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June 2010

Friday, June 11, 2010

Less than 42

—devadutta @ 23:59

Which company connects

Awesome crack by Rogi, shrik, varuns88, Dibyo and dineshk

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37signals, the company which developed Ruby on Rails.

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Going thrice, Sold!

—devadutta @ 23:59

Identify 1, Connect to 2 and put some details

Hint: Right-click on desktop > properties.

Cracked by: dineshk, Rogi, Raghuvansh, varuns88, KK, Dibyo, Sumanth Patlolla, Bharath, Thejas V R, Anubhav, shrik, Rahulk, Shwetha Maiya, umang, Manish Achuth, Aravindh, krudebox, udupendra, lanu and Xanda

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Bill Gates bought Codex Leicester authored by Leonardo Da Vinci for 30 Million USD and made screensavers and wallpapers for Windows. If you have even tried to change themes on Win 98, you will see “Leonardo Da Vinci” as a theme. Most stuff on that is from the Codex Leicester.


Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Yet another equivalence

—srikanth @ 23:59

What connects:

My apologies in advance for this question.

Cracked by Ananth, shrik, Raghuvansh, varuns88, dineshk, Rogi, Manish Achuth, Dibyo, Sumanth Patlolla, Thejas V R, Bharath, krudebox, Rahulk, udupendra, Shwetha Maiya, KK and Anubhav


Tuesday, June 8, 2010

-er or -re?

—srikanth @ 23:59

4 things used in the definitions of what?

Cracked by varuns88, dineshk, Rogi, Manish Achuth, Aparna, Ganesh Prasad, Dibyo, Ananth, krudebox, Thejas V R, Rahulk, Anubhav, Shwetha Maiya, udupendra, Logik, Xanda, Bharath, Qbrain, shrik and Higgers


Monday, June 7, 2010

The first gods

—devadutta @ 23:59

First few winners of which award

Hint to identify the third dude:

Cracked by: Rogi, varuns88, Aparna, dineshk, Raghuvansh, KK, Thejas V R, Ganesh Prasad, Ananth, rohanquizzer, mankuTimma, krudebox, Aravindh, Logik, shrik, lanu, Qbrain, Rahulk, udupendra, akhi, eswar, Dibyo, googboog, shenoyvarun86, Shwetha Maiya, Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, Bharath, Treyambak Madyalkar, Anubhav and Xanda


Sunday, June 6, 2010

wow!

—devadutta @ 23:59

Simple one to start the week. If your screensaver looked like this, what would you be actually running?

Cracked by: raklodramA, varuns88, shrik, Thejas V R, krudebox, rohanquizzer, lanu, Rahulk, Qbrain, Anubhav, Smitha R Maiya, Dibyo, Sumanth Patlolla, eswar, Goyal, Rogi, Bharath, sandesh, Aysha, dineshk, Raghuvansh, dheeraj, Ananth, Ganesh Prasad, Shwetha Maiya, Aparna, googboog, Aravindh, udupendra, Treyambak Madyalkar, Arun T P, Ajay Parasuram, Manish Achuth, Logik, KK, umang, shenoyvarun86, akhi, Sridhar C and Xanda


Saturday, June 5, 2010

Tinfoil hats on!

—srikanth @ 23:59

There was a rush of UFO sightings over western Australia in the last few days.

What did it turn out to be?

Cracked by udupendra, wanderlust, Rogi, AmK, Dibyo, akhi, Ganesh Prasad, krudebox, dineshk, umang, Thejas V R, shrik, Qbrain, googboog, Rahulk, varuns88, Sumanth Patlolla, Anubhav, dheeraj, sandesh, Ananth, Treyambak Madyalkar, Arun T P, Ajay Parasuram, KK, Shwetha Maiya and Xanda

Lots of people pointed out the mistake. It was eastern Aus, not western. Mea culpa.


Friday, June 4, 2010

goto Answer

—devadutta @ 23:59

Think computer science and tell us who connects 1, 2. He also likes to write 3 + 4 = 7 as 3 4 + = 7

Sorry about the delay people. Question will be up longer

Cracked By: shrik, Sumanth Patlolla, umang, varuns88, Ajay Parasuram, Dibyo, udupendra, KK, Logik, Thejas V R, akhi, piezocake, Ananth, Manish Achuth, Ganesh Prasad, dineshk, Rogi, Abinaya, Rahulk, Anubhav, dheeraj, Aravindh, Aparna, Shwetha Maiya and Xanda


Thursday, June 3, 2010

Oscilloscope Open

—devadutta @ 23:59

Another one from raklodramA. Cannot believe we had not asked this one before :)

What is this?

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, varuns88, udupendra, Thejas V R, shrik, Rogi, dineshk, SV, Ananth, Manish Achuth, Dibyo, Shwetha Maiya, Anubhav, eswar, googboog, krudebox, Rahulk, Smitha R Maiya, Vishnu, Sumanth Patlolla, KK, Treyambak Madyalkar, Logik, reddevil_ani, Roy, raklodramA, Bharath, lanu, Qbrain, shenoyvarun86, dheeraj, sandesh, Arun T P, Ajay Parasuram, varun, rohanquizzer, chubaka, Advaith and Xanda


Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Party like a physicist

—srikanth @ 23:59

Who connects:

Cracked by varuns88, dineshk, Aparna, Ananth, Rahulk, krudebox, shrik, Anubhav, lanu, Sumanth Patlolla, Qbrain, Bharath, udupendra, Dibyo, Shwetha Maiya, googboog, Treyambak Madyalkar, Ganesh Prasad, akhi, Rogi, dheeraj, Logik and Xanda

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Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac. Coined the terms pipette (1) and burette (2). The alcohol concentration measure ABV is also knowns as degrees Gay-Lussac since he came up with the way of measurement.