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June 2011

Friday, June 10, 2011

Mother Fruit!

—devadutta @ 23:59

Simple question. Fresh off the press. Future campus of which company ?

Cracked by: Urthstripe, Logik, shrey, shrik, Rogi, Murthy, Raghuvansh, badideabear, Nagendra U M, anurag, Shwetha Maiya, raklodramA, Bharath, krudebox, Manish Achuth, rajathvsm, Sumanth Patlolla, Thejas V R, Anjul, KK, Jayaprakash B R, dirty-i, jins, Sai Subramanian, Goyal, Martin, dineshk, Rahulk, Siddarth Pai, grey_matters, Dibyo, sandeep bhat, sidsen, Aparna, Ananth, SV, username, supreeth, thiru d gr8, udupendra and shenoyvarun86

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Apple’s new Spaceship campus in Cupertino


Newage Miners

—devadutta @ 23:59

Identify this “currency” and tell us what is special about it. Its been in news recently. A Lot.

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Akshay, Goyal, badideabear, raklodramA, shrey, KK, Ananth, Bharath, Urthstripe, Logik, Rogi, dineshk, Shwetha Maiya, Raghuvansh, Manish Achuth, jins, Sai Subramanian, rohanquizzer, D’Anconia, Dibyo, anurag, Siddarth Pai, Thejas V R, shrik, Nagendra U M, krudebox, Jayaprakash B R, dirty-i, Rahulk, sidsen, SV, Anjul, username, udupendra and shenoyvarun86

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Bitcoin - P2P currency


Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Somewhere in CA

—devadutta @ 22:34

(In)Famous “experiment”. Identify.

Step 1:

Step 2:

For fake bonus points, tell us what was Step 3?

Cracked by: Thejas V R, shrik, Rogi, Siddarth Pai, Goyal, raklodramA, udupendra, Bharath, krudebox, Ananth, dhruv, Urthstripe, dineshk, badideabear, Manish Achuth, Shwetha Maiya, Raghuvansh and Dibyo

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Microsoft’s (in)famous Mojave experiment.


Tuesday, June 7, 2011

On you marks.. Get Set..

—devadutta @ 23:59

Connect to a programming language. (Please to consider only the dude of dudes to the left in 1)

Cracked by: Ananth, shrey, Logik, Dibyo, Ankur, Manish Achuth, Goyal, jins, badideabear, Jayaprakash B R, Raghuvansh, Thejas V R, v.chandrashekar, Rahulk, Sai Subramanian, anurag, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, shrik, Siddarth Pai, Bharath, raklodramA, udupendra, dineshk, krudebox, Swarun and Shwetha Maiya

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Google Go!


Monday, June 6, 2011

I, for one, welcome our new fashion designers

—srikanth @ 23:59

A recent trend among fashion designers, who have all been experimenting with something. What?

Cracked by: Ananth, shrik, Chitwan Saluja, Dibyo, Raghuvansh, Manish Achuth, badideabear, Bharath, Rahulk, raklodramA, Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, Logik, dineshk, Thejas V R, rohanquizzer, Siddarth Pai, udupendra and krudebox

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Sunday, June 5, 2011

Thankfully, not this.

—srikanth @ 23:59

Sorry for the late posts folks. The QM’s on some kinda deep-cover anti-gremlin operation and hasn’t surfaced in a while.

Identify these two.. (Or rather, identify what they did not become)



Cracked by: shrik, Bharath, raklodramA, Rahulk, Ananth, Siddarth Pai, Chitwan Saluja, Dibyo, Raghuvansh, Shwetha Maiya, Manish Achuth, Atul Mathew, badideabear, Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, Dirty-i, Logik, dineshk, Thejas V R and rohanquizzer

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Saturday, June 4, 2011

Are yours dead too?

—srikanth @ 23:59

Identify these creatures that were all the rage a few (read: many) years ago:

Cracked by: udupendra, Ananth, Rogi, Urthstripe, shrik, Siddarth Pai, Martin, Raghuvansh, badideabear, krudebox, Thejas V R, Bharath, jins, Manish Achuth, s m muneer ali, Sumanth Patlolla, rohanquizzer, Dibyo, raklodramA, dineshk, Rahulk, Chitwan Saluja and Shwetha Maiya

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Tamagotchi - the digital pets created in Japan. What you see is the growth chart of the original gen-1 tamagotchi.


Friday, June 3, 2011

Shortest distance?

—srikanth @ 11:43

Identify/connect

Cracked by: badideabear, shrik, Sumanth Patlolla, Raghuvansh, Rogi, Manish Achuth, Dibyo, Ananth, s m muneer ali, grey_matters, Sridhar C, Logik, udupendra, Siddarth Pai, krudebox, Thejas V R, Bharath, rohanquizzer, raklodramA and Shwetha Maiya

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Gerardus Mercator, and a representation of the Mercator projection. The man who defined the way most people see the world today :)


Thursday, June 2, 2011

Burn it!

—devadutta @ 21:37

One of the most annoying things from the year 2000. What it is?

Cracked by: badideabear, Manish Achuth, Rahulk, Sumanth Patlolla, jins, raklodramA, Rogi, krudebox, shrik, Dirty-i, Urthstripe, Riyaz Usman, Ananth, Mo, Raghuvansh, Thejas V R, Dibyo, s m muneer ali, grey_matters, Logik, udupendra, Siddarth Pai, Shwetha Maiya, Martin and Bharath

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Bonzi Buddy. Death to Bonzi!!


Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Not another TLA

—srikanth @ 12:52

Three founders of a famous technology company that takes its name from their initials - Two MIT profs and one student of theirs. Identify the company.

Cracked by: Rogi, shrik and Ananth

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Bolt, Beranek and Newman, respectively, go together to form the iconic BBN Technologies.