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October 2010

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Take a guess - he's probably right.

—srikanth @ 23:59

Ladies and Gents, A big round of applause to shrik for hitting a run-length of 50 and entering the Hall of Fame. Congratsu pa! You get the star %soh% for this achievement!

What connects a creation of (1) and the creators of (2)?

Cracked by: jowens, username, Raghuvansh, apar, Rogi, AmK, Ananth, Manish Achuth, Thejas V R, v.chandrashekar, Rahul Rajeev, kallukudian, dineshk, shrik and Rahulk

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The creators of (2) Contra 4 (for the Nintendo DS) are called WayForward Technologies - seemingly a reference to a company of the same name in Douglas Adams’s (1) famous Dirk Gently series!


Take that, Mr.Elsewhere!

—devadutta @ 23:59

Spooky. Very spooky.

What is happening here? Also, Identify the dancer in the center, pls.

All hail ffmpeg! The bestest video editing software evar! Does everything from command line! What more can I ask for?

Cracked by: Anirudh Patil, aditthya, Dibyo, krudebox, Rogi, Ananth, username, Raghuvansh, byslexia, shrik, jowens, dineshk, AmK, apar, kallukudian, mankuTimma, Manish Achuth, Rahul Rajeev, SS, Logik, Thejas V R and Goyal

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HRP-4C, a robot in the center is dancing along with humans. Who needs Halloween when things like this happen everyday?


Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Neither positive, nor negative

—srikanth @ 23:59

Stamp commemorating who?

Cracked by: udupendra, shrik, krudebox, Ananth, nishansolo, dineshk, SV, Raghuvansh, Dibyo, shrey, AmK, Rahul Rajeev, Thejas V R, Rogi, username, Logik, Manish Achuth, Nanda, mankuTimma, Anirudh Patil, kallukudian, Rahulk, bluegem4, Shwetha Maiya, N@ngA, raklodramA, Sumanth Patlolla, SS, soumya g, byslexia, jowens, apar, Bharath and v.chandrashekar

byslexia tried to beat Auto Raja, and kinda managed.


Monday, October 18, 2010

Trip around the sun

—devadutta @ 23:48

What is Google celebrating with this doodle?

Note: The doodle might change by the time you get to see it ;)

Cracked by: Thejas V R, krudebox, Goyal, shrik, Manish Achuth, aditthya, Rahulk, Rogi, Ananth, Dibyo, username, Logik, jowens, SV, AmK, Raghuvansh, Sumanth Patlolla, kallukudian, dineshk, apar, SS, soumya g and byslexia

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Apparently, you will see a doodle like this on your birthday! But, only you can see it when you are logged it. Nice touch anyway :) http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/this-week-in-search-101610.html


Sunday, October 17, 2010

Golden Eggs

—devadutta @ 20:30

Story of which game?

video link

Fake cookie points if you can name the mysterious creature that “appears” in the end.

Cracked by: dineshk, Thejas V R, Rogi, Anjul, username, shrey, kallukudian, Raghuvansh, Sumanth Patlolla, aditthya, Dibyo, SV, Logik, jowens, Ananth, apar, Bharath, krudebox, AmK, byslexia, shrik, Manish Achuth, udupendra and Rahul Rajeev

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The super awesome, super successful and super addictive game, Angry Birds. Here, they are promoting a specific in-game purchase called “Mighty Eagle”.


Saturday, October 16, 2010

How do you write that funny 'beta' looking thing, anyway?

—srikanth @ 23:59

What weapon connects?

Cracked by: username, Dibyo, shrey, jowens, Ananth, shrik, AmK, SV, dineshk, Goyal, Rogi, Rahul Rajeev, Manish Achuth, krudebox, Hegde, raklodramA, Thejas V R, mankuTimma, kallukudian, Raghuvansh, Sumanth Patlolla, v.chandrashekar, Logik, panrod, Bharath, apar, nishansolo, Rahulk, byslexia and udupendra

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The Coilgun.


Saturday, October 16, 2010

67 inches

—devadutta @ 23:58

First of all, we congratulate Rogi on recording an unbeaten run-length of 356 correct answers in a row! That is a complete calendar year of posting correct answers on BB! Just awesome! Keep it up, Sire!

This question is a repeat and the above statement is total nuts.
I am never posting questions at 4AM again. EVAR!

Everyone gets points to for this question and the other question you see is a make-up question to remedy the repeat.

What are these people doing on this bridge (2) ?

Hint: Subject is what Google calculator returns when you search the answer

Cracked by: panrod, Anjul, Manish Achuth, Vishnu, Rithwik K, shrik, Dibyo, shrey, Rahul Rajeev, jowens, SV, Ananth, nishansolo, Raghuvansh, Goyal, v.chandrashekar, apar, player576978, krudebox, username, AmK, dineshk, Raghu, Rogi, raklodramA, Shwetha Maiya, Hegde, Sumanth Patlolla, Bharath, Rahulk, byslexia and udupendra

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The “official” unit to measure the length of the Harvard Bridge in Boston is the Smoot. 1 Smoot = Height of Oliver Smoot, who, measured the length of the Harvard bridge using his body as a fraternity pledge. The dude went on to become the chairman of ANSI, which makes it all the more funny that a non-standard unit of measurement is named after the head of a standards institution :)


Friday, October 15, 2010

Jedi training grounds?

—srikanth @ 23:59

What is this?

The name of the artist and the installation will do.

Cracked by: Rogi, jowens, Vinay Hegde, KK, shrik, dineshk, Ananth, kallukudian, krudebox, apar, Rahul Rajeev, panrod, Manish Achuth, Dibyo, SV, nishansolo, Raghuvansh, v.chandrashekar, Thejas V R, username, AmK, N@ngA, raklodramA, Shwetha Maiya, shenoyvarun86, Sumanth Patlolla, Logik, bluegem4, Rahulk and mankuTimma

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An artist called Richard Box created this installation, simply called FIELD. It’s just a grid of tubelights planted in the ground under some high-tension powerlines. The tubes pick up ambient electricity and start glowing, creating this eerie effect.


Thursday, October 14, 2010

Is that Cuban?

—devadutta @ 23:59

Alright! Obscure meme question time!

This horrible shot by Tiger Woods captured in this awesome picture triggered a recent meme. Which?

The “thing” that triggered the meme is blocked out in red.

Cracked by: jowens, krudebox, N@ngA, Ananth, Raghuvansh, shrik, dineshk, username, Anjul, Bharath, Rogi, Manish Achuth, Ganesh Prasad, Thejas V R, Goyal, shrey, Rahul Rajeev, Sumanth Patlolla, Vishnu, shenoyvarun86, panrod, KaranSaharya, AmK, madhur, Vinay Hegde, kallukudian, aditthya, Santosh, SV, Shwetha Maiya and raklodramA

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Smiling Cigar Guy – From Halloween costumes to top 5 search term on Google. He is everywhere.


Wednesday, October 13, 2010

That's kinda unfair...

—srikanth @ 23:59

Where would you find this plaque?

Cracked by: udupendra, shrik, Vinay Hegde, krudebox, jowens, Ananth, Rogi, AmK, Thejas V R, byslexia, Bharath, kallukudian, Debasish, Goyal, raklodramA, username, v.chandrashekar, N@ngA, Manish Achuth, Prateek Agarwal, Rahul Rajeev, Aparna, vijayaraghavan, Raghuvansh, dineshk, Gursheel Singh Sahni, mankuTimma, nishansolo, Sumanth Patlolla, panrod, shenoyvarun86, KaranSaharya, Dibyo and madhur

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The pic shows a plaque outside a mine at Ytterby. This one mine, strangely enough, has been the location for the discovery of four different rare earth metals in the periodic table!