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2010

Sunday, October 24, 2010

Before the billions

—devadutta @ 23:59

Internet “capable” gaming console. Major flop. Which company made these? Also, please to tell us what that controller is called.

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Apple and Bandai’s PipP!n. The controller was called AppleJack.


Of course they'd win...

—srikanth @ 23:59

Another meme question. How is this long-gone-but-recently-returned duo known?

Cracked by: shrik, AmK, jowens, Bharath, Mikey, Ananth, Rogi, Manish Achuth, Raghuvansh, Rahulk, raklodramA, Thejas V R, username, v.chandrashekar, Rahul Rajeev, Sumanth Patlolla, Smitha R Maiya, Dibyo, soumya g, dineshk, apar, udupendra, kallukudian, Shwetha Maiya and Logik

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Hai-yah! Ask a Ninja!


Friday, October 22, 2010

I should have dropped out of High School

—devadutta @ 23:59

Making a special appearance on the Simpsons. Who?

Cracked by: AmK, Ananth, dineshk, Logik, jowens, username, byslexia, krudebox, SS, apar, Goyal, Anjul, Smitha R Maiya, kallukudian, Rogi, Thejas V R, shrey, Dibyo, Siddarth Pai, Rahul Rajeev, quaziluffy, Bharath, yaksha, Manish Achuth, Raghuvansh, Rahulk, Martin Antony, Sumanth Patlolla, soumya g, udupendra and shrik

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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg making a special appearance on the Simpsons. Lisa takes Nelson to an entrepreneur conference to show him the importance of college. But to her dismay, she learns most of the people there are college dropouts, including MZ.


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)?

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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!


Wednesday, October 20, 2010

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 ;)

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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?

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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

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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 :)