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Cracked by: **srikanth , alephnull , Gammafunction , prasanth and piezocake. **
srikanth, alephnull, Gammafunction, prasanth and piezocake
The key was to look at the menu options in 1. They would have given away that 1 was dbase. The strange dots kind of thing is a result of pixelizing the word “database” in 1 and its not Vulcan script :)
To offset the extreme seriousness of the last few questions, here’s an extremely pointless question that’s worth wasting your time on:
First name:
Last Name:
Close associates:
Who is this character? (Extra-jobless people can please identify the character’s associates, too)
Cracked by: Tathagata Chatterjee , sidsen , Keerthi Kiran M , **VikraM **, **prasanth **, yaksha , udupendra , **BiGFooT **and nihit. (All the names in bold were extra-jobless.)
Tathagata Chatterjee, sidsen, Keerthi Kiran M, VikraM, prasanth, yaksha, udupendra, BiGFooT and nihit
Guybrush Threepwood, protagonist of the Monkey Island series of games. The designers saved his model as “guy” in Deluxe Paint, which saved it with a .brush extension and became the first name. The last name was chosen by voting.
This question was sent in by Arjun. Thanks a lot, saar…
(And for all the rest of you, we demand that you to get off your lazy backsides and send in guest questions to [email protected] , so that we can just post those and get back onto our lazy backsides)
This image below shows a strange phenomenon. It is an image of the shadow of an object, but there seem to be bands of light in the shadow!
What is this, and why is it significant?
And just in case you’re under the smart-alecky impression that this phenomenon is not significant, here’s a clue. A clue to get the clue: why is their logo so weird?
Cracked (in whole or in part) by: 2ndratequizzer , sidsen , iamniks , prasanth and VikraM.
2ndratequizzer, sidsen, iamniks, prasanth and VikraM
That is the picture of what is called Arago’s Spot. This phenomenon “proved” the wave-particle duality of light. In essence, it was predicted that if light was only particle, there cannot be any brightness in the circular objects shadow, and if it had a dual nature, there would be brightness in the shadow of the object due to diffraction. Further, Poisson hypothesized that the exact center would have a bright spot since all the waves would interfere constructively.
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Cracked by: sidsen , vaibhav008 , Biki(of course..) , bobo , Tathagata Chatterjee , udupendra , Prithvi , prasanth , 2ndratequizzer , shreyas , VikraM , Keerthi , Varun.M , Gammafunction , iamniks , yaksha , Shakeel and MGS.
sidsen, vaibhav008, Biki, bobo, Tathagata Chatterjee, udupendra, Prithvi, prasanth, 2ndratequizzer, shreyas, VikraM, Keerthi, Varun.M, Gammafunction, iamniks, yaksha, Shakeel and MGS
What is so special about this MIT logo?
Clue:
Cracked by: uma , BiGFooT , VikraM , shivathilak , Tathagata Chatterjee , prasanth and iamniks.
uma, BiGFooT, VikraM, shivathilak, Tathagata Chatterjee, prasanth, iamniks and sidsen
The logo is made of 15 E-coli cells. The cells were moved into place by using “infrared optical tweezers” to move them around; technology reminiscent of Star Trek’s tractor beams :-)
This question is based on a suggestion from Purnateja.
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Analogically speaking,
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Tell us the name of the person missing in the analogy. Also, identify the other three.
Cracked by: **udupendra , bs , Atul Mathew , shivathilak , Gammafunction , bobo , shyam , samarth , alephnull , vijayaraghavan , SidSen , iamniks , Tathagata Chatterjee , 2ndratequizzer , VikraM , VikraM , arjmage , jayanth , nihit and Shreyas. **
udupendra, bs, Atul Mathew, shivathilak, Gammafunction, bobo, shyam, samarth, alephnull, vijayaraghavan, sidsen, iamniks, Tathagata Chatterjee, 2ndratequizzer, VikraM, arjmage, jayanth, nihit, Shreyas and yaksha
The missing dude is Henri Poincaré.