Identify and connect

Simple one for the weekend :)

Cracked by: joe , Rohan , Goyal , yaksha , priyananda , varuns88 , duriel.

joe, Rohan, Goyal, yaksha, priyananda, varuns88 and duriel

Who is he and what did he recently do (see pics) that brought him back into the news?

Cracked by Rey de Vaqueiros , Goyal , joe , priyananda , akhi , VikraM , udupendra , Anand Shankar , Dibyo , jayanth , prasanth , Salil , pratap and varuns88.

Rey de Vaqueiros, Goyal, joe, priyananda, akhi, VikraM, udupendra, Anand Shankar, Dibyo, jayanth, prasanth, Salil, pratap and varuns88

What did these two “win” in 2000? Also, tell us who they are.

In the final round, they defeated the entry submitted by the famous MIT prof in 1. 2,3 which were also submitted by uber famous people lost to them.

1. 2. 3.

Cracked by: Tin Eye Waki , Rey de Vaqueiros , vinod , insufferablejake , Goyal , piezocake , priyananda , joe , udupendra , Malcaluffin , varuns88 , rajeshvj.

Tin Eye Waki, Rey de Vaqueiros, vinod, insufferablejake, Goyal, piezocake, priyananda, joe, udupendra, Malcaluffin, varuns88 and rajeshvj

Connect the three images

Cracked by priyananda , vinayak (soon, soon…), Rajesh V , varuns88 and Rey de Vaqueiros.

priyananda, vinayak, Rajesh V, varuns88 and Rey de Vaqueiros

Which popular internet term repeatedly used on discussion forums like Slashdot originates from this comic character?

Easy one. Caracked by: insufferablejake , Goyal , joe , piezocake , sidsen , Keerthi M R , svgreatest , akhi , Dibyo , Ranjana , Atul Mathew , prasanth , vinod , rajeshvj , jayanth , udupendra , varuns88 , Debasish , Ajay Parasuram , Rajesh V , Malcaluffin , Prasad , duriel.

insufferablejake, Goyal, joe, piezocake, sidsen, Keerthi M R, svgreatest, akhi, Dibyo, Ranjana, Atul Mathew, prasanth, vinod, rajeshvj, jayanth, udupendra, varuns88, Debasish, Ajay Parasuram, Rajesh V, Malcaluffin, Prasad and duriel

What internet phenomenon?

Cracked by varuns88 , Goyal , Atul Mathew , akhi , insufferablejake , udupendra , joe , duriel , Dibyo , manubhardwaj , sidsen , rajeshvj , vinayak , Rohan , Malcaluffin and madhur.

varuns88, Goyal, Atul Mathew, akhi, insufferablejake, udupendra, joe, duriel, Dibyo, manubhardwaj, sidsen, rajeshvj, vinayak, Rohan, Malcaluffin and madhur

Identify and connect:

Cracked by: akhi , Goyal , varuns88 and Dibyo.

akhi, Goyal, varuns88 and Dibyo

First recipients of this medal. Interestingly, the medal is named after one of its first recipients (the guy on the left). Which medal?

Cracked by: piezocake , varuns88 , akhi , Rithwik , Atul Mathew , joe , Goyal , udupendra , madhur , svgreatest , duriel , Bharath , pratap , Shakeel , malcaluffin , Rey de Vaqueiros , Vinayak K , Dibyo.

piezocake, varuns88, akhi, Rithwik K, Atul Mathew, joe, Goyal, udupendra, madhur, svgreatest, duriel, Bharath, pratap, Shakeel, malcaluffin, Rey de Vaqueiros, vinayak and Dibyo

Simple one…
Thanks to a collaboration effort from many big players in this type of websites, you will be seeing 1 instead of 2 when you visit them using Firefox. 1 is also being standardized, so just like 2, you may see it on a day to day basis on any standards compliant browser in the near future.

Which type of websites are we talking about?

1. 2.

Cracked by: Shakeel , kiran , varuns88 , vinod , joe , udupendra , jayanth , duriel , Dibyo.

Shakeel, kiran, varuns88, vinod, joe, udupendra, jayanth, duriel and Dibyo

Connect these cities

to this organization that was very useful to the Allies during WW2, and became terribly famous in many recent literary works.

Cracked by Dibyo , akhi , varuns88 , joe , vinod , duriel , Rey de Vaqueiros , udupendra and Tathagata Chatterjee.

Dibyo, akhi, varuns88, joe, vinod, duriel, Rey de Vaqueiros, udupendra and Tathagata Chatterjee