This question was handed in to us by Prasanth. What is going on here?

Cracked by: udupendra , bs , Varun.M , sidsen , vaibhav008 , Biki , alephnull , yaksha , Tathagata Chatterjee , nihit , rajeshvj , C’na and Keerthi.

udupendra, bs, Varun.M, sidsen, vaibhav008, Biki, alephnull, yaksha, Tathagata Chatterjee, nihit, rajeshvj, C’na and Keerthi

I had a bit of extra time today, so here’s a question that may require you to dig deeper than usual. Connect the three magazine covers below.

udupendra , 2ndratequizzer , alephnull , nihit , prasanth , Tathagata Chatterjee and SidSen have some real good taste.

udupendra, 2ndratequizzer, alephnull, nihit, prasanth, Tathagata Chatterjee and sidsen

1,2 and 3 are few of the many things which have a 4 letter name you would have heard a 1000 times over the past year or so.

What is it? ( and identify 1,2,3)

1. 2.

2. 

Cracked by everyone who tried. Namely, **Quehin , SidSen , srichand , jayanth , bs , Atul Mathew , vaibhav008 , Ganesh Prasad , Srivatsa , iamniks , Keerthi Kiran M , rajeshvj , sharath , udupendra , Gammafunction , Madan , shivathilak , Abhishek , Tathagata Chatterjee , prasanth , yaksha and nihit. **

AJAX: Asynchronous Javascript and XML is the answer. It has been the buzz word of the web 2.0 era, with every site (including mine) flaunting Ajax capabilities more as a fashion statement than need :)

Lemme quote Srichand’s answer for details

“The first chap is Ajax , the son of Telamon and Periboea and king of Salamis.

Second picture, is the city of Ajax, in Ontario Canada, famous for Sum 41 the band

The third picture, is… well, Ajax, the arcade game.

The title, refers to the message shown when gmail loads up.. Gmail of course, is the most popular Ajax application around.”

My other favourite Ajax products are :D

and the AJAX company which is a competitor of ACME corporation :)

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Physics dudes rejoice! This question is ideally suited for you. Connect:

Identify them all for bonus points. Clue: This list is, currently, exhaustive.

Cracked by: Goutham , vaibhav008 , alephnull , Keerthi Kiran M , iamniks , Quehin , prasanth , Tathagata Chatterjee , Gammafunction , 2ndratequizzer and SidSen.

Goutham, vaibhav008, alephnull, Keerthi Kiran M, iamniks, Quehin, prasanth, Tathagata Chatterjee, Gammafunction, 2ndratequizzer and sidsen

If you replace the pictures of these dudes with their names in the equation below, you will see a very fundamental physics equation. Identify the equation and name the three. ( if you get the equation, naming them is a piece of cake)

= x

Cracked by: srikanth , piezocake , Poornima , vaibhav008 , sidsen , bs , sridhar , Atul Mathew , Ganesh Prasad , Gammafunction , Quehin , Shakeel , Goutham , rajeshvj , iamniks , nihit , Prasad and BiGFooT.

V=IR

1. Alessandro Volta
2. André-Marie Ampère
3. Georg Simon Ohm

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Connect everything.

The answer, ideally, consists of a number, and a bunch of explanations as to why that number makes sense in this context.

Cracked by: sidsen (Take a gander at his meticulously-crafted rant in the answers. It’s worth your time :-) ) , Poornima , Quehin , alephnull and prasanth.

Nope, the answer wasn’t Jabber. The real

sidsen, Poornima, Quehin, alephnull and prasanth

Who is he?

Hints:

Cracked by: Poornima , Quehin , 2ndratequizzer , alephnull , Keerthi , Gammafunction , Mahesh , Ganesh Prasad , iamniks , Keerthi Kiran M , Abhishek , Varun.M , SidSen , yaksha and nihit .

The Dude is Stephen Wolfram. He in the creator of Mathematica, an amazing computer algebra system. This thing can solve differential equations in symbolic form!

And of course, the hints are the logo and screen shot of Mathematica respectively.

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The fate of an entire civilization depended on this, at one point of time. What is it?

Cracked by: bs , Prasad , Quehin , MGS, 2ndratequizzer , sridhar , Hari , C’na , Mahesh , rajeshvj , jayanth , iamniks , Swetha , Abhishek , Ganesh Prasad , Poornima , Keerthi , shyam , Goutham , udupendra , Keerthi Kiran M , prasanth , shivathilak , Gammafunction , insufferablejake , bobo , Vinod and Shashank.

bs, Prasad, MGS, Quehin, 2ndratequizzer, sridhar, Hari, C’na, Mahesh, rajeshvj, jayanth, iamniks, Swetha, Abhishek, Ganesh Prasad, Poornima, Keerthi, shyam, Goutham, udupendra, Keerthi Kiran M, prasanth, shivathilak, Gammafunction, insufferablejake, bobo, Vinod and Shashank

What happened here?

and oh, Google did this when the above happened..

Whoa! 42 Comments! This question has had enough comments to give an Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything !

Bravo!! Poornima , Quehin , bs , rajeshvj , iamniks , Ganesh Prasad , Gammafunction , shyam , Abhishek , Keerthi Kiran M , Madan , alephnull , sharath , shivathilak , prasanth , Preetish , Varun.M , Shakeel , SidSen , uma , asha , yaksha , Vinod , Mahesh , bobo , nihit , jayanth , Shashank , sridhar , srikanth , Kishen , Swetha , Deepshikha , vaibhav008 , Prithvi , Prasad.

1. SF Golden gate bridge ( SF Downtown, in general )

2. Google homepage

Both turned off their lights in support for “Lights out SF”, an energy conservation event. Check the comments for some linkage. ( In 1, you can see that many other buildings have turned their lights off in support)

I have given points to anyone close to “Energy conservation”. No points for “Grid Outages” :P

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Identify the instrument being played in this clip:

Cracked by: devadutta , Poornima , Quehin , udupendra , bs , Varun.M , Keerthi , Keerthi Kiran M , iamniks , Mahesh , Gammafunction , alephnull , bobo , shyam , Abhishek and prasanth

devadutta(3), Poornima, Quehin, udupendra, bs, Varun.M, Keerthi, Keerthi Kiran M, iamniks, Mahesh, Gammafunction, alephnull, bobo, shyam, Abhishek and prasanth