Saturday, August 11, 2012

For the gamers!

1. Due to the graphical limitations of arcade hardware at the time, Miyamoto clothed the character in red overalls and a blue shirt to contrast against each other and the background. A cap was added to let Miyamoto avoid drawing the character's hairstyle, forehead, and eyebrows, as well as to circumvent the issue of animating his hair as he jumped. To make him appear human onscreen despite his small size, he was given distinct features, prominently a large nose and a mustache, which avoided the need to draw a mouth and facial expressions on the small onscreen character. Who are we talking about? (easy one!)

2.This variety of games dates back to the arcade game Blockade, developed and published by Gremlin in 1976. The first known personal computer version , titled Worm, was programmed in 1978 by Peter Trefonas of the US on the TRS-80 computer, and published by CLOADmagazine in the same year. This was followed shortly afterwards with versions from the same author for the Commodore PET and Apple II computers. What is this variety of popular game?

3. 'Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System' better known as?


Recognise.
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5. Xs are powerful and extremely versatile combat armor originally proposed in the intention of enabling humans to operate in previously hostile environments which would otherwise be substantially lethal. This is permitted through the X's ability to adapt and absorb energy in a myriad of forms ranging from heat, solar, radiation, static, kinetic, and even carbon. In addition, the X's Artificial muscle fibers can be programmed for a variety of purposes (Such as hardening to absorb more damage, muscle augmentation, or invisibility), leading to drastically enhanced combat and physical performance, allowing the operator to execute super-human feats. identify X.

Ans in the comment pls...

Friday, August 10, 2012

The Brands Quiz!

1. In 1982, forty-something programmers John Warnock and Charles Geschke quit their work at Xerox to start a software company. They named it X, after a creek that ran behind Warnock's home. Their first focus was to create PostScript, a programming language used in desktop publishing .They asked family and friends to help out: Geschke's 80-year-old father stained lumber for shelving, and Warnock's wife Marva designed X's first logo. Identify X.

2.Rumor has it that the bite  was a nod to Alan Turing, the father of modern computer science who committed suicide by eating a cyanide-laced apple. Janoff, however, said in an interview that though he was mindful of the "byte/bite" pun. What are we talking about?


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   Significance of this image?

4. In 1865, Knut Fredrik Idestam established a wood-pulp mill in Tampere, south-western Finland. It took on the name X after moving the mill to the banks of the Nokianvirta river in the town of X. The word "X" in Finnish, by the way, means a dark, furry animal we now call the Pine Marten weasel.  What is X?




5. Identify the Company from its old logo...


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Tuesday, August 7, 2012

In X,  two armed military commandos named Bill "Mad Dog" Rizer and Lance "Scorpion" Bean, who are sent on a mission to neutralize a terrorist group called the Red Falcon Organization that is planning to take over the Earth. What is X?

These two companies joined together to form a very famous company today known as __________.