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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?

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Nintendo.

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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.

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X- Firefox, Y – Fox.

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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.

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Yahoo.

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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 ?

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Vulcanisation.

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COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING LIST :INDIA .IN

CANADA .CA

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA .US

CAMBODIA _________(NAMED AFTER THE PREDECESSOR STATE TO MODERN CAMBODIA)

SWITZERLAND .CH

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.KH(After Khmer Dynasty)

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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?

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X- Jeff Bezos ; Amazon.

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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 wordsI 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.

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X- 1729, Y - G.H. Hardy.

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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.

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Viagra.

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What is being talked about?Name meaning Fierce or Untamable KingDiet CarnivoreHeight 40ftLength 50ftBirth type EggSpecial features Camouflage, Extremely

intelligent

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Indominus Rex.

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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.

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X- HAL 9000.

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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?

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Capita.

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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.

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Pebble.

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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?

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Ankit Fadia.

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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?

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Angry Birds.

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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.

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Mozilla.

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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.

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DC++.

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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.

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Subhash Mukhopadhyay.

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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.

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Motorola.

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

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Xerox.

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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 ?

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Hyperloop by SpaceX.

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Hold your horses!