Before this ubiquitous logo took its current form, many design variations like the ones below were tried. Which logo are we talking about?

1. 2.

Hint: These are just parts of the whole logo(as though it is not obvious enough)..

Cracked by: Ajay Parasuram , Kamal Rathi , srikar , Atul Mathew , anirvan , Rohan , Achilles , shenoyvarun86 , anirudh , Dibyo , Priya , rajeshvj , Debasish , Nakul , varuns88 , Ananth , Anu , sidsen , udupendra , teju.

Ajay Parasuram, Kamal Rathi, srikar, Atul Mathew, anirvan, Rohan, Achilles, shenoyvarun86, anirudh, Dibyo, Priya, rajeshvj, Debasish, Nakul, varuns88, Ananth, Anu, sidsen, udupendra and teju

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Thank you, Naveen & Sujith!

If movie (1) is based on the play (2), then which awesome fictional character is based on (3) (3 is a character in 2)?

Cracked by Dibyo , shenoyvarun86 , udupendra , varuns88 , sidsen and Pillai.

Dibyo, shenoyvarun86, udupendra, varuns88, sidsen and Pillai

1, 2, and 3 did not like something related to 4 and hence started what?

Cracked by Achilles , shenoyvarun86 , Dibyo , Goyal , Ajay Parasuram , Kamal Rathi , sidsen , Rohan , udupendra and jayanth.

Achilles, shenoyvarun86, Dibyo, Goyal, Ajay Parasuram, Kamal Rathi, sidsen, Rohan, udupendra and jayanth

1 was world’s first. 2 followed footsteps of 1. Both made using 3.
Identify 1,2 and 3.

1. 2.

2. 

Cracked by: Goyal , nihit , Rc , shenoyvarun86 , Tathagata Chatterjee , Kamal Rathi , Achilles , gammafunction , Dibyo , Phani , pinaki sarkar , madhur , joe , varuns88 , jayanth , Ajay Parasuram , ali , akhi , udupendra , duriel , malcaluffin , Rohan.

Goyal, nihit, Rc, shenoyvarun86, Tathagata Chatterjee, Kamal Rathi, Achilles, gammafunction, Dibyo, Phani, pinaki sarkar, madhur, joe, varuns88, jayanth, Ajay Parasuram, ali, akhi, udupendra, duriel, malcaluffin and Rohan

What is this website’s claim to fame?

(Click on the image to make it bigger and take a look)

Some more shots

Hint: What can you notice as soon as you see the page?

Only yaksha managed to crack it! Nice job!

Update: malcaluffin with awesome search engine skills also gets the point. Since you had not mentioned the magic words in the answer below, I had overlooked your answer. Thanks for letting me know! Good Job!

malcaluffin and yaksha

What connects these parties?

1. The good:
   
2. The bad:
   

Edit: fixed (good and bad were mixed up :-/). Note to self: 4AM is a bad time to frame questions.

Cracked by udupendra , shenoyvarun86 , akhi , Achilles , Phani , Pankaj KR , jayanth , Siddharth Jain , and sidsen (who is extra awesome for owning it).

1. The good: Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla
2. The bad: Thomas Edison and J P Morgan

The connect: Prota/antagonists in the strange graphic novel The Five Fists of Science

udupendra, shenoyvarun86, akhi, Achilles, Phani, Pankaj KR, jayanth, Siddharth Jain and sidsen

Which common quality connects?

Cracked by: gammafunction , Phani , shenoyvarun86 , nihit , akhi , pinaki sarkar , anirudh , madhur , udupendra , Kamal Rathi , Goyal , Achilles , abdulla , bhootha , piezocake.

gammafunction, Phani, shenoyvarun86, nihit, akhi, pinaki sarkar, anirudh, madhur, udupendra, Kamal Rathi, Goyal, Achilles, abdulla, bhootha and piezocake

This strip is a reference to what popular meme?

Cracked either exactly or approximately by Goyal , Atul Mathew , Phani , Dibyo , udupendra , shenoyvarun86 , shyam , nihit , gammafunction , bobo , ratnakar , Keerthi M R , Achilles , Ajay Parasuram , sidsen , Priya , Vinayak Sapru , joe , sangoman , madhur , Ananth , Pillai , jayanth and Kuttppan.

Dibyo(2), Goyal, Atul Mathew, Phani, udupendra, shenoyvarun86, shyam, nihit, gammafunction, bobo, ratnakar, Keerthi M R, Achilles, Ajay Parasuram, sidsen, Priya, Vinayak Sapru, joe, sangoman, madhur, Ananth, Pillai, jayanth and Kuttppan

And finally, the t-shirts are here!

Here are a few (blurry) pics of the final shirt:

We’ll get in touch with the winners really soon to see how we can get the shirts to you folks.

We’re also trying to work out a way to put the T-shirts online in a cafepress style website of some sort so that anyone can get one (without us having to run around for printing them :-) ).