Category: Quiz
Guest question from %gqh% raklodramA.
What is this?
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Scientology E-Meter
Guest question from %gqh% Bipin Banavalikar.
Identify this gentleman. Which term owes its name to him?
Think Physics.
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The term “boson” owes its name to the pioneering work of the late Indian physicist, Satyendra Nath Bose.
Identify this 2005 Ig Nobel Prize winner. She invented something very (in)famous while at the MIT Media Lab.
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Gauri Nanda, who invented Clocky
This actually happened. Recent Physics breakthrough was announced/explained with slides done in Comic Sans. People and are now rallying to rename Comic Sans to something else in Windows 8. What?
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Comic Cerns
Awesome Question from %gqh% Manish Achuth.
This man took one of the most popular photographs ever. Almost everyone who has used a computer has seen it. Who is he? What is blocked out?
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Where can you find this camera? People are surprised that this is just a 2MP camera.
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Curiosity
Guest question from %gqh% Dibyo after a long time!
Who is this?
This is supposedly a very rare photo.
Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Ananth, Shwetha Maiya, Jayaprakash B R, KK, Dibyo, Rogi, Supritha Maiya, Bipin Banavalikar, mankuTimma and Siddarth Pai
Matt Inman of the oatmeal.
Guest question from %gqh% Manish Achuth.
What is the significance of this image?
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First Image sent by Curiosity.
This professor accidentally (re)named a company after getting their spelling wrong. Who is he, which company and where did he get the spelling wrong. AutoRaja will be happy with company name.
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David Cheriton, who wrote a $100,000 check for “Google” instead of “Googol”
Which “unit of measurement” is named after her?
KK, Amarendra Kumar, Manish Achuth, Jayaprakash B R, bhargava, Ananth, mankuTimma, Sumanth Patlolla, Supritha Maiya, Rogi, daniel and jinz