Guest question from udupendra. Tumba Thanksu!

Whoitis, Whatitis?

Cracked by Rogi and AmK. Well done!

udupendra, Rogi and AmK

(1) created a system, and named it after a poem written by (2) about (3). The system eventually tanked, and Tim Berners-Lee beat him to the punch. Who is (1) and what’s the system?

Cracked by udupendra , Rogi , MKen_ , Debasish , varuns88 , Vaishnavi , Goutham D L , Kaustuba , Nakul , madhur , joe , Logik , AmK , shrik , Sourya , Sourya and Raghuvansh.

udupendra, Rogi, MKen_, Debasish, varuns88, Vaishnavi, Goutham D L, Kaustuba, Nakul, madhur, joe, Logik, AmK, shrik, Sourya, Sourya and Raghuvansh

Who was here?

Cracked by: Rogi , Dibyo , Vivek , Rithwik K , udupendra , joe , aniline , Rohan , Soda , Debasish , Raghuvansh , AmK , varuns88 and Bharath.

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Question from shenoyvarun86. Thanks a lot sire!

1 did an experiment based on 2’s (in circle) and 3’s Hypothesis. The experiment in question was done not just by 1(who is shown with the apparatus) but with collaboration of 4(also shown with the apparatus) and hence the experiment is called “1-4” experiment. Identify the experiment and its implication. Id the people for extra cookiesa.

1. 2.

2. 4.

Hint:

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Legend has it that (1) was nicknamed “dot” and (2) was “dash”. Who are they, and who, ostensibly, nicknamed them so?

Cracked by everyone.

Mo, krudebox, Rogi, shenoyvarun86, Debasish, Rajiv Rai, duriel, emrohit, Logik, djds4rce, shrik, prasanth, akhi, varuns88, Ankit Mahendru, madhur, AmK, Sharada, Kaiser Soze, Raghuvansh, Dibyo and karthik narayan

Identify this jazz lover and founder of a popular open source project.

Cracked by: shrik , Dibyo , Gurupad , Debasish , Goyal , Vaishnavi , varuns88 , madhur , Logik , prasadbhat , shenoyvarun86 , AmK , Rogi and abhijeet.

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This paper caused a curious incident, and lead to a lot of bad publicity for a certain conference. What’s the story?

Cracked by shenoyvarun86 , shrik , Dibyo , wanderlust , udupendra , djds4rce , Rogi , krudebox , BASAB , Ananth , Logik , madhur , Aparna , Raghuvansh , Mo , AmK and duriel.

Answered:

Quoting shenoyvarun86: “3 intelligent chaps submitted a paper to the ninth annual Florida-based World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI). The paper was generated randomly in a software they created (called SCIgen) . All this because the folks at WMSCI spammed students constantly seeking paper submissions and entry fees”

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People attending this event use 1 to make things like 2 to win 3. What is 1 and what does 3 give them?

1. 2.

2. 

Cracked by: shrik , Debasish , BASAB , Martin , Raghuvansh and Rogi.

shrik, Debasish, BASAB, Martin, Raghuvansh and Rogi

Though these might look like star wars memorabilia of some sort, they’re actually real. What are the objects in the pic?

Cracked by shenoyvarun86 , shrik , Debasish , Logik , Mo , Raghuvansh and ali.

shenoyvarun86, shrik, Debasish, Logik, Mo, Raghuvansh and ali

First it was 1, now it is going to be 2. What?

1. 2.

Cracked by: shrik , shenoyvarun86 , akhi , krudebox , joe , udupendra , Logik , duriel , Ankit Mahendru , Raghuvansh , Dibyo , Rogi , Debasish and varuns88.

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