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TO INFINITY AND BEYOND

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100*(Mental age/ Chronological age)

What is calculated using the following formula ?

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Intelligence Quotient(IQ)

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Luciferins are a class of biological pigments which makes them capable of what?

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Bioluminescence

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 Her name became famous in the field of science in the year 1996. Why and what is her famous first name?

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The first mammal to be cloned (Dolly the sheep) was named after her.

Dolly Parton

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The name was inspired by the Firefly television series in which a _____ is an electronic communication (often consisting of a video call or video message). During the developer preview, a number of references were made to the series such as Lars Rasmussen replying to a message with "shiny", a word commonly used in the series to mean cool or good, and the crash message of _____ being a popular quotation from the series: "Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!".

What is being talked about here?

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Google wave

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________ is world famous. A roving random distributed denial of service attack before which web, network and systems administrators alike quake and have terrible nightmares about.

The _______ is a website whose URL was chosen to confuse those who tried to pronounce the URL.

What is being described here?

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http:///..org

The slashdot effect

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Connect

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GaussGauss: Unit of magnetic field Gaussian Curve

Gauss Gun

Gauss Map

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Give Funda.

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Gutenberg Project

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"Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" eventually became what?

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Yahoo!

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"Mammon slept. And the beast reborn spread over the earth and its numbersgrew legion. And they proclaimed the times and sacrificed crops unto thefire, with the cunning of foxes. And they built a new world in their ownimage as promised by the sacred words, and spoke of the beast with their children. Mammon awoke, and lo! it was naught but a follower."

Where would you find this?

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Book of Mozilla

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X is the official mascot of Y. X was originally designed as a submission for a logo contest. Y’s creator took his inspiration for X from a photograph he found on an FTP site, showing a figure looking strangely like the Creature Comforts characters made by Nick Park. X is also an abbreviation of the outfit which springs to mind when one sees the creature.

ID X,Y

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X-Tux, Y- Linux

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ATTACK OF THE DROIDS

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ID X. X  was created by Dr. Gero after the

destruction of Red Ribbon Army, to seek vengeance on Y.

She eventually married Y’s best friend and with whom she had a daughter Marron.

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Android 18

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Give Funda.

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IBM WATSON

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Initially known as Inspector Amar, Id

him.

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Inspector Steel

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J.A.R.V.I.S.

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Terminator

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ID her.

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Tiffany Brissette (V.I.C.I)

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ID X X, an industrial metalworking robot, was

built in 2996 at Fábrica Robotica De La Madre, a manufacturing facility of Mom's Friendly Robot Company in Tijuana, Mexico.

He is described as an "alcoholic, whore-mongering, chain-smoking gambler“ by fellow colleagues at the Planet express delivery firm.

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Bender bending rodriguez

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ID

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Iron giant

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ID the company that created it

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Honda

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Connect

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Isaac Asimov

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Mera Techie-India

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Naveen Selvadurai is an internet entrepreneur and co-founder of which location-based social networking site?

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FourSquare

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Id X,Y X is an Indian computer scientist. At

present, he is the head of Think Tank Team and Director of Research of Samsung. He is best known for his work on Y and Samsung Galaxy Gear.  World Economic Forum honoured X as one of the Young Global Leader 2013.

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X-Pranav MistryY-Sixth Sense

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ID X X was an Indian American entrepreneur.

A sound engineer, he was a professor at the MIT . He was also the founder and chairman of X Corporation known for its loudspeakers, noise-cancelling headsets, and automotive sound systems.

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Amar Bose

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ID X X is one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems,

where he served as its first CEO and Chairman in the early 80s. In 2004 he formed his own firm, X Ventures, which focused on venture investments in various technology sectors, most notably clean technology.

In May 2010 it was announced that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was to join X Ventures to provide strategic advice regarding investments in technologies focused on the environment

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Vinod Khosla

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ID X X was created by Phanindra Sama and

Charan Padmaraju from BITS Pilani seven years ago.

The idea emanated from an experience that Phanindra had in the winter of 2005 in Bangalore, when he struggled to make it home for Diwali.

It was taken over by the Ibibo Group, a joint venture of South Africa's Naspers and China's Tencent in June 2013.

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Redbus.in

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A-H A was a Swiss scientist who served as an inspiration for

professor Calculus in Tintin. A’s son B was the first man to reach Challenger Deep. C was a physicist who is known for his experiments depicting quantum theory using a cat. D was a Dutch scientist known for developing equations relating dipole moments to temperature and dielectric constant. E is the youngest Nobel Laureate winning the Nobel prize along with his father F for laws of X-Ray Diffraction. G was a Dutch physicist known for G force which is a force on the point charge due to Electro-Magnetic field. G shared the Nobel prize with H for  discovery and theoretical explanation of the H effect which is the effect of splitting a spectral line into several components in the presence of a static magnetic field.

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I I shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in

Physics with her husband J and with physicist K for their work on radioactivity. The SI unit for radioactivity is named after K. I’s daughter L also won the Nobel prize for chemistry along with her husband for discovery of artificial radioactivity. M was a French

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A- Auguste Piccard B- Jacques Piccard C- Erwin Schrödinger D- Peter Debye E- William Lawrence Bragg F- William Henry Bragg G- Hendrik Lorentz H- Pieter Zeeman I- Marie Curie J- Pierre Curie K- Henri Becquerel L- Irène Joliot-Curie

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LONG CONNECT

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Ubuntu Releases Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog) Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander)

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SI units Bell Ampere Ohm Faraday Pascal Tesla Newton

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Firsts in space Apogee of Fear- Fictional film to be made in

space Jingle bells- Song performed in space Golf- Sport played in Space Valentina Tereshkova-Woman in Space Laika- Mammal in space Yuri Gagarin- Human in Space Rakesh Sharma- Indian in space