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Mera Bharat Mahan

—devadutta @ February 12, 2009

Slightly modified version of a question sent in by p vs np. Thanks a lot for the question dude!

Connect

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Cracked by everyone!

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Check out p vs np’s comment.


Just keep calling...

—srikanth @ February 11, 2009

Identify the movie and the term that was named after these scenes:

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Cracked by almost everyone!

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


Holy skyscrapers Batman!

—srikanth @ February 10, 2009

Guest question from udupendra.

(1) first proposed this seemingly outlandish concept. (2) shows a variation of the same. Identify (1) and (2).

  1. 2ced790c037bdb1c66ddb3b0646dcf29
  2. 407d6b993e8464e3c0fe63bdfaee64ed

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


Turing Complete

—devadutta @ February 9, 2009

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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

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Turing Award winner Niklaus Wirth who developed PASCAL and EULER programming languages among many others.


Waiting... watching...

—srikanth @ February 8, 2009

Identify this gedankenexperiment…

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…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


abcdefg

—devadutta @ February 7, 2009

What are these a “bad choice” for?

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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

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These are very bad choices for passwords!


City of angels

—srikanth @ February 6, 2009

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


Spectacles Needed

—devadutta @ February 5, 2009

Before After

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What?

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

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Improvement in Hubble Telescope’s images after fixing the spherical aberration on its main mirror.


These results just don't make sense!

—srikanth @ February 4, 2009

Identify and connect:

  • 004876b93d640327c6a2fba11913f5a1
  • 61eefd3ae5808191ea087cdca343c713

Cracked by udupendra , Kaiser Soze , Kal , Raghuvansh , duriel , username , Sharada , p vs np , Nakul , Aparna , priyananda , shrik and nisha’s thambi.

udupendra, Kaiser Soze, Kal, Raghuvansh, duriel, username, Sharada, p vs np, Nakul, Aparna, priyananda, shrik, Ananth and nisha’s thambi


Ding!

—devadutta @ February 3, 2009

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.

  1. 10ddedc78d84b457766c96b9c7e8897c 2. c0bdb449d0c23c22ae0255c422091f84

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

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2 is Elisha Otis and X is the “Elevator”