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2009

Saturday, February 14, 2009

The mood of the season folks

—srikanth @ 22:15
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Where would you find these people and more flying together?

Cracked by duriel , nisha’s thambi , Ananth , Aparna , Raghuvansh , nishansolo , Debasish , p vs np and username.

duriel, nisha’s thambi, Ananth, Aparna, Raghuvansh, nishansolo, Debasish, p vs np and username


Where are you heading to?

—devadutta @ 23:59

Guest question from udupendra again.

Where can you find this cartoon?

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Almost everyone was on the right line.

Dibyo, nisha’s thambi, udupendra, Pawankumar Hegde, Aparna, Siddharth Jain, username and duriel

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Perfect answer would be 404 page of the New Yorker. Check out udupendra’s answer for details.


Thursday, February 12, 2009

Mera Bharat Mahan

—devadutta @ 23:59

Slightly modified version of a question sent in by p vs np. Thanks a lot for the question dude!

Connect

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Cracked by everyone!

Goyal, Pawankumar Hegde, udupendra, Kal, Mitesh, svgreatest, duriel, nishansolo, username, priyananda, nisha’s thambi, Aparna and p vs np

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Check out p vs np’s comment.


Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Just keep calling...

—srikanth @ 21:00

Identify the movie and the term that was named after these scenes:

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Cracked by almost everyone!

Atul Mathew, Neeraj, nishansolo, Dibyo, username, nisha’s thambi, udupendra, Raghuvansh, Srikanth M G, duriel, priyananda, Mo, Kal, AmK, Kal, bobo, Siddharth Jain, Aparna, shrik and Ankur Banerjee


Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Holy skyscrapers Batman!

—srikanth @ 21:00

Guest question from udupendra.

(1) first proposed this seemingly outlandish concept. (2) shows a variation of the same. Identify (1) and (2).

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Cracked by almost everyone! Check out udupendra’s comment for the answer straight from the horse’s mouth :)

nisha’s thambi, Martin, duriel, AmK, Neeraj, udupendra, Kal, username, Raghuvansh, Ps, Goyal, karthik, alephnull, svgreatest, Jean Valjean, Mo, Aparna, shrik, priyananda, Ananth, madhur, Siddharth Jain, Chandrakant Nair, quaziluffy, shenoyvarun86 and sne


Monday, February 9, 2009

Turing Complete

—devadutta @ 23:48

Connect

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The third dude has been on BB a few times.

Cracked by: Goyal , AmK , udupendra , Kal , p vs np , shrik , username , duriel , nisha’s thambi and malcaluffin.

Goyal, AmK, udupendra, Kal, p vs np, shrik, username, duriel, nisha’s thambi and malcaluffin

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Turing Award winner Niklaus Wirth who developed PASCAL and EULER programming languages among many others.


Sunday, February 8, 2009

Waiting... watching...

—srikanth @ 21:00

Identify this gedankenexperiment…

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…and tell us what other famous term owes its origins to this experiment.

Part cracks: Kal, Ps, p vs np, udupendra, Vijay Shankar, Raghuvansh, Mo, Neeraj and Abhishek

Full cracks: sne, Dibyo, shrik, nisha’s thambi, username, duriel, priyananda

Har har I made a joke!

Kal, Ps, p vs np, sne, Dibyo, shrik, udupendra, nisha’s thambi, Vijay Shankar, username, Raghuvansh, duriel, Mo, priyananda, Neeraj and Abhishek


Saturday, February 7, 2009

abcdefg

—devadutta @ 23:59

What are these a “bad choice” for?

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Latest studies :)

Cracked by: Raghuvansh , duriel , username , shrik , karthik , Dibyo , Nakul and nisha’s thambi.Nice job!

Raghuvansh, duriel, username, shrik, karthik, Dibyo, Nakul and nisha’s thambi

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These are very bad choices for passwords!


Friday, February 6, 2009

City of angels

—srikanth @ 21:00

Super simple plaintext question for today. What eatery connects Leigh Brackett, Ray Bradbury, Fredric Brown, Robert Heinlein, Henry Kuttner, Emil Petaja, and Jack Williamson?

Cracked by username , AmK , priyananda , p vs np , nisha’s thambi , Ananth , Sharada , Raghuvansh , karthik , Jean Valjean , mach101 , Dibyo , Kal , Aparna , duriel , madhur , Pawankumar Hegde , sidsen , udupendra and piezocake (who must be getting a commission).

username, AmK, priyananda, p vs np, nisha’s thambi, Ananth, Sharada, Raghuvansh, karthik, Jean Valjean, mach101, Dibyo, Kal, Aparna, duriel, madhur, Pawankumar Hegde, sidsen, udupendra and piezocake


Thursday, February 5, 2009

Spectacles Needed

—devadutta @ 23:49

Before After

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What?

Cracked by: shrik , username , Kal , AmK , nisha’s thambi , karthik , yaksha , Goyal , Martin , abhinav k , Sharada , dheeraj , nishansolo , Prasad , Sridhar C , Ananth , Aparna , calvin , darthshak and duriel.

shrik, username, Kal, AmK, nisha’s thambi, karthik, yaksha, Goyal, Martin, abhinav k, Sharada, dheeraj, nishansolo, Prasad, Sridhar C, Ananth, Aparna, calvin, darthshak and duriel

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Improvement in Hubble Telescope’s images after fixing the spherical aberration on its main mirror.