2. Question 1 During the recording sessions for XYZ’s second album, ____ had to leave due to his wife's going into premature labor. During that period, the remaining members, who still had studio time booked, continued to write music in improvisation. On October 23, 2007, a compilation of jams from those sessions was released under the name of XWZ. Id XYZ and XWZ.
3. Question 2 They had an idea to turn Z into a single player game. X was offered US$750, with an extra $100 each time a chip was eliminated from the prospected design. X noticed his friend Y was capable of producing designs with a small number of chips, and invited him to work on the hardware design with the prospect of splitting the $750 wage. Y had no sketches and instead interpreted the game from its description. To save parts, he had "tricky little designs" difficult to understand for most engineers .The original deadline was met after Y did not sleep for four days straight. In the end 50 chips were removed from Jobs' original design. This equated to a US$5,000 bonus, which X kept secret from Y, instead only paying him $375. Name the game and the company producing it. BONUS name X Y Z.
4. Question 3 It is an annual convention of Internet memes that first took place at the MIT in 2008. Various net celebs attended, such as the authors of the webcomicsxkcd, Questionable Content and Dinosaur comics, Leeroy Jenkins and many others. It was organized by a group of students from Harvard led by Tim Hwang. According to Hwang, the inspiration for the conference was the September 23, 2007 meetup of fans of xkcd with its creator in a park in North Cambridge, MA. What ?
5. Question 4 While crossing into Natal she, with many others, courted arrest. Shespent 3 months in jail. She suffered a fatal fever and when she was released there was nothing more than skin and bones held alive together by her sheer grit. She heard somebody tell: “Why don’t you people register and becomeSouth Africans instead? Indians! India doesn’t even have a flag! What are you really fighting for?”“If having a flag is what would give form to India, then here it is”, she said, tearing off her saffron-white-green sari and she waved it triumphantly, “MY FLAG! MY MOTHERLAND!”. She gave us ourNational flag (Gandhi designed the flag with the same three colours as her sari), a greater resolve (in his own words) to Gandhi’s freedom fight, undying fiery guts to women and a soul full of strength for her, our country.
6. Question 5 Prior to 2007, it began on the first Sunday in April and "normalcy" returned on the last Sunday in October, but since 2007 it begins on the second Sunday in March and ends on first Sunday in November. Something of this sort was first suggested by Benjamin Franklin in 1774 in an essay titled "An Economic Project". What?
7. Question 6 X is the title of several Marvel comic books exploring "the road not traveled" by its various characters. Events in the series are considered separate from mainstream continuity in the Marvel Universe. Y is X's counterpart on the DC Comics side. Unlike its X, which bases its stories on a single point of divergence from the regular continuity, mostY stories instead take place in entirely self-contained continuities whose only connection to the canon DC continuity are the presence of familiar DC characters. Id X and Y.
8. Question 7 This description is of which site: Staggeringly comprehensive wiki of pop-culture genre/character/narrative conventions. If you’re into the taxonomy of pop culture, _____ will EAT YOUR BRAIN. If you’re not, this site will drive you crazy, as it effortlessly encapsulates your most brilliant idea in some jocular epithet.
9. Question 8 X was as brilliant on the pitch as he was wild off of it. He is known as the greatest dribbler in soccer history. Even though he was born with crippled legs and retained a distorted left leg even after an operation, he never let this affect his wonderful ball skills, making some of the most beautiful soccer performances ever. Clubs he played for: Pau Grande (Brazil)Botafogo (Brazil)Corinthians (Brazil)AJ Barranquilla (Colombia)Flamengo (Brazil)Red Star Paris (France) Id X.
10. Question 9 In 1986, British band Half Man Half Biscuit released their debut single, "The Trumpton Riots". On the B-side was the now legendary track, "All I want for Christmas is a __________ away kit": the finest study of adolescent obsession, frustration, rivalry, violence and table football ever to grace the wrong side of a bit of vinyl. The title is a play on Dora Bryan's"All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth". Id this football club, which soon after the release of this song, vanished from the scene and reappeared in 2007 in the second division.
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12. Question 10 Whose filmography ? (Not Exhaustive) The Female Animal (1958) The Story of Mankind (1957) My Favorite Spy (1951) A Lady Without Passport (1950) Samson and Delilah (1949) Let's Live a Little (1948) Dishonored Lady (1947) The Strange Woman (1946) Experiment Perilous (1944) The Heavenly Body (1944) White Cargo (1942) Crossroads (1942) Tortilla Flat (1942) Come Live with Me (1941) Comrade X (1940)
13. Question 11 Lawrence Sperry and Waldo Polk are believed to have founded this "club" in 1916. Some famous members of the "club" are Richard Branson( joined at the age of 19) and Ralph Fiennes. Membership to this club is open, its just a matter of the individual proving his worth. The band Bow Wow Wow released a song by the club's name in its alum, The Last Of The Mohicans. Id the “club”.
14. Question 12 “Because the moment you put the second step.....the water has already flown...”“If you trust that Existence changes, and you also change, you can never get settled with your ego.”“Simply peform every task with your Being; it becomes a meditation.”“I am not here to prove I am God. I am here to prove YOU are God!” Whose quotes?
