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—devadutta @ October 21, 2012

Guest question from p vs np after a long long time! Thank you sire, and welcome back!

What connects 1 to 2?

Cracked by: Rogi and Ananth

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Quoting Wikipedia -


Not default answer

—devadutta @ October 20, 2012

She is one of the only two women in this particular “Hall of Fame”. Who is she?

Hint: A lot of people who have previously appeared on BB are in this hall of fame.

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, KK, Ananth, Supritha Maiya, Manish Achuth and Rogi

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Elizabeth Feinler one of the first managers of ARPANET, inductee of the “Internet Hall of Fame”


Call the lawyers? No, just send this.

—devadutta @ October 19, 2012

This actually happened. What is blocked out here?

Cracked by: Dibyo, manas, Aparna, Ananth, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Jayaprakash B R, Supritha Maiya, aparna rajeev, Prabhu, vinayaknp, KK, bhargava and Barun

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Windows Phone 7


Smi-wooooo-le

—devadutta @ October 18, 2012

What it is?

It is used like this


Does it come with "Snake"?

—devadutta @ October 17, 2012

Great guest question from %gqh% Manish Achuth.

They were the market leaders in this industry in the 80’s. Identify the company.


Can you hear me now?

—srikanth @ October 16, 2012

(1) was used to create the first large scale demonstration of something. What was it called? Legend has it that it was parked near (2) but I can’t find substantiations for that claim.

Cracked by: Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, Dibyo, Ananth, Prabhu, KK and bhargava

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Stanford Research Institute’s Packet Radio Van.


Still feel it has a silly name

—srikanth @ October 15, 2012

Art, but what medium?

Cracked by: Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, Dibyo, Ananth, Rogi and KK

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The dots are from the IR emitters used on Microsoft’s Kinect.


Half Apple

—devadutta @ October 14, 2012

Awesome guest question from %gqh% Dibyo.

What is happening here?


I tot I taw a "Putty tat"

—devadutta @ October 13, 2012

Guest Question from %gqh% Ananth. Thanks saar!

What special about this dress?


That will be a Billion Dollars please. Thank you.

—devadutta @ October 12, 2012

Identify the dude in this “popular” video and explain its significance.

You cannot play the video. That is on purpose.

(we are getting there.. about 40 questions to go. You can help us catch up sending in some guest questions to [email protected])