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May 2010

Monday, May 31, 2010

Tick, tock?

—srikanth @ 20:47

The picture below is of a display at an American store. What’s the device?

Cracked by varuns88, Rahulk, Thejas V R, shrik, googboog, Divya Sreedharan, Anubhav, Rogi, dineshk, Shwetha Maiya, akhi, Bharath, bobo, Ananth, Tooby, Aparna, Qbrain, lanu, Vardhan Shenoy, Treyambak Madyalkar, umang, sandesh, dheeraj, Aravindh and Xanda


Sunday, May 30, 2010

All hail pirates!

—devadutta @ 23:59

Sitter. Identify and put details please.

Lived up to its “sitter” status. Cracked by everyone! Namely Thejas V R, shrik, wanderlust, dineshk, Dibyo, Treyambak Madyalkar, nishansolo, akhi, googboog, Logik, Rahulk, krudebox, varuns88, lanu, rohanquizzer, reddevil_ani, shenoyvarun86, Shwetha Maiya, Anubhav, Ajay Parasuram, Bharath, Sumanth Patlolla, udupendra, bobo, Goyal, mankuTimma, raklodramA, Ananth, Jean Valjean, Aparna, Qbrain, Manish Achuth, Vardhan Shenoy, umang and Rogi


Saturday, May 29, 2010

I am sorry

—devadutta @ 18:06

Simple one for the day. Duke Nukem 3D’s reference to what?

Cracked by: Logik, krudebox, akhi, varuns88, Dibyo, Googboog, dineshk, Rogi, shrik, Bharath, Shwetha Maiya, Raghuvansh, Inglourious, Thejas V R, shenoyvarun86, nishansolo, Rahulk, Anubhav, udupendra, bobo, Ananth and Aparna

Show Answer

The monolith from Arther C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey


Friday, May 28, 2010

Fix it, I say!

—srikanth @ 23:59

The two guys in (1) developed something (known by their last names) that is now used all for many many things, all the way from communications in space (2) to media storage (3). What?

Cracked by everyone!

Logik, varuns88, Goyal, Treyambak Madyalkar, reddevil_ani, akhi, Rogi, dineshk, piezocake, shrik, Inglourious, Thejas V R, Rahulk, Shwetha Maiya, Sumanth Patlolla, googboog, Anubhav and Aparna


Thursday, May 27, 2010

Make like a tree and answer this question...

—srikanth @ 23:59

What’s the deal behind this real-life device shown below?

Cracked by Rogi, udupendra, Anubhav, dineshk, shrik, Logik, Rahulk, varuns88, umang, krudebox, akhi, Dibyo, Googboog, Shwetha Maiya, Thejas V R and shenoyvarun86


Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Not the dudes from Tintin

—devadutta @ 23:59

2 shows the results of an experiment which led 1 to discover something. Identify 1 and tell us what he discovered using 2.

Really sorry for the late post people.

Cracked by: Thejas V R, shenoyvarun86, varuns88, Qbrain, krudebox, raklodramA, Shwetha Maiya, shrik, Raghuvansh, Rogi, nishansolo, rohanquizzer, Vishnu, Rahulk, googboog, Bharath, dineshk, reddevil_ani, Aparna, Ganesh Prasad, Vardhan Shenoy, Goyal, madhur, Aysha, Treyambak Madyalkar, udupendra, mankuTimma, Dibyo, Anubhav, Logik, umang and akhi

Show Answer

Sir. JJ Thomson and the discovery of isotopes.


Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Un-Distort

—devadutta @ 23:30

Modified version of a question sent in by raklodramA. Congrats on your first GQHero trophy :)

What are paintings/art forms like this called? Fake cookie points if you can identify the dude in 2.

P.S: Apologies about the delay in moderating so many questions. It will be done soon.

Cracked By: shenoyvarun86, umang, raklodramA, Logik, Rogi, Thejas V R, krudebox, shrik, Rahulk, Raghuvansh, Dibyo, Shwetha Maiya, googboog, bharath357, Qbrain, sandesh, yaksha, wanderlust, Vishnu, varuns88, dineshk, nishansolo, Treyambak Madyalkar, reddevil_ani, kapinjal sharma, Aparna, Bharath, Vardhan Shenoy, udupendra, mankuTimma and Anubhav


Monday, May 24, 2010

Divine sword

—srikanth @ 23:59

Very simple - object below was released as a tie-in. With who?

Cracked by udupendra, shrik, Ganesh Prasad, Dibyo, Rahulk, dineshk, Rogi, Bharath, Thejas V R, Qbrain, Shwetha Maiya, raklodramA, googboog, varuns88, nishansolo, Logik, Treyambak Madyalkar, reddevil_ani, Rohan D, rohanquizzer, abhijeet singh, lanu and shenoyvarun86


Sunday, May 23, 2010

0% What fat?

—devadutta @ 23:59

What are molecules like this called?

I never understood this thing in 2nd PUC. So simple it is. tche!

Cracked By: Thejas V R, shrik, Rogi, Raghuvansh, Shwetha Maiya, udupendra, varuns88, umang, googboog, Aparna, Logik, Bharath, dineshk, madhur, Rahulk, rohanquizzer, Prasanth and sandesh

Show Answer

Stereo-isomers or Geometric-isomers or cis-trans-isomers.


Saturday, May 22, 2010

Quick, quick!

—srikanth @ 23:59

Which term has its origins in the two images below? Identify/connect.

Cracked by Logik, nishansolo, udupendra, Thejas V R, lanu, Shwetha Maiya, shrik, Dibyo, Aparna, Rahulk, dineshk, varuns88, Rogi, Qbrain, googboog, bharath357 and Bharath