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November 2010

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

See, Guess, You'll be right

—devadutta @ 23:59

If she was younger you would have identified her immediately. Who is this woman?

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Rogi, apar, Pawankumar Hegde, dineshk, Anjul, jowens, Vijay, shrik, Thejas V R, username, Manish Achuth, Shwetha Maiya, Moju21, ragwho, v.chandrashekar, mankuTimma, Dibyo, Atul Mathew, Ananth, Rohit, Rahulk, krudebox, aditthya, Piyush, pavan, tete80, Rahul Rajeev, Sumanth Patlolla, Logik, Bharath, duriel, udupendra, Sridhar C, Jean Valjean and Inglourious

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Lena Söderberg, of the “Lenna” image used extensively to test imaging algorithms and in run of the mill quizzes.


Monday, November 29, 2010

Best Vacation Ever!

—devadutta @ 23:59

Inspired by a question sent in by Thejas V R. He gets the shiny %gqh% nevertheless :)

If 1 was first, who was second? 2 was third and 3 was fourth.

Apologies for the delay folks, this question will be open longer.

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, udupendra, Shwetha Maiya, Dibyo, Goyal, Rogi, shrik, username, Thejas V R, Moju21, aditthya, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, apar, Bharath, jowens, Manu Sathian, shrey, dineshk, Anjul, mankuTimma, v.chandrashekar, Ananth, Atul Mathew, Rahulk, krudebox, Vijay, tete80, Rahul Rajeev, Aditya Prabhu, Pawankumar Hegde, Logik, duriel and Piyush

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Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu was the second self-funded space tourist. Dennis Tito being first, Dr. Gregory Olsen being third and Anousheh Ansari fourth.


Sunday, November 28, 2010

chaaarrrrrrrr

—devadutta @ 23:59

As seen thru a scanning electron microscope. What?

Cracked by: stinky94, apar, jowens, Rogi, Anjul, Raghuvansh, Dibyo, username, raklodramA, Goyal, krudebox, Rahulk, Pawankumar Hegde, dineshk, rohit, shrik, Piyush, v.chandrashekar, Moju21, aditthya, Sandhip, Arjun, Akshay Lal, Vijay, shrey, Ananth, Bharath, Rishi, Thejas V R, udupendra, x, Logik, panrod, Shwetha Maiya and Rohit

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Velcro!


Saturday, November 27, 2010

Google is a hint

—devadutta @ 23:59

Connect

P.S: List is not exhaustive. There cannot possibly be an exhaustive list.

Cracked by: krudebox, jowens, Pawankumar Hegde, Ananth, Rogi, Manish Achuth, shrik, v.chandrashekar, mankuTimma, Dibyo, Shwetha Maiya, Sumanth Patlolla, Raghuvansh, apar, dineshk, Sud, SS, username, Rahulk, bluegem4 and udupendra

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Logarithmic spiral. They all are log spirals.


Friday, November 26, 2010

Don't mess with the Libyans.

—srikanth @ 23:59

** + ** = ?

Cracked by: dineshk, Dibyo, jowens, Ananth, Manish Achuth, krudebox, shrik, Rogi, v.chandrashekar, Raghuvansh, Thejas V R, mankuTimma, Sumanth Patlolla, apar, Shwetha Maiya and Rahulk

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Dr Emmett “Doc” Brown, from Back to the Future, was inspired by Leopold Stokowski (left) and Albert Einstein.


Thursday, November 25, 2010

Original sin?

—srikanth @ 23:59

What’s the blacked out word? And what’s the story?

PS: Is this what you call irony? Not sure. I always get confused. I’d call it satire. I’d probably be wrong. Oh well.

Cracked by: Ananth, Raghuvansh, Rogi, jowens, apar, Logik, Pawankumar Hegde, Thejas V R, shrik, v.chandrashekar, Dibyo, dineshk, Manish Achuth, krudebox, Bharath, username, Shwetha Maiya and mankuTimma

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“Hackers”. The website for the movie hackers was, um, hacked by “real” hackers. http://www.ibiblio.org/team/history/hack/doodle.html


Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Seemingly impossible.

—srikanth @ 23:59

Very borderline geeky…

This picture was taken during the opening of the institute of physics at the University of Lund in Sweden in 1951. What are these two people looking at?

Cracked by: jowens, v.chandrashekar, amarendra, Ananth, shrey, Pawankumar Hegde, Logik, Rogi, Bharath, Dibyo, apar, Abhiram Bharadwaj Diddigi, username, Sumanth Patlolla, Thejas V R, Shwetha Maiya, mankuTimma, dineshk, krudebox, raklodramA, shrik, Manish Achuth, Siddarth Pai, Anonymous, Arjun, umang, Vijay, SS, Piyush and Mo

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Wolfgang Pauli and Neils Bohr, deeply inspecting a Tippe Top. The toy is know to have been of interest to Bohr.


Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Game overture.

—srikanth @ 23:59

Connect -

Cracked by: Logik, Pawankumar Hegde, Ananth, Rogi, apar, jowens, Raghuvansh, dineshk, Bharath, krudebox, Thejas V R, shrik, Dibyo, raklodramA, Rahulk, username, mankuTimma, Shwetha Maiya, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, SS and Piyush

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Sid Meier(2) created an orchestra composer game called “CPU bach” (1), a play on CPE Bach (3).


Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Missing comments

—srikanth @ 08:02

Gremlins ate your comments.

We’re working to get them back. Stay tuned…

Update: In the meantime, all comments are disabled till further notice. We’ll give you more time to post answers later. Thanks for your patience…

Update 2: Alright, comments are back. Answers are open again, as most of you noticed. We will now return to our regularly scheduled programming…


Sunday, November 21, 2010

Plug me in...

—srikanth @ 23:59

Plaintext question for today.

  1. Created in 1968. Brought life back into a dying brand.
  2. They are made from 6 individual parts of ABS.
  3. Started with a cop, a fireman, a nurse, and astronauts.
  4. The most expensive one ever was made of gold, and was a model of C3P0
  5. Globally, 3.9 are sold per second

What am I talking about?

Cracked by: Kaustubh, apar, dineshk, Rogi, Ananth, SV, byslexia, jowens, Shwetha Maiya, krudebox, Bharath, Thejas V R, shrik, mankuTimma, Pawankumar Hegde, Dibyo, Rahulk, krikkrak, Raghuvansh, Akshay Lal, Siddarth Pai, Pawankumar Hegde, Abhiram Bharadwaj Diddigi, bluegem4, Sumanth Patlolla, Logik, Vijay, udupendra, Rohit, Rohit, username and SS

Edit: It should be 1978, and not 1968. My bad. Points given to anyone who mentioned Lego.