Category: Quiz
First time guest question from Sumanth Patlolla %gqh%! Thanks saar!
Identify and connect
Cracked by: Manish Achuth, Dibyo, Rogi, Bharath, Ananth, Shwetha Maiya and KK
Tourbillon and its inventor, Abraham-Louis Breguet. The Tourbillon is widely used in Swiss watches.
Guest question from Manish Achuth %gqh% Thanks saar!
Identifiez la personne.
Cracked by: Manish Achuth, Dibyo, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, Bharath, Ananth, Shwetha Maiya and KK
Guest question from Logik %gqh%. Yay!
What is blocked out here? Who has proposed this?
Cracked by: Manish Achuth, Dibyo, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, ADitya, Bharath and manan
Internet Defense League, proposed by Alexis Ohanian
What happened next?
Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Ananth, raklodramA, Rogi, Manish Achuth, Vishnu Prashanth, KK, Bharath, Logik, badideabear, Anjul, Dibyo and nandhaksamy
Mythbusters teamed up with NVIDIA to create this weird GPU demonstration. Tons of paintballs were shot out of the tubes to ‘paint’ a Mona Lisa onto the screen.
Connect/Identify:
Cracked by: Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, Ananth, Rogi, Vishnu Prashanth, KK, Bharath, Logik, badideabear, bhargava, Jayaprakash B R and Dibyo
Sadi Carnot of Carnot cycle fame
Each circle/squiggly line represents an ’event’ of at least 4.0. What does this map show?
Cracked by: Bharath and Rogi
An automated quake-catcher network (run using BOINC) that tracks seismic activity using laptop accelerometers.
Simple - identify the lady:
Cracked by: Rogi, Vishnu Prashanth, Manish Achuth, Bipin Banavalikar, Logik, KK, Bharath, rickde, Sumanth Patlolla, badideabear, Amarendra Kumar, Ananth and Shwetha Maiya
Jill Tarter - Astronomer and SETI member (also the inspiration for Jodie Foster’s character in Contact)
Who he?
Cracked by: Anjul, badideabear, Bharath, Manish Achuth, KK, Ananth, Jayaprakash B R, raklodramA, Bipin Banavalikar, vinayaknp, Sumanth Patlolla, Logik, Rogi, bhargava, maldy, Vishnu Prashanth, rickde and Amarendra Kumar
Sir Jonathan Ive. Apple Design genius.
Plaintext question. Googling will be severely frowned upon.
What are these some examples of:
Server: ‘; DROP TABLE servertypes; –
X-nananana: Batcache
X-Fry: Please, Mr. Nixon! We’re appealing to your sense of decency!
Cracked by: badideabear, Ananth, Bharath, Manish Achuth, rickde, Sujoy, Rogi, KK, Sumanth Patlolla and raklodramA
Easter eggs hidden in HTTP headers returned by many popular sites (reddit, wordpress, and an older slashdot). Check boiledbeans.net for some fun :P
Connect the three:
Cracked by: Dibyo, Manish Achuth, Manoj, badideabear, Ananth, finkle, Bharath, rickde, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, KK, Bipin Banavalikar and sanador
The BBC created the BBC micro as an educational computer (launching Acorn which eventually became ARM). The Raspberry Pi foundation created the Pi inspired by the BBC micro (which, interestingly, is centered around a powerful ARM processor)