Yada Yada

• X once said in a Reader’s Digest interview, "I wanted the simplest, dullest, plainest-sounding name I could find, Y was much better than something more interesting, like 'Peregrine Carruthers'. Exotic things would happen to and around him, but he would be a neutral figure - an anonymous, blunt instrument wielded by a government department."

Identify X and Y.

X – Ian FlemingY – James Bond

Who’s letter head reads thus ?____________A thinking manAnd an entrepreneurLiving in the world’s centre of technology and outsourcingElectronics City Phase 1 (just off Hosur Main Road),Bangalore, India

The White Tiger

The design was of this was inspired by the skirt.

The Coke Bottle

Connect is Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Pictures of Samuel Coleridge, Albatross, Iron Maiden and Fleetwood Mac

In Japan, O means maru or “right”. X means batsu or “wrong”.

However, in the United States and Europe, as with most translations from the East, everything is the other way round.

Hence, here, X implies ok or “right”. O implies cancel or “wrong”.

Sony Playstation

The origin of the symbol for this computer peripheral is :

The Bowen knot, a continuous loop of rope, which in topological terms, would be considered an unknot.

The Apple Command Key

The company's global headquarters are located at 1241 East Main Street in Stamford, Connecticut, with international offices in Los Angeles, New York City, London, and Toronto. The company was previously known as Titan Sports, Inc. before changing to its present one. What are we talking about?

WWE

A piston fires. The next piston fires at 315 degrees. There is a 405-degree gap. A piston fires. The next piston fires at 315 degrees. There is a 405-degree gap. And the cycle continues. What is being described here?

The Potato – Potato sound of the Harley Davidson

“I Will Always Bleed Purple”

Who said this and why?

Jerry YangWhen he resigned as the CEO of Yahoo

The basis of ______ was a twenty-page story written by him. It was, according to him, "just a rhythm thing on paper all about my steady hatred, directed at some point that was honest."From the story, he wrote four verses and one chorus in Woodstock, New York.

Bob Dylan’s Like a Rollin Stone

When he went to meet his would-be-wife's father, he was wearing a bright red shirt. He told him that he wanted to become a politician with Communist party and wanted to open an orphanage (though his salary was not enough to support his family). He proposed to his wife saying "I am only 5'4" tall. I come from a lower middle class family. I can never become rich in my life & I can never give you any riches." Nonetheless, she married him and rest is history. Who is this person?

Narayan Murthy

Identify

Jack the Ripper’s Letter from Hell

Archaeology: Astolfo Gomes de Mello Araujo and Jose Carlos Marcelino, for showing that armadillos can mix up the contents of an archaeological site.Biology: Marie-Christine Cadiergues, Christel Joubert, and Michel Franc, for discovering that fleas that live on dogs jump higher than fleas that live on cats. Chemistry: Sheree Umpierre, Joseph Hill, and Deborah Anderson, for discovering that Coca-Cola is an effective spermicide, and C.Y. Hong, C.C. Shieh, P. Wu, and B.N. Chiang for accidentally proving it is not. Cognitive science: Toshiyuki Nakagaki, Hiroyasu Yamada, Ryo Kobayashi, Atsushi Tero, Akio Ishiguro, and Ágota Tóth, for discovering that slime molds can solve puzzles.Economics: Geoffrey Miller, Joshua Tyber, and Brent Jordan, for discovering that exotic dancers earn more when at peak fertility.Literature: David Sims, for his study "You Bastard: A Narrative Exploration of the Experience of Indignation within Organizations".Medicine: Rebecca Waber and Dan Ariely for demonstrating that expensive placebos are more effective than inexpensive placebos.

What is this a list of?

2008 IgNobel prize winners

1. In a 2006 interview, _______ highlighted the diversity of his extended family: "It's like a little mini-United

Nations", he said. "I've got relatives who look like Bernie Mac, and I've got relatives who look like Margaret Thatcher." He has seven half-siblings from his Kenyan father's family.

Long connect

2. ________ uses this higher discount revenue to invest in rewards programs which give a higher payout than competing programs. These richer rewards programs, in addition to a premium brand and a reputation for superior customer service, allows ________ to attract a disproportionate share of affluent consumers. ________ then uses its strength with affluent consumers to justify charging a higher merchant discount rate, implying that if a merchant does not accept _______cards he will lose affluent customers. This creates a self-reinforcing loop.

American Express

• It was one of the eight major computer companies through most of the 1960s — with IBM, the largest, called "Snow White" followed by the "Seven Dwarfs": Burroughs, NCR, Control Data Corporation, Honeywell, RCA, UNIVAC and X.

• A Datanet 600 computer was designed, but never sold. It has been said that X got into computer manufacturing because in the 1950s they were the largest user of computers outside of the United States federal government. In 1970 X sold its computer division to Honeywell.

• Identify X

3.

GE

4. Excerpts from the company’s article reads on UNCYCLOPEDIA

• There is an urban legend that the Chinese translation for “X" is "huge dildo with soda." This has no basis in reality. The truth is X was a term created to cover up the terrible, horrible failure that was New X

• Among different versions available the famous ones are fondly known as

1. Barack Obama drink2. Nigga Cola – disgusting black drink made by ugly blacks3. Jesus Juice (Only available in The Neverland Ranch,

Coming Soon to A Little Boy Near You)

• Coca Cola

5.

Benjamin Graham

Susan Decker, Bill Gates, David Gottesman, Charlotte Guyman, Donald Keough, Charlie Munger, Thomas S. Murphy, Ronald Olson, and Walter Scott, Jr. are some of the members of the Board of this co.

6.

Berkshire Hathaway

The Connect is Warren Buffet