Who is this?
Hint
Cracked by: Prasad , nihit , iamniks , zatar , 2ndratequizzer , SidSen , alephnull , Atul Mathew , Varun.M , Hema and yaksha
The hint was the pic of a “Mole”. 1 Avogadro Number of anything is called a Mole :)
Prasad, nihit, iamniks, zatar, 2ndratequizzer, sidsen, alephnull, Atul Mathew, Varun.M, Hema and yaksha
Identify and connect the following :
Lots of people came really close, but only Dhruva , SidSen , alephnull , Gammafunction and Prasad got the right answer.
Dhruva, sidsen, alephnull, Gammafunction and Prasad
(1) is from Jurassic park. The now famous file system navigation scene was on an SGI machine, showing a 3D metaphor file system navigator called fsn; fsn was designed for SGI IRIX.
Identify the logo and explain its meaning.
Bravo!!
yaksha and piezocake get a red helium balloon each :)
ACM International Collegiate Programming contest has a logo which pretty much summarizes the contest
Think about a solution to the problem at hand
Get an Idea, Solve the problem
Get a Red helium balloon tied to your table.
This is basically done so that in the contest arena where a hazaar teams sit, people can make out which team has solved how many problems.
Nice crack, yaksha and piezocake!
yaksha and piezocake
The famous picture below has a small prank in it. Identify the dudes in the picture, and the easter egg it contains.
(Some visual acuity required :-) )
Cracked by: devadutta, BiGFooT (Yeti returns!) , nihit , Poornima , jayanth , Gammafunction , udupendra , Dhruva , alephnull, yaksha and piezocake.
BiGFooT, nihit, Poornima, jayanth, Gammafunction, udupendra, Dhruva, alephnull, yaksha and piezocake
As almost everyone identified, these are Shamir, Rivest and Adleman, respectively. More famously known as the RSA from the RSA encryption system.
Who are these insects named after?
2.
Cracked by: srikanth , Atul Mathew , Gammafunction , Vinod , prasanth , udupendra , yaksha and BiGFooT.
As if software bugs were not enough,
have flower flies (bugs) named after them :)
Atul Mathew, Gammafunction, Vinod, prasanth, udupendra, yaksha and BiGFooT
Identify the object in the picture:
Cracked by: devadutta, udupendra , Gammafunction , nihit and prasanth.
udupendra, Gammafunction, nihit and prasanth
This is Kevin Mitnick’s Business Card. This infamous hacker thinks a portable lockpicking set would be good advertising for his services :-)
Who is she?
Take a close look at what she is drawing
Cracked by: udupendra , Biki , srikanth , Gammafunction , yaksha and nihit.
She is Lorrie LeJeune. She draws all those freaky but awesome looking animal illustrations on the O’Reilly books.
More info here http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/news/lejeune_0400.html
udupendra, Biki, srikanth, Gammafunction, yaksha and nihit
A very simple one, considering the context. Identify the logo below, and its significance:
Answered by: alephnull, prasanth and Tathagata Chatterjee.
alephnull, prasanth and Tathagata Chatterjee
1,2 and 3 have a common mega geek title.
What is the title? Identify 1,2 and 3 for full points :)
2. 
3. 
srikanth , udupendra , jayanth , bs , Piyush , Gammafunction , Prasad , alephnull , SidSen , prasanth and yaksha get full points.
“Benevolent Dictator for Life” is the title. Nice title, isn’t it :)
What this means is they have the final word on anything concerned to the projects they control.
Others with a similar tile include Linus Torvalds for the Linux Kernel.
srikanth, udupendra, jayanth, bs, Piyush, Gammafunction, Prasad, alephnull, sidsen, prasanth and yaksha
This service started off in 1991, displaying something along these lines:
The original service eventually ended in 2001: this was its last transmission:
The object you see in the first image was sold for £3,350, and the service now shows this:
What “service”?
Answered by: Shashank , bs , Poornima , Piyush , Sharath , Abhishek , uma , Gammafunction , udupendra , Prasad , Dhruva , LordJim and jayanth.
Answer: The Trojan Room Coffee Pot. The pot was sold for a huge amount to Der Speigel, which broadcasts the second type of image.
Shashank, bs, Poornima, Piyush, Sharath, Abhishek, uma, Gammafunction, udupendra, Prasad, Dhruva, LordJim and jayanth