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Category: Quiz
Slightly modified version of a question sent in by p vs np. Thanks a lot for the question dude!
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Goyal, Pawankumar Hegde, udupendra, Kal, Mitesh, svgreatest, duriel, nishansolo, username, priyananda, nisha’s thambi, Aparna and p vs np
Check out p vs np’s comment.
Identify the movie and the term that was named after these scenes:
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Atul Mathew, Neeraj, nishansolo, Dibyo, username, nisha’s thambi, udupendra, Raghuvansh, Srikanth M G, duriel, priyananda, Mo, Kal, AmK, Kal, bobo, Siddharth Jain, Aparna, shrik and Ankur Banerjee
Guest question from udupendra.
(1) first proposed this seemingly outlandish concept. (2) shows a variation of the same. Identify (1) and (2).
Cracked by almost everyone! Check out udupendra’s comment for the answer straight from the horse’s mouth :)
nisha’s thambi, Martin, duriel, AmK, Neeraj, udupendra, Kal, username, Raghuvansh, Ps, Goyal, karthik, alephnull, svgreatest, Jean Valjean, Mo, Aparna, shrik, priyananda, Ananth, madhur, Siddharth Jain, Chandrakant Nair, quaziluffy, shenoyvarun86 and sne
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The third dude has been on BB a few times.
Cracked by: Goyal , AmK , udupendra , Kal , p vs np , shrik , username , duriel , nisha’s thambi and malcaluffin.
Goyal, AmK, udupendra, Kal, p vs np, shrik, username, duriel, nisha’s thambi and malcaluffin
Turing Award winner Niklaus Wirth who developed PASCAL and EULER programming languages among many others.
Identify this gedankenexperiment…
…and tell us what other famous term owes its origins to this experiment.
Part cracks: Kal, Ps, p vs np, udupendra, Vijay Shankar, Raghuvansh, Mo, Neeraj and Abhishek
Full cracks: sne, Dibyo, shrik, nisha’s thambi, username, duriel, priyananda
Har har I made a joke!
Kal, Ps, p vs np, sne, Dibyo, shrik, udupendra, nisha’s thambi, Vijay Shankar, username, Raghuvansh, duriel, Mo, priyananda, Neeraj and Abhishek
What are these a “bad choice” for?



Latest studies :)
Cracked by: Raghuvansh , duriel , username , shrik , karthik , Dibyo , Nakul and nisha’s thambi.Nice job!
Raghuvansh, duriel, username, shrik, karthik, Dibyo, Nakul and nisha’s thambi
These are very bad choices for passwords!
Super simple plaintext question for today. What eatery connects Leigh Brackett, Ray Bradbury, Fredric Brown, Robert Heinlein, Henry Kuttner, Emil Petaja, and Jack Williamson?
Cracked by username , AmK , priyananda , p vs np , nisha’s thambi , Ananth , Sharada , Raghuvansh , karthik , Jean Valjean , mach101 , Dibyo , Kal , Aparna , duriel , madhur , Pawankumar Hegde , sidsen , udupendra and piezocake (who must be getting a commission).
username, AmK, priyananda, p vs np, nisha’s thambi, Ananth, Sharada, Raghuvansh, karthik, Jean Valjean, mach101, Dibyo, Kal, Aparna, duriel, madhur, Pawankumar Hegde, sidsen, udupendra and piezocake
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Cracked by: shrik , username , Kal , AmK , nisha’s thambi , karthik , yaksha , Goyal , Martin , abhinav k , Sharada , dheeraj , nishansolo , Prasad , Sridhar C , Ananth , Aparna , calvin , darthshak and duriel.
shrik, username, Kal, AmK, nisha’s thambi, karthik, yaksha, Goyal, Martin, abhinav k, Sharada, dheeraj, nishansolo, Prasad, Sridhar C, Ananth, Aparna, calvin, darthshak and duriel
Improvement in Hubble Telescope’s images after fixing the spherical aberration on its main mirror.
Identify and connect:
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udupendra, Kaiser Soze, Kal, Raghuvansh, duriel, username, Sharada, p vs np, Nakul, Aparna, priyananda, shrik, Ananth and nisha’s thambi
Although buildings like the one shown in 1 were technically possible, it was considered to be impractical and not built until people like 2 invented and perfected X. Identify 2 and tell us what is X.
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Cracked by: Raghuvansh , Prasad , Kal , AmK , Dibyo , p vs np , Martin , username , udupendra , Rohan , Debasish , nisha’s thambi , karthik , sumo_ftb , Ananth , Aparna , duriel , Jo , darksideofchand , Pawankumar Hegde , Ps and sidsen.
Raghuvansh, Prasad, Kal, AmK, Dibyo, p vs np, Martin, username, udupendra, Rohan, Debasish, nisha’s thambi, karthik, sumo_ftb, Ananth, Aparna, duriel, Jo, darksideofchand, Pawankumar Hegde, Ps and sidsen
2 is Elisha Otis and X is the “Elevator”