Simple one to end this month. What is being mocked at?
Cracked by: Achilles , Goyal , Dibyo , Atul Mathew , shenoyvarun86 , Tathagata Chatterjee , varuns88 , Rc , Kamal Rathi , duriel , akhi , Chandrakant Nair , Akshat , jayanth , BiGFooT , sidsen.
Achilles, Goyal, Dibyo, Atul Mathew, shenoyvarun86, Tathagata Chatterjee, varuns88, Rc, Kamal Rathi, duriel, akhi, Chandrakant Nair, Akshat, jayanth, BiGFooT and sidsen
What connects:
Cracked by joe , Dibyo , varuns88 , srikar and Achilles.
joe, Dibyo, varuns88, srikar and Achilles
What it is?
Hint:
Cracked by: **varuns88 **and **akhi **only. Brilliant job!
varuns88 and akhi
A bit of a sitter, really.
What are each of these places famous for? (list is connected, but not exhaustive)
Cracked by Goyal , Siddharth Gupta , Atul Mathew , shenoyvarun86 , vijayaraghavan , Preetish , piezocake , Rohan , varuns88 , srikar , Kamal Rathi , VikraM , Tathagata Chatterjee , vinod , Ajay Parasuram , akhi , nihit , pratap , Vivek and duriel.
Goyal, Siddharth Gupta, Atul Mathew, shenoyvarun86, vijayaraghavan, Preetish, piezocake, Rohan, varuns88, srikar, Kamal Rathi, VikraM, Tathagata Chatterjee, vinod, Ajay Parasuram, akhi, nihit, pratap, Vivek and duriel
A “cover” for which “album”?
Cracked by Atul Mathew , vijayaraghavan , Goyal , Rc , Debasish , udupendra , duriel , Rohan , Ajay Parasuram and Siddharth.
Atul Mathew, vijayaraghavan, Goyal, Rc, Debasish, udupendra, duriel, Rohan, Ajay Parasuram and Siddharth
Identify and connect.
Cracked by Goyal , udupendra and jayanth.
Answer
John Conway (1) created his Game Of Life. He guessed that there would be patterns created in the game that were finite patterns that would grow infinitely, but couldn’t figure them out. He offered a 50$ award for anyone who could find one.
Bill Gosper (2) led a team of MIT hackers who figured out the Gosper Glider gun (3), and won the prize.
Goyal, udupendra and jayanth
According to a recent analysis by a famous blog, something connects all of these. What?
(yesterday’s question will be open for 12 more hours as it was posted late)
Cracked by: sidsen , Goyal , Akshat , Guneet , VikraM , Atul Mathew , Rohan , Priya , Ajay Parasuram , akhi , jayanth , malcaluffin.
sidsen, Goyal, Akshat, Guneet, VikraM, Atul Mathew, Rohan, Priya, Ajay Parasuram, akhi, jayanth and malcaluffin
Apologies for the delay in posting. We were waiting on each other to post a question. Synchronization algorithms are not failure proof :)
This question will be up for 12 more hours than usual.
Connect
Cracked by: varuns88 , duriel , Nakul , rajeshvj , Dibyo , vijayaraghavan , Goyal , sidsen , Guneet , yaksha , akhi , joe , Priya , jayanth , malcaluffin.
varuns88, duriel, Nakul, rajeshvj, Dibyo, vijayaraghavan, Goyal, sidsen, Guneet, yaksha, akhi, joe, Priya, jayanth and malcaluffin
Guest question from sidsen. He won a t-shirt for awesome stuff like this! If you want to contribute questions, mail them to [email protected]
Identify this game. What is shown on the wall is the arguably the oldest known comic in western history. Name the “comic”.
Cracked by: gudanggurum , Atul Mathew , jayanth , Akshat , duriel , akhi , varuns88 , Ajay Parasuram , Rohan , sidsen , Guneet , udupendra , vijayaraghavan.
Gurupad, Atul Mathew, jayanth, Akshat, duriel, akhi, varuns88, Ajay Parasuram, Rohan, sidsen, Guneet, udupendra and vijayaraghavan
This question is inspired by another question which Karthik Jagadeesan sent in. Send in your guest questions to [email protected]. You get a point for that! :)
1 is the creator of this popular game. The hero of this game is modeled after 1 because 1 could not afford to get an actor to do it. The game was so famous that in the sequels, he could afford much more than a model for the hero. Which game? who is 1?
The game has countless refernces to things like these..
Cracked by: varuns88 , Nakul , Ajay Parasuram , akhi , duriel , svgreatest , Chandrakant Nair , Atul Mathew , Keerthi Kiran M , Dhashrath raguraman.
varuns88, Nakul, Ajay Parasuram, akhi, duriel, svgreatest, Chandrakant Nair, Atul Mathew, Keerthi Kiran M and Dhashrath raguraman