Quiz Qawwali #3 - Trivia X -Answers

1.Y is"Benihana Steak House" and X is Hiroaki (Rocky) Aoki.After he received his degree in restaurant management from New York City Community College in 1964, Rocky Aoki used the $10,000 he had saved from an ice cream business to convince his father to co-invest in the first Benihana, a four-table teppanyaki restaurant on West 56th Street. "Benihana", taken from the Japanese name for safflower, was suggested by Aoki's father. According to family legend, Aoki's father was walking through the bombed-out ruins of post-war Tokyo when he happened across a single red safflower growing in the rubble.
2.Falun Gong or Falun Dafa(X) was founded by Li Hongzhi(Y) in 1992.As Falun Gong has no membership or rosters, the number of practitioners is unknown. In 1998, the Chinese government published a figure of 70 million practitioners in China.Clearwisdom.net, a Falun Gong website, claims 100 million practitioners in more than 80 countries.
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The top-left picture is that of Sid Vicious or John Simon Ritchie the infamous bassist of Sex Pistols,a British punk band.The top-right picture is of Heath Ledger , the actor who played the role of The Joker in the movie,"The Dark Knight".Heath Ledger stated that he based the character of Joker on the behaviour and mannerisms of Sid Vicious.The bottom-left picture is of Jack Nicholson who portrayed Joker in the movie made by Tim Burton.
The connect is of course Joker.
4.A Darwin Award(X) is tongue-in-cheek "honor" named after evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin. Awards have been given for people who "do a service to Humanity by removing themselves from the Gene pool", i.e., lose the ability to reproduce either by death or sterilization in a stupid fashion. According to the Darwin Award books: "The Awards honor people who ensure the long-term survival of the human race by removing themselves from the gene pool in a sublimely idiotic fashion."
Wendy Northcutt(Y) runs the well known website darwinawards.com started in 1994.She has also written several books on the Darwin Awards.
5.Larrabee(X) is the codename for a graphics processing unit (GPU) chip that Intel is developing separately from its current line of integrated graphics accelerators. The video card containing Larrabee is expected to compete with GeForce and Radeon products from NVIDIA and AMD/ATI respectively. Larrabee will also compete in the GPGPU and high-performance computing markets. Intel plans to have engineering samples of Larrabee ready by the end of 2008, with a video card hitting shelves in late 2009 or 2010.