Greetings, intrepid quizzers. Here’s wishing you all a very happy 2010!

Our question for today:

The two pictures shown above show two Italian brothers (the same two in both pictures) whose “findings” managed to shock the whole world. Using some terribly ghetto yet highly functional homemade tools they managed to intercept some very interesting conversations. Who are they, and what did they do?

One of their interceptions below:

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(Expect some static. The language is Russian)

Cracked by: Gurupad, sidsen, Dibyo, Raghuvansh, shrik, p vs np, varuns88, prasanth, udupendra, Logik, malcaluffin, dheeraj, the usual audience, shenoyvarun86, Rogi, Thejas V R, krudebox, xtremevarun, Chinmaya U.Holla, Mo and madhur

Surprisingly enough, another etymology question.

(1) cautioned the world against a particular form of science. He chose the name based on a strange phenomenon, some examples of which are in (2). The same term has now been used everywhere else, especially in the field of programming. What was the form of science called?

Cracked by: udupendra, shenoyvarun86, p vs np, varuns88, Raghuvansh, Ananth, Rogi, emrohit, Gurupad, krudebox, sidsen, Dibyo, shrik, Bharath, Logik, malcaluffin, dheeraj, bobo, usual audience and Thejas V R

(1) coined a famous term and method that has immensely helped modern science and technology. The rest are examples. Who is (1) and what term did he coin? Identify the rest for bonus points.

Cracked by Gurupad, Chinmaya U.Holla, shenoyvarun86, RahulN, krudebox, raklodramA, Rogi, emrohit, Shrey Goyal, shrik, Rithwik K, p vs np, Raghuvansh, Ananth, Ps, varuns88, sidsen, bobo, Higgers, Logik, Bharath, udupendra and dheeraj

What retro classic game connects?

Cracked by Gurupad, Ps, shenoyvarun86, Aditya, shrik, Rogi, Chinmaya U.Holla, sidsen, udupendra, p vs np, Logik, Raghuvansh, madhur, Ananth, RahulN, x3n, varuns88 and dheeraj

Easy one.

First phone to use a technology that is now ubiquitous in a different class of gadgets. What technology?

Cracked by: udupendra, eli, shrik, dheeraj, Gurupad, emrohit, Vinay Nair, shenoyvarun86, Ps, Raghuvansh, Rogi, p vs np, Higgers, shashank, Logik, varuns88, madhur and krudebox

We’ve asked this one in one of our “live” quizzes, so some of you might have seen it.

Celebrating 30 years of Star Wars. Who?

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, varuns88, Ananth, dheeraj, madhur, Rogi, shenoyvarun86, Logik, Gurupad, udupendra, shrik, Ps, sidsen, Higgers, shashank and krudebox

If 1 = 2/3, identify 1,2 and 3.

Cracked by: varuns88, udupendra, Ps, v.chandrashekar, shrik, sidsen, madhur, shenoyvarun86, Logik, dheeraj, Raghuvansh, Ananth, Rogi, Dibyo, Debasish, p vs np, Gurupad, piezocake, Rithwik K, emrohit and krudebox

Holiday cheer, easy question from Shrikant Narasimhan ( shrik ). Thanks sire, your trophy:

What is this?

Cracked By: udupendra, Dibyo, shrik, Gurupad, Logik, p vs np, Rogi, Sandesh, joe, Ananth and grey

Fully framed guest question from [p vs np](http://boiledbeans.net/user/p vs np). Thanksu Sir. Your trophy:

1. started this whole idea behind X, although Mother-Daughter duo 2 and 3 were the ones who produced results and are acknowledged for it.

It was created in order to facilitate better job opportunities to women in the Second World War.

X is now used as a self-litmus test by many a folk around the world and is the center of unnecessary debates and ramblings in the virtual world.

X through 3 please.

Cracked by: udupendra, Logik, sidsen, Gurupad, Rogi, shrik, shenoyvarun86, dheeraj, Rithwik K, p vs np, Chinmaya U.Holla, krudebox, Ps, Dibyo and Raghuvansh

What connects?

Cracked by everyone!

shenoyvarun86, udupendra, p vs np, Gurupad, Raghuvansh, Dibyo, dheeraj, shrik, varuns88, byslexia, joe, Chinmaya U.Holla, Rogi, Abhishek, umang, Ps, Ananth, Logik, madhur, sidsen, Saswata Das, Kaushik Saha and Shrey Goyal