Saturday, October 23, 2010

Weekly Hafta Wasool # 8

1. In historic times, ____ also went by other names like the Isles of Seven Cities, and Sanbrandon. Recently, _______ has been in the news due to the completion of the design of Chicago based architects Perkins and Will.

2. Originally nine were identified in 1997, but with Oil India Ltd the number now stands at 19. What term?

3. In the first decade of the last century, with debts of £2,670 the club was close to closure.Four local businessmen, including John Henry Davies (who became club president),then invested £500 in return for a direct interest in running the club. The name was then changed.

Which club?

4. The company was originally named Cadabra, Inc., but the name was changed when it was discovered that people sometimes heard the name as "Cadaver." Its current name _____ was chosen because ________ is the largest of its kind in the world, and so the name suggests large size, and also in part because it starts with 'A' and therefore would show up near the beginning of alphabetical lists.

5. Originally, Thomas Knoll created it to display grayscale images on a monochrome display. This program, called Display, was subsequently renamed ImagePro.Later the same year, Thomas renamed it to its current name and and distributed copies of the program with a slide scanner. Around 200 copies were shipped this way.

Today, it is the industry standard in many ways and a cultural icon. Which software product?

2 comments:

Sarath Ruthvic said...

Hi GP. Hope you are doing well. Nice idea to start off a quizzing blog....

1. Antillia
2. I guess its the Navaratna Companies in SENSEX

Sarath Ruthvic said...

Hi GP. Hope you are doing fine.

Nice blog

1. Antillia
2. Navratna companies???