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