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Question #1
 A faceless person with round spectacles and a fedora hat in a white
enclosure in a dark background is a popular symbol for X designed by
Sebastian Gabriel.
 The logo is also symbolic to being faceless when you want to avail their
services so that when the next customer avails the same service from
the same source they do not get to know any of the activites performed
by the previous user.
 Some people avail this service on a daily basis as a habit but others
avail this for a very specific reasons usually for a limited period of time.

Question #2
 In a 2009 interview X said the following when asked about what
changes he would’ve made if he could do it all over again.
 “Look at all the paper and trees, he said, that could have been
saved if people had not had to write or type those on paper over
the years — not to mention the human labour and time spent
typing those two keystrokes countless millions of times in browser
address boxes.”
 Who’s X? What’s he talking about?

Question #3
 Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's
autobiography, Hit Refresh: the quest to
rediscover Microsoft's soul and imagine a
better future for everyone was officially
released in the US at Microsoft's Ignite
conference on September 26, 2017.
However the book was released at a rather
odd location in the UK for a technology
company. It was said that nadella's growing
up in India was a major factor in choosing
this location. What location was chosen for
the unveiling of the book in UK?

Question #4
 X once wrote a famous later explaining the discovery of Y as “When I
woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t
plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering Y. But I guess
that's exactly what I did.”
 What he famously observed was how a mould growing on his petri
dishes suppressed the growth of nearby bacteria. But, despite his best
efforts, he failed to extract any usable Y. Later in 1939, Australian
pharmacologist Howard Florey and his team of chemists figure out a
way of extracting Y, which had a massive influence in World War 2.

Question #5
 In 1941, a Swiss engineer went for a hike in the Alps with his
dog. Upon returning home, he took a look at the small burdock
burrs that stuck to his clothes, and noticed that the little seeds
were covered in small hooks, which is how they became
attached to fabric and fur.
 After noting how firmly those little burrs attached to fabric, he
went onto invent something new.
 What did he invent?

Question #6
 X is a type of computer
designed to run
unauthorized versions of
MacOS. X?

Question #7
 The first instance of this still prevalent convention of depicting
something with X, dates back to 1995 when Windows 95 first used it.
 The reason for this convention may be given as:
 Traditionally, the operation of a mechanical tool, like that of a watch,
was determined by the physical constraints of the position, type and
size of the X used. So, if you wanted to change something of the
machine/tool, you would have to manually make alterations to the X.
 Identify the convention.

Question #8
 Where are these perfumes used
for?

Question #9
 Georges Lemaître is a Belgian Catholic priest who has greatly
contributed to the field of astronomy. He was the first to theorize an
expanding universe, a fact experimentally confirmed by Hubble.
He also gave the X theory which was criticised by Einstein.
However Einstein endorsed his theory after Hubble's discovery.
 What’s this theory X?

Question #10
 X is a real-time strategy simulation video game, developed and
published by UK-based independent games studio Ndemic Creations.
In the wake of the 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak in January 2020, X
became the top-selling app in the Chinese market.
 By February 2020, X had resurged to be the top paid app on the iOS
app store, beating out Minecraft.
 On 27 February 2020, the Chinese government forced the game to be
removed from the App Store in China, with the Cyberspace
Administration of China citing "illegal content" in the game though has
not provided any further explanation to Ndemic.
 ID X

Question #11
 Something really fundamental to
our every day browsing experience
was created because of this dress.
 What?

Question #12
 Believe it or not, the world’s most viewed photograph was created on a
whim.
 You may not recognize the image by its name, but you’ll know it when
you see it.
 Former National Geographic photographer Charles O'Rear, a resident
of the Napa Valley, took the photo on film with a medium-format Mamiya
RZ67 camera while on his way to visit his girlfriend in 1996.
 While it was widely believed later that the image was digitally
manipulated or even created with software such as Adobe Photoshop,
O'Rear says it never was.
 Which photograph?

Question #13
 It was originally a slang word in the nautical realm; sailors
used it for any mechanical object that they did not have or
could not remember the name of. The etymology of this word
is not settled but many believe it derives from a French word
for a firing mechanism (gachette).
 What is this word?

Question #14
 The still shows David
Karp, founder of Tumblr
presenting Steve Wilhite
with the 2013 lifetime
achievement award at the
17th annual Webbys.
 What’s been blanked out?

Question #15
 Apple’s “_(?)__” is the new fad on selfie-crazy social media.
 “_(?)_” is Apple’s turn of phrase for slow-motion short video
captured using the iPhone’s front camera. This feature is new to
the iPhone 11 models. The phones' front camera can now record
video at 120 frames per second, which when slowed down,
results in a crisp slow-motion effect. Name the trend?

Question #16
 Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness was a popular online game back in
the 90s.
 At the height of its popularity, Shonglor and Warp, 2 of it's best
players ran into a problem related to matchmaking, which resulted
in them doing something which nowadays is viewed negatively by
gamers.
 Their act resulted in a new term being coined in online gaming.
 Just give me the term.

Question #17
 This is a picture was taken
in a science conference in
the 1920’s.
 Often labelled as the
“smartest picture ever
taken”, give me the name
of this conference that
continues to the present
day and attracts some of
the smartest people.

Question #18
 NASA astronaut Piers Sellers carried
a piece of wood into space for The
Royal Society in 2012 via shuttle
Atlantis to the International Space
Station .
 Then this wood was experimented in
zero gravity conditions in space, to
celebrate 350th anniversary of
Royal Society.
 Why was this piece of wood taken?

Question #19
 During the 1940 Blitzkrieg, the Luftwaffe often struck under the
cover of darkness. In order to make it more difficult for the German
planes to hit targets, the British government issued citywide
blackouts. The Royal Air Force were able to repel the German
fighters in part because of the development of a new, secret radar
technology.
 But to keep that under wraps, the Ministry provided another reason
for their success. They spread the myth that their pilots did
something which helped them to fight the German fighters at night.
 What was the myth?

Question #20
 Xs were an extremely important but hard to come by resource in the old
days. As such, people whose profession required a steady supply of X,
had to resort to less than savoury means to acquire X.
 During the 1600s, William Harvey famously used his father and sister to
accomplish the revolutionary feat that he is known for today.
 The famous Burke and Hare murders were a series of 16 killings
committed over a period of about ten months in 1828 in Edinburgh,
Scotland, in order to acquire X.
 What is X?

Question #21
 Now known to be Universal Control, it is said to have been derived
from chief executive Yu Yongfu's name.
 As in the name originally being Yu's Chinese Web. What app is
being talked about?

Question #22
 What does this image
represent?

Question #1
 A faceless person with round spectacles and a fedora hat in a white
enclosure in a dark background is a popular sumbol for X designed by
Sebastian Gabriel
 The logo is also symbolic to being faceless when you want to avail their
services so that when the next customer avails the same service from
the same source they do not get to know any of the activites performed
by the previous user.
 Some people avail this service on a daily basis as a habit but others
avial this for a very specific reasons usually for a limited period of time

Answer:
The two // after http:

Answer:
Lord’s Cricket Ground

Question #4
 X once wrote a famous later explaining the discovery of Y as “When I
woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t
plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering Y. But I guess
that's exactly what I did.”
 What he famously observed was how a mould growing on his petri
dishes suppressed the growth of nearby bacteria. But, despite his best
efforts, he failed to extract any usable Y. Later in 1939 , Australian
pharmacologist Howard Florey and his team of chemists figure out a
way of extracting Y , which had a massive influence in World war 2 .

Answer:
X-Alexander Fleming
Y-Penicillin

Question #5
 In 1941, a Swiss engineer went for a hike in the Alps with his
dog. Upon returning home, he took a look at the small burdock
burrs that stuck to his clothes, and noticed that the little seeds
were covered in small hooks, which is how they became
attached to fabric and fur.
 After noting how firmly those little burrs attached to fabric, he
went onto invent something new .
 What did he invent?

Question #7
 The first instance of this still prevalent convention of depicting
something with X, dates back to 1995 when Windows 95 first used it.
 The reason for this convention may be given as :
 Traditionally, the operation of a mechanical tool, like that of a watch,
was determined by the physical constraints of the position, type and
size of the X used. So, if you wanted to change something of the
machine/tool, you would have to manually make alterations to the X.
 Identify the convention.

Answer:
Gear symbol for settings

Answer:
Sprays for amazon kindle to make it smell
like a real book.

Question #10
 X is a real-time strategy simulation video game, developed and
published by UK-based independent games studio Ndemic Creations.
In the wake of the 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak in January 2020, X
became the top-selling app in the Chinese market.
 By February 2020, X had resurged to be the top paid app on the iOS
app store, beating out Minecraft.
 On 27 February 2020, the Chinese government forced the game to be
removed from the App Store in China, with the Cyberspace
Administration of China citing "illegal content" in the game though has
not provided any further explanation to Ndemic.

Answer:
Bliss
Windows XP
Wallpaper

Question #13
 It was originally a slang word in the nautical realm; sailors used it
for any mechanical object that they did not have or could not
remember the name of. The etymology of this word is not settled
but many believe it derives from a French word for a firing
mechanism (gachette).
 What is this word?

Question #14
 The still shows David
Karp, founder of Tumblr
presenting Steve Wilhite
with the 2013 lifetime
achievement award at the
17th annual webbys.
 What’s been blanked out?

Question #17
 This is a picture was taken
in a science conference in
1927.
 Often labelled as the
“smartest picture ever
taken”, give me the name
of this conference that
continues to the present
day and attracts some of
the smartest people.

Answer:
5th Solvay Conference
(1929)

Answer:
Carrots make eyesight
stronger

Question #21
 Now known to be Universal Control, it is said to have been derived
from chief executive Yu Yongfu's name.
 As in the name originally being Yu's Chinese Web. What is being
talked about?

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