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No, we dont break into computers

—devadutta @ October 5, 2008

Who’s emblem? Also connect to 2.

Cracked by: shenoyvarun86 , Goyal , nihit , Phani , Dibyo , duriel , vishal , varuns88 , madhur , akhi , sidsen , Prasad , Ananth , udupendra , K.Manish and jayanth.

shenoyvarun86, Goyal, nihit, Phani, Dibyo, duriel, vishal, varuns88, madhur, akhi, sidsen, Prasad, Ananth, udupendra, K.Manish and jayanth


[Insert football clue here]

—srikanth @ October 4, 2008

This question is about a very interesting bit of computer history trivia from shenoyvarun86(He has hit 300 questions on his blog.. do check it out..).
Identify and connect:

Got any more questions? Send them in to [email protected] .

Cracked by nihit , Goyal , akhi , Phani , K.Manish , madhur , varuns88 , Ananth , Ajay Parasuram , Malcaluffin , Achilles and Rahulk.

nihit, shenoyvarun86, Goyal, akhi, Phani, K.Manish, madhur, varuns88, Ananth, Ajay Parasuram, Malcaluffin, Achilles and Rahulk


Moo

—srikanth @ October 3, 2008

Something to keep you amused for the weekend. These two depict the “evolution” of what?

  1. (__)
    (oo)
    /——/
    / | ||
  • /-–/
    ~~ ~~
  1. /—-
    ——-/
    /
    / |
    —————–/ ——–\

And what in the world is (2)? Why, it’s:

of course.

Question Closed. Srikanth will mod when he is back from his vacation.

Cracked by jayanth , Phani and duriel.

jayanth, Phani and duriel


Smaller than a Universe

—devadutta @ October 2, 2008

Reference to what

Simple one :)

Cracked by: shenoyvarun86 , Rahulk , Priya , Rahulk , Goyal , nihit , shyam , vivek , varuns88 , pinaki sarkar , Rohan , akhi , Achilles , vishnu , sidsen , , yaksha , yadu , froufrou , Anu , teju , jayanth , Prasad , rajeshvj , duriel , Neeraj , BiGFooT , Ananth , Siddharth Jain , Phani.

shenoyvarun86, Priya, Rahulk, Goyal, nihit, shyam, vivek, varuns88, pinaki sarkar, Rohan, akhi, Achilles, vishnu, sidsen, Anonymous, yaksha, yadu, froufrou, Anu, teju, jayanth, Prasad, rajeshvj, duriel, Neeraj, BiGFooT, Ananth, Siddharth Jain and Phani


The truth is out there

—srikanth @ October 1, 2008

Connectify

Cracked by akhi , Goyal , svgreatest , Rc , shenoyvarun86 , Aditya , Dibyo , nihit , jayanth , Rohan , Phani , yadu , Rahulk , Achilles , Kamal Rathi , Achilles , Ananth , teju , Prasad , madhur , Priya , Siddharth Jain and rajeshvj.

akhi, Goyal, svgreatest, Rc, shenoyvarun86, Aditya, Dibyo, nihit, jayanth, Rohan, Phani, yadu, Rahulk, Kamal Rathi, Achilles, Ananth, teju, Prasad, madhur, Priya, Siddharth Jain and rajeshvj


Its spelt as force

—devadutta @ September 30, 2008

What are these “action figures” called as?

Hint: A lame misspelling of “force” can be found in their “group name”

Cracked by: shenoyvarun86 , Goyal , varuns88 , nihit , Rc , Phani , Achilles , madhur , Priya , duriel , Rohan , yaksha , akhi.

shenoyvarun86, Goyal, varuns88, nihit, Rc, Phani, Achilles, madhur, Priya, duriel, Rohan, yaksha and akhi


Lines

—srikanth @ September 29, 2008

Simple. What it is? And why is it special?

(This time, the order doesn’t matter much, so I can’t really mess up).

Went uncracked.

Answer

Most of you got the tetris part right, but that’s not what makes it special. This is, officially, the worlds smallest ever game of Tetris, being played by “optically trapping 42 glass microspheres (1 μm diameter) in a 25 μm x 20 μm sized field under a microscope. Their positions are then steered with a computer.


2^2=4

—devadutta @ September 28, 2008

Math question. What is this operation called?

Computer scientis write it like this

Cracked by: Goyal , Achilles , nihit , Keerthi M R , Phani , Dibyo , varuns88 , shenoyvarun86 , akhi , madhur , sidsen , Ananth , udupendra and mandakhawke.

Goyal, Achilles, nihit, Keerthi M R, Phani, Dibyo, varuns88, shenoyvarun86, akhi, madhur, sidsen, Ananth, udupendra and mandakhawke


Credit where it's due

—srikanth @ September 27, 2008

Identify everyone and connect with fundae.

(Yes, I’m using this image yet again. I think Dev is planning on maintaining a stats page on this photo alone :-))

(Edit: Fixed images. sigh, looks like i mixed them up again.)

Cracked by akhi , joe , nihit , Dibyo , udupendra , Achilles , mandakhawke and Goyal.

akhi, joe, nihit, Dibyo, udupendra, Achilles, mandakhawke and Goyal


XXV

—srikanth @ September 26, 2008

Guest question from duriel. Thanks a bunch dude! Folks, send in your questions to [email protected] .

Who is this guy and what is he celebrating?

Cracked by Achilles , Lord Labak Das , shenoyvarun86 , Priya , sidsen , Goyal , duriel , Atul Mathew , sappola , Boneywasawarriorwayayix , Dibyo , jayanth , gammafunction , Pillai and svgreatest.

Achilles, Lord Labak Das, shenoyvarun86, Priya, sidsen, Goyal, duriel, Atul Mathew, sappola, Boneywasawarriorwayayix, Dibyo, jayanth, gammafunction, Pillai and svgreatest