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Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

21. 4400 4283-3649-4223


X, usually defined as the period between 1995 and 2001, which saw huge investment and speculation in Internet firms. The era is marked by formation (and eventually catastrophic failure) of internet based companies, commonly known as "____ _____", and the trend of manipulating the stock prices by "prefix investments". The U.S. Federal Reserve increased interest rates six times, in 1999-2000 and finally X "burst" on in March 2000 which was followed by a period of unstability. What is X...

Answer:
Dot-com bubble
4400 - April 4th 2000 - Day after Microsoft was declared a monopoly, marks the final blow to all the speculations....
4283-3649-4223 these are the high - low - closing figures of Nasdaq on 4th April

20. Coffee Break.

CONNECT.

Answer(highlight): The answer is Moby Dick. The guy below on the right is Richard Melville Hall (nicknamed Moby) also the great great grandson of Herman Melville (author of Moby Dick).

19. Kids next door..

Identify the person on the top left and connect him to the rest three pictures. (or the other way round)
Hint : Length of edge shared also represents amount of direct connection.
Answer(highlight) : Peter Rowen (brother of Bono's friend (and a neighbour)) - Connect U2 album covers
He appears on covers of Boy, War, Three, The Best of 1980-90 and Early Demos
top right - album WAR
bottom left - alternative cover for album Boy
bottom right - Joshua Tree (one of the best works by U2)

Monday, August 1, 2011

18. Wasn't my idea to send her home






name the company or at least the feild the company was in- started by the person in middle.

Answer(Highlight):
The lady in the middle is Anna Chapman. She had found a company PropertyFinder LLC as a cover for her spying activities for Russia in United States for which she was deported. On the tonight show with Jay Leno, when asked "Do we have any spies that hot?" Joe Biden had jokingly replied "Let me be clear. It was not idea to send her home."

17. To torment or tease with the sight of something unobtainable

The word X is derived from the Greek myth in which Y as a punishment for serving up his own son Z to the Gods as a sacrifice. Y was to stand in a pool of fresh water beneath a tree with low branches. Whenever he reached for the fruit, the branches raised his intended meal from his grasp. Whenever he bent down, the water receded before he could drink it. Over his head is a threatening stone like the one Sisyphus is punished to roll up a hill.


Z was an ancestor of the House of A, which was the family involved in the Trojan War.


Give X, Y, Z and A.

Answer(highlight):
X:Tantalize
Y:Tantalus
Z: Phaeton
A:House of Atreus----Agamemnon and Menelaus were called the Atreidae

16. ~1000USD


ID the picture.It was described as a work of art with absolutely no hidden function.

Answer(highlight):
iPhone $1000 App that did nothing except being an I AM RICH symbol