Regular Appearances- July 30th 2010

Connect the following-

1. Bagehot- (3 February 1826 – 24 March 1877), an English businessman, essayist and journalist who wrote extensively about literature, government, and economic affairs.

2. Schumpeter- (8 February 1883 – 8 January 1950), an Austrian economist and political scientist born in Moravia, then part of Austria-Hungary, now in the Czech Republic. He popularized the term "creative destruction" in economics.

3. Charlemagne- (742- 814), King of Franks and Emperor of the Romans.

4. Lexington- a town in  MA, USA, famous for being the site of the first shot of the American Revolution, in the battle of Lexington, on April 19, 1775.

5. Buttonwood- a common and familiar tree in North America, also called the American Sycamore. Early Wall St. traders used to gather under one.

6. Banyan- a fig, most commonly the Indian Banyan tree.

Question for July 29, 2010

What am I talking about here?

Doug Walters set it in 1977 with 44. Rod Marsh, nurturing a grudge from that time, broke it with 45 in 1983, albeit with some help from Dennis Lillee. David Boon then set what is arguably the most famous of these records with 52 in 1989. There are unconfirmed reports that Karls Ackasovs, the Latvian Aussie rules football player broke Boon's record with 53 (year unknown), and Carl Hayman, the All Blacks rugby player, broke that record with 60 in 2007.

Qn. for July 27th.

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Question for July 26, 2010

X is a website that allows the easy creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser. Y was the first X. It was named so because the developer remembered a Honolulu International Airport counter employee telling him to take the X shuttle bus that runs between the airport's terminals. According to him, "I chose X-X as an alliterative substitute for 'quick' and thereby avoided naming this stuff quick-web". Identify X. Bonus points for naming Y as well.

No one was more likely to deliver an unplayable ball - July 23, 2010

On X:

"Batsmen didn't know quite what to expect from him and sometimes neither did X himself."

X won the Wisden's "Indian bowling performance of the century" award in 2002.

X? Why did X not know what to expect himself?

Question for July 22 - PS

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Question for Jul 21

The visual shows a satellite image taken during the first half of 2010. What is the image capturing?