What is the strip below about?
Cracked by: grey_matters, shrey, badideabear, Rogi, Dibyo, rickde, s m muneer ali, Sumanth Patlolla, Shwetha Maiya, KK, jowens, raklodramA, amarendra, Siddarth Pai, username, Bharath, Aditya S, Raghuvansh, Thejas V R, krithika rai, mankuTimma, dhruv, shrik, Rahulk and buk
A comic that was trying to depict the prevailing sentiment against Edward Jenner’s smallpox vaccine (inoculating people with the Cowpox virus, hence the cows in the image).
Identify the phrase that’s been beeped out right at the start of the clip.
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Cracked by: Urthstripe, Jayaprakash B R, Sumanth Patlolla, Thejas V R, Rogi, badideabear, username, grey_matters, rickde, Shwetha Maiya, jowens, raklodramA, anurag, Bharath and Raghuvansh
The phrase is “I am Macintosh”. The clip is an excerpt of what the Macintosh machine itself spoke during the official 1984 unveiling.
What single institution connects this bunch?
Cracked by: username, Dibyo, Thejas V R, Manish Achuth, mankuTimma, raklodramA, KK, jowens, Bharath, amarendra, Aditya S, Urthstripe, Bipin Banavalikar, Sumanth Patlolla, badideabear, Rogi, Rahulk, rickde, anirvan, shrik, Siddarth Pai and anurag
The Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth. All these personalities participated in CTY programs!
Identify the game.
No, there is nothing wrong with the screenshot. Here is another one.
Cracked by: username, Rahulk, Manoj Venkat, Bipin Banavalikar, badideabear, raklodramA, Dibyo, KK, Riyaz Usman, Thejas V R, Anjul, vinayaknp, Sumit, amarendra, Jayaprakash B R, Saill, shrik, Manish Achuth, mankuTimma, Ananth, rickde, Aditya S, jowens, aditthya, Bharath, Sumanth Patlolla, Mayukh Bose, Urthstripe, anurag, Rogi, rohanquizzer, Rahul Rajeev, Saurabh, Siddarth Pai, Ganesh Prasad, Shwetha Maiya and Raghuvansh
Wolfenstein 1D
Guest question from %gqh% Manish Achuth.
What is this? Identify the dude in the video.
Cracked by: username, badideabear, raklodramA, shrik, Manish Achuth, jowens, Urthstripe, anurag, Rogi, Thejas V R and Siddarth Pai
This is the Unimate, first ever industrial robotic arm. Invented by George Devol.
Guest question from %gqh% raklodramA. Thanks sire!
What is this graphic showing?
Cracked by: Thejas V R, username, KK, Bipin Banavalikar, Debasish, badideabear, raklodramA, Riyaz Usman, Anjul, amarendra, shrik, Manish Achuth, mankuTimma, Ananth, Aditya S, jowens, anurag, aditthya, Bharath, Mayank Agarwa, Goyal, Sumanth Patlolla, Mayukh Bose, Urthstripe, Rahulk, Rogi, vinayaknp, Rahul Rajeev and vkamath
Companies suing each other over patents. huh.
Identify the flowers. Pseudo bonus points for the full story :)
PS: wikipedia-copy-pasta is not needed :)
Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Urthstripe, grey_matters, Shwetha Maiya, Manish Achuth, Ananth, Dibyo, Sumanth Patlolla, Anonymous, jowens, raklodramA, anurag, shrik, Thejas V R, badideabear, rickde, username, s m muneer ali, amarendra, Rogi, Bharath, thiru d gr8, Rahul Rajeev, mankuTimma, vishwanath and Rahulk
Kimiljongia flowers (1) and Kimilsungia flowers (2), specially created for the Fearless Leaders of North Korea :) The Kimiljungia, in fact, is designed to bloom every year during Kim Il-Jong’s birthday.
What connects?
This list is by no means exhaustive, although it is in chronological order :)
EDIT: Added one more, on public demand:
Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Urthstripe, Manish Achuth, Ananth, Shwetha Maiya, Dibyo, Anonymous, jowens, Sumanth Patlolla, raklodramA, Bipin Banavalikar, shrik, Thejas V R, amarendra, rickde, username, Rogi, Bharath, Rahul Rajeev, mankuTimma, Swarun, Logik, anurag, badideabear and Manoj Venkat
Identify:
Cracked by: Urthstripe, jowens, shrik, badideabear, SV, Mayukh Bose, username, Rogi, Bharath, KK, Ananth, raklodramA, rickde, Bipin Banavalikar, Martin, mankuTimma, amarendra, Sumanth Patlolla, anurag, Dibyo, Manish Achuth, Rahul Rajeev, Anjul, Shwetha Maiya, Thejas V R, s m muneer ali, Siddarth Pai, Logik and Raghuvansh
Google’s Driverless cars. Wuhoo :)
Sitters ahoy! What’s blanked out?
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Captain James T. Kirk :)