Question # 283

A is a gene that may act as a master switch for cancer, and is responsible for the proliferation of cancer throughout surrounding cells. The leader of the research team which discovered this, geneticist Pier Paolo Pandolfi from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York City, said the gene is unique in that it is needed for other oncogenes to cause cancer. Discovery of the gene was first published in the January 2005 issue of Nature.

The name of A was changed to 7btb7 in december 2005 after the center was threatened with legal action by B.

Give A and B.

Question # 282

X is a Japanese word which means death from Y. The phenomenon was first identified in Japan, and the word is being adopted internationally. Uehata reported 17 X cases at the 51st annual meeting of the Japan Association of Industrial Health. In 1988 a group of lawyers established the National Defense Counsel for Victims of X (and started telephone consultation to handle inquiries about X-related workers' compensation insurance). Uehata described X as a sociomedical term that refers to fatalities or associated work disability due to cardiovascular attacks (such as strokes, myocardial infarction or acute cardiac failure) which could occur when hypertensive arteriosclerotic diseases are aggravated by a heavy workload. X is not a pure medical term. The media have frequently used the word because it emphasizes that sudden deaths (or disabilities) were caused by Y and should be compensated. X has become an important social problem in Japan.

ID X and Y.

Question # 281

Q was written by a Sarah Josepha Hale in 1830. It was inspired by a true incident of a schoolgirl Ms. _____ Sawyer whose pet followed her to school. A Mr. John Rolstone, nephew of the school reverend, was highly amused by this, and wrote the first three lines on a paper, later handing that paper over to Ms. Hale, who completed it.

Blessed are those, who knoweth Q.

Question # 280

'X'
- Kreated by Ed Boon and John Tobias in 1992
- Konsisted of characters based on aktors, as opposed to animated kartoon graphiks
- Originally kontroversial bekause of its extreme violence, later gained a kult status for the very same reason.
- The series (yes, it's a series) holds 7 Guinness rekords, including "Most Successful Video Game Spin-Off Soundtrack Album".
- In an episode of 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air', a sekurity company official tells the Banks family (the Fresh Prince‘s aunt, unkle and cousins) of the horribly violent thing he has seen in his life. On being asked as to where he saw these things, he replied, "X".
- A character 'Y' in the game has a name which is aktually a jumbled up version of the kreators' names.

ID X.

All the kannada in this blog is courtesy of AT

Question # 279

The origin of the term K can be traced back to the Ancient Greeks, who like every single civilization in the history of civilizations, hated foreigners. To poke fun at them, they used to call them K's, because they thought their language consisted of only a single word 'bar' repeated again and again, much like the modern 'blah'.

K yenu?

Question # 278

Id
Use your imagination to improve upon the emptiness below.



Question by AT

Question # 277

This person has written 270 novels, have career span over 50 years with 2.5 crore copies sold.
He is the person who coined the word "Company" for Mumbai Mafia.

Question by Peeyush Rao.

Question # 276

Id

Question by Aniket Dave

Inconvenience Regretted

Both the blog administrators(AT and I) went to Pune(AFMC) for a week and couldn't upload any questions. We'll start from tomorrow.

Question # 275

'M' literally translates to 'one who makes people cry'. According to Srimad Bhagvat, he is the actual father of Seeta. He was once given Boon Water by Shiv, who told him to give it to his (M's) wife. On the journey back, M got very thirsty and drank a bit of that water, and got impregnated (wtf?!). Next morning, he coughed so hard, The Baby That Was To Be Sita ejected from his mouth and landed in Janakpuri, the kingdom of Janak, and was found by Janak.

'N' was originally a fortress built by Vishwakarma for Kuber, the god of wealth. In Mahabhaarat, Sahadev visited N during Yudhishthir's Rajasuya campaign.

M et N?

Question # 274

"But I don't want to go among mad people"
"Oh, you can't help that, We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."
"How do you know I'm mad?"
"You must be, otherwise you wouldn't have come here."

Where have the above lines been copied from?

Question # 273

T was born Maqsood Mehmood Ali on Sep 19, 1958, second of eight children. Father was a Muslim, mother Madhuri was a Bengali. He got into the drug habit pretty young, causing a lot of tension between him and Dad. He used to breed race horses, run a carpet cleaning business, and work in an oil rig before ending up doing what made him famous. Has two wives, both of whom converted to Islam after marriage.
His first movie role was in ‘Yehi Hai Zindagi’ (1977), alongwith Sanjeev Kumar and Utpal Dutt.
ID Mr. T.

Question # 272

Id the car, and no, Maruti 800's not the answer i'm looking for.

Question by Varun Chad

Question # 271

Id

Question # 270

An ad for?


I know, it's a very old question.

Question # 269

X is the world's fastest supercomputer. Developed in Los Alamos, the US$133 million X is designed for a performance level of 1.026 petaflops peak. It is a hybrid design with almost 6,912 AMD Opteron dual core processors and almost 12,960 IBM PowerXCell 8i CPUs in special designed TriBlades connected by Infiniband. DOE plans to use the computer for simulating how nuclear materials age and whether the aging nuclear weapon arsenal of the United States is safe and reliable.

X is also the more common name of a bird belonging to the genus Geococcyx of the cuckoo family, Cuculidae, native to North and Central America. These birds are known for their speed and agility.

What is X?

Question # 268

The Wall Street Journal had a story on the Chilkur Balaji Temple located near Hyderabad on December 31st 2007. The temple has been around for over 100 years, but it’s only in the last few years that it has discovered its USP.

Draws more than 100,000 pilgrims a week. As per the local legend, anyone desirous of seeking a wish fulfillment from Chilkur Balaji must first make 11 pradakshinas at the temple, and after it’s granted, one must return to perform 108 pradakshinas as a way of expressing gratitude.

The temple’s also unique in the sense that there’s no hundi and does not accept any offerings from devotees.

Give us the USP of this temple.