common man of this country an affordable means of mobility in those early days of our country’s independence. Excellent quality, economical price and ethical business dealings earned them instant acceptability. Holding these values close to their hearts they built the trust brick by brick. 

Starting up a bicycle saddles and brakes manufacturing unit in 1948, the Pahwas set out on a long and arduous journey. __X__ Cycles came into being in 1952 when the first batch of 250 bicycles rolled out of its plant."

The numbers have been going up, ever since. From amongst the pioneers of the Indian bicycle industry, __X__ has remained in the top performers’ position for over half a century. The promoters’ abiding faith in human values and fairness, built enduring business bonds with a vast dealer network in India and abroad. High-class technology, consistent quality and effective after-sales service made up a perfect proposition.

__X__ is the only group anywhere in the world with full backward integration. They have facilities for making almost all the parts, including Steel Balls needed for their Bicycles. This places them a cut above the rest when we talk of quality born of work culture. They did not venture into Tyre and Tubes, these being in a different discipline, altogether. To meet their expanding requirement of raw materials, they added facilities for making Steel Strips, Steel Tubes and Hot Rolled Steel, achieving full backward integration, unmatched and unequalled anywhere else."

Still more humble than most personal endorsements, identify this Indian Conglomerate. (5)
+5 for IDying the lad on the bike.

Question 601.c: Im Your Shining Star

In 1938, Lee Byung-chull (1910–1987) of the large landowning family in the Uiryeong county came to the nearby Daegu city and founded ___X__ , a small trading company with forty employees located in Su-dong (now Ingyo-dong). It dealt in groceries produced in and around the city and produced noodles itself. The company prospered and Lee moved its head office to Seoul in 1947. When the Korean War broke out, however, he was forced to leave Seoul and started a sugar refinery in Busan as a name of Cheil Jedang. After the war, in 1954, Lee founded Cheil Mojik and built the plant in Chimsan-dong, Daegu. It was the largest woolen mill ever in the country and the company took on an aspect of a major company.


Going by that History, Connect with the following:

Question 602 b: Be in the Zo called Zone

Slightly vague, but pretty crackable.

I mean, given all the resources, it shouldn't be a problem at all.
Anyway, here goes.

Connect the three

Not very direct.

Question 601.b: Furmat's Last Theorem

One of the oldest corporation in the world, operating out of the continent of  North America,  ___X___ was at one point of time the largest landowner in North America.
As for what they deal in, this pic should give you amore than you bargained for.

Especially in this heat

__X__ enjoyed considerable political patronage and was given the same rights that the East India Company enjoyed in India, with control over the courts as well as the ability to issue their own currency in the 1800s.


A part of their charter under forming the __X__, the company was required to give two elk skins and two black beaver pelts to the English King, then Charles II, or his heirs, whenever the monarch visits an area that was formerly theirs to own.
This stopped when they relocated.


It is, however, a persistent urban legend that the company would lose its charter if it did not give the monarch the rent any time they visit Western Canada, and so, it is alleged, there are furs and blankets stored at a __X__ in each city, with the manager prepared to rush to the airport and present them to the monarch should their plane touch down, even to refuel.


So:


1) ID X.
2) ID their base of operations.

Ensignia

Question 601.a: I Sue The ZooZoo

Note: For this connect, think

Pretty screwed up connect question, a thirthakudi connect; some are direct, some 3rd degree, but ive left plenty of clues so that both the mind and the eye are not left wanting
lol

Think of their astronomical counterparts

Not the eye of a tiger

Killed 2 birds with 1 stone here. Did my duty

No Clowning around

They have an afro, but still, id them 

Shouldve auditioned for LOTR

Question 564 c: Do you has it?

Don't id.
Just connect.
Simple.

Question 549: Copy Rat

What is this ad loosely based on?