What age-old protocol takes its name from this picture?
Cracked by: Ananth, shrik, Jayaprakash B R, Rogi, Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, Logik, Thejas V R and Raghuvansh
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Kermit - the serial file transfer protocol. Full story here.
UFO
Company X made and sold pies in tins like this. People who bought the pie figured out the tin had some amazing entertainment value and another company bought rights to the name X and started selling these tins as a toy. Identify X
Cracked by: Ananth, badideabear, RISHI, nikhil, Thejas V R, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, raklodramA, Rahulk, Jayaprakash B R, vishwanath, jins, rajeshwer, Manish Achuth, shrik, Swarun, KK, Urthstripe, Anjul, Aravind, dineshk, Sanador, grey_matters, sandeep bhat, krudebox, Shwetha Maiya, shrey, dhruv, Dibyo, Raghuvansh, Siddarth Pai, udupendra, vkamath and Martin
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Frisbie Baking Company, and the Frisbe
Friday, May 27, 2011
Disregard points.
Possibly the most sober painting of this man. Who is he, and why has his work suddenly become famous?
Cracked by: S M MUNEER ALI, vishwanath, shrik, KK, krudebox, Mo, Ananth, Raghuvansh, Rogi, badideabear, Manish Achuth, Dibyo, raklodramA, Sumanth Patlolla, Charu, Thejas V R, Urthstripe, Shwetha Maiya and Rahulk
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Joseph Ducreux. His “Portrait de l’artiste sous les traits d’un moqueur” has become the subject of the infamous “Archaic Rap” meme.
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Dotted-line.
What organization connects -
[This will be a replacement for the lavarand repeat]
Cracked by: Raghuvansh, shrik, krudebox, Rogi and Thejas V R
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Texas instruments - two boards called the ‘Beagleboard’ and the ‘Panda board’, the DaVinci series of DSP hardware, and the Arago linux overlay for TI embedded devices.
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Groovy!
Ed - 28May: Sorry folks, turns out this was a repeat of a question I had asked earlier (I was convinced I’d asked it in a live quiz and not BB, but I guess I was wrong. Oh well :( ). I’ll replace this with another question soon.
What invention?
Cracked by: badideabear, Urthstripe, Ananth, shrik, Rogi, Raghuvansh, shrey and dineshk
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SGI’s patent for a random number generator that was seeded by the state of a lava lamp. Most likely, many trees were smoked in the invention of this device :P
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Play to learn
Identify this fully functional computer “toy”
Video of it in action
Cracked by: raklodramA, Rogi, badideabear, Ananth and Raghuvansh
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Digi Comp 1. Fully functional mechanical digital computer.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Rock this!
First, our sincere apologies for not posting questions and answers on time. Very crazy times, please to adjust. We will be back to normal posting schedule ASAP. Some questions are kept open without answers for longer duration intentionally. These questions would have been posted insanely late.
If all had went well, this phone would have been the best selling phone in market now and two companies would not have had epic legal battles going on.
Identify the phone and tell us who built it.
Cracked by: shrik, Jayaprakash B R, Rahulk, Thejas V R, raklodramA, krudebox, Rogi, KK, Ananth, dineshk, badideabear, sandeep bhat, Manish Achuth, Shwetha Maiya, Sumanth Patlolla, udupendra, Raghuvansh and Dibyo
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Motorola ROKR which was the first phone to support iTunes sync.
Monday, May 23, 2011
No, young man, I am not mad
Which fictional scientist character was inspired by this real scientist with a penchant for balloons?
Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Mo, Ananth, badideabear, Anjul, Dibyo, v.chandrashekar, Manish Achuth, raklodramA, Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, shrik, Rahulk, Supreeth Raveesh, Thejas V R, jins, thiru d gr8, dineshk, Nanda, Rithwik K, Jayaprakash B R, krudebox, Shwetha Maiya and udupendra
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Professor Cuthbert Calculus, from the Tintin series, inspired by Prof Auguste Picard.
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Remember when we were poor?
Famous event. Which company is he talking about?
Cracked by: udupendra, Sumanth Patlolla, Thejas V R, shrey, raklodramA, dineshk, badideabear, apocalypse, shrik, Anjul, Ananth, Rogi, Raghuvansh, Jayaprakash B R, Urthstripe, Manish Achuth and Supreeth Raveesh
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Steve Jobs talking about a partnership with Microsoft in Macworld 97
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Rotoscoped live?
What is going on here?!
Cracked by: shrik, Raghuvansh, dineshk, badideabear and Rogi
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Jordan Mechner’s Karateka game had an easter egg - insert the disc upside down into a regular floppy drive and it would play an upside down version of the game on screen!