Identify this hugely popular 2005 event. The answer you need to use for the theme round is the name of the organization which was responsible for this.

Cracked by: joe , WikiWaki , Sridhar C , Rohan , duriel , prasanth , VikraM , Atul Mathew , wasi manazir , Dibyo , Goyal , Shakeel , piezocake , Rey de Vaqueiros

Theme cracked by: None! Checkout Srikanth’s hint in today’s post ;)

joe, WikiWaki, Sridhar C, Rohan, duriel, prasanth, VikraM, Atul Mathew, wasi manazir, Dibyo, Goyal, Shakeel, piezocake and Rey de Vaqueiros

Second question of the theme round. Read the rules!

What organization did this knight create?

Cracked by VikraM , varuns88 , jayanth , akhi , duriel , Shakeel and piezocake.

VikraM, varuns88, jayanth, akhi, duriel, Shakeel and piezocake

Show Answer

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, founded the World Wide Web consortium

First question of theme round. Please see guidelines before you post answers.

Connect

Hint: use the top level meanings of the images. Nothing deeper :)

Cracked by: piezocake , Goyal , Dibyo , priyananda , varuns88 , jayanth , udupendra , madhur , WikiWaki , shashank , BiGFooT

@akhi: Irrespective of how many individual questions you crack, you can attempt to crack the theme. You will get points.

piezocake, Goyal, Dibyo, priyananda, varuns88, jayanth, udupendra, madhur, WikiWaki, shashank and BiGFooT

Connect to a famous British/American physicist & mathematician

Cracked by Dibyo , VikraM , Goyal , Atul Mathew , Rey de Vaqueiros , kirankumar , jayanth , insufferablejake , duriel , Shakeel , prasanth , Ashwin , akhi , RajT , varuns88 , vinod , Tathagata Chatterjee , madhur , priyananda , svgreatest , p vs np , udupendra and Abhishek.

Rey de Vaqueiros(2), Dibyo, VikraM, Goyal, Atul Mathew, kirankumar, jayanth, insufferablejake, duriel, Shakeel, prasanth, Ashwin, akhi, RajT, varuns88, vinod, Tathagata Chatterjee, madhur, priyananda, svgreatest, p vs np, udupendra and Abhishek

Today, a borderline non-geek question. Could not resist asking this :)

Whats happening here? and tell us what 1 is called

1. 
2. 

We see some new users on BB! Welcome, fellow time-travellers!

Cracked by: Akshat , duriel , jayanth , akhi , varuns88 , Goyal , Dibyo , Rey de Vaqueiros , Tathagata Chatterjee , madhur , udupendra , sujoy bhattacharjee , srikar , manubhardwaj

Akshat, duriel, jayanth, akhi, varuns88, Goyal, Dibyo, Rey de Vaqueiros, Tathagata Chatterjee, madhur, udupendra, sujoy bhattacharjee, srikar and manubhardwaj

Identify this man who gave his name to a class of computer programs (like the one below the picture) that have intrigued programmers for years

> `main(a){printf(a="main(a){printf(a=%c%s%c,34,a,34);}",34,a,34);}`

Cracked by: piezocake , varuns88 , joe , Shakeel , shashank , duriel , Mahesh , madhur , akhi , priyananda , Prasad and Rey de Vaqueiros.

piezocake, varuns88, joe, Shakeel, shashank, duriel, Mahesh, madhur, akhi, priyananda, Prasad and Rey de Vaqueiros

This guy, who was originally a magician stared making films. He devised many cinematographic techniques which allowed him to make a class of movies never heard of before. Who is he and tell us which class of movies he pioneered.

Hint:

Cracked by: Abid , Goyal , varuns88 , akhi , udupendra , CKV , Tathagata Chatterjee , Rohan , BiGFooT , Dibyo , prasanth , svgreatest , Ashwin , duriel , priyananda , Atul Mathew , bobo , Ginkgo100 , madhur , yaksha , srikar , Rey de Vaqueiros , Poornima.

Abid, Goyal, varuns88, akhi, udupendra, CKV, Tathagata Chatterjee, Rohan, BiGFooT, Dibyo, prasanth, svgreatest, Ashwin, duriel, priyananda, Atul Mathew, bobo, Ginkgo100, madhur, yaksha, srikar, Rey de Vaqueiros and Poornima

This device (1) was originally planned before WW2, but couldn’t be built. The designs were lost during the war, but the creator (2) didn’t give up. Funded by a bunch of companies, he recreated it about 20 years ago.

1. 
2. 

Identify both.

Cracked only by Abid , varuns88 and akhi. Great Job!

Answer
Konrad Zuse, and the Z1 mechanical computer. I’d suggest wikiing for tons of info on why this was a huge accomplishment.

Abid, varuns88 and akhi

1 along with his colleagues developed a computational algorithm X and named it after 2.
Identify 1 and tell us what X is and why it was named after 2.

1. 2.

Hint: The image below should ring more “random” bells

Cracked by: jayanth , varuns88 , Poornima , srikar , prasanth , piezocake , Atul Mathew , , Abid , ramu , Rey de Vaqueiros , Goyal , prabhu_dc , Rohan , BiGFooT , Dibyo , Srivats , Prasad , shashank , manubhardwaj , priyananda , Uma , RajT , yaksha , teju , svgreatest.

jayanth, varuns88, Poornima, srikar, prasanth, piezocake, Atul Mathew, Anonymous, Abid, ramu, Rey de Vaqueiros, Goyal, prabhu_dc, Rohan, BiGFooT, Dibyo, Srivats, Prasad, shashank, manubhardwaj, priyananda, Uma, RajT, yaksha, teju and svgreatest

Simply connect:

Cracked (more or less) by Atul Mathew , varuns88 , Rey de Vaqueiros , Goyal , Abid , roshith , srikar , akhi , Debasish , bobo , jayanth , Dibyo , Tathagata Chatterjee , udupendra , shashank , alephnull , Prasad and abhimanyu.

Atul Mathew, varuns88, Rey de Vaqueiros, Goyal, Abid, roshith, srikar, akhi, Debasish, bobo, jayanth, Dibyo, Tathagata Chatterjee, udupendra, shashank, alephnull, Prasad and abhimanyu