Thursday #08

1. Given below are the members of the Canadian Armed Forces. Every year, they use these heavy artillery Howitzers in their homeland under a special Operation named Operation Palaci. What is the purpose of firing these heavy war machines every year, particularly in Roger's Creek British Columbia?

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These soldiers fire Artillery on a predetermined spot in order to avoid avalanche in the Canadian region. Indeed an interesting peaceful use for a weapon meant for destruction

2. Identify the parent company of this restaurant chain, recently in the trends due to the speculation that the parent brand might be planning to distance from the presently controversial name. 

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It is supposedly being pushed as "Mainland Asia" with some speculating that the parent "Mainland China" is trying to distance itself from the Chinese connection.

3. A collective of elite North American and European politicians, business leaders, financiers and academics, the group has attracted a good deal of suspicion over the last half-century, with conspiracy theorists confidently asserting that its members are plotting the New World Order and are hell-bent on global domination.
The group takes their name from the Hotel de X in Oosterbeek, the Netherlands, where its members first convened on 29 May 1954 at the invitation of Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld.

Which secretive Group is being talked about.

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Bilderberg Group, the real life Illuminati super government, as some people think.

4. B2/cafelog is a simple tool created specifically for blogging. Launched in 2001, people were using it for weblogs and ‘classy news.’ By the time it went offline, it had a sizable user base among whom was one "Matt Mullenweg", he took it upon himself to provide an alternative and thus created X from a fork of B2/cafelog. What is X, reportedly powering 32% of the top 10 million sites on the internet today.

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WordPress.

5. The distinctive crown logo from which X takes its name is based on the crown that adorns the Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe in the town of Puerto Vallarta, in the nation of its origin. However, it got much of unwanted attention from quite some time during this pandemic, so much so that Delhi High Court actually had to issue an order to stop using the brand name with malicious and misleading intentions. Identify X?

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It is the world famous Corona Beer which used to be the top search result for the term "Corona" before the pandemic.