Quiz Qawwali #4-Trivia X

1.X was given as a grant to establish a trading post spread over three sq km of beach sand by the rulers to two Britons - Francis Day and Andrew Cogan.It is today the 34th largest city in the world.The first signs of industrial activity started with the formation of Parry & Co that later went into manufacture of finished leather goods supplied mainly to the British and American soldiers. Cotton textile was, however, the oldest manufactured good from this part of the world to be sold all over Europe. It recently celebrated its 369th birth anniversary.Identify X?

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Identify this duo who developed something which has been a pain in the neck for microsoft for quite sometime now...

3.X (October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977), was an American comedian and film star. He is famed as a master of wit. He made fifteen feature films with his siblings, the Y, and also had a successful solo career, most notably as the host of the radio and television game show You Bet Your Life.He had a distinctive image, which included a heavy greasepaint moustache and eyebrows and glasses.X had a successful performing career even after the brothers stopped making films though. He performed constantly, doing a one-man show at Carnegie Hall when he was 82!He's the one to have said these witty remarks which became immortal: 'A black cat crossing your path signifies the animal is going somewhere'; 'Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot'; and 'Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.'
Identify X & Y?

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Identify this legendary statesman...

5.Despite studying criminal justice, X first began his career as a pilot, was shot down on a bombing mission during World War II, and won a medal in the process. He had a second crash while flying a commercial airplane,left aviation industry & became a police officer.The money offered by the television industry soon tempted him to try his luck there and he made Y in 1966.X died on October 24, 1991, and became one of the first people to be buried in space.
Identify X&Y?

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Identify this very beautiful lady...

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He lends his name to the english lexicon.A 2000 movie based on him and starring Kate Winslet, Geoffrey Rush and Joaquin Phoenix was nominated for 3 oscars.
Identify him.Bonus 5 points for naming the movie.

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Identify this,recently in news, sportsperson who did something that even Fidel Castro could not.

9.X is a character created by F.Scott Fitzerald.The story begins in 1860 with the birth of the protagonist, X. X is born with the body of a seventy-year-old man, and when his father first visits him mere hours after his birth he is already able to speak. To avoid embarrassment,X's father forces him to shave his beard and dye his hair in order to look younger.

As the story progresses it soon becomes apparent to the X's family that X is aging backwards. At the age of eighteen he attempts to enroll at Yale University, but the officials at Yale send him away believing that he is a fifty-year-old man.
Many tragi-comedic incidents happen to X & finally, at the end of his life, X ceases to exist.
A movie based on X and directed by David Fincher is slated for a 2008 release.
Identify X.

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Identify this person who is one of the founding fathers of the internet revolution...

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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.