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Saturday, February 17, 2007

Quirvana 10

Thanks for the response. Here are the answers to Quirvana, the 10th edition. Do let me know if question 5 was weird because no one got it right.

1. What was founded by Rufus Porter in 1845 as a single page newsletter which mostly published reports about happenings at the US Patent office?
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN

2. What was developed by Tomlinson Holman at George Lucas's company Lucasfilm in 1982 to ensure that the soundtrack for the third Star Wars film, Return of the Jedi, would be accurately reproduced in the best venues?
THX

3. In corporate terminology, what is the process of ‘sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible’ called?
BLAMESTORMING

4. Identify the logo or name their most famous product.



ROCKSTAR GAMES - GRAND THEFT AUTO



5. Connect the two visuals on the left to the one on the right.




WINDOWS VIENNA
(THIS IS THE NEXT PLANNED VERSION OF WINDOWS.)

THE MAP IS OF AUSTRIA AND THE RED DOT IS VIENNA - ITS CAPITAL
THE PERSON IS BILLY JOEL - ONE OF HIS FAMOUS SONGS IS VIENNA
THE LADY IS ADA ....WHO IS FEATURED ON AUTHENTICITY HOLOGRAM OF EVERY PRODUCT OF MICROSOFT.
THUS, THE ANSWER IS MICROSOFT WINDOWS VIENNA

The scores are as follows:

Abhishek Nag 4
Elbert De'Silva 4
Arun Caashyap 3
Piogniz 3
Abhinav Mouli 3
Mithun Nair 3
Praneet Reddy 3
Manoj 3
Sangeetha Sridhar 3
Homam Raavi 3
Sachin Kadam 3
Beckham Dravid 2
Nikhil Lasrado 2
Santanu Dey 2
Harsh Sangolli 2
Arjit Mukhopadhyay 2
Kamal Rathi 2
Arindam Sanyal 1
Ketan Pradhan 1
Jacob Dijo welltried
Varadarajan well tried
Nikhil Narayanan well tried

Thanks a lot for participating.
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Deepak Karamungikar