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August 2009

Monday, August 31, 2009

Recursive hint

—devadutta @ 21:43

Another sitterish question. Identify

first_digital_camera1

The question content is a recursive hint

Cracked by: Chinmaya U.Holla, achyuth, Debasish, shrik, Thejas V R, AmK, Rogi, sidsen, udupendra, Nakul, Raghuvansh, shenoyvarun86, Gurupad, Logik and abhijeet


Sunday, August 30, 2009

Showcase

—devadutta @ 23:09

1 inspired 2 to start something. What?

  1. 200px-Swami_Vivekananda-1893-09-signed 2. JNTata

Cracked by: shrik, MKen_, Rogi, AmK, Dibyo, Jobin, v.chandrashekar, prasanth, Rahul, udupendra, Chinmaya U.Holla, joe, Debasish, Anubhav, darthshak, vardhans94, srikar, Nakul, Ananth, madhur, Rithwik K, prasadbhat, BASAB, Logik, Raghuvansh, wanderlust, Deepthi JS, emrohit, Thejas V R and Vivek


Saturday, August 29, 2009

Green's anatomy?

—srikanth @ 21:30

In what book are you going to find these images and more?

Cracked by: darthshak, Rogi, Prasad, AmK, Raghuvansh and shrik


Friday, August 28, 2009

Does NFS count?

—devadutta @ 23:59

Who he?

225px-Jöns_Jacob_Berzelius

Without further ado, hints

646px-Types_of_Carbon_Nanotubes240px-GraphiteUSGOV240px-Brillanten160px-C60a

The hints list is not exhaustive.

Apologies for the delay folks, the question will be up 12 hrs more than usual.

Cracked by: Gagan, udupendra, Rogi, Dibyo, Rithwik K, AmK, shrik and akhi


Thursday, August 27, 2009

Things are getting a little steamy

—srikanth @ 21:30

Identify the people in (1) ( of (2) fame ).

shrik, udupendra, AmK, Rogi, varuns88, shenoyvarun86, emrohit, McNeill Ivan S, Rand Al’Thor, xtremevarun, Ananth, prasadbhat, Logik, Raghuvansh, Gurupad and Sridhar C have most probably gone through the Indian engineering education system :p


Wednesday, August 26, 2009

4,8,12,24,48 and 52

—devadutta @ 23:59

What is the pun,
if 2 was getting burned by one?

  1. 250px-Nero_1 2.250px-Colosseum_in_Rome,_Italy_-_April_2007

Cracked by: shrik, emrohit, udupendra, krudebox, raklodramA, Raghuvansh, u2001137, nishansolo, BASAB, AmK, Logik, varuns88, Deepthi JS, Ananth, Addikto, Rogi, abhijeet, Dibyo and Rithwik K


Tuesday, August 25, 2009

You don't need onepointtwentyone jiggawatts

—srikanth @ 21:30

He came from the future. He showed us his time machine (1), the schematic of some internal parts of said time machine (2) and the effect of shining a laser out while time-traveling (see the light bend!). Who he?

Cracked by krudebox, Rogi, shrik, AmK, udupendra, Addikto, Dibyo, v.chandrashekar, Gurupad, madhur, Raghuvansh, abhijeet and Rithwik K


Monday, August 24, 2009

Master Oogway will not agree

—devadutta @ 23:59

Connect

pacemakersuperglue

slinkypostitnotes

lsd

Cracked by: shrik, Rahul, Rogi, udupendra, Goyal, varuns88, joe, Dibyo, Gurupad, Kaustuba, Raghuvansh, darthshak, BASAB, Ananth, Gagan, Mo, Logik and AmK


Sunday, August 23, 2009

Stop

—srikanth @ 23:59

This phrase originated on this globe (created sometime in the early 1500s).

It has, since, become quite popular, especially in the geek world where it’s used almost everywhere ranging from undocumented code to online mapping communities to famous webcomics.

What phrase?

(Late question is laaaaate. This will stay up for 12hrs longer!)

Cracked by Logik, udupendra, Raghuvansh, AmK, madhur, Rogi, Dibyo, Chaitanya, krudebox, shrik, Rahul, vijay, joe, varuns88, Gurupad, darthshak, Mo and Aparna


Saturday, August 22, 2009

I HAZ Truestest FRNS

—devadutta @ 23:59

What does 1 contain? 2 claims to have caught it.

MIDEAbreathTimehenryford

Cracked by: Rogi, joe, abhijeet, Bharath, nishansolo, varuns88, Nakul, Gurupad, udupendra, varun, AmK, Raghuvansh, Dibyo, Deepblue, v.chandrashekar, shrik and BASAB