Quickie

1. What are the islands St.Thomas, St.John and St. Croix together known as?

2. Which three cousins have captained Pakistan in cricket tests?

3. "It is alarming and also nauseating to see Mr. X, a seditious middle temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well known in the east, striding half-naked up the steps of the viceregal palace, while he is still organizing and conducting a defiant campaign of ________, to parley on equal terms with the representative of the king-emperor."
Who said this and about who?

4. What was the seven year old war between the English and the French in India in the 1970's known as?

5. Id the pic and tell me why is it unique?

6. On November 15th 1492 Christopher Columbus noted the 1st recorded reference to X - "the natives brought fruit, wooden spears, and certain dried leaves which gave off a distinct fragrance." As each item seemed much-prized by the natives Columbus accepted the gifts and ordered them brought back to the ship. The fruit was eaten; the pungent "dried leaves" were thrown away.
What am I talking about? (Id X)

7. This is a depiction of a modern day X by Y. Find the variables!

8. In 1457 King James II of Scotland banned the games of "golfe" and "futeball" . What was the reason?

9. What was the name given to that part of north Africa comprising Morocco, Algeria, tripoli and Tunisia?

10. A P (planchet) rating means that the X does not have the raised rim like a traditional X would have. A planchet error can also mean that the X was struck with the wrong press. A D (die) rating means that the X has endured a “die error.” Probably the most common type of die error is when a portion of the die pulls away and produces a crack in the X. The third classification an S (Striking) rating are usually the most sought after effort Xs. A striking error is when something goes wrong with the pressing of the X resulting to an error in the image on the X. For example, an off center X is quite a common striking error. Xs like this have a hefty price tag that will accompany them.

What is explained here? Also, Id X.

Put Funda.

The Mass Quiz

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said who?

To be legally accepted as an 'idiot', one has to be so dumb as to be unable to count till 20, list the days of the week, or fail to remember the names of one's parents.

iquestion

X enrolled as "Rocky Raccoon Clark" and completed his undergraduate course in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley. Rocky was his dog's name and clark is his wifes maiden name. Who is X?

First, what?

Put Funda.

What is this? Think. very recent.

Put Funda.

Tomaeto .... Tomaato ... Tomato

The common phenomenon - the "X effect" traces its origin back to olden day spell-checkers, wherein, when you type the word "cooperation", it spell checks to X. The reason being that, olden day computers had only the hyphenated form (co-operation) in their dictionary. This spelling review to X was quite a highlight in the early days of computing, when Apple was the pioneer in the field.

Modern examples include:

definately -> defiantly
voldemort -> voltmeter
DeMeco Ryans -> demerol :D

ID X.

(Tip: answer is guessable)

Should i call it cute??

Put full funda ?

Connect and ID .

26/11 !

X had been living in the Mumbai Chabad House and working for Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife, Rivka, caring for the Holtzbergs' son Moshe since his birth. The Holtzbergs were the Israel-born directors of the house run by the global Orthodox Jewish Chabad movement.

On November 26, 2008, as the Mumbai attacks began, a group of attackers entered the Chabad house and began shooting at everyone inside. X heard gunshots and locked herself in a laundry room but soon emerged from the room and ran upstairs hearing Rivka scream, there she found Gavriel and Rivka motionless and covered in blood with Moshe crying beside them, his pants drenched in blood. With the attackers still inside, X grabbed Moshe and ran from the building. Later, when Indian commandos stormed the house, it was confirmed that Gavriel and Rivka were among the 173 people killed in the attacks, and that Moshe was now an orphan.
The Chabad movement's leaders decided Moshe could not stay in India and that he would be relocated to Israel where he has family. However, the movement insisted that X be allowed to go with him, as X was the only one, the boy was responding to. Although X had no passport or papers, Moshe's grand uncle, Rabbi Yitzchak Dovid Grossman, helped arrange for her to get a visa to come to Israel with Holtzberg to help him start his new life. The Israeli government under Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni granted X a special visa offering immigration status.

X was awarded permanent resident status and honorary Israeli citizenship on 13 September 2010.
Israel is considering conferring on her the title "Righteous among the Nations", the highest Israeli award that may be presented to non-Jews. X would be the first Indian to receive this award.

Id X???

bob who?

X company was founded by Ole Kirk Christiansen in Billund, Denmark,in 1916.
Today it has over 9,000 employees worldwide and the most popular brand of its kind!
Two Danish words were put together to make the name of the company X.
Later,it was discovered that in Latin, the term X means "I put together" or "I assemble"

It was a terrific coincidence!!
ID X.

A Class apart.

G.H.Hardy use to rate mathematical proof in a certain manner. He used to consider a brilliant proof as being in the ___ class. Later on he realised that the there was a higher class than the one he was using as the highest and so suitably changed this rating. What system did he use to rate mathematical proofs?

courtesy : KQA