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Dysprosium?

—srikanth @ January 18, 2008

They started out big. Everyone expected them to be the next greatest thing. In fact, their first customer was this guy:

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But they tanked pretty soon, essentially because they had no market left after cellular phones became popular. Their logo is:

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They don’t have much of a market, but some people can’t live without them. Who are they?

Cracked by: shashank , Dibyo , teju , vaibhav008 , gammafunction , udupendra , Atul Mathew , madhur , bs , FDOB , duriel (with clue explanation), piezocake , Shreyas , sidsen , 2ndratequizzer , Tathagata Chatterjee , Keerthi Kiran M , yaksha , nishas thambi and jayanth.

shashank, Dibyo, teju, vaibhav008, gammafunction, udupendra, Atul Mathew, madhur, bs, FDOB, duriel, piezocake, Shreyas, sidsen, 2ndratequizzer, Tathagata Chatterjee, Keerthi Kiran M, yaksha, nishas thambi and jayanth

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Iridium.


We all love him?

—devadutta @ January 17, 2008

Name the web comic

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Cracked by: shashank , udupendra , duriel , jayanth , yaksha , teju , gammafunction , madhur , FDOB , BiGFooT , Keerthi Kiran M , Dibyo , Tathagata Chatterjee , prasanth , nishas thambi , puneet and Poornima.

shashank, udupendra, duriel, jayanth, yaksha, teju, gammafunction, madhur, FDOB, BiGFooT, Keerthi Kiran M, Dibyo, Tathagata Chatterjee, prasanth, nishas thambi, puneet and Poornima


Dont search..

—devadutta @ January 16, 2008

Connect

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Cracked by: udupendra , duriel , jayanth , teju , madhur , Poornima , FDOB , Dibyo , BiGFooT , Shreyas , nishansolo and shashank. (and

nishas thambi. I posted answers early, so he gets the point)

udupendra, duriel, jayanth, teju, madhur, Poornima, FDOB, Dibyo, BiGFooT, Shreyas, nishansolo, shashank and nishas thambi


Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum

—srikanth @ January 15, 2008

The whole world’s talking about elections of some sort (be it the party in power in Bengaluru or Washington DC), so we thought we’d get involved too.

Name the political party involved in this demonstration (Name blurred out).

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Cracked by: udupendra , jayanth , madhur , duriel , Arjun Chennu , vaibhav008 , yaksha , nishas thambi , gammafunction , rahultimate , Dibyo , FDOB , Shakeel , prasanth , Tathagata Chatterjee , shashank.

udupendra, jayanth, madhur, duriel, Arjun Chennu, vaibhav008, yaksha, nishas thambi, gammafunction, rahultimate, Dibyo, FDOB, Shakeel, prasanth, Tathagata Chatterjee and shashank

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The Swedish Piratpartiet. They are quite possibly the only political entity worth paying attention to. All they need is to become associated with Pastafarianism, and they would have cornered the world wide geek vote.


Le Système international d'unités

—devadutta @ January 14, 2008

Sidsen sent in this question. Thanks buddy!
Note to guest quiz masters: If the question you sent gets posted, pls post a comment under that post. (it can be the answer, extra fundae, rant for posting the question late and so on). In case we decide to give a free point for those who send guest questions(its being debated :) ), it will come in handy.

Now for the question:

While this stamp commemorates the introduction of the si system, the picture is a representation of what?

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Cracked By: udupendra , madhur , nishas thambi , shenoyvarun86 , Dibyo , Poornima , jayanth , bs , duriel , shashank.

udupendra, madhur, nishas thambi, shenoyvarun86, Dibyo, Poornima, jayanth, bs, sidsen, duriel and shashank


Plum Blossom

—srikanth @ January 13, 2008
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Created from (1)
named after that said by (2).
What do they call me?

Cracked by:jayanth , madhur , udupendra , nishas thambi , prasanth , bobo , shashank and Dibyo.

jayanth, madhur, udupendra, nishas thambi, prasanth, bobo, shashank and Dibyo

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  1. BeOS

2*Pi*r

—devadutta @ January 12, 2008

Who is he (My apologies for posting it late)

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Hint:

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Cracked by: Arjun Chennu , madhur , nishansolo , yaksha , udupendra , piezocake , nishas thambi , bs , jayanth , Swetha , Shreyas , shashank and shenoyvarun86.

Arjun Chennu, madhur, nishansolo, yaksha, udupendra, piezocake, nishas thambi, bs, jayanth, Swetha, Shreyas, shashank and shenoyvarun86


I am who I am because of who we all are

—devadutta @ January 11, 2008

This question came in from Shashank complete with the title.
We love the question. Thanks dude!
Connect

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And the list is exhaustive, btw.

Cracked by: rahultimate , arbitguy , madhur , jayanth , Arjun Chennu , Dibyo , nishas thambi , udupendra , Atul Mathew , Tathagata Chatterjee , piezocake and gammafunction.

Shashank, we will think about giving you the point :)

And another guy had a profanity laced answer/uname, which has been deleted.

rahultimate, arbitguy, madhur, jayanth, Arjun Chennu, Dibyo, nishas thambi, udupendra, Atul Mathew, Tathagata Chatterjee, piezocake and gammafunction


↓↘→P

—srikanth @ January 10, 2008

A sumo wrestler, a Brazilian monster, a soviet boxer and, my personal favourite, a fire-breathing mallu yogi formed one half of the original ensemble of heroes. Their antagonists included matadors and Thai boxers. What was the “show”?

Cracked by: Dibyo , udupendra , Abhishek , BiGFooT , prasanth , rahultimate , nishas thambi , jayanth , gammafunction and shashank.

Dibyo, udupendra, Abhishek, BiGFooT, prasanth, rahultimate, nishas thambi, jayanth, gammafunction and shashank

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These were 4 of the 8 fighters in Capcom’s path-breaking arcade fighting game Street Fighter 2: World Warriors. See the comments for people who’ve identified all of them :-)


Root of Mean Squared

—devadutta @ January 9, 2008

What is happening here

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Hint:

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Cracked by: udupendra , nishas thambi , Dibyo , yaksha , prasanth , shashank , Keerthi Kiran M , jayanth , Tathagata Chatterjee and rahultimate.

udupendra, nishas thambi, Dibyo, yaksha, prasanth, shashank, Keerthi Kiran M, jayanth, Tathagata Chatterjee and rahultimate