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Northern Spooky Lights

—devadutta @ January 30, 2010

Recent ‘mystery’ event with speculations of it being a worm hole. Identify and put some minimal details.

Cracked by: Everyone!

Logik, bobo, Jean Valjean, Chinmaya U.Holla, Poornima, Aditya, SV, Rogi, Raghuvansh, Amarendra, madhur, KK, Dibyo, Gurupad, shenoyvarun86, krudebox, Mo, udupendra, superstarksa, dheeraj, Kaushik, raklodramA, shrik, RahulN, sidsen, username, Inglourious, quaziluffy, varuns88, akhi and Ananth

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“Failed missile test” over Norway causing this very interesting light show. These photos are long exposure shots, so they make the scene look a little spooky, but if you see the video, you can clearly see a missile spiraling out of control.


Salute

—devadutta @ January 29, 2010

Simple. Logo transitions of which company?

there were a bunch of transitions after this which are not shown here

Cracked by: shenoyvarun86, Raghuvansh, varuns88, Rogi, Aditya, v.chandrashekar, raklodramA, Logik, Ananth, Inglourious, Poornima, shrik, KK, Chinmaya U.Holla, udupendra, darthshak, madhur, alephnull, AmK, bobo, Jean Valjean, Amarendra, Dibyo, Gurupad, Vinay Hegde, Ajay Parasuram, krudebox and dheeraj


Tan

—devadutta @ January 28, 2010

Identify this awesome device

If you are still wondering, the numbers you see there is the time.

Cracked by: Gurupad, shrik, Inglourious, sidsen, KK, Rogi, prasanth, Raghuvansh, Dibyo, varuns88, Logik, alephnull and AmK


At face value...

—srikanth @ January 27, 2010

What’s this all about? A very, very literal answer.

Cracked by Rogi and shrik


Look for this

—devadutta @ January 26, 2010

Fresh (evening news fresh) dispute. Put some minimal details

Before and after images

Happy republic day, people :)

Cracked by: Chinmaya U.Holla, eli, shenoyvarun86, krudebox, Poornima, RahulN, Dibyo, shrik, n314159, adiS, username, Kaushik Saha, emrohit, varuns88, sidsen, udupendra, KK, Logik, akhi, mojojojo, Raghuvansh, Rogi, Gurupad, Inglourious, madhur, Ananth and darthshak

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Google doodle drawn by a 11 yr old kid in Australia (top) had the Aboriginal flag removed before it went to Google main page, causing controversies.


It's all in the emails folks

—srikanth @ January 25, 2010

Fairly direct “trivia” question… Identify this man, who’s been in the news recently for his bold statements and a seemingly very very interesting book that he just released.

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Gurupad, KK, shenoyvarun86, Aditya, Dibyo, Chinmaya U.Holla, Rogi, krudebox, shrik, Ps, sidsen, udupendra, eli, n314159, adiS, Kaushik Saha, Logik, sid, mojojojo, Inglourious and darthshak

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James Hansen


Lots of billions

—devadutta @ January 24, 2010

Another simple question

X zoomed in on the area shown in 1 to reveal 2. What is X and what is 2 famously known as?

CRacked By: Raghuvansh, Inglourious, Rogi, Chinmaya U.Holla, Gurupad, Anubhav, Kaushik, eli, KK, shrik, Aditya, darthshak, shenoyvarun86, madhur, Ananth, Logik, krudebox, akhi and sidsen


Balance

—devadutta @ January 23, 2010

Simple question form shenoyvarun86. Your trophy, sire:

An early advertisement for a concept which we are so ‘used to’ these days. What concept?

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Gurupad, Rogi, Ps, Logik, shenoyvarun86, sidsen, udupendra, Dibyo, kashyap, shrik, madhur, Ananth, Aditya Date and piezocake


Get down with it...

—srikanth @ January 22, 2010

Image above depicts a funky invention by an extremely funky ancient dude. What is it, and who was he?

Rogi, SV, sidsen, Raghuvansh, piesauce, Dibyo, KK, shenoyvarun86, Gurupad, Aditya, krudebox, Logik, Chinmaya U.Holla, Ps, Kaushik, udupendra, eli, raklodramA, shrik and darthshak


Smoke on the water

—devadutta @ January 21, 2010

Identify and Connect

Cracked by: Chinmaya U.Holla, Ps, sidsen, Rogi, Raghuvansh, AmK, shrik, Dibyo, Gurupad, varuns88, krudebox, udupendra, shenoyvarun86, darthshak, Logik and alephnull