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March 2012

Sunday, March 11, 2012

Spin!

—devadutta @ 23:59

First time captured on “camera”. What is this?

Was in news recently.

Cracked by: Manish Achuth, Bharath, tanwi, Vishwas B Sharma, rohanquizzer, Ananth, Sumanth Patlolla, raklodramA, rickde, jowens, Logik, badideabear, KK, anurag and Rogi

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Unexpected results?

—devadutta @ 23:59

Last question of the theme round. Major sitter. This has to be the easiest question we have ever posted.

What is theta?

Cracked by: rohanquizzer, raklodramA, Manish Achuth, jowens, rickde, Anjul, Mayukh Bose, badideabear, Ananth, KK, Vishwas B Sharma, Sumanth Patlolla, Logik, v.chandrashekar, Vishnu Prashanth, Bharath, Gurupad, anurag and Rogi

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1 Radian


Friday, March 9, 2012

Glowing

—devadutta @ 23:59

Who is missing?

Theme round: Question 4

Many of you got the theme!

Cracked by: rohanquizzer, raklodramA, KK, Manish Achuth, badideabear, jowens, rickde, Mayukh Bose, Jayaprakash B R, Sumanth Patlolla, Logik, Vishnu Prashanth, Bharath, Ep, Gurupad, anurag, Rogi and Teju

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Antoine Henri Becquerel


Thursday, March 8, 2012

Not the car company

—devadutta @ 21:37

Identify and connect

Theme round: Question 3.

Many of you are very close to the theme connect. I am looking for a specific connect.

Cracked by: jowens, vinayaknp, raklodramA, finkle, v.chandrashekar, Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, kazkas, Ananth, Vishwas B Sharma, rickde, Bharath, Ayush Khanna, Anjul, KK, rohanquizzer, badideabear, Mayukh Bose, Jayaprakash B R, Logik, Vishnu Prashanth, shreya, Gurupad, anurag, Rogi, Teju and Aila

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Quoting “Teju”


Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Wooden drum

—devadutta @ 23:57

Famous experiment. Identify.

Hint: The “container” at the bottom is exploding.

Theme round question 2.

Rogi got very close to cracking the theme.

Cracked by: raklodramA, badideabear, Sumanth Patlolla, Ananth, Manish Achuth, rickde, KK, kazkas, Logik, jowens, Anjul, Mayukh Bose, Bharath, Amarendra Kumar, Shwetha Maiya, rohanquizzer, Gurupad, Rogi and Teju

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Pascal’s Barrel


Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Theme Round, yay!

—devadutta @ 23:59

Answers to the next few questions are connected to a single theme. Individual answers give you one point as usual. If you crack the the theme within the first 2 questions, you get 2 additional points, otherwise you get one additional point.

Get Cracking!

Theme Round: First Question:

1 and 2 discovered something at about the same time. 1 generally gets all the credit. Who is 2? (3 is a hint)

Cracked by: Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, badideabear, rickde, Manish Achuth, Mo, Vishwas B Sharma, rohanquizzer, Logik, KK, Ananth, raklodramA, jowens, Mayukh Bose, Bharath, Shwetha Maiya, Smiling Buddha, Jayaprakash B R, Gurupad, anurag and Teju

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Joseph Henry


Monday, March 5, 2012

Feed your head.

—srikanth @ 23:59

Decipher the code.

Actually, don’t do that. Just tell us who invented the script.

Cracked by: KK, badideabear, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Ananth, rickde, Rogi, rohanquizzer, Bharath, jowens and raklodramA

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Charles Dodgson’s (Lewis Carroll) nyctography script to help write in the dark.


Sunday, March 4, 2012

Many of these actually seem better.

—srikanth @ 23:59

Here, take some points :P

These were the initial thoughts. What was the final decision?

Cracked by: rickde, Amarendra Kumar, jowens, Bharath, Rogi, Mayukh Bose, badideabear, Ananth, KK, Manish Achuth, rohanquizzer and raklodramA

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Mathematica, from Wolfram.


Saturday, March 3, 2012

We're like them, for quizzes.

—srikanth @ 23:59

Where would you see this?

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Jayaprakash B R, KK, Sumanth Patlolla, Urthstripe, rickde, Rogi, Vishwas B Sharma, Manish Achuth, rohanquizzer, jowens, badideabear, Amarendra Kumar, Bharath, Ananth and raklodramA

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That’s Derrick. Derrick thinks you would like to receive Groupon Mails. You can go punish Derrick here: http://www.groupon.com/unsubscribe


Friday, March 2, 2012

This is getting out of hand.

—srikanth @ 10:00

What is this/ where would you see something like this?

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, Anjul, jowens, finkle, Vishnu Prashanth, Manish Achuth, rickde, Bharath, KK, Raghuvansh, Vishwas B Sharma, badideabear, halfbakedbeans and raklodramA

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This is a snapshot of the current exchange rates at Virwox - the world’s largest virtual currency trading center. The BTC (Bitcoin) should’ve given it away.