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Composition of?

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The NASA space power facility in Ohio is the world’s largest vacuum

chamber, and recently was the site of a viral video demonstrating one

of Galileo’s famous experiments.

For what purpose was this location used in 2012?

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Knights who were part of France's Order of the Holy Spirit, founded in 1587,

wore a special cross, or le cordon bleu, around their necks. The French

phrase came to be associated with honor, achievement, and a delicious

chicken dish. When passenger ocean liners started to race across the

Atlantic in 1830, they did so for the Blue Riband, a coveted prize that didn't

actually exist in physical form until 1935.

What modern practice have these events given rise to?

BLUE RIBBONS FOR 1ST PLACE

WINNERS

The ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus first mentioned the ritual in the

play "Agamemnon“. In modern history, perhaps the first instance was

when President James Madison stepped off a riverboat to this ritual in

1821. By 1902, it was was a more inclusive symbol of hospitality for railroad

passengers. It was re-associated with royalty of a different kind, when it

debuted at an awards show in 1961.

What ritual?

THE RED CARPET

In 2005, Sony BMG released a 3-CD set entitled “Electric 80s”, a

compilation of "the greatest Eighties electric hits". The cover art for

this was peculiar for the fact that it confused retailers about the price

of their own wares, resulting in customers buying the CD at much less

than the printed price. It also messed with stores' inventory tracking

systems, as for every sale of the Electric 80s, they inexplicably

recorded a sale of singer Jack Johnson's new CD ”In Between

Dreams” instead.

Why this confusion?

Wayne McLaren was a former professional rodeo rider who appeared in small parts in

various television series and movies (primarily Westerns) throughout the 1960s and

1970s, and he modeled for print advertising between acting jobs in the mid-1970s.

David McLean, appeared in many television and print advertisements starting in the

early 1960s. He also starred in the short-lived 1960 television Western Tate, and he

played roles in numerous television series and feature films during the 1960s and 1970s.

Eric Lawson, is another television actor who appeared in advertisements between

late 1970s to 1980s.

All three of them died due to lung cancer or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

(a lung disease).

Find a connect between these three that would paint their death ironic.

MARLBORO MEN

These two oft-confused buttons find their origin in the device ‘Anita

Mk VII’ manufactured by Bell Punch Co., Uxbridge, England in 1961.

They stood for ‘Clear Register’ and ‘Clear Keyboard’ functions. This

schema was continued in later models, where one button served to

clear just the input buffer, and another cleared the contents of the

entire register.

The prevailing common confusion between the buttons is what leads

people to doubt their efficacy, leading users to press it numerous

times. What aspect of a common technology is being talked about

here?

C AND CE BUTTONS IN CALCULATORS

In the middle of the Depression, Sylvan Goldman, an Oklahoma grocer,

acquired several Humpty Dumpty stores and tried to make them

profitable. It turned out to be a bad decision and Goldman's chain was

in trouble. He studied his shoppers, looking for clues in their actions that

would help him restore profitability to his enterprise.

These observations led to his instructions to employee Fred Young for a

certain contraption, in 1936. But it wasn’t an instant success as folks

preferred to stick with what they knew rather than play around with an

unusual-looking contraption. Goldman didn’t give up, and hired decoy

shoppers to use the gizmo throughout the store, so providing a visual

demonstration of what this innovation could do. He also stationed

someone at the front door to greet patrons and offer it to them as they

entered.

What invention is being talked about?

Shopping Carts

What are Jarns, Quimps, Nittles & Grawlixes types of, in graphic

literature (coined by Mort Walker in his book The Lexicon of

Comicana in 1980)?

Types of Cussing

Playtex is a brand name for undergarments, baby products, gloves, feminine products and

sunscreen, founded in 1947, by the International Latex Corporation (ILC).

In the 1960s, after much trials and tribulations, Playtex received a contract from an organization

Y for successfully designing X.

Recounted from an eponymous book –

“ILC’s team , a motley group of seamstresses and engineers, led by a car mechanic and a

former television repairman, manages to convince Y to let them enter their X in a closed,

invitation-only competitive bid at their own expense. They spend six weeks working around the

clock—at times breaking into their own offices to work 24-hour shifts—to arrive at a ___ solution

that starkly outperforms the two invited competitors. In open, direct competition with larger,

more moneyed companies, ILC manages to produce a superior X by drawing on the craft-

culture handiwork and expertise of seamstresses, rather than on the hard-line culture of

engineering.”

What did Playtex create/X?

X=Spacesuits (for the Apollo 11 mission)

Y=NASA

X, developed a taste for Western music when he was studying engineering in Mysore in the

1990s. He suggested to his father Y that he buy the rights to Billy Joel's song We didn't start

the fire for a certain purpose.

ID X,Y and what did the song inspire?

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X=Akhilesh Yadav, Y=Mulayam Singh Yadav

Promotional song for SP

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Tweets by whom, and on what occasion?

By the Twitter account @1984Bhopal,

a detailed account of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy (on its 30th

anniversary)

Connect

David Bowie, Peter Murphy, Robert Smith and Neil Gaiman inspired the look of

Dream (of Sandman series)

In Cambodia, a special kind of pizza called ‘Happy Pizza’, due the unusual toppings on it. Why is

it named so?

Cannabis/Marijuana Toppings

X was originally developed by Luis von Ahn, Ben Maurer, Colin McMillen, David Abraham and

Manuel Blum at Carnegie Mellon University's Pittsburgh campus, and acquired by Google in

September 2009. Not only does it stop spammers but it helps digitize books, by crowdsourcing the

job. While digitizing books, sometimes the character recognition is unsatisfactory, so the computer

my save some gibberish of a sentence without knowing any better, which is where X comes into

the picture.

X has helped digitize the archives of The New York Times and books from Google Books, and as of

2012, thirty years of The New York Times had been digitized.

In 2012, X began using photographs of house numbers taken from Google's Street View project, in

addition to scanned words.

X is reported as being used over 100million times a day.

ID X (be specific!)

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HALO In video: HALO (high altitude, low opening) jump

In pictures: Halo (an optical effect)

Halo (the video game)

Croton capitatus, also known as woolly croton, goatweed or X, is a plant distributed across the

southern United States, and elsewhere.

For the famous author Y, it was not

intentional in Y’s part to name

something major in the books after

the plant X. It was only after the books

were published, when a friend

reminded her of seeing the plant in

the Kew Gardens, UK many years

beforehand that Y speculated that

the name had remained in her

subconscious ever since.

ID X and Y.

X=Hogwort

Y=J.K. Rowling

On October, 2014, senior Google executive Dr. Alan Eustace’s ordeal began in an

abandoned runway in Roswell, New Mexico and took a total of 12 hours, in a suit that

featured an elaborate life support system in case anything went wrong. Unlike his Austrian

predecessor who was met with much fanfare a few days earlier, Alan had been preparing for

this event in secrecy for 3 years. What feat did Alan achieve?

Highest Free-Fall RecordThe previous record was set by Felix Baumgartner