Identify this jazz lover and founder of a popular open source project.

Cracked by: shrik , Dibyo , Gurupad , Debasish , Goyal , Vaishnavi , varuns88 , madhur , Logik , prasadbhat , shenoyvarun86 , AmK , Rogi and abhijeet.

shrik, Dibyo, Gurupad, Debasish, Goyal, Vaishnavi, varuns88, madhur, Logik, prasadbhat, shenoyvarun86, AmK, Rogi and abhijeet

This paper caused a curious incident, and lead to a lot of bad publicity for a certain conference. What’s the story?

Cracked by shenoyvarun86 , shrik , Dibyo , wanderlust , udupendra , djds4rce , Rogi , krudebox , BASAB , Ananth , Logik , madhur , Aparna , Raghuvansh , Mo , AmK and duriel.

Answered:

Quoting shenoyvarun86: “3 intelligent chaps submitted a paper to the ninth annual Florida-based World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI). The paper was generated randomly in a software they created (called SCIgen) . All this because the folks at WMSCI spammed students constantly seeking paper submissions and entry fees”

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People attending this event use 1 to make things like 2 to win 3. What is 1 and what does 3 give them?

1. 2.

2. 

Cracked by: shrik , Debasish , BASAB , Martin , Raghuvansh and Rogi.

shrik, Debasish, BASAB, Martin, Raghuvansh and Rogi

Though these might look like star wars memorabilia of some sort, they’re actually real. What are the objects in the pic?

Cracked by shenoyvarun86 , shrik , Debasish , Logik , Mo , Raghuvansh and ali.

shenoyvarun86, shrik, Debasish, Logik, Mo, Raghuvansh and ali

First it was 1, now it is going to be 2. What?

1. 2.

Cracked by: shrik , shenoyvarun86 , akhi , krudebox , joe , udupendra , Logik , duriel , Ankit Mahendru , Raghuvansh , Dibyo , Rogi , Debasish and varuns88.

shrik, shenoyvarun86, akhi, krudebox, joe, udupendra, Logik, duriel, Ankit Mahendru, Raghuvansh, Dibyo, Rogi, Debasish and varuns88

Identify the whited-out faces and names:

Cracked by shrik , Rogi , Debasish , shenoyvarun86 , emrohit , joe , madhur , bobo , Logik , Hitesh T S , Raghuvansh , Mo , Dibyo , Ananth , nishansolo , varuns88 , krudebox , duriel and chandam.

shrik, Rogi, Debasish, shenoyvarun86, emrohit, joe, madhur, bobo, Logik, Hitesh T S, Raghuvansh, Mo, Dibyo, Ananth, nishansolo, varuns88, krudebox, duriel and chandam

Easy one

Patenet application for what?

Ladies and Gents, apologies for the delay. The question will be up longer.

Cracked by: Raghuvansh , shrik , shenoyvarun86 , piezocake , Dibyo , Logik , Ananth , djds4rce , Debasish , akhi and Vaishnavi.

Raghuvansh, shrik, shenoyvarun86, piezocake, Dibyo, Logik, Ananth, djds4rce, Debasish, akhi and Vaishnavi

Mascot of which service, that’s been getting a lot of buzz in India of late?

Again, cracked by everyone who attempted.

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This question was sent in a simpler form by shenoyvarun86. Thanks for the pointer saar!

Tell us how 1 wreaks havoc for algorithms like 2

1. 2.

Cracked by: akhi , shenoyvarun86 , Logik , Ananth , madhur , Rogi , blackrat , kiran , Joshan , username , Deepthi JS and p vs np.

akhi, shenoyvarun86, Logik, Ananth, madhur, Rogi, blackrat, kiran, Joshan, username, Deepthi JS and p vs np

Guest question from Dibyo. Thanks saar!

Identify this person and the device which is a result of some of his work.

He died more than 100 years ago and the system of calculating something that he developed is debated, doubted and discussed hotly, but hasn’t been replaced yet.

Went uncracked.

Checkout Dibyo’s comment for the answer.

Dibyo