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2008

Monday, November 24, 2008

Taking stock...

—srikanth @ 20:00

An iconic image that has been pending for a long time before coming here. What is this device, who’s operating it, and why was it famous?

Cracked by Martin , duriel , tempo , Aditya , Mridul Kapoor , vivek , ali , priyananda , Bipin Banavalikar and nishansolo.

Martin, duriel, tempo, Aditya, Mridul Kapoor, vivek, ali, priyananda, Bipin Banavalikar and nishansolo


Water bodies

—devadutta @ 23:53

Which now famous company started off with this logo? The company is named after the town shown below.

Hint: The yellow territory in the map is a country

Cracked left, right and center. The highest ever on BB! 51 people getting the answer right.

Kamal Rathi , Dibyo , Martin , duriel , Goyal , Kaiser Soze , Ranjana Ninan , Debasish , gammafunction , quaziluffy , shenoyvarun86 , anirudh patil , Atul Mathew , Bipin Banavalikar , Miraj C. Vora , shyam , Bharath , Naveen Giles , mach101 , Johny Walker , nishansolo , vs , Ajay Parasuram , Nakul , Vinay Nair , Aditya , Archana , Mridul Kapoor , K.S.Manish , tempo , Boneywasawarriorwayayix , sumo , Cintom Kashyap , madhur , pinaki sarkar , Siddharth Jain , Ananth , shashank(welcome back!) , malcaluffin , Saurabh Aggarwal , mayur , Chandrakant Nair , vinay , ali , priyananda , panrod , Aparna , Dhananjay , p vs np , Rohan and vishal.

Kamal Rathi, Dibyo, Martin, duriel, Goyal, Kaiser Soze, Ranjana Ninan, Debasish, gammafunction, quaziluffy, shenoyvarun86, anirudh patil, Atul Mathew, Bipin Banavalikar, Miraj C. Vora, shyam, Bharath, Naveen Giles, mach101, Johny Walker, nishansolo, vs, Ajay Parasuram, Nakul, Vinay Nair, Aditya, Archana, Mridul Kapoor, K.S.Manish, tempo, Boneywasawarriorwayayix, sumo, Cintom Kashyap, madhur, pinaki sarkar, Siddharth Jain, Ananth, shashank, malcaluffin, Saurabh Aggarwal, mayur, Chandrakant Nair, vinay, ali, priyananda, panrod, Aparna, Dhananjay, p vs np, Rohan and vishal


Saturday, November 22, 2008

Multiplayer notepad

—srikanth @ 21:06

Who he?

His claim to fame was named like this:
Before he became a hermit, Zarathud was a young Priest, and took great delight in making fools of his opponents in front of his followers.
One day Zarathud took his students to a pleasant pasture and there he confronted The Sacred Chao while She was contentedly grazing.
“Tell me, you dump beast,” demanded the Priest in his commanding voice, “Why don’t you do something worthwhile. What is your Purpose in Life, anyway?”
Munching the tasty grass, The Sacred Chao replied “MU*”.
Upon hearing this, absoloutly nobody was enlightened. Primarily because nobody could understand Chinese.

  • “MU” is the Chinese Ideogram for NO-THING.

Cracked by Goyal , priyananda , Ajay Parasuram , Dibyo , shenoyvarun86 , malcaluffin and Kaiser Soze.

Goyal, priyananda, Ajay Parasuram, Dibyo, shenoyvarun86, malcaluffin and Kaiser Soze


Friday, November 21, 2008

The answer is in front of you, Neo

—devadutta @ 23:44

What do these graphs show?

Hint: Y-Axis is marketshare

Cracked by: Goyal , piezocake , Ajay Parasuram , Boneywasawarriorwayayix , Anush , Neeraj , Ananth and Dibyo.

Goyal, piezocake, Ajay Parasuram, Boneywasawarriorwayayix, Anush, Neeraj, Ananth and Dibyo


Thursday, November 20, 2008

Press _ _ _

—devadutta @ 22:04

Guest question time! This one comes from gammafunction. Fully framed and worded by him. Thanks dude!

In the heydays you did it like this(some people still do ):

but it clearly was not always efficient to work that way so some folks insisted on this:

That resulted in people getting frustrated and trying it out like this.

What am I talking about? Identify and connect.

Psst.. send your guest questions to [email protected]

CRacked by: Dibyo , Atul Mathew , Ajay Parasuram , Debasish , vishal , achyuth/tempo , Goyal , sidsen , gammafunction , kiran , vivek , Kaiser Soze , Anush , Archana , duriel , Martin , priyananda , Johny Walker , Ananth , malcaluffin , udupendra , panrod and Priya.

Dibyo, Atul Mathew, Ajay Parasuram, Debasish, vishal, achyuth/tempo, Goyal, sidsen, gammafunction, kiran, vivek, Kaiser Soze, Anush, Archana, duriel, Martin, priyananda, Johny Walker, Ananth, malcaluffin, udupendra, panrod and Priya


Wednesday, November 19, 2008

I am...

—srikanth @ 21:00

(1) inspired (2) into something. Identify both, and connect…

Cracked by everyone again!

shenoyvarun86, Dibyo, Jean Valjean, Siddharth, Goyal, gammafunction, Naveen Giles, Teju, Rc, vs, nishansolo, Nayantara, achyuth/tempo, Ajay Parasuram, vivek, Kaiser Soze, pinaki sarkar, malcaluffin, priyananda and Bipin Banavalikar


Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Kaarrrrrrrr

—devadutta @ 23:26

1 and his dog went on a hunting expedition and 2 stuck to his foot in a way similar to 3. What did 1 invent after looking at this?

  1. 2.

  2. 4.

Hint: 4 is a close up of 2.

Cracked by 34 people!
Rc , Priya , Dibyo , duriel , Goyal , yaksha , quaziluffy , Atul Mathew , Miraj C. Vora , Vinay Nair , aditya_s , Suhel Banerjee , udupendra , Kaiser Soze , Debasish , Vijay Shankar , prasanth , vivek , Johny Walker , varuns88 , Ajay Parasuram , priyananda , Ananth , vs , malcaluffin , panrod , gammafunction , shenoyvarun86 , Jean Valjean , Siddharth , Martin , Prasad , vishal and Bipin Banavalikar.

Debasish(2), Rc, Priya, Dibyo, duriel, Goyal, yaksha, quaziluffy, Atul Mathew, Miraj C. Vora, Vinay Nair, aditya_s, Suhel Banerjee, udupendra, Kaiser Soze, Vijay Shankar, prasanth, vivek, Johny Walker, varuns88, Ajay Parasuram, priyananda, Ananth, vs, malcaluffin, panrod, gammafunction, shenoyvarun86, Jean Valjean, Siddharth, Martin, Prasad, vishal and Bipin Banavalikar


Monday, November 17, 2008

Idea

—srikanth @ 22:02

Simple; Identify claim to fame of:

Cracked by everyone!

duriel, Goyal, Johny Walker, akhi, K.Manish, Rahulk, varuns88, Vijay Shankar, vs, Prasad, shenoyvarun86, panrod, udupendra, yaksha, Jean Valjean, Dibyo, malcaluffin, Ananth, jayanth and priyananda


Sunday, November 16, 2008

_ _

—devadutta @ 23:04

This program prints “Hello World”. Which programming language is it?

empty-line

empty-line

empty-line

empty-line

empty-line

empty-line
empty-line/EOF

Hint: Each red block is a space and green block is a tab.

Cracked by: priyananda , Dibyo , gammafunction , Vaishnavi , vivek , p vs np ,
duriel , vinayprasad , Rahulk , Jean Valjean , Ananth and panrod.

priyananda, Dibyo, gammafunction, Vaishnavi, vivek, p vs np, duriel, vinayprasad, Rahulk, Jean Valjean, Ananth, panrod, Keerthi Kiran M and username

Show Answer

Whitespace


Saturday, November 15, 2008

ls -a

—srikanth @ 20:00
  1. :
  2. :
  3. :
  4. : ??

What should be next to Be to complete the series? What essay am I talking about?

Cracked by Dibyo , Kaiser Soze and Ananth.

Dibyo, Kaiser Soze and Ananth