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—devadutta @ July 30, 2010

Who connects

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Susan Kare - Now legendary graphic designer who designed all these logos and a lot more. Like udupendra noted, she had made an appearance here before in another different question.


Pop quiz?

—srikanth @ July 29, 2010

A question from the news of late. What’s going on here?

Cracked by Raghuvansh, Logik, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, v.chandrashekar, dineshk, Bharath, Rahulk, Dibyo, varuns88, Anubhav, Vinay Hegde, Shwetha Maiya, Ananth, nishansolo, Manish Achuth, joe, Jean Valjean, shrik, udupendra, Thejas V R, krudebox, lanu, raklodramA and Qbrain


For science!

—srikanth @ July 28, 2010

I don’t know what one thing to ask, TBH, so I’m going to ask for EVERYTHING. Look at this video and identify

  1. The source
  2. The two characters in fatigues
  3. What these two characters are more popular for
  4. The ‘object’ off screen that everyone’s talking about.

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Default answer probably works here

—srikanth @ July 27, 2010

Ad campaign for?

Cracked by everyone.

IBM computers - specifically the IBM 604 electronic calculator.

Aparna, Logik, Raghuvansh, Vinay Hegde, varuns88, dineshk, Rogi, Dibyo, sandman, Sumanth Patlolla, raklodramA, Rahulk, Nanda, Thejas V R, krudebox, udupendra, Smitha R Maiya, lanu, Shwetha Maiya, Bharath, Vishnu, Manish Achuth, joe, Anubhav, Qbrain, shrik and Ananth


Make it in your own image?

—srikanth @ July 26, 2010

Identify and connect to a term.

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XX question

—srikanth @ July 25, 2010

Identify comic, and protagonist.

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*click*

—srikanth @ July 24, 2010

This small diagram is some sort of schematic for a theater-like building. The creator (more famous for another invention of his) used this to create a very interesting experience.

The audience would be seated inside be surrounded by giant paintings on canvases. Some complex trickery with lights would be used to illuminate different parts of the paintings and the audience would ‘feel’ like they were watching a movie with changing scenes.

Who’s the creator, and what is this system called?

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Nothing to see here, move along comrade.

—srikanth @ July 23, 2010

What book’s cover(1)? (2) is a more contemporary clue - a still from a recent song.

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Band-Aid

—devadutta @ July 22, 2010

What started off as a joke, has now turned into a real business. What does this “precisely-engineered” thing fix almost “magically”?

Hint: Recent thing.

Cracked by: Shwetha Maiya, Thejas V R, varuns88, Manish Achuth, Goyal, Dibyo, joe, Sumanth Patlolla, Jean Valjean, udupendra, lanu, Smitha R Maiya, Qbrain, krudebox, mankuTimma, Joshan, madhur, Aparna, Raghuvansh, dineshk, Logik, Ananth, Rogi, shrik, Anubhav, Rahulk, Bharath, Amar Peluri, sandman and vijayaraghavan

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“Antenna-aid” – What started off as a joke to solve iPhone 4’s antenna issues became an actual project recently.


Itsy-bitsy spider...

—srikanth @ July 21, 2010

Who connects:

Cracked by Shwetha Maiya, Qbrain, Goyal, lanu, Dibyo, Rogi, shrik, udupendra, raklodramA, krudebox, mankuTimma, Vinay Hegde, joe, Thejas V R, Smitha R Maiya, Sumanth Patlolla, varuns88, Logik, Anubhav, dineshk, Bharath, Manish Achuth, Joshan, eswar, Ananth, nishansolo and Rahulk