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Coverup

Category: Coverup

Thankfully, not this.

—srikanth @ June 5, 2011

Sorry for the late posts folks. The QM’s on some kinda deep-cover anti-gremlin operation and hasn’t surfaced in a while.

Identify these two.. (Or rather, identify what they did not become)



Cracked by: shrik, Bharath, raklodramA, Rahulk, Ananth, Siddarth Pai, Chitwan Saluja, Dibyo, Raghuvansh, Shwetha Maiya, Manish Achuth, Atul Mathew, badideabear, Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, Dirty-i, Logik, dineshk, Thejas V R and rohanquizzer

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As light as.. wait, that wont work

—devadutta @ May 3, 2011

Famous video, famous experiment. What did this experiment confirm?

Yep, the audio is muted out.

Cracked by: badideabear, jowens, Aravind, shrik, Raghuvansh, Dibyo, Ananth, Thejas V R, Rogi, dineshk, shrey, udupendra, vinayaknp, krudebox, Nanda, Mo, krikkrak and Manish Achuth

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The famous footage of the Apollo 15 astronaut that dropped a hammer & feather on the moon to prove Galileo’s theory that in the absence of atmosphere, objects will fall at the same rate regardless of mass. – Quoting Manish


Where there is a will..

—devadutta @ May 1, 2011

Super famous educator. Who he?

P.S: As you might have noticed, Gremlins have started to win over us. But, we are working on a rail gun that should solve all our problems :P
Until then, questions will be kept open longer based on how late it was posted :)

Cracked by: shrik, badideabear, dineshk, Ananth, SV, jowens, Rogi, Anjul, Sajith T S, Sumanth Patlolla, Raghuvansh, yniu, Manish Achuth, Dibyo, Goyal, Shwetha Maiya, Jayaprakash B R, Thejas V R, raklodramA, Logik, S M MUNEER ALI, Vinay Nair, udupendra, krudebox and rohanquizzer

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Salman Khan of Khan academy fame.


Bleeping magnets.. how do they work?

—devadutta @ April 15, 2011

What is this?

Video link for the Flash challenged.

Cracked by: S M MUNEER ALI, Rahul Rajeev, Rogi, shrik, Raghuvansh, jowens, Manish Achuth, Ananth, aditthya, Siddarth Pai, Sumanth Patlolla, Riyaz Usman, Dibyo, dineshk, raklodramA, Moju21, Thejas V R, smhashmi123 and udupendra

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Ferrofluids – Ferromagnetic particles suspended in a liquid takes these weird shapes when subjected to magnetic fields.


Mirror Mirror on the.. desk?

—devadutta @ March 29, 2011

Yay! Internet obscuridade time!

Who invented this keyboard layout? (1 becomes 2 when you hit caps lock)

Cracked by: Rogi, jowens, shrik, Raghuvansh, Shwetha Maiya, Ananth, Dibyo, Thejas V R, Manish Achuth, Siddarth Pai, KK and dineshk

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Randall Munroe of xkcd!


Automatic MC Escher

—devadutta @ March 23, 2011

What is happening here?

Cracked by: udupendra, jowens, Rogi, Aravind, dineshk, Raghuvansh, Anjul and Logik

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Images from Google Earth, thats all :)


Bed and Breakfast

—devadutta @ March 16, 2011

Famous story of how a sinking startup used these to generate funds and stayed afloat. What are these called? Which company created them?

Cracked by: Niyam, Goyal, shrik, dineshk, grey_matters, jowens, Siddarth Pai, Bharath, KK, Raghuvansh, Riyaz Usman, Manish Achuth, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, Ananth, vinayaknp, jins, s m muneerali, Dibyo and rohanquizzer

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Airbnb generated thousands of dollars fromt hese creal boxes. They are called “Obama Os” and “Cap’n McCain"s. Just brilliant.


Lets hack that too!

—devadutta @ March 5, 2011

Influential and very popular blogger. Who she? What popular blog did she start (and sell)?

Hint:

Cracked by: lanu, vinayaknp, raklodramA, udupendra, puneet_k, shrik, Raghuvansh, srinivasan, Siddarth Pai, Amarendra, Dibyo, wanderlust, Thejas V R, rohanquizzer, Muthu sndaresan, S.M.MUNEER ALI, vishal golcha, Rahulk, KK, Ananth, Manish Achuth, Logik, Abinash, Rogi, Riyaz Usman, dineshk, Sumanth Patlolla, jowens, Bharath and Anjul

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Gina Trapani - Lifehacker


Orbit Me

—devadutta @ March 4, 2011

Guest question from %gqh% sidsen. After a long long time. Thank you sire!

The text in the image reads(approximately :) ) The gentlemen above were nominated but did not make it. The mooning characters below did. What would they collectively be known as.

Apologies for the delay folks.

Cracked by: shrik, vinayaknp, udupendra, Rogi, jowens, Raghuvansh, Siddarth Pai, Thejas V R, Rahulk, dineshk, Ananth and Bharath

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The Galilean Moons! Galileo first proposed the name Medicea Sidera (“theMedicianstars”), honouring the four Medici brothers: Cosimo, Francesco, Carlo, and Lorenzo.


Think before you name your kids

—devadutta @ February 11, 2011

This dude, started selling 2 with his last name as the brand. This made people think that the colloquial term for X originated from his name. But, ironically, the term had completely different older roots and this guy just happened to have that in his last name and even more ironically decided to sell 2.

Who is he?

Cracked by: Logik, Raghuvansh, Riyaz Usman, Rogi, dineshk, teju, KK, Sandesh, Anjul, jowens, Manish Achuth, buk, Varun, Sanador, Siddarth Pai, Vishnu, vinayaknp, shrik, Jerin Philip, Thejas V R, Sumanth Patlolla, Crackedpot, Ananth, Appu S, Bharath, Shwetha Maiya, varuns88, viper1619, Aravind, krudebox, raklodramA, lanu, rohanquizzer, Dibyo, v.chandrashekar, S.M.MUNEER ALI, jins, Vijay and udupendra

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Thomas Crapper.