QUESTION 305

Identify this explorer. He was a part of a prominent family in town..He was the captain of one of the ships of the fleet of Columbus(Nina). He did land on the coast of Brazil and discover something.
It is because of this that an IT company uses his name as their private label.
His death is somewhat a mystery.

Id the explorer and the company.

QUESTION 304

Who is this inventor?

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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?