QUESTION 303

X stemmed from the ideas of a man named Wilfred Winkenbach. In the mid-late 1950s, he had developed the first ___ sport, ____ golf, in which each participant would draft a team of professional golfers and the lowest combined score at the end of a tournament would win. He then applied this concept to baseball, using home run hitters and pitching statistics.
The early years involved few leagues, but serious players. Several people stopped after several years, as it was too strenuous looking through statistics every week and remembering to call in with their starting rosters. The game was a fun idea, but had yet to become convenient enough to be the phenomenon it is today.

The convenience came over 30 years later, on the heels of the Internet explosion..

How do we know this concept today?

QUESTION 302

The first X was opened in Pike Place Market in Seattle, Washington, on March 30, 1971 by three partners: English teacher Jerry Baldwin, history teacher Zev Siegl, and writer Gordon Bowker. The three were inspired by entrepreneur Alfred Peet (whom they knew personally) to sell high-quality coffee beans and equipment. The name is taken from a book written by Y
; after Pequod was rejected by one of the co-founders, the company was named for the first mate on the Pequod, _______.


Y

Id the business venture X and the author Y.
Difficulty : Easy.

QUESTION 301

The foundation of X movement finds historical precedent as far back as the counterculture of the Ancient Greece , espoused by philosophers like Diogenes of Sinope and the Cynics also as early forms of X culture. X philosophy also credits the religious and spiritual teachings of Jesus, Hillel the Elder, Buddha and Gandhi

The first signs of what we would call modern X emerged in Europe. Between 1896 and 1908, a German youth movement arose as a countercultural reaction to the organized social and cultural clubs that centered around German folk music. Known as Der Wabdervogel, the movement opposed the formality of traditional German clubs, instead emphasizing amateur music and singing, creative dress, and communal outings involving hiking and camping. Inspired by the works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Goethe, Herman Hasse, and Eduard Baltzer, Wandervogel attracted thousands of young Germans who rejected the rapid trend toward urbanization and yearned for the pagan, back-to-nature spiritual life of their ancestors

X- what?

QUESTION 300

Three Hundredth Question!
Look at the two images.

Identify this man and his claim to fame.

The second picture's your clue.

QUESTION 299

Poster of which hugely popular TV series? =D

QUESTION 298

Easy one.
What happened?
Explain.

QUESTION 297

Simple one. This is a memorial. I just want you to tell me who is it that I've blanked out.

QUESTION 296

He is a composer, born in Austria. He moved to the US and he is best known for composing the advertising tune of a very big corporate company in 1994.. He owns a company called Musikvergnuegen.

Who? Which corporate am I talking about?

QUESTION 295

He was born in Germany to parents who belonged to the farmer class. But his father, a Freemason, was for that class, surprisingly well read, and imposed education on him.
After his secondary technical school, he took up apprenticeship as a precision mechanic. After his education, he spend further 7 years working in Germany, USA( for Edison) and in the UK ( for Siemens).
He then started his company. He along with his chief engineer Gottlob Honold invented the Spark Plug, the modern internal combustion engine and the headlight.

Id the great man in the pic!

QUESTION 294

Operated by Cornell University and used by SETI@home as their primary information source.
It makes an appearance in the James Bond movie GoldenEye.

Id the Observatory.

QUESTION 293

Identify this creature depicted in the first picture.
The second pic shows the area in which it thrived.
The species became extinct in the 17th century.
But scientists are trying to recreate this creature by utilizing the genes of the Spanish Limiana and the Maremmana from Italy.

Id the mighty beast.

QUESTION 292

Both A and B are very well known in the field of technology.
A has a few key inventions credited to him. The most prominent of them being the ____, of which he was the co-inventor. The other co-inventor was X.
B was also involved in the field of electrical engineering. He and X left the company they were working in and founded another company Y, which is very famous in the corporate world.

A

B

Identify A,B and X
Also id the company Y, founded by X and B
This question carries 2 points

QUESTION 291

Massive!!

What is this building?
What distinction can it claim??

QUESTION 290

These guys from Carnegie Mellon university devised a mechanism to help reduce spamming.
The process involves a computer testing a human user!
What is this being talked about here?


Not really necessary to name the guys..

QUESTION 289

The first picture shows the memorial for the Oath of Pontida.
It was by this that several cities in Europe pledged their support to one and other in fighting off the king (Y), who was trying to assert himself in that region. They formed an organization called X.
They succeeded and agreed on a 6 year truce.
The organization was dissolved in the 13th century.
Identify the organization X
Identify the king Y

X

Y

TCS IT

The TCS Bangalore edition will be held on August 5th!

QUESTION 288

This question deals with something we've all heard of!
What does this picture show??
It shows the effect of something on our body. What??

The second picture is obviously the clue..

QUESTION 287

Okay, one on business after a long time!
This man in the picture founded an accountancy firm, which he named after himself.
There were criminal charges against the firm in connection with the Enron Scandal.

But the consultancy wing of this company had removed itself before the scandal and has now grown into one of the largest multinational companies.
Identify the man and the name by which we know the company today.

QUESTION 286

Alright, this question carries 2 points!
Who is this lady? She was a physicist, chemist, biologist and X-Ray crystallographer.
Two scientists, X and Y, say that it was her that provided much data for their ground-breaking discovery!
Identify her(1 point)

Also,
Identify X and Y( 1 point)

QUESTION 285

What the hell is this??!

Explain please! : /

MONTHLY SCOREBOARD

Sorry, couldn't enforce the Weekly, so came up with the monthly scoreboard instead!!
Here's how it goes
I hope to post more regularly, but well done guys! Story of the month..


Shravan-11.5
Rohan-7.5
V Chandrashekhar-7
Pranav-5.5
Marm-2
Lionel-2
The escapist-1
Jack and Lagoon-1
Nachiketa-3
Drake-2
Sumo-2
Gaurav-2
Athith-2
Udbhav-1
Kaushik-3
Karthikeya Pradhan-3
Pratik V -1
Raveesh-1
iamtheicebox-1
Akhilesh-1
Apurv Bhatia-1
TAB-1
Anonymous-2

QUESTION 284

He was a physicist.
He lived in Paris from the age of sixteen.
He attended the Ecole Polytechnic, where he and his fellow students like Gaspard- Gustave Coriolis, Claude- Louis Navier were taught by professors such as Gay Lussac, Ampere and Poisson.
He joined the military. After the defeat of Napoleon, he took leave from the army to write his book.

He died young due to a cholera epidemic. Who is he?

QUESTION 283

A shows the satellite image of a certain archipelago.
It was discovered by the fleet of B, when B claimed to have seen fire( by the natives who, according to him, wanted to ambush the armada)
Id A and B
A

















B

QUESTION 282

Identify.

Straight from the newspaper!!

QUESTION 281

Identify this super duper guy!

Let's hope he continues in this direction!! :P

QUESTION 280

Well, slightly different from the monotony of the recent days.

Identify the woman in the picture and explain why she happens to be in the news!