Category: Quiz
What’s the connection? Autoraja will be satisfied if you give him what’s blanked out.
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TimBL(2) allegedly named the prototype of the web that he built ENQUIRE as a reference to the (at the time) famous book Enquire Within Upon Everything.
Connect Chilean politician and British computer scientist to weird room:
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Salvador Allende(1) and Stafford Beer (2) built this computerized governance mechanism called Cybersyn (3) to “run” all of Chile. The whole thing eventually fell apart, but nevertheless one of the more quirky and interesting overlaps between computing and politics.
This device was all the rage a few years ago among the hobbyist community. Identify!
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The Chumby - an open source web reader that worked off RSS feeds to give you the latest information.
What is/was the controversy?
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Michael Arrington from Techcrunch went into an agreement with Singapore based company Fusion Garage to create a tabled called the Crunchpad. Fusion Garage then went ahead and made plans to release it on their own, causing all sorts of issues.
Who is he? Who lost a $100 bet because of him?
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Peter Higgs. Stephen Hawkins lost a $100 bet that the Higgs Boson did not exist.
%gqh% Bipin Banavalikar gets the last piece of Cake!
Recent thing. What?
P.S: The cake is not a lie. Right now, it works only for registered users. We are fixing it for unregistered users.
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Yammer CEO David Sacks (L) and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer
Lase piece of cake goes to %gqh% Bipin Banavalikar.
%gqh% Manish Achuth sent us the same question sometime after Bipin. So, both of them get the medal.
What is this?
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The Janket Robot : rock, paper, scissors playing robot
What’s this frightening artwork called?
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WEEE man, an art installation at Cornwall, UK depicting the staggering amount of e-waste people generate.
%gqh% Rogi’s 2nd Cake question!
What are these women doing? Most of them had a very unfortunate and tragic end.
Hint:
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Painting details on clock dials using radium that truly glowed in the dark for up to several decades. A lot of them died from radiation poisoning.
%gqh% Rogi’s first Cake question.
Connect
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Ewan McGregor (Obi-Wan Kenobi) is the nephew of Denis Lawson (Wedge Antilles), IRL.