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September 2009

Friday, September 11, 2009

There are 10 girls and 3 boys.. 2 boys take history

—devadutta @ 23:59

Kind of a simple one.

What is this?

548px-Edwards-Venn-six.svg (1)

We have all studied and used simpler versions of this in school. Really.

Cracked by: Kamal Rathi, piezocake, Debasish, Sourya, AmK, Anonymous, yuvnesh, shenoyvarun86, Mihir Rege, vijay, abhijeet, krudebox, Rogi, akhi, svgreatest, Logik, Gurupad, dheeraj, madhur, joe, Chinmaya U.Holla, Advaith, prateekbhatt, shrik, Mo, Raghuvansh, babszem, byslexia, Parijat, Ananth and raklodramA


Don't try this at home?

—srikanth @ 23:59

Identify the instrument:

Here’s what it sounds like (clip): [audio:11sep09q.mp3]

Clues:

(This one stays up for 12 hrs longer, too)

Cracked by everyone!

udupendra, Logik, Debasish, Ananth, AmK, madhur, prateekbhatt, Raghuvansh, Dibyo, xtremevarun, akhi, shrik, krudebox, nishansolo, shenoyvarun86, Rogi, Sourya, Merin, vijay, Gurupad, Nakul, Chinmaya U.Holla, Advaith, achyuth, byslexia, Parijat, abhijeet and yuvnesh


Wednesday, September 9, 2009

10% Tolerance

—devadutta @ 23:59

Initially, X was defined like this

X = stringReverse( Ohm3 )

Later, they changed X to

X = 240px-Ernst_Werner_von_Siemens = 1 /( Ohm3)

What is X?

Cracked By: Chinmaya U.Holla, Rogi, Dibyo, prateekbhatt, emrohit, krudebox, Mihir Rege, vijay, Sourya, sidsen, Debasish, Raghuvansh, joe, madhur, Rithwik K, Gautam Dn(RV), Nakul, Logik, xtremevarun, AmK, Ananth, akhi, shrik, v.chandrashekar, udupendra, Shubham, u2001137, Parijat, shenoyvarun86 and achyuth


Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Speed. I haz it.

—devadutta @ 23:59

If E to F is earth’s orbit and B is Jupiter, this dude used measurements w.r.t E, B, D and C to quantitatively estimate something for the first time. What?

Ole_roemer317px-Roemer

p.s. D-C is guessable.

Late question is very late. Apologies folks, this question will be up for 24hrs from this point.

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, madhur, AmK, Dibyo, Rogi, shenoyvarun86, Chinmaya U.Holla, prateekbhatt, krudebox, Debasish, shrik, udupendra, emrohit, Sourya, sidsen, joe, Ananth, Nakul, Logik, xtremevarun, achyuth, akhi and Parijat

Show Answer

Ole Rømer, quantitatively measuring the speed of light!


Monday, September 7, 2009

f2 - f1

—devadutta @ 23:59

Easy one. 2 depicts a phenomenon named after 1 which is most commonly explained with 3 as the example. Identify 1.

  1. Doppler_Christian_Andreas_portrait 2. 300px-Doppler_effect.svg

  2. indian-rail

Hint: The object in 2 is moving and so is the train :P

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Sunday, September 6, 2009

Squint your eyes. A lot.

—srikanth @ 23:59

What’s so special about this? Also, for fake bonus points, where’s the text from?

(And with this, we’re reset to our proper schedule. Carry on my wayward quizzers :p )

Cracked by shrik, Chinmaya U.Holla, Vardhan Shenoy, varuns88, akhi, Logik, AmK, xtremevarun, Ananth, Dibyo, Rogi, udupendra, emrohit, Gurupad and Sourya


Saturday, September 5, 2009

Someone should make a GTA: Bengaluru city

—srikanth @ 23:59

Who was this supposed to parody? Also, what delightfully sad thing did that person do in response?

(The timings of questions on here have seemingly gotten offset by about 12 hrs. Mea culpa. I’ll try to catch up from tomorrow onwards.)

Cracked by Logik, Rogi, Debasish, Gurupad, Chinmaya U.Holla, shrik, achyuth, udupendra, prateekbhatt, Vardhan Shenoy, AmK, krudebox and Rithwik K


Friday, September 4, 2009

Vote for Congress

—srikanth @ 23:59

Which company’s journey started with the birth of these identical twins?

Cracked by gagan, prateekbhatt, udupendra, Debasish, madhur, Rogi, Deepthi JS, achyuth, Raghuvansh, krudebox, AmK, joe, varuns88, akhi, Gurupad, Dibyo, xtremevarun, Vardhan Shenoy, Nakul and shrik

Fairly simple, innit? Palm, Inc. The pics are of Casio & Tandy’s “Zoomer”, which was designed by Palm.


Thursday, September 3, 2009

Neck exercise

—devadutta @ 23:59

Identify the game

_HeadbangHero

It actually works.. here is an action shot

hb1

Apologies for the delay folks, question will be up longer.

Cracked by: varuns88, Debasish, Logik, Advaith, Raghuvansh, Dibyo, udupendra, Rogi, p vs np, xtremevarun, Chinmaya U.Holla, Vardhan Shenoy, krudebox, AmK and Rithwik K


Wednesday, September 2, 2009

To infinity and beyond

—srikanth @ 21:30

More audio goodness, although this one should be frighteningly simple.

Identify the song and the singer of this clip:

[audio:02sep09q.mp3]

Cracked byChinmaya U.Holla, shenoyvarun86, Rogi, abhijeet, AmK, Dibyo, udupendra, vardhans94, gagan, Raghuvansh, Logik, varuns88, Ananth, Mihir Rege, shrik, xtremevarun, nishansolo, Divya, krudebox, joe, Advaith and Rithwik K