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2007

Thursday, December 20, 2007

!Useful

—devadutta @ 09:51

Connect all of them

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Bonus credit if you can extend your connect to this

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Gammafunction gets the perfect answer along with the bonus credit (this is the bonus credit :P ).
Rohan gets the perfect answer.
nishas thambi is almost perfect in spite of his fading powers due to the missing apostrophe.
jayanth , Dibyo , bobo , shreyas , BiGFooT , A Nony Mouse and Vinay were also more or less correct.

jayanth, Dibyo, bobo, shreyas, BiGFooT, A Nony Mouse, Gammafunction, Vinay, Rohan and nishas thambi


Very soluble

—srikanth @ 10:39

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(A) is a professor of biochemistry, although he is better known for his contributions in a different field. While using (B) in his work, he saw something, and hypothesized something interesting. His hypotheses led to a paper titled (C).

Identify A, B and, mainly, C.

Cracked by: udupendra , teju , Ranjana Ninan , Dibyo , Tathagata Chatterjee , shyam , Lord Jim , Gammafunction , BiGFooT , sidsen and prasanth.

udupendra, teju, Ranjana Ninan, Dibyo, Tathagata Chatterjee, shyam, Lord Jim, Gammafunction, BiGFooT, sidsen and prasanth

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A- Isaac Asimov


Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Not my favourite animal

—devadutta @ 09:42

Identify 1.(Hint: 2 will take you into the right forest :) )

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Once in a while, we like to put up questions which have a huge number of cracks. Makes us really happy to see so many people crack a question. This was one of those. Some 33 people, namely, udupendra , Gammafunction , nisha’s thambi , jayanth , Dibyo , Shashank , teju , Arjun Chennu , madhur , bobo , shenoyvarun86 , iamniks , shivathilak , varun , Ganesh Prasad , VikraM , Archana , Vinay , RahulRanade , Vinod P.V , yaksha , Napoleon Dammit , Keerthi Kiran M , Lord Jim , Ranjana Ninan , Atul Mathew , Tathagata Chatterjee , prasanth , Madan , sidsen and Arjun June have got it right.

udupendra, Gammafunction, nishas thambi, jayanth, Dibyo, Shashank, teju, Arjun Chennu, madhur, bobo, shenoyvarun86, iamniks, shivathilak, varun, Ganesh Prasad, VikraM, Archana, Vinay, RahulRanade, Vinod P.V, yaksha, Napoleon Dammit, Keerthi Kiran M, Lord Jim, Ranjana Ninan, Atul Mathew, Tathagata Chatterjee, prasanth, Madan, sidsen and Arjun June


Monday, December 17, 2007

Usually paradoxical

—srikanth @ 10:22

What’s common to all of these?

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Cracked by: udupendra , sidsen , madhur , Dibyo , Lord Jim , jayanth , Tathagata Chatterjee , varun , shivathilak , VikraM , RahulRanade , Ranjana , iamniks , Shashank and yaksha

udupendra, sidsen, madhur, Dibyo, Lord Jim, jayanth, Tathagata Chatterjee, varun, shivathilak, VikraM, RahulRanade, Ranjana, iamniks, Shashank and yaksha

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The TARDIS from the Dr. Who series.


Sunday, December 16, 2007

You can't eat this kind..

—devadutta @ 09:45

Connect 1,2 and 3.

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Please don’t take the pains of identifying 3, but do identify 1 and 2.

Cracked by: udupendra(but, of course!) , bobo , nisha’s thambi , jayanth , Lord Jim , RahulRanade , Shashank , prasanth , Tathagata Chatterjee , sidsen and Dibyo(Perseverance is the key, huh dude? ;) ).

udupendra, bobo, nishas thambi, jayanth, Lord Jim, RahulRanade, Shashank, prasanth, Tathagata Chatterjee, sidsen and Dibyo


Saturday, December 15, 2007

By talos!

—srikanth @ 12:37

Identify this Czech play, and its impact on modern English

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Cracked by: udupendra , BiGFooT , teju , Dibyo , shenoyvarun86 , VikraM , Tathagata Chatterjee , prasanth , jayanth , yaksha , bobo , arbitguy , Shashank , nisha’s thambi , Lord Jim , Gammafunction , and Rohan.

udupendra, BiGFooT, teju, Dibyo, shenoyvarun86, VikraM, Tathagata Chatterjee, prasanth, jayanth, yaksha, bobo, arbitguy, Shashank, nishas thambi, Lord Jim, Gammafunction and Rohan

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A still from the play Rossums Universal Robots. This introduced the term “robot” for mechanical men. See udupendra’s post down below for a more in-depth version of a similar question!


Friday, December 14, 2007

Calculate, see

—devadutta @ 10:07

Analogically speaking,

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Cracked By: jayanth , Gammafunction , VikraM , bobo and Dibyo.

jayanth, Gammafunction, VikraM, bobo and Dibyo


Thursday, December 13, 2007

Got a Q on your transcript?

—srikanth @ 10:40

This company was originally founded by Thomas Kelliher as a media business. The capital that was generated then helped the company move on to more interesting things. Today, the company is infamous for its failed experiments.

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Identify the company. (Bonus for getting the clue in the title ;) )

Cracked by: udupendra , teju , vaibhav008 , shyam , Vinay , Lord Jim , varun , shivathilak , Vinod P.V , Mahesh , Shakeel , Vinod P.V , sidsen , jayanth , bobo , A Nony Mouse , prasanth , Shiva , Abhishek , Madan , Tathagata Chatterjee and BiGFoot (and yaksha and Keerthi Kiran M and Dibyo).

udupendra, teju, vaibhav008, shyam, Vinay, Lord Jim, varun, shivathilak, Vinod P.V, Mahesh, Shakeel, Vinod P.V, sidsen, Dibyo, jayanth, bobo, A Nony Mouse, prasanth, Shiva, Abhishek, Madan, Tathagata Chatterjee, BiGFooT, yaksha and Keerthi Kiran M

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The infamous Union Aerospace Corporation, from the Doom series. UAC created all the mischief with teleporting demons from hell and whatnot. See UAC’s official website for more details.


Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Marie was Curious..

—devadutta @ 09:46
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Identify the controversial device in 2 and connect to 1.

Huge bunch of people got this one. Namely bobo , Shreyas , teju , shenoyvarun86 , Dibyo , varun , Vinay S , Shiva , Keerthi Kiran M , Vinod P.V , shivathilak , udupendra , vaibhav008 , jayanth , Madan , Lord Jim , Lord Jim , Gammafunction , Archana , prasanth , Mahesh , Shakeel , Tathagata Chatterjee , yaksha , BiGFooT and Abhishek . Others were close, but not close enough for a cookie :)

bobo, Shreyas, teju, shenoyvarun86, Dibyo, varun, Vinay S, Shiva, Keerthi Kiran M, Vinod P.V, shivathilak, udupendra, vaibhav008, jayanth, Madan, Lord Jim, Lord Jim, Gammafunction, Archana, prasanth, Mahesh, Shakeel, Tathagata Chatterjee, yaksha, BiGFooT and Abhishek


Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Beyond UV and IR...

—srikanth @ 10:05

How are the four astronomers in the pictures below related?

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Cracked by: teju, VikraM, Vivek, prasanth, bobo, Gammafunction, Dibyo, alephnull and Lord Jim

teju, VikraM, Vivek, prasanth, bobo, Gammafunction, Dibyo, alephnull and Lord Jim

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The four telescopes of NASA’s Great Observatories program are named after these chaps. Clockwise from top-left, they are: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Arthur Compton, Lyman Spitzer and Edwin Hubble