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2012

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


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.


Thursday, March 1, 2012

All this has happened before.

—srikanth @ 10:27

What’s the story?

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

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Terry Winograd demoed a natural language understanding program called SHRDLU waay back in the 70s. He named it after an artificially intelligent linotype named ETAOIN SHRDLU from a sci-fi novel .


Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Smile

—devadutta @ 23:59

Identify this “camera”

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Raghuvansh, raklodramA, Manish Achuth, KK, Thiru d gr8, jowens, prasanth, badideabear, Rogi, Anjul, Bharath, Vishwas B Sharma, finkle, rickde, Amarendra Kumar and rohanquizzer

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Lytro - Light Field Camera


Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Salute!

—devadutta @ 23:03

In her younger days. Who she?

She even has a ship named after her.

Cracked by: Anjul, Sumanth Patlolla, KK, Jayaprakash B R, Rogi, raklodramA, jowens, Manish Achuth, rickde, rohanquizzer, finkle, Logik, badideabear, Ananth, Dibyo, Shwetha Maiya, Bharath, Raghuvansh, Vishwas B Sharma, Vishnu Prashanth and Godzilla101

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Grace Hopper


Monday, February 27, 2012

Breathe

—devadutta @ 23:59

Dude in 1 invented 2 because he could not comfortably do what he is doing in 1 to women. Who he? What did he invent?

Cracked by: Jayaprakash B R, vinayaknp, Vishwas B Sharma, Anjul, Sumanth Patlolla, KK, Rogi, raklodramA, jowens, Manish Achuth, rickde, Thiru D Gr8, rohanquizzer, finkle, badideabear, Ananth, Dibyo, Shwetha Maiya, Bharath and Raghuvansh

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That’s René Laennec, inventor of stethoscope


Sunday, February 26, 2012

Get Cookies for Blaming AutoRaja!

—devadutta @ 22:41

We got some great positive feedback for our new “Blame AutoRaja” feature, so, we have added more enhancements to it!

Changes in this release

  1. No need to be **logged in. **You can now Blame AutoRaja for his bad correction on anybody’s answer!
  2. You earn a cookie each time you place a blame on AutoRaja. Good deeds should not go unrewarded, you see. You need to logged in to earn cookies.
  3. Cookies you earn will be displayed on your profile page and on each of your comments, just like medals (red arrow)
  4. You can now see a green check mark on all answers AutoRaja has marked correct and red cross on every answer marked wrong.
  5. You can only see “Balme AutoRaja” link only on answers marked wrong.