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Round 1

—devadutta @ August 21, 2011

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

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Companies suing each other over patents. huh.


An Ode to Spiders?

—devadutta @ August 6, 2011

%gqh% Manish Achuth sends us this question to celebrate something.

What is this? What are we celebrating?

Cracked by: Rogi, Dibyo, badideabear, username, jowens, thiru d gr8, grey_matters, Manish Achuth, vishwanath, rickde, Amarendra, Ananth, Sumanth Patlolla, rohanquizzer, Bipin Banavalikar, kapinjal chowdhury, shrik, Goyal, VK, Shwetha Maiya, Thejas V R, raklodramA, Rahulk, vinayaknp, Mayukh Bose, KK, anurag, Martin, mankuTimma and Bharath

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Screen shot of the first ever web browser running on a Next machine.


Human stupidity is no match for..

—devadutta @ August 5, 2011

%gqh% Rogi sent in the exact same question I wanted to ask today. Whoa!

Still pointless after all these miles.. What incident from earlier this week had folks thinking our Computer Overlords were capable of making a mistake?

Cracked by: Rogi, Dibyo, badideabear, jowens, Ananth, username, Swarun, SV, Amarendra, Bipin Banavalikar, shrik, Goyal, VK, Urthstripe, Raghuvansh, Shwetha Maiya, Jayaprakash B R, Thejas V R, Rahulk, KAMANASISH CHOWDHURY, Siddarth Pai, Mayukh Bose, anurag and Martin

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A human driving Google’s automatic car met with an accident. Recently.


Got Him

—devadutta @ August 1, 2011

Guest question from %gqh% Rogi. Thanks sire!

What is this?

Cracked by: raklodramA, Urthstripe, Goyal, jowens, anurag, KK, sandeep bhat, grey_matters, Mo, Thejas V R, username, Rogi, Shwetha Maiya, Bipin Banavalikar, Raghuvansh, rickde, rohanquizzer, Nagendra U M, Sumanth Patlolla, Bharath, shrik, Jayaprakash B R, Rahulk, Manish Achuth, Amarendra, Siddarth Pai, Smitha R Maiya, Swarun, badideabear, thiru d gr8, Ananth, Dibyo and VK

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Batman equation. Very easy.


Star Wars

—devadutta @ July 30, 2011

Question from %gqh% raklodramA . Thank you saar!

What it is?

Cracked by: yaksha, jowens, shrik, Ananth, Sumanth Patlolla, Siddarth Pai, rickde, Manish Achuth, Bipin Banavalikar, raklodramA, Rogi, username, Shwetha Maiya, Dibyo, Thejas V R, Bharath, Rahulk, Swarun, Martin, Amarendra, Advaith, kapinjal chowdhury, Urthstripe and anurag

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Hoverbike – Motorbike that flies. I want one. NOW.


Edison would be proud?

—devadutta @ July 27, 2011

Super question from %gqh% shrik. Thanks saar!

Connect

2a.

2b.

Cracked by: jowens, shrik, Ananth, Sumanth Patlolla, Siddarth Pai, rickde, Manish Achuth, Bipin Banavalikar, raklodramA, Rogi, Shwetha Maiya, Dibyo, jins, Bharath, Thejas V R, Rahulk, Swarun, Amarendra and username

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quoting username


Destruction

—devadutta @ July 22, 2011

This question comes in from %gqh% shrik. Tumba Thanksu Saa!

Who are these guys?

Cracked by: grey_matters, Sumanth Patlolla, Anonymous, username, Anjul, jowens, shrey, raklodramA, dineshk, Raghuvansh, sandeep bhat, Bipin Banavalikar, rickde, Dibyo, Ananth, rohanquizzer, shrik, Rogi, Rahulk, Thejas V R, KK, Swarun, Manish Achuth, Bharath-TK, Bharath, Amarendra and Shwetha Maiya

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Doom development team – John Carmack et al.


Genericized Trademark

—devadutta @ July 13, 2011

Fully framed guest question from %gqh% Jean Valjean. Thanks Sire!

Simply identify this guy who passed away about 3 months back. Perhaps
best known for inventing X for which he was inducted into the Cable
Hall of Fame and given 2 Emmy Awards. Plenty of clues in the picture

X is a good example of the subject line.

Cracked by: grey_matters, anurag, Raghuvansh, raklodramA, Nagendra U M, Sai Subramanian, Thejas V R, Sumanth Patlolla, Swarun, username, Dibyo, Rogi, kapinjal chowdhury, shrik, Ananth, Manish Achuth, jowens, Shwetha Maiya, Mridul, Prasad, rickde, Bharath, Rahulk, udupendra and dineshk

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Hubert Schlafly


Overload

—srikanth @ June 28, 2011

Today’s question comes to us from %gqh% Dibyo, to celebrate his 1000 point run :)

Cryptic Question: This is three of what?

(AutoRaja will probably not be able to handle this answer very well, so it’ll be evaluated manually eventually)

Cracked by: Rogi, udupendra, Urthstripe, jowens, SV, Manish Achuth, Raghuvansh, dirty-i, raklodramA, Debasish, Thejas V R, Prasad, Sumanth Patlolla, anurag, krudebox, koolkinks, Mod, shrik, Ananth, sandeep bhat, Shwetha Maiya, grey_matters, username, Fib Onachi and Siddarth Pai

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Gandhiji loves it.

—devadutta @ June 23, 2011

Yay! Guest question time! %gqh% raklodramA (Ameya) sent us this question. Thanks saar!

Simple. Identify this device.

Cracked by: thiru d gr8, Sumanth Patlolla, Ananth, shrey, Manish Achuth, shrik, akhi, Rogi, raklodramA, Urthstripe, Martin, Anjul, Raghuvansh, Dibyo, username, grey_matters, KK, Shwetha Maiya, anurag, Benjamin, Swarun, Nagendra U M, Thejas V R, dirty-i, s m muneer ali, mankuTimma, udupendra, Ebzhent, krudebox, Jayaprakash B R, SV, jowens, dhruv, Mod, Rahulk, Siddarth Pai, Logik and BastardoH

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Sewing machine