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January 2009

Saturday, January 31, 2009

I, who?

—srikanth @ 20:38

Identify famous couple of the world of sci-fi:

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Cracked by shenoyvarun86 , malcaluffin , Bipin Banavalikar and udupendra.

shenoyvarun86, malcaluffin, Bipin Banavalikar and udupendra


Friday, January 30, 2009

fun return fun();

—devadutta @ 23:59

Every budding computer scientist would have heard about this, but never would have seen this.

Identify

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Cracked by: Goyal , Raghuvansh , Dibyo , p vs np , Kal , duriel , dheeraj , twistedtail , username , bulldozer , Jean Valjean , K.S.Manish , udupendra , sumo_ftb , Johny Walker , Neeraj , shrik , darksideofchand , Ananth , Pawankumar Hegde , Vaishnavi , priyananda , Soda.

Goyal, Raghuvansh, Dibyo, p vs np, Kal, duriel, dheeraj, twistedtail, username, bulldozer, Jean Valjean, K.S.Manish, udupendra, sumo_ftb, Johny Walker, Neeraj, shrik, darksideofchand, Ananth, Pawankumar Hegde, Vaishnavi, priyananda and Soda

Show Answer

Tower of Hanoi.


Thursday, January 29, 2009

Beware the brass rats

—srikanth @ 21:00

Identify the person in the middle and what’s being done with him:

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Clue:

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Neeraj , Dibyo , Rohan , Ludwig , Debasish , Raghuvansh , Kal and Mo.

Neeraj, Dibyo, Rohan, Ludwig, Debasish, Raghuvansh, Kal and Mo


Wednesday, January 28, 2009

log(8)/log(2)

—devadutta @ 23:59

Connect

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Cracked by: Goyal , twistdtail , duriel , quaziluffy , Rahul and Debasish.

Goyal, twistdtail, duriel, quaziluffy, Rahul and Debasish


Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Ask renicely

—srikanth @ 21:00

Identify

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Cracked by username , Goyal , Kal , udupendra and shrik.

username, Goyal, Kal, udupendra and shrik


Monday, January 26, 2009

Half Life

—devadutta @ 23:40

Programming language 1 is named after 2. Identify them both.

1. 837711b46767fc0d467ff295a5c2bc90 2. 489b53abdd34b570bea389bb6dbfa29b

Hint:

To identify 1, use the symbols in the image. To identify 2, use the image below

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Cracked by: Goyal , username , udupendra , Raghuvansh , akhi , Johny Walker , vs , Kal , shenoyvarun86 , kaushik , shrik , malcaluffin , Atul Mathew and Dibyo.

Goyal, username, udupendra, Raghuvansh, akhi, Johny Walker, vs, Kal, shenoyvarun86, kaushik, shrik, malcaluffin, Atul Mathew and Dibyo


Sunday, January 25, 2009

Totally tubular!

—srikanth @ 23:59

(Edit: Question dates fudged to push it back in time)

Here’s a second question for the day to make up for the repeat one earlier this week, folks.

Identify this chap and why he shot to “fame” on the interwebs:

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Cracked by Atul Mathew , Kal , Goyal , Rohan , Raghuvansh , username , udupendra , Jean Valjean , Mo and karthik.

Atul Mathew, Kal, Goyal, Rohan, Raghuvansh, username, udupendra, Jean Valjean, Mo and karthik


Saturday, January 24, 2009

"Listen, strange women lying in ponds and handing out swords is no basis for a system of government."

—srikanth @ 20:43

What’s the story involving the guy in (1), a place in (2)’s legend, and a very irritating file format?

  1. 0a53adb5586bd531a09a5883c248864c
  2. 743f79fbabee74718aedd99a01d42ffb

Cracked by almost everyone.

Raghuvansh, Kal, Dibyo, Rohan, Ananth and Ananta


Friday, January 23, 2009

It's not the Illuminati...

—srikanth @ 21:00

A really neat question from p vs np. Identify the dude and connect to the rest

  1. 733f063867d704e8a7a2ff5d9efca1da
  2. fe8e81313c8abc4170d46fa179b25727
  3. 397287aeef8539d45c323c44c6f8bbcd
  4. 43469ca05bd33c4b80b06e5a95a20d42

Cracked by Jean Valjean alone! Great job…

Check out p vs np’s answer for the whole funda…

p vs np and Jean Valjean


Thursday, January 22, 2009

Take that, Tesla!

—devadutta @ 23:59

Who is this guy? and what is he famous for?

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Cracked by: Bipin Banavalikar , Kal , shenoyvarun86 , karthik , malcaluffin , Wasi Manazir , sumo , p vs np , lightyagami.

Bipin Banavalikar, Kal, shenoyvarun86, karthik, malcaluffin, Wasi Manazir, sumo, p vs np and lightyagami

Show Answer

Nathan Stubblefield