Quiz
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Category: Quiz
This fight between an infamous hollywood director and a famous internet nerd was one of a series. What was the series called, and who are the fighters in this particular bout?
Hear the audio for a host of clues
Cracked by: iamniks, Varun, Dibyo, Keerthi Kiran M, Gammafunction, udupendra, prasanth, yaksha, bobo, sidsen, Vivek, Vinay, Abhishek, and shreyas.
iamniks, Varun, Dibyo, Keerthi Kiran M, Gammafunction, udupendra, prasanth, yaksha, bobo, sidsen, Vivek, Vinay, Abhishek and shreyas
Uwe Boll, director of many game-based movies such as Bloodrayne, challenged his most vocal critics to boxing matches. (I suppose he wanted to prove that he was just as bad as his movies were). The series of semi-staged fights was dubbed “Raging Boll” by the media. This particular clip was the first of the series, between Boll and Lowtax (AKA Richard Kyanka), Webmaster of the Parody site Something Awful. (Lowtax lost)
1 is rather famous for bringing 2 into the British army. 1’s design of 2 was largely borrowed from similar designs used in another army. Which army?
Cracked By: teju , sidsen , Quehin , jayanth , bobo , iamniks , Dibyo , alephnull , aandthirtyeights , Madan , shivathilak , Lord Jim , Anirudh , prasanth , Gammafunction , Vivek , Tathagata Chatterjee , Anon and yaksha.
teju, sidsen, Quehin, jayanth, bobo, iamniks, Dibyo, alephnull, aandthirtyeights, Madan, shivathilak, Lord Jim, Anirudh, prasanth, Gammafunction, Vivek, Tathagata Chatterjee, Anonymous and yaksha
The programming language in the pic below has been used to write code that runs Space Shuttles.
Not too big a deal in itself, but what makes it interesting is the name of this language. What is it called?
Here’s a clue:

Cracked by: teju , udupendra , sidsen , bobo , C’na , Mahesh , shivathilak , Shreyas , bs , Dibyo , alephnull , Lord Jim , A Nony Mouse , yaksha , prasanth , aandthirtyeights , shenoyvarun86 , Quehin , shyam , ram , Keerthi Kiran M , Tathagata Chatterjee and jayanth.
teju, udupendra, sidsen, bobo, C’na, Mahesh, shivathilak, Shreyas, bs, Dibyo, alephnull, Lord Jim, A Nony Mouse, yaksha, prasanth, aandthirtyeights, shenoyvarun86, Quehin, shyam, ram, Keerthi Kiran M, Tathagata Chatterjee and jayanth
The language is called HAL/S.
Who connects 1 and 2?
Cracked by: teju , alephnull , Dibyo , udupendra , prasanth , A Nony Mouse , sidsen , Tathagata Chatterjee , sumanth vanahalli , ram , Gammafunction and bobo. (Abhishek)
teju, alephnull, Dibyo, udupendra, prasanth, A Nony Mouse, sidsen, Tathagata Chatterjee, sumanth vanahalli, ram, Gammafunction, bobo and Abhishek
What is this little girl’s claim to fame?
Cracked by: sidsen , udupendra , alephnull , Gammafunction and prasanth.
sidsen, udupendra, alephnull, Gammafunction and prasanth
The two Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, were named from Sofi Collis’s (pic) essay.
Identify this “thing” which caused major false alarms in U.S cities in early 2007
Cracked by: bobo , Poornima , sidsen , udupendra , teju , bs , Dibyo , Abhishek , Tathagata Chatterjee , vijayaraghavan and alephnull.
bobo, Poornima, sidsen, udupendra, teju, bs, Dibyo, Abhishek, Tathagata Chatterjee, vijayaraghavan and alephnull
Something slightly tougher for the weekend… Connect them all:

This list is not exhaustive.
Cracked by: udupendra, devadutta, bobo, sidsen and teju.
udupendra, devadutta, bobo, sidsen and teju
The book, “The crying of Lot 49” connects them all.
This question was sent in by Karthik Jagadeesan. Thanks a lot buddy! (and oh.. you can send in questions to [email protected])


Who holds this patent?
Cracked by: udupendra , bobo , Poornima , jayanth , sidsen , deepak , shivathilak , Atul Mathew , alephnull , Dibyo , Vinod P.V , prasanth , yaksha , Abhishek and nisha’s thambi.
udupendra, bobo, Poornima, jayanth, sidsen, deepak, shivathilak, Atul Mathew, alephnull, Dibyo, Vinod P.V, prasanth, yaksha, Abhishek and nishas thambi
Michael Jackson.
This question comes to us from Nihit. Identify the man in the picture below:
Cracked by: Poornima , sidsen , bobo , teju , Keerthi Kiran M , shivathilak , prasanth , Madan , aandthirtyeights , Abhishek , iamniks , alephnull and yaksha
Poornima, sidsen, bobo, teju, Keerthi Kiran M, shivathilak, prasanth, Madan, aandthirtyeights, Abhishek, iamniks, alephnull and yaksha
Christopher Sholes. Famous for inventing the typewriter and now infamous for the RSI-inducing QWERTY layout of our keyboards.
Connect
Cracked by: bs , alephnull , iamniks , Tathagata Chatterjee , udupendra , Goutham , bobo , A Nony Mouse , jayanth , Anirudh , sidsen , prasanth and yaksha.
bs, alephnull, iamniks, Tathagata Chatterjee, udupendra, Goutham, bobo, A Nony Mouse, jayanth, Anirudh, sidsen, prasanth and yaksha