THE WOOKIE QUIZ

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• THE WOOKIE QUIZ
• OR
• FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATON
• QUIZ
• By
• Vishal Karnani
• Shyam K

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About me

• Name Vishal Karnani
• Going to complete engineering in a weeks
  time(Amrita(ECE))
• Big fan of HIMYM
• Recently in love with Dream Theater
• Well, thats it

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• About Me Too!
• Shyam.K
• Doing my CSE Engineering in Amrita.
• One part of team Comfortably Numb.
• Mad about books likes movies, badminton, music.
  The usual.

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• The Usual Rules.
• Infinite Bounce.
• Thou must guess.
• Lets Start.

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1. CONNECT AND WHO S NEXT IN THIS LIST???????
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ANSWER

• BARRACK OBAMA- NOBEL POTUS

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• Launched by Dr.King at University of Minnesota a
  British researcher, it initially operated as an
  IRC BOT. Thanks to the technology Gopher- the
  primitive protocol to retrieve and search for
  information it became fully available and with
  the advent of the Mosiac browser this became the
  one of the most popular content web sites on the
  internet. Today it has grown far and wide with
  its own data management software called 'Dougie'.

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Answer

• CricInfo.com

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• Id the album and the band

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• Connect is Munich
• (From top left in clockwise manner Oktoberfest,
  probably world's largest fair is held in Munich
  Sir Matthew Busby, former Manager of Manchester
  United team whose illustrious team was nicknamed
  Busby babes. The Busby babes including the
  manager were involved in the Munich Air Disaster
  in 1958 in which eight of them died Steven
  Spielberg, director of the movie Munich based on
  the killings of the Israeli Olympic team during
  the 1972 Munich Olympics, an incident famously
  known as Black September BMW, is headquartered
  in Munich

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• X made his acting debut at age five playing a
  sick puppy in the absurdist comedy Pound (1970),
  and then at age seven he appeared in the
  surrealist Greaser's Palace (1972). From 1996
  through 2001,X was arrested numerous times on
  drug-related charges and went several times
  through drug treatment programs unsuccessfully,
  explaining in 1999 to a judge "It's like I have
  a loaded gun in my mouth and my finger's on the
  trigger, and I like the taste of the gunmetal.
• X released a CD in 2005 called The Futurist, and
  while promoting his film he and his co-stars were
  back up singers "The Pips" to Gladys Knight
  singing "Midnight Train to Georgia".
• In 1992, X became the first cast member of
  Saturday Night Live to be nominated for a Best
  Actor Oscar.

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Answer

• Robert Downey Junior?

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• X is of Mangalorean origin, and her mother tongue
  is Konkani.
• X made her acting debut with the 2006 Kannada
  film Aishwarya.
• In 2009, X started writing weekly columns for HT
  City, the lifestyle supplement of Hindustan
  Times. These columns appear online on social
  network, Desimartini.
• Id X

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Deepika Padukone
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• X adopted a custom logo (known as the Y) and
  word-mark which has appeared on the vast majority
  of their promotional material and on the front
  cover of Xs every studio album. The Y is derived
  from Mary, Queen of Scots' mark, which was
  re-worked by Charlie Dominici for use on the
  album artwork for When Dream and Day Unite. It
  consists of a capital Phi, a capital Mu, and a
  capital Alpha.
• Id X and Y

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Answer
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• Salemohammad Motorwala Yusuf is an umpire who has
  been active mostly in first class cricket. His
  decision to call a medium pacer for suspected
  action had far reaching impact in the history of
  cricket. In his second over, I must have called
  him four times, After calling him, he came and
  asked me, What is wrong? I told him, I have
  doubts about your action". 
• What resulted?

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Answer

• Anil Kumble turned to Leg spin

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• _______ Techwin is a Asian aeronautics,
  optoelectronics, automations and defense company.
  It is currently the world's third largest digital
  camera manufacturer. It is one of the
  subsidiaries of ______ Group. The company
  established precision instrument laboratory in
  1978.It started making cameras in 1979 and is
  still a world leader today. It acquired Rollei, a
  German camera manufacturer, and Union Optics of
  Japan, a manufacturer of semiconductor
  equipments.
• Began selling digital cameras under the brand of
  ______ Kenox in 1997.In 2005, the company marked
  first place in Asian digital cameras market share
  and started a technical co-operation with Pentax.
  It will now be a conjoined partnership with
  ______ Electrics. Where its latest CCTV Cameras
  and Digital Imaging technology is then passed on
  for further products.

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Answer
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• Richard Chee Quee (lead vocals) X (bass
  guitar/vocals) Y (guitar/vocals) Brad McNamara
  (guitar/vocals) Gavin Robertson (drums/vocals)
  Identify the rock band which is named after a
  rule from an informal form of their earlier
  profession. I need both names. No part points.

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Answer

• Six and OutX Brett LeeY Shane Lee

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• Still, I dare to submit my imperfect work for my
  readers to judge. Perhaps some of you will find
  my bursts of word-fire too long, others may
  regard them too brief and broken. What matters is
  if my words hit the target. Whose autobiography
  begins this way?
• Lot s of clues in the question

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Answer

• Mikhail Kalashnikov ( inventor of the AK-47)

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• X has published a number of books, including a
  biography of Mohammad Azharuddin and a collection
  of columns in The Indian Express, Out of the Box
  - Watching the Game We Love.
• X was the advisor to the Mumbai Indians in 2008.
• X has also anchored BBC's travel serial Travel
  India
• Id X.

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• Harsha Bhogle

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• Put Fundao How I wish I could recollect pi
  easily today!o How I want a drink, alcoholic
  of course, after the heavy lectures involving
  quantum mechanics!o Sir, I send a rhyme
  excelling,In sacred truth and rigid
  spelling,Numerical sprites elucidate,For me the
  lexicon's dull weight,If nature gain, not you
  complainTho' Dr Johnson fulminate.

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Answer

• PIPHILOLOGY-The creation and use of mnemonic
  techniques to remember the digits of mathematical
  constant 'Pi'. The given sentences have number of
  letters in each word equal to the corresponding
  digit of 'Pi'. eg. 314159265 in the first
  sentence

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• X holds the rank Commandeur in the Ordre des Arts
  et des Lettres of France. In May 2008 X was
  elected to the America Academy of Arts and
  Letters. In 2008, The Times ranked X thirteenth
  on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers
  since 1945.
• X had a cameo appearance in the film Bridget
  Jones's Diary. In September 2008, and again in
  March 2009, X appeared as a panelist on the HBO
  program "Real Time With Bill Maher".
• Xs first novel, Grimus, a part-science fiction
  tale, was generally ignored by the public and
  literary critics.
• Id X.

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Answer

• Salman Rushdie

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MVC

• Total number of visuals will be revealed at the
  end
• Points system
• (5) no of slides remaining
• Two guesses per team
• No negatives

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Answers
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Wally Hammond
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Clarrie Grimmet
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Bill OReilly
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Alec Bedser
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Dennis Lillie
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Ray Lindwall
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Don Tallon
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Barry Richards
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Gary Sobers
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Don Bradman
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Arthur Morris
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GOD
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• And the connect is

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• DON BRADMAN S GREATEST ELEVEN ?

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• Back to text .Infinite Bounce again ?

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• 1) They were supposed to appear three nights
  after a child's birth to determine the course of
  its life. Brides in Athens offered them locks of
  hair and women swore by them. What are Clotho,
  Lachesis and Atropos together known as?

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• Ans The Fates

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• 2) Kathleen Hanna spray painted this slogan (X)
  on a wall. Y felt that the slogan was
  revolutionary and portrayed the attitude of his
  generation . What Hanna actually meant, however,
  was that Y smelled like the deodorant X which his
  girlfriend wore. This resulted in one of the most
  famous songs of all time. X and Y?

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• Ans Smells like teen spirit, Kurt Cobain

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• 3) Lady Godiva had a dispute with her husband
  Leofric, the Earl of Mercia, over taxes he levied
  on the developing city of Coventry. He challenged
  her to ride naked across the town, promising to
  reduce the tax if she did so. Godiva took the
  challenge and became a local legend. Townsfolk
  stayed indoors to show their respect but one
  person peeked at her anyway. His act of voyeurism
  was the origin of a famous phrase. The phrase?

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• Ans Peeping Tom

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• 4) The City of Shillong has been celebrating Xs
  birthday with concerts of his songs for the past
  38 years. Local musicians, school kids and X fans
  from other places perform in front of die hard
  fans. This is being organized by Lou Majaw who
  says that X had a profound influence on him. He
  says if people understand Xs lyrics there would
  be no problems in the world. Name X.

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• Ans Bob Dylan

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• 5) Explain the list
• Numbers 1-10 
• Atomic numbers for H, C, N, O, P 
• Formulas for sugars, bases and phosphate in DNA
  nucleotides 
• Double helix structure of DNA surrounding binary
  number that represents the number of nucleotides
  in the human genome 
• Height of human being marked on the left and
  human population marked on right
• Schematic of solar system (human stands on 3rd
  planet) 
• X transmitting telescope 
• Diameter of X telescope

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• Ans Contents of Arecibo Message A binary
  message projected into space using Arecibo
  telescope for possible reception by ETs

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• 6) The Miserere mei, Deus is a psalm set to
  music performed in the Sistine Chapel. It was
  forbidden to transcribe the music. X heard it
  once and wrote the entire score from memory and
  was summoned to Rome by the Pope. Instead of
  being excommunicated he was praised for his
  musical genius and the ban was lifted. Name X.

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• Ans Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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• 7) This was a poster put up in 1978 explaining
  something. Who put it up and what is being
  explained?
• If its there and you can see itits realIf
  its not there and you can see itits virtualIf
  its there and you cant see itits
  transparentIf its not there and you cant see
  it-you erased it!

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• Ans Ad by IBM explaining the properties of RAM
  (courtesy Qutopia)

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• 8) Connect Specific term please.

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• Ans Mowgli Syndrome or Feral children in myth
  and fiction .

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• 9) X is a life time award that commemorates
  people, games or characters in the Game Industry.
  Gamers worldwide cast their votes through paper
  ballots and online submissions during a one-month
  voting period. The winners are honoured with a
  steel star on X .The first set of inductees for
  games/characters are Link ,Sonic ,the Hedgehog
  and Solid Snake .
• X please.

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• Ans Walk of Game

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• 10) William Ernest Henley was an English poet who
  inspired the character of Long John Silver in
  Treasure Island. He suffered from bone
  tuberculosis and had his left leg amputated. He
  is famous for the poem which he wrote from his
  hospital bed. The title, in Latin literally means
  unconquered.

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• The last two lines of the Poem are
• I am the master of my fateI am the captain of
  my soul

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• Ans Invictus

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• 11) The original X was created by Giovanni Maria
  Farina in 1709. He named it in honour of his
  hometown in Germany. He said "I have found a
  fragrance that reminds me of an Italian spring
  morning, of mountain daffodils and orange
  blossoms after the rain. It literally means The
  water of X .Other versions of X have been
  launched since, and now X is a general term for
  perfumes of that sort.
• Image on next slide. If needed.

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• Image (If it helps).

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• Ans Eau de Cologne

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• 12) Identify. Specific term.

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• Ans Popemobile

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• 13) X derives from Italian. Originally used to
  describe males, it meant great person in 1920s.
  The 1929 silent film Desert Nights describes a
  wealthy female crook as a X .. The 1950s song X"
  by Jim Reeves is about a toddler. Aqua used the
  word in their song Barbie Girl. Today X
  usually means a person who focuses on her
  physical appearance and neglects or stifles the
  development of other parts of her personality.
  The good word please.

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• Ans Bimbo.

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• 14) According to legend X fell from Heaven to
  show Adam and Eve where to build an altar and
  offer a sacrifice to God. The Altar became the
  first temple on Earth. People believe that the
  stone was pure and dazzling white then. Tradition
  holds that Adam's altar and the stone were lost
  in the process of Noah's Flood and forgotten. It
  was Abraham who found the it at the original site
  of Adam's altar when the Archangel Gabriel
  revealed it to him. What am I talking about?

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• Ans The Black Stone found in the Kabbah

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• 15)Jim Vallance "Two of us wrote the song. Maybe
  he was thinking about something completely
  different(sex) ... but I was thinking about that
  amazing time when I turned 17. There were brand
  new vinyl albums released by The Beatles, Led
  Zeppelin, The Who, The Kinks, Janis Joplin, The
  Band. It was awesome and I'll never forget it. X
  is a great writer, a great singer, and a great
  friend. He's entitled to his recollections as to
  what inspired the song. My recollections just
  happen to be different than his.
• This controversy is about which song?

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• Ans Summer of 69, Bryan Adamas

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• 16) Uncycleopaedia says" The X Y( two words) may
  sound like a lovely sweet act of endearment
  between two adults but in the rest of the world
  it is something to be feared, worried about and
  depending on the Xian performing the Y downright
  terrifying. To Xians however this is an act of
  endearment.This is frequently seen in sport as a
  goal celebration or to congratulate a fellow
  player on a hard, but successful tackle."

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• Ans Glasgow Kiss

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• 17)All that is gold does not glitter,
• not all those who wander are lost
• the old that is strong does not wither,
• deep roots are not reached by the frost.
• From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
• a light from the shadows shall spring
• renewed shall be blade that was broken,
• the crownless again shall be king.
• Well, tell me what this is. (VIDYUTH ANAND CANNOT
  ANSWER!)

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• Ans Prophecy in Lord of the Rings about Aragon

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• 18) Identify. Explain.

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• Ans Sarc Mark developed by the company Sarcasm,
  Inc. Cost of purchase 1.99, No Kidding!

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• 19) It was recorded in the Oxford English
  Dictionary as originating from Shakespeare's The
  Merry Wives of Windsor. In the phrase "What the
  X! the word X is used as a substitute for
  "devil". It was also used in the phrase "to play
  the X" in the meaning "to play havoc/mischief" .
  X also happens to be the name of a writer.

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• Ans Dickens

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• 20 )When he told his parents he wanted to be a
  writer they admitted him into a mental
  institution. Later dropped out of law school,
  lived as a hippie, dabbled in Satanism, became a
  songwriter, worked as an actor, journalist and in
  theatre before his spiritual awakening. He then
  started writing. He supports spreading his books
  through file sharing networks and was caught
  pirating his own books. This earned him the title
  'the Googliest author'. Who?

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• Ans Paulo Coelho

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• 21) In 1688 a Swiss doctor, identified a new
  medical syndrome also called "hypochondria of the
  heart". Various displaced Swiss of the
  seventeenth century suffered from the disease.
  Sufferers took on a lifeless and haggard
  countenance, became indifferent to their
  surroundings, confused past and present, and even
  hallucinated voices and ghosts. The best
  treatment for the Swiss was a visit to the Alps.
  Nowadays the word is used for an emotion.

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• Ans Nostalgia

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• 22)He is a failed prototype of Genuine People
  Personalities
• Technology. The horror of his existence is that
  no task could
• occupy even the tiniest fraction of his
  intellect. He seems to
• find composing lullabies very hard. The only
  known lullaby is
• Now the world has gone to bed
• Darkness won't engulf my head
• I can see by infra-red
• How I hate the night
• Now I lay me down to sleep
• Try to count electric sheep
• Sweet dream wishes you can keep
• How I hate the night. Who?

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• Ans Marvin the Paranoid Android.

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• 23)He is a pop singer, Elvis impersonator and
  hairspray consumer who heads a four member
  boyband by his name. The other band members are
  Ashwin Segar on drums,Jay on Guitar and Avin
  Matthew on Piano.The members met at a Malyalee
  association meeting in Brisbane, Australia and
  played their first gig at a Christmas event.
  Their first album Christmas in Asia Minor was
  released in 2005. Who?

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• Ans Boymongoose

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• 24)His first venture was Traf-o-Data along with Y
  and Paul Gilbert when he was 17 years old. The
  objective was to read the raw data from roadway
  traffic counters and create useful reports for
  traffic engineers. The business failed when the
  State of Washington offered free traffic
  processing services. Then he later started Z with
  Y , which among other things ,has a Macintosh
  Business unit. This unit is the largest developer
  for Apple. The person, Y and Z?

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• Ans Bill Gates Paul Allen and Microsoft.