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January 2010

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Flatulent? Nay!

—devadutta @ 20:23

Guest question shenoyvarun86. Thanks Saar, nimma trophy:

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Cracked By: Raghuvansh, krudebox, raklodramA, Atul Mathew, Dibyo, Kaushik Saha, shrik, Rogi, Chinmaya U.Holla, madhur, udupendra, sidsen, Inglourious, Kumar Gaurav, Gurupad, varuns88, akhi, KK, Logik, dheeraj, Ajay Parasuram, shenoyvarun86, username, Aditya, Anonymous and AmK

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People who have formulated gas laws.


Saturday, January 30, 2010

Northern Spooky Lights

—devadutta @ 21:06

Recent ‘mystery’ event with speculations of it being a worm hole. Identify and put some minimal details.

Cracked by: Everyone!

Logik, bobo, Jean Valjean, Chinmaya U.Holla, Poornima, Aditya, SV, Rogi, Raghuvansh, Amarendra, madhur, KK, Dibyo, Gurupad, shenoyvarun86, krudebox, Mo, udupendra, superstarksa, dheeraj, Kaushik, raklodramA, shrik, RahulN, sidsen, username, Inglourious, quaziluffy, varuns88, akhi and Ananth

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“Failed missile test” over Norway causing this very interesting light show. These photos are long exposure shots, so they make the scene look a little spooky, but if you see the video, you can clearly see a missile spiraling out of control.


Friday, January 29, 2010

Salute

—devadutta @ 22:52

Simple. Logo transitions of which company?

there were a bunch of transitions after this which are not shown here

Cracked by: shenoyvarun86, Raghuvansh, varuns88, Rogi, Aditya, v.chandrashekar, raklodramA, Logik, Ananth, Inglourious, Poornima, shrik, KK, Chinmaya U.Holla, udupendra, darthshak, madhur, alephnull, AmK, bobo, Jean Valjean, Amarendra, Dibyo, Gurupad, Vinay Hegde, Ajay Parasuram, krudebox and dheeraj


Friday, January 29, 2010

Mr.Centurion

—devadutta @ 03:03

Congrats to Rogi! For registering an unbeaten run-length of 100 correct answers in a row! and the best part is, the run is not broken yet, so it is set to increase even more!

Awesome!

This medal is yours, sire!

p.s: We are working on getting all medals and trophies to appear on your profile pages. Also, we gave out monthly medals yesterday! Check your profiles to see if you got one!


Thursday, January 28, 2010

Tan

—devadutta @ 23:59

Identify this awesome device

If you are still wondering, the numbers you see there is the time.

Cracked by: Gurupad, shrik, Inglourious, sidsen, KK, Rogi, prasanth, Raghuvansh, Dibyo, varuns88, Logik, alephnull and AmK


Wednesday, January 27, 2010

At face value...

—srikanth @ 23:59

What’s this all about? A very, very literal answer.

Cracked by Rogi and shrik


Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Look for this

—devadutta @ 23:59

Fresh (evening news fresh) dispute. Put some minimal details

Before and after images

Happy republic day, people :)

Cracked by: Chinmaya U.Holla, eli, shenoyvarun86, krudebox, Poornima, RahulN, Dibyo, shrik, n314159, adiS, username, Kaushik Saha, emrohit, varuns88, sidsen, udupendra, KK, Logik, akhi, mojojojo, Raghuvansh, Rogi, Gurupad, Inglourious, madhur, Ananth and darthshak

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Google doodle drawn by a 11 yr old kid in Australia (top) had the Aboriginal flag removed before it went to Google main page, causing controversies.


Monday, January 25, 2010

It's all in the emails folks

—srikanth @ 23:59

Fairly direct “trivia” question… Identify this man, who’s been in the news recently for his bold statements and a seemingly very very interesting book that he just released.

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Gurupad, KK, shenoyvarun86, Aditya, Dibyo, Chinmaya U.Holla, Rogi, krudebox, shrik, Ps, sidsen, udupendra, eli, n314159, adiS, Kaushik Saha, Logik, sid, mojojojo, Inglourious and darthshak

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James Hansen


Sunday, January 24, 2010

Lots of billions

—devadutta @ 23:53

Another simple question

X zoomed in on the area shown in 1 to reveal 2. What is X and what is 2 famously known as?

CRacked By: Raghuvansh, Inglourious, Rogi, Chinmaya U.Holla, Gurupad, Anubhav, Kaushik, eli, KK, shrik, Aditya, darthshak, shenoyvarun86, madhur, Ananth, Logik, krudebox, akhi and sidsen


Saturday, January 23, 2010

Balance

—devadutta @ 23:14

Simple question form shenoyvarun86. Your trophy, sire:

An early advertisement for a concept which we are so ‘used to’ these days. What concept?

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Gurupad, Rogi, Ps, Logik, shenoyvarun86, sidsen, udupendra, Dibyo, kashyap, shrik, madhur, Ananth, Aditya Date and piezocake