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—devadutta @ March 15, 2012

During his “thinner” days. Who is he?

Cracked by: badideabear, jowens, Rogi, KK, rohanquizzer, Manish Achuth, rickde, tanwi, Mayukh Bose, Anjul, Bharath, Varun, Sumanth Patlolla, Ananth and raklodramA

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Pal for what?

—devadutta @ March 14, 2012

Identify the dude in the center.

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, raklodramA, Jayaprakash B R, rohanquizzer, rickde, Bharath, jowens, KK, Ananth, anurag, badideabear, tanwi and Rogi

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PayPal co-founder Elon Musk


Experiment

—devadutta @ March 13, 2012

This insect is super popular among genetic researchers. Tell us why and also identify the insect.

There are many reasons why this is popular, pls to put the most important one. Not so important ones will also get points.

Cracked by: Anjul, jowens, badideabear, Manish Achuth, Vishwas B Sharma, Sumanth Patlolla, raklodramA, anurag, Jayaprakash B R, rohanquizzer, rickde, finkle, Bharath, KK, Ananth, tanwi, Dibyo, Rogi and Teju

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Drosophila Melanogaster or the common fruit fly - Very easy to breed and has a life cycle of 10 days, which means multiple generations can be observed in a short time.


Sad

—devadutta @ March 12, 2012

On of the most eventful control room ever. Where?

Cracked by: Manish Achuth, Bharath, tanwi, Vishwas B Sharma, rohanquizzer, Ananth, Sumanth Patlolla, raklodramA, rickde, jowens, Ep, badideabear, Gurupad, KK, anurag, buk, finkle, Dibyo, Rogi, Teju and Mayukh Bose

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Chernobyl


Spin!

—devadutta @ March 11, 2012

First time captured on “camera”. What is this?

Was in news recently.

Cracked by: Manish Achuth, Bharath, tanwi, Vishwas B Sharma, rohanquizzer, Ananth, Sumanth Patlolla, raklodramA, rickde, jowens, Logik, badideabear, KK, anurag and Rogi

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Unexpected results?

—devadutta @ March 10, 2012

Last question of the theme round. Major sitter. This has to be the easiest question we have ever posted.

What is theta?

Cracked by: rohanquizzer, raklodramA, Manish Achuth, jowens, rickde, Anjul, Mayukh Bose, badideabear, Ananth, KK, Vishwas B Sharma, Sumanth Patlolla, Logik, v.chandrashekar, Vishnu Prashanth, Bharath, Gurupad, anurag and Rogi

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1 Radian


Glowing

—devadutta @ March 9, 2012

Who is missing?

Theme round: Question 4

Many of you got the theme!

Cracked by: rohanquizzer, raklodramA, KK, Manish Achuth, badideabear, jowens, rickde, Mayukh Bose, Jayaprakash B R, Sumanth Patlolla, Logik, Vishnu Prashanth, Bharath, Ep, Gurupad, anurag, Rogi and Teju

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Antoine Henri Becquerel


Not the car company

—devadutta @ March 8, 2012

Identify and connect

Theme round: Question 3.

Many of you are very close to the theme connect. I am looking for a specific connect.

Cracked by: jowens, vinayaknp, raklodramA, finkle, v.chandrashekar, Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, kazkas, Ananth, Vishwas B Sharma, rickde, Bharath, Ayush Khanna, Anjul, KK, rohanquizzer, badideabear, Mayukh Bose, Jayaprakash B R, Logik, Vishnu Prashanth, shreya, Gurupad, anurag, Rogi, Teju and Aila

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Quoting “Teju”


Wooden drum

—devadutta @ March 7, 2012

Famous experiment. Identify.

Hint: The “container” at the bottom is exploding.

Theme round question 2.

Rogi got very close to cracking the theme.

Cracked by: raklodramA, badideabear, Sumanth Patlolla, Ananth, Manish Achuth, rickde, KK, kazkas, Logik, jowens, Anjul, Mayukh Bose, Bharath, Amarendra Kumar, Shwetha Maiya, rohanquizzer, Gurupad, Rogi and Teju

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Pascal’s Barrel


Theme Round, yay!

—devadutta @ March 6, 2012

Answers to the next few questions are connected to a single theme. Individual answers give you one point as usual. If you crack the the theme within the first 2 questions, you get 2 additional points, otherwise you get one additional point.

Get Cracking!

Theme Round: First Question:

1 and 2 discovered something at about the same time. 1 generally gets all the credit. Who is 2? (3 is a hint)

Cracked by: Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, badideabear, rickde, Manish Achuth, Mo, Vishwas B Sharma, rohanquizzer, Logik, KK, Ananth, raklodramA, jowens, Mayukh Bose, Bharath, Shwetha Maiya, Smiling Buddha, Jayaprakash B R, Gurupad, anurag and Teju

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Joseph Henry