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December 2011

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Can we shoot the floppy eared creep instead?

—srikanth @ 22:23

On the sets of movie A, a nod to controversy B in movie C.

A, B, and C please?

Points mela! Free points for everyone! :)

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, badideabear, Raghuvansh, jowens, Manish Achuth, rickde, Rahulk, Rogi, shrik, jinz, Aditya S, rohanquizzer, Shwetha Maiya, Bharath, Rajesh, arunabha18 and KK

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A - Indiana Jones (that new movie we don’t like to talk about)


Rue the day when you thought you could be greedy

—devadutta @ 23:59

Who invented this cup?

Video Link

Cracked by: Rogi, badideabear, Raghuvansh, jowens, Manish Achuth, rickde, Rahulk, Vishwas B Sharma and shrik

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Pythagorean cup, invented by well, Pythagoras.


Friday, December 9, 2011

Woah.

—srikanth @ 23:59

What is this used for?

Cracked by: Urthstripe, Goyal, Sumanth Patlolla, rickde, shrik, jowens, Rogi, tanwi, rohanquizzer, Ananth, badideabear, thiru d gr8, Thejas V R, Manish Achuth, Anjul, Rahulk, Prasad, finkle, Raghuvansh, Vishwas B Sharma, Rajesh, Tyler Swinehart, KK and Shwetha Maiya

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A rig used to create the ‘bullet-time’ effect popularized by The Matrix.


Thursday, December 8, 2011

Is that a 'social' bird?

—devadutta @ 23:59

What is the name of this plane?

It is blocked out in this image.

Cracked by: KK, Rahulk, Goyal, Sumanth Patlolla, Jayaprakash B R, Rogi, rickde, SV, badideabear, shrik, Manish Achuth, Dibyo, Amarendra Kumar, Bharath, jowens, Thejas V R, Ananth, tanwi and Prasad

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Virgin’s #nerdbird plane


Wednesday, December 7, 2011

we need more people!

—srikanth @ 23:59

Famous illustration of animals in tar pits. Why is it famous?

Cracked by: Vishwas B Sharma, shrik, rickde, Sumanth Patlolla, Jon Strahl, KK, Manish Achuth, Rogi, SV, badideabear, Aditya S, Rahulk, Dibyo, rohanquizzer, Mayukh Bose, Bharath, jowens, Thejas V R, Ananth, vinayaknp, Inglourious, Shwetha Maiya, finkle, Raghuvansh and raklodramA

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The cover of the mythical man month - the famous book on large scale software dev by Fred Brooks


Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Smaller than thou

—devadutta @ 20:00

This man developed one of the most popular file-format and the first software to create it. The software carried his initials in its name. Who is he? What did he create?

Cracked by: Goyal, Dibyo, Sujoy, Sumanth Patlolla, badideabear, Thejas V R, Anjul, jowens, Rahulk, Manish Achuth, Rogi, rickde, Ananth, Amarendra Kumar, aditthya, Bharath, Godzilla101, Hitesh T S, Mayukh Bose, SV, shrik, KK, Vishwas B Sharma, finkle, Bipin Banavalikar, Aditya S, rohanquizzer and soda buddi

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Phil Katz, creator of PKZIP and .ZIP file format.


Monday, December 5, 2011

Go, Speed, Go!

—srikanth @ 22:59

Technology that’s hot of the presses. What is?

Cracked by: Anjul, Aditya S, Jayaprakash B R, rickde, Sumanth Patlolla, jowens, Rogi, Sujoy, Manish Achuth, Dibyo, Rahulk, badideabear, Goyal, shrik, KK, Anonymous, aditthya, Thejas V R, Ananth, Bharath, Vishwas B Sharma and Shwetha Maiya

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IBM’s Racetrack memory


Sunday, December 4, 2011

Spicy?

—devadutta @ 15:01

Latest meme/protest/memetivism. What led to this incident? What is the meme?

P.S: All medals up to date :)

P.P.S: We have run out of guest questions. Send some to [email protected] immediately. KTHXBAI.

Cracked by: shrik, Goyal, Manish Achuth, badideabear, Jayaprakash B R, Rogi, jowens, Sujoy, Bharath, Sumanth Patlolla, Dibyo, Vishwas B Sharma, aditthya, Mayukh Bose, Ananth, Shivathilak, Aditya S, Anjul, rickde, Rahulk, SV, KK and Thejas V R

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Casually Perpper Spray everything cop. UC Davis.


Saturday, December 3, 2011

Blown away

—srikanth @ 12:34

Iconic ad. For which company?

Cracked by: jowens, Larry, Dibyo, shrik, Manish Achuth, Bharath, Sujoy, rickde, Thejas V R, Sumanth Patlolla, Ananth, Rogi, Goyal, KK, badideabear, Vishwas B Sharma, aditthya, Mayukh Bose, rohanquizzer and Rahulk

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The ad for Maxell’s “hi-fis”.


Friday, December 2, 2011

Doh'nuts!

—devadutta @ 20:00

This guy was a quizmaster favorite and used to routinely appear in “tech-quizzes” about 5 years ago. Not so popular now, just like the once super popular website he created. Who he?

P.S: We posted answers on all questions, but comments will be kept open for a few days on more recent questions. You can still post answers on open questions.

Cracked by: Jayaprakash B R, raklodramA, rickde, Sujoy, KK, Manish Achuth, Rahulk, Ananth, jowens, Dibyo, shrik, Bharath, Amarendra Kumar, rohanquizzer, Thejas V R, Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, Goyal, badideabear, Vishwas B Sharma, aditthya, Mayukh Bose, Shwetha Maiya, Shivathilak, Anjul and Aditya S

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Orkut Büyükkökten. Who else.