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OH HAI

—devadutta @ September 21, 2009

The dude on the left in 2 created X and 1 “wrote” something for him while describing his creation. Later, the dude to the right in 2 created Y, and 1 “wrote” the same thing for him in a different way. What 1 “wrote” has since become EPIC and everyone make it a ritual to write what 1 wrote using whatever they create. What did 1 “write” ?

  1. kernighan

  2. Ken_n_dennis

P.S: Since you are reading bb, chances are very high that you have written it too!

Cracked by: udupendra, Chinmaya U.Holla, joe, emrohit, sidsen, shrik, krudebox, Dibyo, Debasish, Anirudh, raklodramA, srikar, achyuth, Kaiser Soze, AmK, Rogi, Keerthi Kiran M, Ananth, Gurupad, akhi, Nakul, Logik, varuns88, Gagan, Raghuvansh, byslexia, shenoyvarun86 and scipio


ewwwwww

—devadutta @ September 20, 2009

Recently, amateur astronomers were delighted to witness this mysterious event in the sky. But their happiness was shattered when they found out what it was. What was it?

090911-urine-02

Cracked by: Chinmaya U.Holla, AmK, akhi, Logik, BASAB, Ananth, Raghuvansh, Raghuvansh, xtremevarun, sidsen, Dibyo and Rogi


I have a need

—devadutta @ September 19, 2009

Simple one for the weekend. Identify this train

800px-TGV-Duplex_Paris

Another pic

350px-TGV-V150-recordbreaker-on-Seine (1)

Since they are doing something funky with it, you would have guessed by now that the train did something special.

Cracked by: Dibyo, Gurupad, Logik, Debasish, prateekbhatt, Sourya, akhi, abhijeet, Anirudh, madhur, varuns88, Chinmaya U.Holla, Ananth, sidsen, AmK, xtremevarun, Raghuvansh, Rogi, krudebox, shenoyvarun86, nishansolo, sai, byslexia, shrik and udupendra

Show Answer

The French TGV v150. Fastest conventional train on earth.


Meep Meep

—devadutta @ September 18, 2009

Connect. Also, tell us what is missing.

rrjaguar 300px-Pleiades_Lanoue

200px-Colossal_octopus_by_Pierre_Denys_de_Montfort images dawn

Cracked by: sindhura, varuns88, Dibyo, Logik, Gurupad, Debasish, akhi, Rogi, madhur, madhur, Ananth, prateekbhatt, Sourya, prateekbhatt, Raghuvansh, AmK, sidsen, xtremevarun, krudebox, yuvnesh, joe, Anirudh, Sudarshan Nidhi, Chinmaya U.Holla, Mihir Rege, nishansolo, byslexia, shrik and udupendra


I cant see

—devadutta @ September 17, 2009

What were these Dilbert strips made for?

dilbert1 dilberttwo dilbertgoo dilbertiv

And I have dropped the friday’s strip.

Cracked by: MKen_, Chinmaya U.Holla, Nitish, insufferablejake, krudebox, Gagan, Gurupad, Anirudh, emrohit, shrik, Mihir Rege, Bharath, raklodramA, prateekbhatt, Vipin S Nair, joe, sidsen, Debasish, madhur, varuns88, Ananth, achyuth, AmK, Hitesh T S, Dibyo, Sourya, Rogi, Logik, Raghuvansh, xtremevarun, udupendra, akhi, nishansolo and Rithwik K


Impossible is nothing

—devadutta @ September 16, 2009

Super Question from udupendra! Thanks saar.

View the sculpture from a different angle, and connect it to the mathematician.

img8115qo0

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Hint:

180px-EscherSelf1929

djds4rce is conducting an online quiz tomorrow. It will have a few questions from us!

Take a look at it here: http://www.ignite-fest.com/events/online-quiz

Cracked by: Chinmaya U.Holla, shrik, udupendra, Appu, prashant pandey, Sourya, prateekbhatt, akhi, Raghuvansh, Higgers, Ananth, Logik, achyuth, AmK, Gagan, p vs np, Dibyo, Rogi, babszem, varuns88, sidsen and Ps


Use fertilizer?

—srikanth @ September 15, 2009

More of a prank question, really.

** Group A**

  • Fortran
  • Prolog
  • Simula
  • And similar people…

Group B

  • C
  • C++
    c
  • Python
  • Ruby
  • And similar people…

What does this “prove” about these languages?

(12 hrs longer, as almost usual. )

Cracked by Debasish, Ananth, Raghuvansh, Sourya, prateekbhatt, Mr.Bay Leaf, AmK, Chinmaya U.Holla, Rogi, sidsen, shrik, Mihir Rege, akhi, Gurupad, achyuth, Dibyo, varuns88 and Milind


Where is he?

—srikanth @ September 14, 2009

What “devices” connect:

Cracked by Advaith, Rogi, shrik, AmK, Debasish, Chinmaya U.Holla, sidsen, Sourya, Logik, prateekbhatt, achyuth and Dibyo


-b + sqrt(b^2 - 4ac)

—devadutta @ September 13, 2009

The dude in 1 developed A which was(is) astoundingly powerful, but was hard to use. Then, the dude in 2 implemented B around A to make it more usable by normal people like me. What is B?

  1. 192px-KnuthAtOpenContentAlliance 2. Leslie_Lamport

Quite deservingly, B has 2’s name in it.

Cracked by: Chinmaya U.Holla, shenoyvarun86, AmK, Raghuvansh, sidsen, krudebox, xtremevarun, Rogi, achyuth, shrik, username, Debasish, Anirudh, sandy, varuns88, Advaith, Dibyo, raklodramA, prateekbhatt, Sourya, emrohit, abhijeet, Ananth, Logik, HuhaBanda, svgreatest, udupendra, yaksha, Ajay Parasuram, Mr.Bay Leaf, Higgers, babszem and byslexia


Sorry!

—srikanth @ September 12, 2009

Guest question from Logik. Identify (1). He’s the author of book (2) and service (3) but has been in the news of late for a different reason.

Got a question?Send it to [email protected]!

Cracked by everyone.

Logik, udupendra, prateekbhatt, Chinmaya U.Holla, akhi, krudebox, Rogi, Debasish, Gurupad, AmK, achyuth, shenoyvarun86, abhijeet, shrik, Raghuvansh, xtremevarun, madhur, Mr.Bay Leaf, byslexia, Ananth, Sourya, sidsen, varuns88, sandy, raklodramA, Ajay Parasuram and Higgers