2. X was first released in 1993 by Apple and marketed as a personal digital assistant.
Considered the spiritual predecessor of the modern iPad, it was discontinued in 1998
due to poor market reception largely due to its high market price compared to its
rivals at the time. X was scrapped by Steve Jobs upon his return to the company. The
name was chosen due to the historical connection of X and Apple.
3. Facebook took down a number of posts made by music website Ultimate Classic
Rock, all featuring a controversial piece of artwork from 1975. The artwork was
designed by Aubrey Powell of Hipgnosis, an art design group which mainly creates
art for music albums. Powell stated in an interview that the image was an homage to
Arthur C. Clarke's novel Childhood's End; he said "At the end of the book, all of Earth's
children gather together to be taken off into space. I suggested we take a family to
the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland and photograph them climbing the
octagonal steps there, so it looked like they were climbing up to be taken away." To
oppose the ban Change.org petition was launched and eventually Facebook agreed
to restore the posts. “As our community standards explain, we don’t allow nude
images of children on Facebook,” a Facebook spokesperson told UCR. “But we know
this is a culturally significant image. Therefore, we’re restoring the posts we removed.”
Why was this image commissioned and by whom?
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5. Runaround is short science fiction story written by X. As with other stories written by X
the plot revolves around the unique dilemmas created by the existence of Y. However
this was the first time Y was explicitly mentioned in the text, with previous work of X
only having implied to Y. The story follows two humans and a robot who go to
Mercury to restart a mining station that has been abandoned for 10 years. Finding the
photocells short on selenium, they send the robot who can withstand the
temperatures of Mercury to obtain the selenium from a deposit 17 miles away. The
humans become worried when they realize that the robot, Speedy, has not returned
after five hours. When they eventually find him they discover he is running in a huge
circle around a selenium pool in a behavior equated with inebriation
The protagonists realize the robot's dilemma he oscillates between positions: farther
from the selenium, in which the order to obtain selenium outweighs the need for self-
preservation, and nearer to the selenium, in which the compulsion of protecting itself
becomes more important causing him to get caught up in a feedback loop. To
overcome this one of the human steps towards the lethal selenium pool and thus
puts the robot out of the feedback loop. Who is X and what is Y?
6. While translation queries are usually directed to Google Translate today, it was not the
first multilingual website on the scene. X.com by Y functioned from 1997 to 2012 when
it was replaced by the Bing Translator. The service translated web pages or text
between 13 different languages; English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese,
Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and
Spanish. The name X is taken directly from the name of a species that enabled the
protagonist to comprehend and converse in any language of the universe after being
popped inside his ear in an iconic science fiction book.
7. Renowned English mathematician Charles Babbage wrote to her "Forget this world
and all its troubles and if possible its multitudinous Charlatans—everything in short
but the Enchantress of Number." A brilliant scientific and mathematical mind and the
daughter of poet Lord Byron, she is mostly known for translating an article by Italian
military engineer, Luigi Menabrea supplementing it with an elaborate set of notes,
simply called Notes. Of these notes, Note G has attracted most attention for it gave a
way of calculating a sequence of Bernoulli numbers. A programming language
named after her was originally designed by a team led by French computer scientist
Jean Ichbiah under contract to the United States Department of Defense (DoD) from
1977 to 1983 to supersede over 450 programming languages used by the DoD at that
time. What was so special about Note G and who is she? We have a photo of her.
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9. CERN shocked the world when it released its findings on the Higgs-Boson in 2012 in a
presentation by spokesperson Fabia Ginnola, but mainly due to an unscientific
reason; the use of font X. On 1st April 2014, CERN Head Of Communications James
Gillies said "X says: 'This is a serious laboratory, with a serious research agenda.' - And it
makes the letters look all round and squishy." They even released a 19 second video on
31st March 2014 on Youtube featuring Fabia Ginnola saying "It's a pleasure for me to
announce that finally, as of today, CERN web pages will be written in X". However the
April Fools gag was reverted on the 2nd of April with the website switching back.
What is X?
10. Named after the Latin word for jealousy, this computer technology company
based out of Delaware originally derived its name for "Next Version" a shortened
version of which was given to all their files. Later the three co-founders looked
for all the words that had the shortened version in them and eventually settled
on X.
11. A verb and a noun, it was introduced to the Oxford Dictionary in 2005. It refers to the
practice of causing a website to rank highly in web search engine results for
irrelevant, unrelated or off-topic search terms by linking heavily. Search engine
optimizations were heavily redesigned to counter this problem but have still
struggled to completely eliminate it. The most prominent and recent example is
returning images of Donald Trump upon searching idiot. Named for the website it is
most prominently used in, what is this term?
12. People on the internet jokingly or benevolently refer to legendary game developer
_______ _________ as X, a name created by adding the initial of his surname to his first
name. This name took root when X featured as one of the announcers in the
developer commentary mode for Y. "Please let me know what you think after you've
had a chance to play. I can be reached at X@valvesoftware.com, and my favourite
class is the spy. Thanks, and have fun." Give X's full name and Y.
13. X is a metal band which released its four albums in 1993, 1996, 2001 and 2006, and an
EP in 1992, and then went on an extended 13 year hiatus, finally returning to the
spotlight by releasing a single from their upcoming album on August 7th 2019. This
10-minute song briefly was trending number one on Youtube. But what we are
interested in is why the four albums found themselves on the positions 10, 16, 18 and
19 of Billboard Top 200 as of the day I made this question (Independence Day) with
even the EP landing at 59. What was the reason X's albums made the re-entry on the
Billboard Top 200 so long after they were released? Explain Funda and Identify X.
14. In X, a major part of the gameplay is to level up skills. Each skill determines how well
you can perform a specific task and has a branching perk tree that dictates how
proficient you are in the said skill. These skills are divided into 4 categories: Magic,
Combat, Non-Combat, and Stealth. This however was converted into a meme
template that surged into popularity in 2016, and continues to be used frequently, to
mock a character/entity's supposed proficiency in a skill. Identify the game and the
meme template.
15. The Xytronic Superdome, the home of the 4 YXies has been flooded for more than a
decade now after the YXies show ended in 2001. The vast sloping green hill was
perfect to mislead the viewers into thinking the YXies, who ranged from 10 to 6.5 feet,
were smaller. The revelation of the heights of YXies recently incited many reactions on
Twitter: "i just found out that the YXies are 10 feet tall and everything is so much more
sinister now" , "me: [trying to sleep] my brain: ____ ______ from YXies is 10 feet tall. he's
absolutely massive. he could crus… ". The owner of the land, Rosemary Harding
flooded the land to keep away the many tourists who would come to catch a glimpse
of the iconic fields. "We were absolutely fed up with people trespassing trying to
catch a glimpse of the secluded area - it was never meant to be a tourist attraction.
This is a rural area, where people enjoy the quiet life. It was never that way when the
set was around."
16. X is one of the most recognizable video game characters, its creator originally named
the character "Mr. Video", and he was to be used in every video game he developed.
Its name was inspired by the landlord who was nagging the company about the
overdue rent at their American office. Following a heated argument in which the
company employees eventually convinced he would be paid, they opted to name the
character in the game X after him. Originally, X's creator wanted to create a video
game that used the characters Popeye, Bluto, and Olive Oyl. At the time, however, X
was unable to acquire a license to use the characters. While the protagonist was
unnamed in the ________ release, he would be named ________, a name derived from
one of his primary actions, in the game's English instructions and X in the sales
brochure.
17. Island nation X's main economy is kept alive due to a very unique reason. In 2010,
nearly 10% of the revenue of the Government of X came from royalties associated with
Y, something media organizations desperately want. In 1998, an Canadian start-up,
Information.CA paid the island $67 million over 12 years for the right to manage what
X offers. The rights to Y are now held by Verisign till 2048 after X sold its stake. Idealab,
a Californian company, became involved in 1999 and assumed the $50 million
obligation to be paid over 10 years. With the first $1 million payment, X was finally able
to afford to join the United Nations. In 2014, Amazon acquired _____Y for $1 billion,
becoming the first ______ using Y to achieve unicorn status.
18. XScript is an esoteric programming language that entirely consists of quotes from X's
speeches. The language follows many of his ideologies such as the "No import rule", in
which importation of code is not allowed, consistent with his ________________
campaign. What does the following code print?
mitrooon
UP "BJP governed state hai"
SP "opposition me hai"
agar ye sach hai
bhaiyo aur behno "________________"
nahi toh
bhaiyo aur behno "Abhi decision nahi liya gaya hai"
achhe din aa gaye
21. The concept X first emerged in the early 1900s, where various leaders of industry in
the United States offered their services to the government during times of war. Later,
in the late 1990s and early 2000s, many business executives began accepting X—often
in the case of struggling companies or startups—with the potential for further indirect
earnings as the result of their ownership of stock. The famous personalities accepting
X include Arnold Schwarzenegger while he was the Governor of California, NR
Narayana Murthy of Infosys, Sergei Brin of Alphabet, John F Kennedy, Mark
Zuckerberg of Facebook, Eric Schmidt of Google, Jack Dorsey of Twitter. However
altruistic this seems, other CEOs like Vikrim Pandit of Citigroup has been accused of
exploiting X to in fact achieve the opposite of what X is about.
22. Aaron Peckham founded the X website in 1999, operating under the motto "Define
Your World." X was created as a parody of actual __________ which Peckham found to
be too stuffy and taking themselves too seriously. In 2003, the website gained wider
attention after a news article revealed that United Kingdom (UK) high court judges
had used X to assist them in a case involving two rappers. Judge Lewison was
presiding over a case in the High Court brought by UK garage composer Andrew
Alcee who accused a rap outfit of "derogatory treatment" of his work.
Mr Alcee believed the Heartless Crew had taken his number one single Burning,
recorded under the name the Ant 'ill Mob, and used it on their album adding violence
and drug connotations.
But in dismissing Mr Alcee's case, Judge Lewison said the Heartless Crew's lyrics were
not necessarily offensive but might just as well have been "a foreign language". The
BBC News article states "This led to the faintly surreal experience of three gentlemen
in horsehair wigs _________ such phrases as 'mish mish man' and 'shizzle my nizzle".
23. Back in April of 2010, developer Jon Manning was at an Apple retail store in Palo Alto
for the original iPad launch when he found himself in the company of former iOS
chief Scott Forstall. Curious about Apple's quirky and ever-present___________,
Manning asked Forstall if there was any rhyme or reason behind it."We design the
keynotes so that the big reveal of the product happens around ______ into the
presentation. When the big image of the product appears on screen, we want the
time shown to be close to the actual time on the audience's watches. But we know
we won't hit _____ exactly."
Explain Funda
24. The first online community to use the term "X" was started in 1993 when a Canadian
university student known only by her first name, Alana, created a website in order to
discuss her ____ __________ with others. The website, titled "Alana's__________
___________ Project", was used by people of all genders to share their thoughts and
experiences. In 1997, she started a mailing list on the topic that used the abbreviation
_______, later shortened to "X", for "anybody of any gender who was lonely, had never
____ _____or who had not _____ in a long time. During her college career and after, she
realized she was queer and became more comfortable with her identity. She stopped
participating in her online project around 2000 and gave the site to a stranger. When
speaking about the website in 2018, Alana said, "It definitely wasn't a bunch of guys
blaming women for their problems. That's a pretty sad version of this phenomenon
that's happening today. Things have changed in the last 20 years."
26. An online opinion article offers an interesting take on X. "X herself has become
something of an online Rorschach test, a figure in whom people see either a brilliant
performance artist making a scathing commentary on the expectations of women
online, or someone cravenly taking advantage of misogynistic tropes of women
gamers and appropriating ___________ ______ culture." Although X started as make-up
artist, she rose to fame as a _____ ___________ especially known for making Y faces.
27. The X Y is an eight-character hexadecimal identification number assigned to each X
device. XY cannot be changed manually on the device and are locked to each specific
X. X devices can message each other using XY directly or by using the X _________
application. XY are tracked by X Enterprise Servers and the X Internet Service and are
used to send direct messages to a X device. Emails and any other messages, such as
those from the X Push Service, are typically directed to a X device's XY. The message
can then be routed by a RIM Network Operations Center, and sent to a carrier, which
will deliver the message the last mile to the device.
28. X was described as "A live, shared space on the web where people can discuss and
work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.” X's can be
used in a similar way to a forum, or just for emails and instant messaging between
two or more people. One of X's top features was real-time typing, meaning everyone
on the site could see everything everyone else was typing in real time. Although, it
can ultimately be considered as a failed product (discontinued in 2010) of this goliath
company with arguably many famous products. What is X?
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30. The X is an unexplained worldwide, pan-generational phenomena that stems back to
at least the 1960s. X's origin has been assigned to as varied as sources as such as T-
Shirt company Stussy, metal bands Slipknot, Slayer, or Sacred Reich, Superman, or the
automobile brand Suzuki. People from all over the world; USA, Egypt, India, Russia,
Philippines etc have stated on various online discussion forums as they too, just like
other students, inexplicably carried out this activity related to X. X became very
popular in the 1980's and 1990's, and is considered a staple of the latter decade
among those who grew up in that time period. However, many schools didn't like this
and some schools would later ban it all together, usually in the belief that it was
associated with gangs and was an distraction in class. To this day, the X can be seen
drawn on the back of notebooks by students.
31. Y was set to be the greatest social media site. It all started with the exploitation of a
minute glitch in Y, coupled with the constant obsession of a growing number of
followers. The virus, an open source code embedded in exploitation of Y and browsers,
took 24 hours to result in an absolute take down of Y by a 19 year old X. X seemingly
faced no repercussions, but a week later, was taken in with a search warrant and
possible arrest. Narrowly escaping the wrath of Y, X remedied his deeds with
community service. ID Y
34. The controversy X’s name is a pun derived from the 2012 Y attack, a coordinated
attack against two United States government facilities in Y, Libya by members of the
Islamic militant group Ansar al-Sharia. X, which took place on the social media
website Z, however is quite unrelated to Islamic fundamentalism. It began with witch,
Ender Dearing posting on Z about how she had found some _________ that had
washed up in the local graveyard. As it was something rare that witches needed for
their spells and rituals, they asked on Z whether other witches required these. This led
to a massive discourse on the ethicality, the sociopolitical implications and legality of
the issue. While some lauded the absurdity of the whole issue as a great way to take
Tumblr out of its meme drought over winter 2015, others cast curses on Ender for
their act, while other people simply took the matters the police. Things escalated soon
from there, soon leading into a federal investigation that led to the arrest of Ender.
Give Z and X
35. Ando Kensaku is a video game on Wii released in 2010 aimed for its Japanese users. It
was a collaboration between Nintendo and X. This game is a glorified version of X Y.
The game is based on the principle of reverse of what is happens on the popular
game show " Family Feud " and following is an image of the Kensaku Robot which is a
character in the game.
36. Hong Kong erupted in protests following the proposal of an extradition bill that was
part of changes shifting towards greater interference by China in the affairs of Hong
Kong. While protestors united in huge groups, the police was brutal in their
repression. Gatherings of people were attacked inanely using means such as tear gas
and high pressure water hoses with China's Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Bureau
sent a warning to protesters, saying that "those who play with fire will perish by it." To
innovatively counter the brutal police, protestors used the excuse of X to meet at
protest locations in large numbers as they are using the app X while they used Y to
spread news about protest locations. What are these two apps, which could be used
for purposes completely unrelated to what they were made for to facilitate these
series of protests.
37. “Instead of using noisy mowers that run on gasoline and pollute the air, we’ve rented
some goats,” wrote David Hoffman, director of real estate and workplace services at
Xs headquarters in Mountain View, California, has employed a company called
California _______to provide a novel solution to grass maintenance on the Xs blog. “A
______ brings about 200 Y, and they spend roughly a week with us at X, eating the
grass and fertilize at the same time.”
The HQ at Mountain View is surrounded by scrubland that requires occasional
mowing to clear weeds and brush to reduce the risk of fire, wrote Hoffman.
“It costs us about the same as mowing, and Xs are a lot cuter to watch than
lawnmowers,” he joked.
38. While the debate about the pronunciation of GIF goes on, a long time back the
creators of X format wanted to it to be pronounced as Y. This never caught on and
instead Y became associated in a completely unrelated product by BlackBerry, and
also a reason gamers use to justify playing poorly. Identify X and Y.
39. The following image of a picture of British hotelier David Morgan-Hewitt posing with
the Queen of England led to the start of a new wholesome body-positive meme. The
general format was describing a specific type of object, animal, or person with a
certain characteristic.
40.
41. About the 33rd largest supercomputer in the world right now is the US Air Force
Research Laboratory's (AFRL) newest system, which has a core made of 1,760 X
consoles. In addition to its large capacity, the so-called "Condor Cluster" is capable of
performing 500 trillion floating point operations per second (TFLOPS), making it the
fastest interactive computer in the entire US Defense Department. The US Air Force
just used 1,760 X's since it was much more efficient and cheaper. The Condor Cluster
project began four years ago, when X cost about $400 each. At the same time,
comparable technology would have cost about $10,000 per unit. Overall, the Xs for the
supercomputer's core cost about $2 million. According to AFRL Director of High
Power Computing Mark Barnell, that cost is about 5-10% of the cost of an equivalent
system built with off-the-shelf computer parts.
Another advantage of the X-based supercomputer is its energy efficiency: it
consumes just 10% of the power of comparable supercomputers.
What is X?
42. X is a term used to refer to videos on Youtube Kids labelled as "child friendly" but that
contain themes that are inappropriate for children such as olence, sexual situations,
fetishes, drugs, alcohol, injections, and toilet humor. The videos often feature popular
characters from family-oriented media, sometimes via crossovers, used without legal
permission; the term itself is composed of_______ (a character from the Disney
animated film _______, who is frequently depicted in such videos) and -gate (a suffix
for scandals). However, the X controversy has also included channels such as Toy
Freaks that don't feature child/family-friendly characters, but real children, and have
raised concern about possible child abuse.
43. In the terms and conditions of X, there are many satirical tie-ins including one where
you agree to not use X for the development of nuclear weapons. This is despite the
fact that on first thought X is something that cannot be used for the development of
nuclear weapons in any sort of way. What is X
44. You won't think of it at first but studies have shown that X who were gamers earlier in
their childhood make 37% less mistakes than X who were not. After deep inspection
however the connection becomes clearer as gaming leads to the development of a
skill very important for X. Identify X
