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Category: Quiz

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—devadutta @ June 24, 2012

%gqh% Manish Achuth wins Cake! Congrats!

Why is this Argentinean book attracting so much attention?

Cracked by: Rogi, Manish Achuth, KK, Don42, Jayaprakash B R, raklodramA, Bipin Banavalikar, rickde, Sumanth Patlolla, Amarendra Kumar, Bharath and Mo

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“The Book that Cant wait”. The ink disappears after 2 months.


o_O?

—srikanth @ June 23, 2012

More patent troll lore. What’s being patented here?

Cracked by: Logik, Amarendra Kumar, Manish Achuth, KK, Bharath, Don42, Ananth, aarjav, Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, Dibyo, Bipin Banavalikar, raklodramA, rickde and Mo

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A company called Varia owns a 2005 patent on a menu for entering emoticons into text. All of you are infringing.


Jack Thompson v2

—srikanth @ June 22, 2012

Slightly NSFW/NSFL question. This “drawing” turned into the center of a recent internet drama. What’s the story?

Cracked by: Logik, Manish Achuth, KK, Bharath, Ananth, Sumanth Patlolla, Dibyo, Bipin Banavalikar, raklodramA, mankuTimma, bhargava, rickde and Mo

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Long answer is long. Go here please.


Losing is fun!

—srikanth @ June 21, 2012

Who? And why are they famous?

Cracked by: Logik, Amarendra Kumar, Manish Achuth, KK, Bharath, Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, Ananth, Bipin Banavalikar, raklodramA, Supritha Maiya and rickde

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Zach and Tarn Adams, creators of Dwarf Fortress.


Was dotnet taken?

—srikanth @ June 20, 2012

Sitter - identify all three. Pseudobonus points for why this made the news.

Cracked by: Logik, Manish Achuth, Bharath, KK, Don42, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, Ananth, Dibyo, Bipin Banavalikar, raklodramA, Swarun, Supritha Maiya and rickde

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Kim Dotcom, Steve Wozniak and Kim’s attorney Ira Rothnik


You might fail?

—srikanth @ June 19, 2012

What is this?

Cracked by: Logik, Amarendra Kumar, Manish Achuth, Jayaprakash B R, Bharath, Don42, KK, vinayaknp, Atharva, Rogi, Anjul, Sumanth Patlolla, nandhaksamy, Ananth, Dibyo, Bipin Banavalikar, raklodramA, Swarun, Vishnu Prashanth, mankuTimma, Supritha Maiya, rickde and chetana

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Google’s Turing Machine Doodle


I feel very good and not good at the same time

—devadutta @ June 18, 2012

%gqh% Sumanth Patlolla’s first jab at the Cake.

Identify this aircraft and tell us its “nick name”.

Bonus fake points if you connect to this gentleman

The horrible Paint Job you see is partly due to my Ergonomic Mouse.

Cracked by: Logik, Manish Achuth, Amarendra Kumar, Bharath, Ananth, KK, Tushar, Rogi, mankuTimma, Dibyo, Bipin Banavalikar, raklodramA, Vishnu Prashanth and Supritha Maiya

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NASA’a Reduced Gravity Vehicle or the Vomit Comet. Connect to Randy Pausch is his dream of being in zero gravity according to his ‘Last Lecture’ was fulfilled in this aircraft.


Is it going to rain today?

—devadutta @ June 18, 2012

%gqh% Don42’s second text only guest question wins him the first

Cake! Congrats!

Identify the ones chatting in this famous conversation.

“Do you dream?”
“Yes, I dream.”
“It goes without saying. Do you remember your dreams?”
“I remember them vividly.”
“What do you remember about it?”
“I think I shouldn’t flirt with a robot.”

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Cracked by: Logik, Manish Achuth, Amarendra Kumar, Jayaprakash B R, Bharath, Ananth, vinayaknp, KK, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, mankuTimma, Dibyo, Bipin Banavalikar, raklodramA, Vishnu Prashanth and Supritha Maiya

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Artificial Intelligence chatbots Alice and Jabberwacky.


Aaachoo!

—devadutta @ June 17, 2012

%gqh% Don42 is one step closer to the Cake with this guest question.

Fill in the blanks and name the author of this ‘poem’.
_________: The program with a personality
It will get on all your disks
It will infiltrate your chips
Yes, it’s _______!
It will stick to you like glue
It will modify RAM too
Send in the _______!

Dont’t miss out on Cake! Send in your guest questions to [email protected]

Cracked by: Logik, Manish Achuth, Bharath, Ananth, Jayaprakash B R, bhargava, KK, vinayaknp, mankuTimma, Bipin Banavalikar, Dibyo, Sumanth Patlolla, Vishnu Prashanth, Rogi and sanador

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Elk Cloner, the first virus and the author is the creator Richard Skrenta.


Orbits

—devadutta @ June 16, 2012

Guest question from %gqh% Manish Achuth.

Who owns this now discarded nuclear reactor?

Cracked by: Bipin Banavalikar, Don42, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Ananth, KK, Vishnu Prashanth, Bharath, Amarendra Kumar, Jayaprakash B R, mankuTimma and Rogi

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NASA. Plum Brook Nuclear Reactor Facility is the only nuclear reactor owned by NASA