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X started as a playing card company in late
1889 but is now a multinational consumer
electronics company headquartered in Kyoto.
The word X can be roughly translated from
Japanese to English as "leave luck to heaven".
Identify X?
1*.

A red panda is an animal native to the
Himalayas and southwestern China. The
English word for red panda is X which is
where the software gets its name from –
so the X logo is actually a red panda,
not a Y! . Identify both X and Y.
2.

The name X was created by Jonathan
Swift for his book Gulliver’s Travels (1726)
– which explained a X to be a really ugly
person. Back in 2008, Microsoft tried to
buy X for about 45 billion USD, but in
2016, a telecommunication giant
bought it out for around 5 billion USD.
Give me X.
3.

In Roman mythology, _________ is the
god of fire. It is also the origin of the word
‘volcano’ , that means ‘burning
mountain’. A chemical process used to
create durable materials by transforming
polymers using Sulphur is also named
after this . what is the chemical process ?
4.

COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING LIST :
INDIA .IN
CANADA .CA
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA .US
CAMBODIA _________(NAMED AFTER THE
PREDECESSOR STATE TO MODERN
CAMBODIA)
SWITZERLAND .CH
5*.

Three days after the launch, the company’s
CEO X got an email from Jerry Yang, asking
if they would like to be featured in Yahoo’s
‘what’s cool’ page. X said yes, after which
the company’s popularity skyrocketed,
making it very popular, even in India and X
worth around 65 billion dollars. Who is X and
which company are we talking about?
6.

X is a natural number. It is also called is the Y–
Ramanujan number after a famous anecdote of the
British mathematician Y regarding a visit to the hospital
to see the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.
In Hardy's words
I remember once going to see him when he was ill at
Putney. I had ridden in taxi cab number _____ and
remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull
one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavorable
omen. "No," he replied, "it is a very interesting number;
it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two
cubes in two different ways." Give X and Y.
7*.

Angina Pectoris is a fancy name for chest pain—specifically,
spasms in the heart's coronary arteries. The pharmaceutical
company Pfizer developed a pill named UK92480 to help constrict
these arteries to relieve pain. The pill failed its primary purpose, but
the secondary side effect was startling. The drug became known as
_______, and you know what it does. Pfizer sold $288 million worth of
the little blue pill in the first quarter of 2013.
FITB.
8.

What is being talked about?
Name meaning Fierce or Untamable King
Diet Carnivore
Height 40ft
Length 50ft
Birth type Egg
Special features Camouflage, Extremely
intelligent
9.

X is a fictional character and the main antagonist
in Arthur Clarke’s movie series. It speaks in a soft,
calm voice and in a conversational manner and is
voiced by Douglas Rain. Also featured in the EPIC
RAP BATTLES VIDEO of STEVE JOBS vs BILL GATES it is
listed as the 13th-greatest film villain in the AFI's 100
Years...100 Heroes & Villains. It has also been
shown that it has a female sister and both are
created by an Indian scientist. Who is X.
10*.

This British outsourcing services company
X has announced that it will fire 2000 of
its employees and will be replacing them
with robots. Furthermore, the money
saved by firing the employees will go in
buying more robots. Which company X
are we talking about?
11.

X raised $10.3 million through a Kickstarter campaign running from April 11,
2012, through May 18, 2012; this was the most money raised for any
product on the site at that time.Best Buy, an American consumer
electronics corporation, began selling smartwatches in July 2013, and sold
out within five days. On December 31, 2014, sold its one millionth
smartwatch. In 2015, it launched the Time and Time Steel with Kickstarter,
raising $20.3 million from over 75,000 backers, breaking records for both on
the site. In 2016, X shut down their Time 2 series watches and refunded
Kickstarter backers, citing financial issues.
On December 7, 2016, X officially announced that the company would be
shut down and would no longer manufacture or continue support for any
devices, nor honour any existing warranties. X's intellectual property was
purchased by Fitbit, a wearable technology company specializing in fitness
tracking, which also hired some of the its staff.
Give us X.
12.

X is a self-proclaimed ‘ethical hacker’ of
computers, whose skills and ethics have been
debated. In 2002, X claimed that at the age of
17, he had defaced the website of Indian edition
of CHIP magazine and claimed that the editor
offered him a job which was denied by then
editor in a 2012 interview. X also claimed to have
foiled attacks by Pakistani hacker groups by
infiltrating in them. Ironically X’s own website has
been hacked multiple times. In 2012, DEF CON
awarded him ‘Security Charlatan of the Year’
award citing X to be a fraudster. X is also brand
ambassador for Digital India. Who is X?
13.

The tragic end of the dodos occurred
because Dutch sailors brought pigs to the
island of Mauritius , which plundered the
dodos’ nests and ate their eggs ultimately
drove the birds to extinction. It is a
misconception that sailors ate the dodos
themselves.
What, in the world is magnificent
reconstruction of this historic tale?
14*.

In 1994, when a team at Netscape sat around
to think of names for a new browser to take
on NCSA‘s Mosaic browser, what they were
looking for was something that would crush
the competition. What they looked to was
Godzilla. Combining Mosaic with the movie
monster brings you to the current day name
of X. Tell me X.
15.

X is a free and open-source, peer-to-peer file-
sharing client that can be used to connect to
the Direct Connect network or to the ADC
protocol. It is developed primarily by Jacek
Sieka, nicknamed arnetheduck.
As of 2008, X had around 90% market share of
the Direct Connect community.
It is quite popular in engineering colleges
across India. Usually there are Facebook
pages dedicated to X community. Id X.
16.

X was a physician from Hazaribagh, Bihar (now in
Jharkhand), India, who created the world's
second and India's first child using in-vitro
fertilisation, Durga who was born 67 days after
the first IVF baby in United Kingdom.
Unfortunately, X was harassed by the state
government, and not allowed to share his
achievements with the international scientific
community. Dejected, he committed suicide on
19 June 1981.
His life and death has been the subject of
countless newspaper reviews and inspired the
Hindi movie Ek Doctor Ki Maut (Death of a
doctor), directed by Tapan Sinha.
17*.

Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name
when his company started manufacturing
radios for cars. Many audio equipment
makers of the era used the "ola" ending for
their products, most famously the "Victrola"
phonograph made by the Victor Talking
Machine Company. The name was meant to
convey the idea of "sound" and "motion". The
name became so recognized that the
company later adopted it as the company
name. Id.
18.

Identify the old logo of this American global
corporation that sells document solutions and
services in more than 160 services.
19*
.

X is a proposed model of passenger and
freight transport based on the concept of
passive magnetic levitation through the
use of linear induction motors. The
company behind X is recently conducting
a “pod” designing contest to realise the
model. What in the modern world are we
talking about ?
20.

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