Quiz
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Identify
Cracked by: Rogi and Manish Achuth
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An Autoped from 1915. Pretty cool.
Pick up some ammo
Cover design for which game?
Cracked by: Rogi, Anjul, Manish Achuth and Sumanth Patlolla
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Wolf 3D. Yeah!
Whose RISC processor?
Horray! BB is not dead.
Identify and connect
Cracked by: Rogi
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Vegard Wollan and Egil Bogen, people who invented AVR Micro-Architecture, whose names are hidden in AVR. Arduino boards generally have an Atmel AVR on them. Thus the connect. Wokay?
She-What?
What is DMR talking about here?
Cracked by: Manish Achuth, Abhiram Bharadwaj Diddigi, Dibyo, Ananth, Sumanth Patlolla, rickde, Anjul, ranuvikram, Shwetha Maiya and Mayukh Bose
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#!
Will the header have a guy staring down at you?
You can probably guess this one straight from the question. Printed version of what? Surprisingly small, if you ask me.
Cracked by: rickde, Dibyo, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Abhiram Bharadwaj Diddigi, nivinpaul, buk, saswat11, Anjul, Ananth and Saarthak
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Printed version of about 0.01% of the Wikipedia - 5000 pages. So the whole thing would be 5e5 pages, which is still smaller than I expected
In case of humanity reset, read this
What is this?
Cracked by: rickde, Abhiram Bharadwaj Diddigi, Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, Dibyo, nivinpaul and Ananth
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Georgia Guidestones, set of guidelines to humans after an apocalyptic event.
Tick Tock
Final panel of one the most awesome comic strips of all time[1]. Identify
[1] According to me :)
Cracked by: Abhiram Bharadwaj Diddigi, Sumanth Patlolla, Dibyo, Manish Achuth, rickde and Supritha Maiya
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XKCD’s epic 3000+ panel comic, Time.
Freezing?
Identify and connect 1, 2 and 3 (explain how 3 changed 2)
Cracked by: Dibyo, Abhiram Bharadwaj Diddigi, rickde, Mayukh Bose, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Supritha Maiya and aparna
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When Anders Celsius invented the temperature scale, he put 100 degrees as the point for freezing and 0 degrees as the point for boiling. Carl Linnaeus, waited until Celsius had died to change the scale to the way we read it today.
Fly, robin, fly
This awesome technique is used by gliders and birds alike to build speed almost effortlessly. What’s it called?
Cracked by: Dibyo, Abhiram Bharadwaj Diddigi and rickde
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Dynamic Soaring - the birds use wind-speed gradients to their advantage to fly in a wavy motion that lets them soar for miles without slowing down.
Sounds like a dessert
This vehicle was “best-selling” in its category from 1985 until it was toppled by a Nissan car in 2011. Identify.
P.S: No questions until next Wednesday. I am on vacation. Yay!
Cracked by: Manish Achuth, Abhiram Bharadwaj Diddigi, Sumanth Patlolla, rickde and Dibyo
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Sinclair C5, the best selling electric vehicle, according to its inventor, was toppled by Nissan Leaf in 2010.