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Jai Ganesh · 2017-03-26 01:49:00

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The Answer #6488 is acceptable. Good work, bobbym!

#6489. Name the American electronic commerce and cloud computing company that was founded on July 5, 1994, by Jeff Bezos and is based in Seattle, Washington. It is the largest Internet-based retailer in the world by total sales and market capitalization.

#6490. Name the Chinese businessman (Born 29 April 1944). He is the founder of Lenovo, one of the largest computer makers in the world. He remains one of the leaders of the company. He founded Lenovo (whose English name was originally Legend), in 1984 with a group of ten other engineers in Beijing with 200,000 yuan and an office roughly 20 square yards in size. He came up with the idea to start Lenovo in response to a lack of funding at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). His superior arranged for the academy to loan him and the other co-founders the afore-mentioned 200,000 yuan. Of this time, he said, "It wasn't easy. The lowest thing you could do in the early '80s, as a scientist, was to go into business. China had a strict planned economy and there was barely room for a freewheeling company like ours."

bobbym · 2017-03-26 04:55:49

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Jai Ganesh · 2017-03-26 15:04:03

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The Answer #6489 is correct. Neat work, bobbym!

#6491. Name the charter city located in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area of the United States. The city includes portions of Stanford and is headquarters to a number of high-technology companies, including Hewlett-Packard (HP), Space Systems/Loral, VMware, Tesla Motors, Ford Research and Innovation Center, PARC, Ning, IDEO, Skype, and Palantir Technologies. It has also served as an incubator to several other high-technology companies such as Google, Facebook, Logitech, Intuit, Pinterest, and PayPal.

#6492. They are popular for charging smartphones and mobile tablet devices. It is a portable device that can supply power from its built-in batteries through a USB port. They usually recharge with USB power supply. Technically, it consists of rechargeable Lithium-ion or Lithium-Polymer batteries installed in a protective casing, guided by a printed circuit board (PCB) which provides various protective and safety measures. What is it?

bobbym · 2017-03-26 17:34:36

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Jai Ganesh · 2017-03-26 22:04:33

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The Answer #6491 is correct. Neat work, bobbym!

#6493. Name the first commercially successful portable microcomputer, released on April 3, 1981. It weighed 10.7 kg (24.5 lb), cost $1,795 US, and ran the CP/M 2.2 operating system. Powered directly from a mains socket as it had no on-board battery, though it was still classed as a portable device as it could be packed away and transported by hand to another location.

#6494. Name the South Korean multinational conglomerate headquartered in Seoul. It was founded by Lee Byung-chul in 1938 as a trading company. Over the next three decades, the group diversified into areas including food processing, textiles, insurance, securities and retail. It entered the electronics industry in the late 1960s and the construction and shipbuilding industries in the mid-1970s; these areas would drive its subsequent growth. It has a powerful influence on South Korea's economic development, politics, media and culture and has been a major driving force behind the "Miracle on the Han River".

bobbym · 2017-03-26 22:06:39

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Jai Ganesh · 2017-03-26 22:45:55

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#6495. The element usually occurs together with cerium and the other rare earth elements. It was first found by the Swedish chemist Carl Gustav Mosander in 1839 as an impurity in cerium nitrate - hence the name, from the Ancient Greek, meaning "to lie hidden". Although it is classified as a rare earth element, it is the 28th most abundant element in the Earth's crust, almost three times as abundant as lead. Name the element.

#6496. Name the element which was discovered using spectroscopy by French chemist Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran in 1875 from its characteristic spectrum (two violet lines) in a sample of sphalerite. Later that year, Lecoq obtained the free metal by electrolysis of the hydroxide in potassium hydroxide solution. He named the element after his native land of France.

bobbym · 2017-03-27 07:16:37

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Jai Ganesh · 2017-03-27 15:14:56

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Both the Answers, #6495 and #6496, are correct. Magnificent, bobbym!

#6497. Many of the element's properties were predicted by Dmitri Mendeleev before the element was discovered. Mendeleev noted a gap in his periodic table and gave the undiscovered element the provisional name ekamanganese (Em). In 1937, the element became the first predominantly artificial element to be produced, hence its name. Name it.

#6498. Name the superheavy synthetic element with symbol Mc and atomic number 115. It was first synthesized in 2003 by a joint team of Russian and American scientists at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna, Russia. In December 2015, it was recognized as one of four new elements by the Joint Working Party of international scientific bodies IUPAC and IUPAP. On 28 November 2016, it was officially named after the Moscow region, which the JINR is situated in.

bobbym · 2017-03-27 15:23:42

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Jai Ganesh · 2017-03-27 15:52:14

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#6499. Which extremely radioactive synthetic element is named after the first ever Nobel Prize winner in Physics?

#6500. It exists as a highly toxic pale yellow diatomic gas at standard conditions. As the most electronegative element, it is extremely reactive: almost all other elements, including some noble gases, form compounds with this element. Name it.

bobbym · 2017-03-27 15:59:33

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Jai Ganesh · 2017-03-27 17:22:40

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The Answer #6500 is correct. Neat work, bobbym!

#6501. Name the chemical element with atomic number 106. It is named after an American nuclear chemist. It is a synthetic element (an element that can be created in a laboratory but is not found in nature) and radioactive; the most stable known isotope has a half-life of approximately 3.1 minutes.

#6502. Name the hard, silvery grey, ductile, and malleable transition metal. The elemental metal is rarely found in nature, but once isolated artificially, the formation of an oxide layer (passivation) stabilizes the free metal somewhat against further oxidation. Andrés Manuel del Río discovered compounds of this metal in 1801 in Mexico by analyzing a new lead-bearing mineral he called "brown lead", and presumed its qualities were due to the presence of a new element, which he named erythronium (derived from Greek for "red") since, upon heating, most of the salts turned red.

bobbym · 2017-03-27 19:17:10

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Jai Ganesh · 2017-03-27 20:31:52

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The Answer #6502 is correct. Neat work, bobbym!

#6503. Who was 'Caligula' (meaning "little soldier's boot")?

#6504. Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer was a German statesman who served as the first post-war Chancellor of Germany (West Germany) from 1949 to 1963 (5 January 1876 – 19 April 1967). He led his country from the ruins of World War II to a productive and prosperous nation that forged close relations with France, the United Kingdom and the United States. Adenauer, the Chancellor till age 87 was dubbed "Der Alte". What does the name mean?

bobbym · 2017-03-27 20:55:02

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Jai Ganesh · 2017-03-27 22:06:24

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Both the Answers, #6503 and #6504, are correct. Excellent, bobbym!

#6505. Where or what is 'White Russia'?

#6506. What is 'Benelux'?

bobbym · 2017-03-27 22:08:55

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Jai Ganesh · 2017-03-27 23:17:05

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The Answer #6506 is partially correct. Good work, bobbym!

#6507. Kunda Culture, with its roots in Swiderian culture, is a mesolithic hunter-gatherer communities of the Baltic forest zone extending eastwards through Latvia into northern Russia dating to the period 8000-5000 BC by calibrated radiocarbon dating. It is named after the this town of Kunda, about 110 kilometres (70 mi) east of Tallinn along the Gulf of Finland, near where the first extensively studied settlement was discovered on Lammasmäe Hill and in the surrounding peat bog. The oldest known Kunda culture settlement in this nation is Pulli settlement. The Kunda Culture is succeeded by the Narva culture who use pottery and show some traces of food production. In which nation is it?

#6508. It was created by Theodor Tobler (1876-1941) in Bern, Switzerland, in 1908. Theodor Tobler, with his cousin Emil Baumann, developed a unique milk chocolate including nougat, almonds and honey with a distinctive triangular shape. The image of a bear is hidden in the Matterhorn high mountain, symbolizing the town of the chocolate's origin. The triangular shape of the Matterhorn in the Swiss Alps is commonly believed to have given Theodor Tobler his inspiration for the shape of it. Name it.

bobbym · 2017-03-28 08:30:02

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Jai Ganesh · 2017-03-28 12:26:39

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The Answer #6508 is correct. Good work, bobbym!

#6509. What is 'Hyponatremia'?

#6510. It is an extra administration of a vaccine after an earlier (prime) dose. After initial immunization, it is a re-exposure to the immunizing antigen. It is intended to increase immunity against that antigen back to protective levels, after memory against that antigen has declined through time. What is it?

bobbym · 2017-03-28 12:53:07

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Jai Ganesh · 2017-03-28 15:12:38

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The Answer #6510 is correct. Neat work, bobbym!

#6511. Name the city which was established in 1724 by a Spanish soldier, Bruno Mauricio de Zabala, as a strategic move amidst the Spanish-Portuguese dispute over the platine region. It was also under brief British rule in 1807. It hosted all the matches during the first FIFA World Cup. It has consistently been rated as having the highest quality of life of any city in Latin America: by 2015 it has held this rank every year during the last decade.

#6512. Name the Brazilian racing driver (21 March 1960 - 1 May 1994) who won three Formula One world championships for McLaren in 1988, 1990 and 1991 and is regarded as one of the greatest Formula One drivers of all time. He was killed in an accident while leading the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix for Williams. He has often been voted as the best and most influential Formula One driver of all time in various motorsport polls.

bobbym · 2017-03-28 17:55:10

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Jai Ganesh · 2017-03-29 00:48:08

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The Answer #6511 is correct. Neat work, bobbym!

#6513. What is 'Order of Friendship'?

#6514. The Presidential Medal of Freedom is an award bestowed by the President of the United States and is - along with the comparable Congressional Gold Medal - the highest civilian award of the United States. It was established in 1963 by President John F. Kennedy, superseding the Medal of Freedom that was established by President Harry S. Truman in 1945 to honor civilian service during World War II. In which year did Bill Gates get the award his for Philanthropy?

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