First featured on screen in 1, popularly shown in 2 and claimed to have been shown in 3.
What?

1. 

2. ``

3. 

Hint: Look closely in 2 :)

Prasad , bs , ramsaravana , Abhishek , Sharath , uma , Tathagata Chatterjee , udupendra , piezocake , Mahesh Herle , Gammafunction , yaksha , Shashank “hacked” the answer. :)

2ndratequizzer got close.

The answer is nmap, a port scanning tool which can be downloaded from insecure.org. Typically, it is used by hackers (ethical or otherwise) to first find out which ports on a target machine are open.

1. Featured the Source code of nmap

2. Trinity in Matrix Reloaded using nmap to port scan and attack the “Grid System” using a well known attack called SSH1-CRC to gain access. This was even featured in a BBC news article. This is also the first Hollywood movie to show a proper hacking scene.

3. Many people claim to have seen nmap in action in this movie. Screen shots are available all around the net.

Prasad, bs, ramsaravana, Abhishek, Sharath, uma, Tathagata Chatterjee, udupendra, piezocake, Mahesh Herle, Gammafunction, yaksha and Shashank

What is this? And what is its claim to fame?

this may help a bit more

Unearthed by: Abhishek , ramsaravana , nihit , Gammafunction , Vinod , uma , Sharath , Swetha , Arjun June , Tathagata Chatterjee , shivani , yaksha , srichand.

This is the famous root(2) tablet, pretty much the first known reference to an irrational number. See Abhishek or Yaksha’s comment for more details :)

Abhishek, ramsaravana, nihit, Gammafunction, Vinod, uma, Sharath, Swetha, Arjun June, Tathagata Chatterjee, shivani, yaksha and srichand

Connect and explain

Cracked by a good bunch of people: **udupendra , Vinod , pratap , ramsaravana , shyam , Piyush , Sharath , Mahesh Herle , nihit , Goutham , Abhishek , yaksha , Arun Krishnamoorthy , Arjun June , uma , Archana , Shashank. **

Quoting Abhishek who was quoted Wikipedia :)

1.Harald being baptized by Poppo the monk
2.Bluetooth logo

Bluetooth was named after a late tenth century king, Harald Bluetooth King of Denmark and Norway. He is known for his unification of previously warring tribes from Denmark (including now Swedish Scania, where the Bluetooth technology was invented), and Norway. Bluetooth likewise was intended to unify different technologies, such as computers and mobile phones.

udupendra, Vinod, pratap, ramsaravana, shyam, Piyush, Sharath, Mahesh Herle, nihit, Goutham, Abhishek, yaksha, Arun Krishnamoorthy, Arjun June, uma, Archana and Shashank

Connect the 3 books to another:

bs , Ramanand , ramsaravana , nihit , Arun Krishnamoorthy , Sharath , BiGFooT , udupendra and jayanth cracketh the Q.

bs, Ramanand, ramsaravana, nihit, Arun Krishnamoorthy, Sharath, BiGFooT, udupendra and jayanth

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Cracked by udupendra and nihit. Nice work!

This question, which kind of looked hard, was easily workable when approached from pic 3 to 1

3. Don Knuth’s Metafont whose version numbers approach e. The versions are 2, 2.7, 2.71, 2.718 and so on

4. Google in their 2004 IPO announced its intention to raise $2,718,281,828, which is e billion dollars. Also they had hiring billboards with references to e.

5. Andrew Jackson, he was a US president, 2 times in office, 7th president and was elected in 1828. Which perfectly fits into 2.71828, which is the value of e!

udupendra and nihit

Created by this founder of Infocom (pic 1), it became an integral part of geek culture, and now regularly appears in nerdcore music (2) and comic strips (3). What?

Basically, fill in the part of the comic that’s blanked out. (Identify the guy in 1 too)

Uudupendra , nihit , prasanth , Archana , sumanthvanahalli , yaksha , BiGFooT , Mahesh Herle and Shashank have taken the first steps on the road to being Master Adventurers.

udupendra, nihit, prasanth, Archana, sumanthvanahalli, yaksha, BiGFooT, Mahesh Herle and Shashank

1. 

2. ?

3. 4.

1 lead to 2 ( no, there is no image there ), which in turn led to 3 and 4.
What is 2?
While you are at it, put fundas about 1,3 and 4 also

**udupendra , Arun Krishnamoorthy , srikanth , prasanth , yaksha , Abhishek ** got it almost right.

1. “Amazing Stories” cover showing Anthony Rogers, which went on to become Bucks Rogers

2. Duck Dodgers in th 24 and 1/2th century was a parody on Buck Rogers

3. The famous rocket man on a modern Jet pack.

so, 2 was Buck Rogers. The reason why a comic character made it into a tech quiz was that the jet pack, which the rocket man is wearing in the 4th pic is a concept which more or less evolved from the method Buck Rogers uses to travel. Therefore, the jet pack was the central connect.

udupendra, Arun Krishnamoorthy, prasanth, yaksha and Abhishek

Connect the three images below to an iconic system:

(Detailed fundas on all three preferred)

Cracked by: udupendra , Arun Krishnamoorthy , Biki , nihit , Shashank and Ganesh Prasad.

udupendra, Arun Krishnamoorthy, Biki, nihit, Shashank and Ganesh Prasad

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Cracked by: srikanth , abhinav , Vinod , udupendra , Bikiran , bs , Mahesh Herle , nihit , Arun Krishnamoorthy , piezocake , Gammafunction , Sharath , Preetish , Sandesh , alephnull , Non Descript , yaksha , bobo , Abhishek.

Prasad gets a deeper connect. I wonder what he was on :P

Fibonacci Sequence..

1. Sunflower Florets form spirals in 34 and 55, which is a Fibonacci Sequence. Also, like Mahesh Herle points out, the number of petals in any flower is a fibonacci number

2. xkcd’s fibonacci reference.. the dude starts counting the number of times his gf touches him and associates it to the fibonacci sequence.

srikanth, abhinav, Vinod, udupendra, Biki, bs, Mahesh Herle, nihit, Arun Krishnamoorthy, piezocake, Gammafunction, Sharath, Preetish, Sandesh, alephnull, Non Descript, yaksha, bobo and Abhishek

Identify and connect the 3 celebrities below:

And just to ensure you’re thinking along the right lines:

Prasad , nihit , Abhishek , Karthik , BiGFooT , prasanth , and Bikiran radioed in the right answer. piezocake and jayanth transmitted some funny signals with a low SNR.

The demodulated signal:

The celebrities in the top row are Marlon Brando, Rajiv Gandhi, and Kamal Hassan (from L - R). As the links tell you, they all operated HAM radios at some point of time. The hint was to Guglielmo Marconi, just to get you on the right frequency.

Prasad, nihit, Abhishek, Karthik, BiGFooT, prasanth and Biki