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2010

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Comeback King

—devadutta @ 21:21

What did he “win” ten years ago and What did he **win **now?

He did this ten years ago to “win” that “award”:

Yes, that frog is flying.

Cracked by: Hariprasad Kulkarni, Vivek, Kaustubh, ElatedSipun010, udupendra, raklodramA, Rahulk, shrik, Dibyo, Goyal, Nanda, madhur, Rogi, Manish Achuth, Logik, Ananth, jowens, username, dineshk, Vardhan Shenoy, Vardhan Shenoy, Bharath, byslexia, krudebox, Shwetha Maiya, v.chandrashekar, bluegem4, N@ngA, Sumanth Patlolla, kallukudian, Anonymous, Rahul Rajeev, panrod, Mo and Thejas V R

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Andre Geim who won an Ig Noble prize in 2010 for his research involving levitating frogs, won the 2010 Nobel prize for physics. How awesome is that?


Shine on?

—srikanth @ 23:59

What is this?

Cracked by: krudebox, username, Ananth, Rogi, Manish Achuth, jowens, udupendra, raklodramA, v.chandrashekar, shrik, Rahulk, dineshk, Bharath, Shwetha Maiya, N@ngA, kallukudian and Rahul Rajeev


Monday, October 4, 2010

It is dark in here

—devadutta @ 23:59

Simple one for the day. What is this? What is blocked out in red?

About t-shirts:

No, we have not forgotten about them :)

They are yet to be shipped out, so please hold on for a bit. We will put a note here when they are sent out. They should go out within the next 15 days.

If you want to BUY a t-shirt, let us know at [email protected] within the next few days.

Cracked by: udupendra, Logik, username, SV, Ananth, Rogi, jowens, dineshk, Mikey, Sumanth Patlolla, Goyal, Dibyo, Rahul Rajeev, Anirudh Patil, kallukudian, krudebox, shrik, Manish Achuth, Rahulk, Bharath, prasanth, bluegem4, bluegem4, Thejas V R, N@ngA, Vinay Hegde, Raghuvansh, raklodramA, ElatedSipun010, v.chandrashekar, madhur, Vardhan Shenoy and Shwetha Maiya

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Colossal Cave, the first ever adventure game for the computer.


Sunday, October 3, 2010

What's the forecast?

—srikanth @ 23:59

With this picture, someone accomplished something. Who/What?

Cracked by:
Logik, dineshk, Raghuvansh, Goyal, Dibyo, udupendra, jowens, N@ngA and Rogi

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Google street view reaches Antartica!


Sunday, October 3, 2010

We are still friends. No?

—devadutta @ 10:42

Little known co-founders of a very well known company. Which?

Cracked by: shrey, jowens, Dibyo, shenoyvarun86, Ananth, Bharath, N@ngA, Shwetha Maiya, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, Raghuvansh, Anirudh Patil, kallukudian, Manish Achuth, mankuTimma, Nihar, udupendra, lanu, Thejas V R, Rahulk, Saurabh, Treyambak Madyalkar, krudebox, Logik, username, shrik, dineshk, SV, Qbrain, Madhuri, Nanda, BLUDUGA, Vardhan Shenoy, Rahul Rajeev, Kriti Kalwad, bluegem4 and Aparna

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Facebook


Friday, October 1, 2010

Stop teaching them so much!

—devadutta @ 23:59

Guest question from udupendra %gqh%. Tumba Thanksu!

What is it? What algorithm does it use?

Cracked by: jowens, Shwetha Maiya, shrik, Logik, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, Dibyo, N@ngA, udupendra, Thejas V R, krudebox and dineshk


Thursday, September 30, 2010

By the power of, eh?

—srikanth @ 23:59

Identify/describe:

Cracked by: Logik, dineshk, Treyambak Madyalkar, shrey, Manish Achuth, jowens, N@ngA, Bharath, Dibyo, kallukudian, Goyal, mankuTimma, Rogi, Shwetha Maiya, byslexia, shrik, raklodramA, malcaluffin, udupendra, Ananth, v.chandrashekar, Sumanth Patlolla, Thejas V R and Mikey


Wednesday, September 29, 2010

No pistols at dawn, then?

—srikanth @ 23:59

What is grayed out, and what is yellowed out?

Cracked by jowens, Dibyo, Ananth, shrik, Rogi, Bharath, Logik, SV, Anubhav, username, raklodramA, byslexia, ht, Jean Valjean, Thejas V R, Shwetha Maiya, kallukudian, krudebox, Manish Achuth, churott, dineshk, Treyambak Madyalkar, N@ngA, malcaluffin, udupendra and Rahulk


Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Ride on...

—srikanth @ 23:59

Artistic depiction of what?

Specifically, what do you call those small sections where the tubes become small?

Update:

svgreatest informs us that ye alma mater is holding the MSRIT Quiz Fest 2010 on the 2nd and 3rd of October! Check out the link for more details. Looks like the quiz master for one of the quizzes is udupendra as well :-)

Cracked by Logik, shrik, Dibyo, Ananth, jowens, username, Manish Achuth, udupendra, raklodramA, v.chandrashekar, Treyambak Madyalkar, Sumanth Patlolla, krudebox, Rogi, Bharath, Mikey, ht, Thejas V R, Shwetha Maiya, kallukudian, dineshk and N@ngA


Monday, September 27, 2010

Those probes never used to work for me

—srikanth @ 23:59

What connects the logos:

Cracked by jowens, Rogi, Ananth, dineshk, SV, Dibyo, byslexia, Logik, username, shrik, lanu, Qbrain, ElatedSipun010, udupendra, ht, krudebox, Rahulk, Madhuri, Raghuvansh, Prateek Agarwal, raklodramA, Sumanth Patlolla, Anubhav and Thejas V R