Bad Hair Day

The __X__ generator was developed, starting in 1929, by physicist ___X___ at Princeton University. The first model was demonstrated in October 1929. The first machine used a silk ribbon bought at a five-and-dime store as the charge transport belt. In 1931 a version able to produce 1,000,000 volts was described in a patent disclosure. This version had two 60 cm diameter charge accumulation spheres mounted on borosilicate glass columns 180 cm high; the apparatus cost only $90 in 1931.

So ID X

ANS:X=Van de graaf generator X+RobertJ.Van De graaf

Brain Strain

Connect If  you can

ANS:Periyar Dam

Quest-ions

"I swear by Apollo, the healer, Asclepius, Hygieia, and Panacea, and I take to witness all the gods, all the goddesses, to keep according to my ability and my judgment, the following Oath and agreement:

To consider dear to me, as my parents, him who taught me this art; to live in common with him and, if necessary, to share my goods with him; To look upon his children as my own brothers, to teach them this art..."

What art? What is this?

ANS:Hippocratic Oath

The No "I-Don't-Know-Zone".

In 1946, 20 people met in a burned-out store in Tokyo to form a company – the Tokyo Telecommunication Engineering Corporation. One of its founders, Masaru Ibuka, wanted to create a product that would be useful to the general public. What is the company known as today? 

ANS:Sony

The Angry Buddhist

__X__ didn't have a very stable childhood. He was put up for adoption by his biological mother, who went on to become a speech language pathologist. His biological father is a Syrian political science professor.

He went to Reed College, when he decided to visit India to "find himself". He came back a Buddhist with his head shaved and wearing traditional Indian clothing. During this time, he experimented with psychedelics, calling his LSD experiences "one of the two or three most important things he had done in life".

He will forever be remembered as an indelible author of the technological age.

Identify X.

ANS:Steve Jobs,the founder of Apple Company.

Pop goes the Weasel

Sugar, Gum Base, Glucose Syrup, Dextrose, Natural and Artificial Flavours, Glycerin, Soy Lecithin, Aspartame (5.4 mg/)Acesulfame-Potassium (3.6 mg)Hydroxylated Soy Lecithin, Colour (contains Tartrazine)

What? 
Explain.

ANS:Wrigley's Juicy Fruit

Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio installed the first bar code scanning equipment. The first product to be scanned using a UPC bar code was a 10 pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit gum. This pack of gum is now on display at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.

                                                             

Those are the ingredients of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit.

Can't Think of a name

George de Mestral named his invention X which is a portmanteau of the two French words velours, meaning 'velvet', and crochet, or 'hook' 



Id 'X'

ANS:Velcro