Thursday, August 7, 2008

Quiz Qawwali #3 - Trivia X

1.Borrowing the name from his parents' coffee shop in Japan , X founded the first Y in New York City in 1964 , incorporating his homeland's teppanyaki style of cooking that called on chefs to perform with a flourish in front of the guests.While X's company later grew to nearly 100 restaurants worldwide X's ambition wasn't limited only to restaurants.A man with diverse interests ,X was once a member of Japan's Olympic Wrestling Team , a driver in the notorious ( and illegal ) cross-country cannonball run and one of the few people to traverse the pacific in a hot air balloon.
Identify X & Y.
2.X is a spiritual practice founded Y in 1992.It has five sets of meditation exercises and seeks to develop practitioners' hearts and character according to the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance.The teachings deal with issues such as "cultivation of virtue and character", "moral standards for different levels", and "salvation of all sentient beings."
Since 1999, reports of torture,illegal imprisonment,beatings, forced labour, and psychiatric abuses of X's practitioners have been widespread. 66% of all reported torture cases in China concern X's practitioners, who are also estimated to comprise at least half of China's labour camp population, according to the UN Special Rapporteur on torture, Manfred Nowak, and the US Department of State respectively.In 2006, two high-profile Canadian lawyers published an investigative report concluding that since 1999, the Chinese authorities have systematically executed X's practitioners to harvest their organs for the burgeoning transplant trade.
Identify X and Y.
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4.X have been circulated since 1985 as emails and Usenet group discussions; the Google Usenet archive records two early mentions of X, 7 August 1985 Vending Machine Tipover and 7 December 1990 JATO Rocket Car urban legend. The JATO legend was widely distributed via emails from 1995–97. Several anonymously authored email lists titled (for example) 1999 "X" have appeared annually since 1991.There are several websites that record "X" — a well-known one started in 1994 run by Y, who has also written several books on X.
Y has stated five requirements for her X which are - "Inability to reproduce","Excellence" , "Self-selection" , "Maturity" & "Veracity".
Identify X & Y.
5.X is the codename for a discrete graphics processing unit (GPU) chip that was invented by the Pentagon through the negotiation of military applications solution.X will differ from other GPUs currently on the market such as the GeForce 200 Series and the Radeon 4000 series in that it will use the popular x86 instruction set for its shader cores instead of a proprietary graphics-focused instruction set, and will feature cache coherency across all its cores like a multi-core CPU (unlike current GPUs).X is thus expected to be more flexible than current GPUs.X is being worked on by Intel's Hillsboro, Oregon design team, whose last major design was the Pentium 4.
Identify X.
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Answers & results in a week's time.Mail me the answers at sid17_4all@yahoo.co.in

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