GENERAL QUIZ

Pranav Kundra Yashaswi Alladi

X is an analytics services provider. The firm’s name is derived from the statistical terms which symbolize the mean and the standard deviation respectively of a probability distribution.X is a private company whose investors include General Atlantic, Sequoia Capital and FTV Capital.X is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, and its main delivery center is located in Bangalore, India. The company is ISO 27001

certified.Identify X.

X's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. In a series of novels published by Random House in the 1960s, X’s parents' names are given as George and Margaret Roberts from the fictional town of Willows,Wisconsin. 

X has had over 40 pets including cats and dogs, horses, a panda, a lion cub, and a zebra. She has owned a wide range of vehicles, including pink Corvette convertibles, trailers, and jeeps. She also holds a pilot's license, and operates commercial airliners in addition to serving as a flight attendant. 

She has an on-off romantic relationship with her boyfriend Ken Carson. A news release in February 2004 announced that X and Ken had decided to split up, but in February 2006 they were hoping to rekindle their relationship after Ken had a makeover

Barbie

"Don't be evil" is the informal corporate motto (or slogan) of X, originally suggested by employees Paul Buchheit and Amit Patel at a meeting. Buchheit said he "wanted something that, once you put it in there, would be hard to take out", adding that the slogan was "also a bit of a jab at a lot of the other companies, especially our competitors, who at the time, in our opinion, were kind of exploiting the users to some extent.

Identify X.

X, a five-time world champion, had won several medals in the 46 and 48kg categories but was forced to shift to this category and gain weight two years ago after the world body decided to allow Y in only three weight categories—the lowest one being 51kg.At the 2012 AIBA Y Championship, X was competing not just for the championship itself but also for a place at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. X was defeated in the 51 kg quarter-finals by Nicola Adams of the UK making this the first year since the championship began that X did not win a medal, but did succeed in getting a place for the Olympics.

X-Mary KomY-World Women’s Boxing

X may refer to:Brian X (born 1978), American painter and illustratorEddie X (born 1928), American Jazz trombonistJack X (1881 - 1965), English cricketerMargaret X (1914 - 2006), British radio broadcasterPhilip X (born 1960), British swimmer

X Township, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri

X (film), documentaryX's law, a statement in physical cosmologyX sequence, a classification of galaxy types2069 X, a main belt asteroidX (crater), a crater on the MoonEdwin X House, National historic landmark in San Marino, California

What is X?

Hubble

X-“I wasn't too happy with the I-don't-want-to-listen-to-it attitude of our youngsters towards film music. Why can't we get our guys to listen to our own music rather than to Michael Jackson? I didn't want us to lose the market to the West. The music had to be cool and rooted, and yet had to branch out. It was like the wild imagination of a child... but it worked... it did travel beyond Madras and attract people.”

X is also known as Mozart of Madras, Isai puyal and John Williams of Indian Film industry,

AR Rahman

X, officially known since 1956 as Y is the radio broadcaster of India and a division of Prasar Bharati. Established in 1936, it is the sister service of Prasar Bharati's Doordarshan, the national television broadcaster. X is one of the largest radio networks in the world. Its headquarters is at the Y Bhavan in New Delhi. Y Bhavan houses the Drama Section, the FM Section and the National Service. Doordarshan Kendra (Delhi) offices are also located on the sixth floor at Y Bhavan.

Identify X and Y (both).

All India RadioAkashvani

X is a social communications company that melds together global calling, SMS, and social networking. Founded by Phillip Mobin and Touraj Parang in October 2005, X uses Voice over Internet Protocol to offer competitive rates as well as free international and long distance calling. Some key differentiators for X in its market include allowing phone-to-phone calls to and from any mobile and landline phones, offering social networking focused on voice (café X), requiring no software downloads or access pins, and giving users local Direct Inward Dialing (DID) phone numbers. Offered in 56 countries, these numbers allow users in those countries to dial a local phone number which would ring a long distance or international destination phone. X also offers users a set number of global SMS messages each month.X reports having over 10 million users in 220 countries in 2008. In June 2008, they raised $10 million in a Series B round of venture capital funding from Lehman Brothers Venture Partners. In the same month, they also launched their paid services. In October, X laid off thirty percent of its employees, and its CEO, Konstantin Guericke, was fired.Currently, the company is located in Menlo Park, CA.On 14 June 2009, Hotmail Founder Sabeer Bhatia's Sabsebolo acquired X for an unknown amount. X shall function with the same brand name and help Sabsebolo with its large userbase.

The false title given to the film during production, Rory's First Kiss, was named after Director's son, Rory. When filming began in April 2007, the production was code-named to thwart onlookers and trespassers. All over downtown Chicago, fliers were posted with this pseudonym (alongside an "RFK" logo) and also listed the address for the film's production offices. 

Which movie am I referring to?

The Dark Knight

X is a German luxury car manufacturer. It was founded in 1909 by Wilhelm X and his son. The company was originally a subsidiary of Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH and was itself known as Luftfahrzeug-Motorenbau GmbH until 1912.Today, the ultra-luxury car brand is owned by Daimler AG and based in Stuttgart. Tognum AG based in Friedrichshafen manufactures the commercial X diesel engines under the MTU brand through its subsidiary MTU Friedrichshafen GmbH.Daimler announced in November 2011 that X will cease to be a brand by 2013. The decision follows almost a decade of trying to make X a profitable rival to Rolls Royce and Bentley. X will be replaced by new and more luxurious models from the Mercedes brand, which is also made by Daimler.

X is an Indian Online fashion & Apparel store funded by Germany based incubator rocket internet. It specializes in fashion, apparel but also deals in furniture and homewares.The company is presently working in Indian demographic. Within 4 months of launch of operations, the company has over a million page views daily with more than 160,000 unique visitors which has taken the company to Rank 58 in Alexa rankings in India, leading to about 82,939 registered users in 5 months, X became the most trafficked Ecommerce site in India in the year 2012 if Google numbers are to be believed.

Jabong.com

X was frisked at the JFK Airport in New York, while boarding a plane on 29 September 2011. He was subjected to "private screening" as he does not come under the category of dignitaries exempt from security screening procedures under American guidelines. He was frisked again after boarding the India aircraft with the US security officials asking for his jacket and shoes.The incident was not reported until 13 November 2011. India threatened retaliatory action as there was a "general sense of outrage" around the country. The Indian Ministry of External Affairs protested over this incident and a statement by the ministry said that the US Government had written a letter to X expressing its deep regret for the inconvenience.

APJ Abdul Kalam

Connect:Johan CruyffMichel PlatiniMarco van BastenAlfredo Di StéfanoFranz BeckenbauerKevin KeeganKarl-Heinz RummeniggeRonaldo

Multiple winners of the Ballon D’or.

CONNECT:

Commonwealth Games 2010BasavannaChhatrapati ShivajiB.R.AmbedkarBiodversity World Food Day50 Years of independenceReserve Bank of IndiaMother TherasaRajiv GandhiCare for girl childShama Prasad Mukarji

Exhaustive List

Different themes that featured on the Indian rupee

Complete:Lewis G WilsonRobert LowreyAdam WestMichael KeatonXYZ

Val KilmerGeorge ClooneyChristian Bale

Actors who’ve played Batman.

Who are these people and what is being talked about here ? (Specific answer)

H – Terrence Donnelly O – Giovanni Mazza – Italian movie producerL – Les Kelley – originator of the Kelley Blue BookL – Gene Autry – singer, actor and businessmanY – Hugh Hefner – founder of Playboy magazineW – Andy Williams – singerO – Warner Bros. RecordsO – Alice Cooper – singerD – Thomas Pooley — donated in the name of Mathew Williams

People who donated $27,777 each to restore the damaged Hollywood sign in 1978.

Terrence Donnelly -publisher of the Hollywood Independent Newspaper.Alice Cooper – singer, who donated in memory of comedian Groucho Marx

Where would you find the Latin phrase“Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus” which translates to “Never tickle a sleeping Dragon”

Hogwarts

In 1985, Steve Jobs resigned from Apple due to a power struggle. Who was at the other end of the struggle?

John Scully

 There are two wards in New Delhi's X, one named after Sachin Tendulkar and another after Y, after the duo shared a 664-run unbroken partnership. 

X- Tihar JailY- Vinod Kambli

Identify

Jimmy Wales

IDENTIFY THE LOGO

Stumble Upon

Identify (All 3)

Stan LeeFred QuimbyChuck Lorre

Identify-Hint – The name is based on the characters riding it and the modern name for this type of vehicle

ANS – Flintstone Flyer/Barney Copter

PICTURE CONNECTS (Small)

Connect

The Marine

Starring John CenaQueen’s Necklace – Marine Drive

Connect

ANS – Stalingrad / Volgograd (City)

Joseph StalinMovie on the Battle of StalingradBook set in Volgograd

Connect

Saving Private Ryan

Connect

ANS – Blackjack

Rebecca Black – FridayJack Sparrow

Programming languages

X is an endless action video game developed by the Raleigh-based Imangi Studios. In the iTunes Store, it was included in the top 50 most-downloaded apps in December 2011, and eventually became the number one free iOS app. It has also reached the position of the top grossing iOS app. When X was released to Android, it was downloaded more than 1 million times in under 3 days. The game itself was formerly 99 cents, but Imangi Studios switched the game to a freemium application sometime before December 2011.  Many imitators have made fake games to the point that it has made Imangi Studios more popular than Zynga Games.

Temple Run

Name the following-It’s a type of self organized intelligence in which no centralized control structure exists but there are simple local instructions in each individual unit and unit interactions with one another and with the environment result in global intelligence.

ANS – Swarm Intelligence(Ant Colony Optimization), Ant Swarm

Assuming X's tries were no better than fair independent coin flips, the probability of at least 12 successful predictions from 14 attempts is p = 0.0065, or 0.65%. (154 to 1). And the probability of his 8 successful World Cup predictions out of 8 attempts is 1/28 = 0.0039, or 0.39% (256 to 1). The first three matches were in the group stage where the outcome could have been a win, loss, or draw, resulting in a less than 50% probability of getting the result correct. Assuming a probability of 33.3% in 6 out of 14 matches instead, the probability for 12 or more successes can be simulated numerically to be 0.11% (corresponding to 3.2 standard deviations in gaussian statistics).

What am I speaking of?

Paul the Octopus

X is an influential philosophical tradition whose early practitioners' claims to profound powers were known from antiquity. The defining objectives of X are varied; these include the creation of the fabled philosopher stone possessing powers including the capability of turning base metals into the noble metals , as well as an elixir of life conferring youth and immortality. Western X is recognized as a protoscience that contributed to the development of modern chemistry and medicine. X developed a framework of theory, terminology, experimental process and basic laboratory techniques that are still recognizable today. But X differs from modern science in the inclusion of Hermetic principles and practices related to mythology, religion, and spirituality.

Alchemy

Which Antarctic explorer was famously known as “The Boss”?He  (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922)was an Anglo-Irish polar explorer who in January 1909 along with three companions made a southern march which established a record Farthest South latitude at 88° 23′ S, 97 geographical miles, from the South Pole, by far the closest convergence in exploration history up to that time and was knighted by King Edward VII on his return home.He was buried in South Georgia, while on an expedition to carry out a programme of scientific and survey activities.On his death he was lauded in the press, but was thereafter largely forgotten, while the heroic reputation of his rival Scott was sustained for many decades. Later in the 20th century he was “rediscovered”, and rapidly became a cult figure, a role model for leadership as one who, in extreme circumstances, kept his team together in a survival story described by polar historian Stephanie Barczewski as “incredible”.

ANS –Ernest Shackelton

What is the type of auction where the price is repeatedly reduced until a buyer is found?The auctioneer begins with a high asking price which is lowered until some participant is willing to accept the auctioneer's price, or a predetermined reserve price (the seller's minimum acceptable price) is reached. The winning participant pays the last announced price. 

ANS – Dutch auction

What was the name of the operation carried out by the National Security Guards in the Taj hotel on 26/11 to flush out terrorists and rescue hostages from inside ?

Operation Cyclone/Operation Black Tornado(any one)

Why did the chicken cross the road ?

We give you the answer… you tell us who said it…

Why did the chicken cross the road ?

Answer : Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken depends on your frame of reference.

Albert Einstein

Why did the chicken cross the road ?

Answer : It was the logical next step after coming down from the trees.

Charles Darwin

Why did the chicken cross the road ?

Answer : 42

Doughlas Adams

Why did the chicken cross the road ?

Answer : Because it could not stop for death.

Emily Dickenson

Why did the chicken cross the road ?

Answer : That is not the question.

Hamlet

MEGA CONNECT-1

Honours degree in Economics, University of Cambridge – St John's College (1957)Chief, Financing for Trade Section, UNCTAD, United Nations Secretariat, Manhattan, New York

1966 : Economic Affairs Officer 1966Economic Advisor, Ministry of Foreign Trade, India (1971–1972)Chief Economic Advisor, Ministry of Finance, India, (1972–1976)Honorary Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (1976)Director, Reserve Bank of India (1976–1980)Governor, Reserve Bank of India (1982–1985)Secretary General, South Commission, Geneva (1987–1990)Advisor to Prime Minister of India on Economic Affairs (1990–1991)Chairman, University Grants Commission (15 March 1991 – 20 June 1991)[5]

Finance Minister of India, (21 June 1991 – 15 May 1996)

Whose resume is this?

Manmohan Singh

“Each year, I do one DreamWorks project, then I take all the money to the Oscars and bet it on Pixar”

Jack Black

What’s the answer ?

Higgs Boson Particle

Answer

X is a 2000 wuxia film. An American-Chinese-Hong Kong-Taiwanese co-production, the film was directed by Ang Lee and featured an international cast of ethnic Chinese actors, including Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, and Chang Chen. The film was based on the fourth novel in a pentalogy, known in China as the Crane Iron Pentalogy, by wuxia novelist Wang Dulu. The martial arts and action sequences were choreographed by Yuen Wo Ping.

Made on a mere US$17 million budget, with dialogue in Mandarin, X became a surprise international success, grossing $213.5 million. It grossed US$128 million in the United States, becoming the highest-grossing foreign-language film in American history. It has won over 40 awards. The film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (Taiwan) and three other Academy Awards, and was nominated for six other Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The film also won three BAFTAs and two Golden Globes, one for "Best Foreign Film" as well as additional nominations for ten BAFTAs including "Best Picture".

X was originally titled: Wo hu cang long. By what name do we know it better ?

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

Identify

Casterboard,  RipStik, The Waveboard, LA Vigorboard, Swaveboard, AXIS Casterboard (Any one)

Identify

Sound Track

Stairway to Heaven (Backwards !!!)

Backwards Lyrics-Oh here's to my sweet Satan.The one whose little path would make me sad, whose power is Satan.He will give those with him 666.There was a little tool shed where he made us suffer, sad Satan

Forwards Backwards

Identify the voice

Morgan Freeman

Identify – She is an ancient Greek goddess, one of the fifty Nereids. Zeus vied for her hand in marriage at one point before it was prophesized that her son would outdo his father.Also the daughter of Nereus and Doris, and a granddaughter of Tethys.Her son is known for being almost immortal.

ANS – Thetis, mother of Achilles

Like a number of animated cartoons from the 1930s to the early 1950s, X featured racial stereotypes. After explosions, for example, characters with blasted faces would resemble stereotypical blacks, with large lips and bow-tied hair. Perhaps the most controversial element of the show is the character Mammy Two Shoes, a poor black maid who speaks in a stereotypical "black accent" and has a rodent problem.

Tom and Jerry

X was a G9 Rigger freighter that was originally used by Hutt crime lord Ziro Desilijic Tiure as a spice freighter during the Clone Wars. Later in the Battle of Teth, Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker and his Padawan, Ahsoka Tano, used it to take Hutt crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure's son back to his home planet of Tatooine, but were shot down over the planet and were forced to crash-land the ship. After they abandoned it, the ship was scavenged by Jawas, and Skywalker later returned and reclaimed it. The ship's appearance of age caused it to be nicknamed the Grease Bucket and the Bucket of Bolts by Tano and Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, respectively.After it had been reclaimed, X was later used by Skywalker in several missions during the coming events in the war. These included Skywalker and Kenobi's rescue of Galactic Senator Padmé Amidala aboard the Confederacy warship Malevolence during the Battle of the Kaliida Nebula, as well as Skywalker and Tano's mission to destroy a Confederacy listening post. Additionally, Skywalker and Kenobi took the freighter to Florrum to confirm that Sith Lord and Confederacy Head of State Count Dooku had been captured by pirates, in order for a deal to be struck between the pirates and the Galactic Republic, and the two Jedi later used X to find an antidote for the deadly Blue Shadow Virus on the planet Iego. Later on, X would be used once again by Skywalker and Tano during their mission to Mustafar.

Identify X.

The Twilight !

X may refer to any type of sauce. It usually refers to the spicy, often tomato-based, hot sauces typical of Mexican cuisine, particularly those used as dips. In the United States X has been popularized and commercialized as a Mexican creation. There are many types of X which usually vary throughout Latin America.

X is a 1988 romance film about a lower-class Puerto Rican dancer who decides to improve his lot in life by entering a X dancing contest. The film was directed by Boaz Davidson, and stars Robi Rosa, Rodney Harvey, and Angela Alvarado. It earned a Razzie Award nomination for Rosa as Worst New Star.

The X programming language is an actor-oriented programming language that uses concurrency primitives beyond asynchronous message passing, including token-passing, join, and first-class continuations. It also supports distributed computing over the Internet with universal naming, remote communication, and migration linguistic abstractions and associated middleware. For portability, it produces Java code.

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X is a syncretic dance form with origins from the Cuban Son (circa 1920s) and Afro-Cuban dance (specifically Afro-Cuban rumba). It is generally associated with the X music style, although it may be danced under other types of Latin American music.X is normally a partner dance, although there are forms such as a line dance form "X suelta", where the dancers dance individually and a round dance form "Rueda de Casino" where multiple couples exchange partners in a circle. X can be improvised or performed with a set routine.X is a popular social dance throughout Latin America as well as in North America, Europe, Australia, and some countries in Asia and the Middle East.

X is a Portuguese company and brand of clothing. X has stores around the globe and designs, produces, and sells products ranging from jeans to skirts. Founded in Portugal in 1994 as a family business, the company expanded into Spain in the 1990s and has since spread across Europe and Asia. In the last decade X has spread to the Middle East, alone or in partnership with leading fashion retailers. X is a bestseller in Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates.

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The four identical Cluster II satellites (part of the ESA space program) study the impact of the Sun's activity on the Earth's space environment by flying in formation around Earth. One of them is named X. For the first time in space history, this mission is able to collect three-dimensional information on how the solar wind interacts with the magnetosphere and affects near-Earth space and its atmosphere, including aurorae.The spacecraft are cylindrical (290 x 130 cm, see online 3D model) and are spinning at 15 rotations per minute. After launch, their solar cells provided 224 watts power for instruments and communications. The four spacecraft maneuver into various tetrahedral formations to study the magnetospheric structure and boundaries. The inter-spacecraft distances can be varied from around 17 to 10,000 kilometers (km). The propellant for the maneuvers makes up approximately half of the spacecraft's launch weight.The highly elliptical orbits of the spacecraft reach a perigee of around 4 RE (Earth radii, where 1 RE = 6371 km) and an apogee of 19.6 RE. Each orbit takes approximately 57 hours to complete. The European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) acquires telemetry and distributes to the online data centers the science data from the spacecraft.

X is an album of X music recorded by Celia Cruz in 2000. Celia was born in 1925 in Havana, Cuba. The album contains around 20 X songs.

What is X ?

Fill in the blank - “Ancient but modern, fabulously rich, yet achingly poor, __________ is India in microcosm”

ANS- Mumbai/Bombay

Mega Connect-2

Spider man villains…

The villains in this picture are Carnage, Chameleon, Doctor Octopus, Electro, Green Goblin, Hammerhead, Hobgoblin, Hydro-Man, Kingpin, Kraven, Lizard, Morbius,Molten Man, Mysterio, Rhino, Sandman, Scarecrow, Scorpion, Swarm, Tarantula,Venom, Vermin, Vulture, and Will o' the Wisp. It was an Anti-venom bike and a hammerhead shark…