Quiz
Category: Quiz
Category: Quiz
Easy one for the weekend..
Identify the logo in 1. 2 is a hint.
Cracked by: teju , duriel , bobo , varuns88 , jayanth , udupendra , Vinay , piezocake , Archana , prasanth , Poornima , BiGFooT , Prasad , rajeshvj , akhi , yaksha and shashank. and dibyo
teju, duriel, bobo, varuns88, Dibyo, jayanth, udupendra, Vinay, piezocake, Archana, prasanth, Poornima, BiGFooT, Prasad, rajeshvj, akhi, yaksha and shashank
This question courtesy Prasad, the Pocket-Tanks commander. Send in your guest questions to [email protected] to earn the +5 aura-of-awesomeness power up.
Connect:
int array[10000]; for(int i=0; i <= 10000; i++) { println(array[i]); }duriel got the perfect answer. Semi-cracked by: jayanth , bobo , nishansolo and shashank.
jayanth, bobo, nishansolo, duriel and shashank
Sir Alec Guinness and Ewan McGregor played Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars series. The third is a bit of code that shows an off-by-one error, affectionately called an obi-wan error (The array has 10000 elements, but the loop accesses 10001 elements)
Rampant speculation, this. Consider it more along the “arbit” vector, as opposed to the “knowledge dissemination” vector.
(1) , although better known for something else, used to teach (2)’s techniques to people. (1) allegedly used (3) in something famous he created. Who is (1), what did he create, and what’s the connect to (2) and (3)?
Cracked by: sidsen , udupendra , Shreyas , Dibyo , Mitesh , jayanth , yaksha and shashank.
sidsen, udupendra, Shreyas, Dibyo, Mitesh, jayanth, yaksha and shashank
Connect these seemingly arbitrary bunch of places.
Mea Culpa. I had uploaded a wrong map. Please refresh page with Ctrl+F5 (FF) or Shift+F5 (IE)
Close up of the left
Hint: The list is not exhaustive. There are some, including the most popular version of the “connect” which cannot be placed on a map.
Cracked by Dibyo and pratap. Really hard to Google for the answer. Amazing work guys!
Dibyo and pratap
Connect:
(Pre-emptive apologies for the rubbish MSPaint work on the image above… Thats about the best my setup for today can handle :-/ )
Cracked by: udupendra , teju , madhur , Shreyas , nishansolo , Dibyo , akhi , A Nony Mouse , prasanth , shashank , Srikanth (not me), duriel , yaksha , sri (not me either) and jayanth.
Sandhip, Poornima: Good guesses (and things I never knew!), but I was looking for something more specific.
udupendra, teju, madhur, Shreyas, shenoyvarun86, nishansolo, Dibyo, akhi, A Nony Mouse, prasanth, shashank, Srikanth, duriel, yaksha, sri and jayanth
Which “oh-so-trendy” company is located where the green arrow is pointing?
Hint: The name of the place(that street address, to be specific) is inspired by code like that found in the subject line.
Cracked by: Shreyas , udupendra , Poornima , Manish Jain , madhur , teju , jayanth , pratap , rajeshvj , shyam , Prasad , A Nony Mouse , shivathilak , Dibyo , Srikanth , Aviroop , Sandhip , Nikhil , duriel , shashank , nishansolo and suhasd.
Shreyas, udupendra, Poornima, Manish Jain, madhur, teju, jayanth, pratap, rajeshvj, shyam, Prasad, A Nony Mouse, shivathilak, Dibyo, Srikanth, Aviroop, Sandhip, Nikhil, duriel, shashank, nishansolo and suhasd
16 of these structures were raised sometime within the last decade.
Why were they built?
Cracked by: yaksha , rajeshvj , duriel , nihit , prasanth , shashank , udupendra (^:)^) and Poornima.
yaksha, rajeshvj, duriel, nihit, prasanth, shashank, udupendra and Poornima
Identify the thing the famous guy is holding
Cracked by: Dibyo , udupendra , madhur , yaksha , teju , shenoyvarun86 , suhasd , duriel , Srikanth (not me) , varuns88 , Shreyas , jayanth , bobo , rajeshvj , and Poornima.
Dibyo, udupendra, madhur, yaksha, teju, shenoyvarun86, suhasd, duriel, Srikanth, varuns88, Shreyas, jayanth, bobo, rajeshvj and Poornima
These are the best examples of what kind of software?
Congrats to udupendra on reaching 150 points! Bravo!
Cracked by: madhur , duriel , teju , udupendra , Dibyo , shenoyvarun86 , Shreyas , Poornima , jayanth , yaksha and shashank.
madhur, duriel, teju, udupendra, Dibyo, shenoyvarun86, Shreyas, Poornima, jayanth, yaksha and shashank
(1) has been doing the rounds on the internet lately. Logically extending it, I stumbled across the device (2)
Identify (2), and put fundaes connecting(1) and (2).
Madan, thanks for pointing me towards 1 :-) All the rest of you, keep sending stuff in to [email protected]!
Cracked by: jayanth , Anon, shivathilak , madhur , duriel , udupendra , and yaksha
jayanth, Anonymous, shivathilak, madhur, duriel, udupendra and yaksha
(2) is the Jacquard loom. It is possibly the earliest example of a device programmable via an external storage device (i.e. Punch cards). All the famous punch-card computers, starting from Babbage’s analytical engine itself, were inspired by the Jacquard loom.