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Love and Cabbage?

—devadutta @ December 13, 2011

What were these used for?

You have all the hints in the pic. And sorry about the stupid question title.

Cracked by: Rogi, shrik, Sumanth Patlolla, jowens, badideabear, Manish Achuth, KK, Vishwas B Sharma, Aditya S, Rahulk, Rajesh, rohanquizzer, raklodramA, Shivathilak, Amarendra Kumar, Bharath, Raghuvansh, Ananth, Dibyo, tanwi, vinayaknp, rickde and Shwetha Maiya

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Punched cards used to program Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine.


We are social too

—devadutta @ December 12, 2011

yay! Guest question after a long time! This one is from %gqh% Jayaprakash B R. Thanks a lot sire.

Founders of which social networking website?

We are running critically low on guest question supplies. Please to feed the monster at [email protected] before it goes on a mad rampage.

Cracked by: raklodramA, s m muneer ali, jowens, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Rahulk, Aditya S, Amarendra Kumar, Ananth, Rogi, sandeep bhat, Shwetha Maiya, badideabear, Raghuvansh, Bharath, Jayaprakash B R, Rajesh, shrik, Vishwas B Sharma, voodoonoodle, KK, arunabha18, Thejas V R and Hitesh T S

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Diaspora, the Facebook alternative. R.I.P Ilya Zhitomirskiy


Can we shoot the floppy eared creep instead?

—srikanth @ December 11, 2011

On the sets of movie A, a nod to controversy B in movie C.

A, B, and C please?

Points mela! Free points for everyone! :)

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, badideabear, Raghuvansh, jowens, Manish Achuth, rickde, Rahulk, Rogi, shrik, jinz, Aditya S, rohanquizzer, Shwetha Maiya, Bharath, Rajesh, arunabha18 and KK

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A - Indiana Jones (that new movie we don’t like to talk about)


Rue the day when you thought you could be greedy

—devadutta @ December 10, 2011

Who invented this cup?

Video Link

Cracked by: Rogi, badideabear, Raghuvansh, jowens, Manish Achuth, rickde, Rahulk, Vishwas B Sharma and shrik

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Pythagorean cup, invented by well, Pythagoras.


Woah.

—srikanth @ December 9, 2011

What is this used for?

Cracked by: Urthstripe, Goyal, Sumanth Patlolla, rickde, shrik, jowens, Rogi, tanwi, rohanquizzer, Ananth, badideabear, thiru d gr8, Thejas V R, Manish Achuth, Anjul, Rahulk, Prasad, finkle, Raghuvansh, Vishwas B Sharma, Rajesh, Tyler Swinehart, KK and Shwetha Maiya

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A rig used to create the ‘bullet-time’ effect popularized by The Matrix.


Is that a 'social' bird?

—devadutta @ December 8, 2011

What is the name of this plane?

It is blocked out in this image.

Cracked by: KK, Rahulk, Goyal, Sumanth Patlolla, Jayaprakash B R, Rogi, rickde, SV, badideabear, shrik, Manish Achuth, Dibyo, Amarendra Kumar, Bharath, jowens, Thejas V R, Ananth, tanwi and Prasad

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Virgin’s #nerdbird plane


we need more people!

—srikanth @ December 7, 2011

Famous illustration of animals in tar pits. Why is it famous?

Cracked by: Vishwas B Sharma, shrik, rickde, Sumanth Patlolla, Jon Strahl, KK, Manish Achuth, Rogi, SV, badideabear, Aditya S, Rahulk, Dibyo, rohanquizzer, Mayukh Bose, Bharath, jowens, Thejas V R, Ananth, vinayaknp, Inglourious, Shwetha Maiya, finkle, Raghuvansh and raklodramA

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The cover of the mythical man month - the famous book on large scale software dev by Fred Brooks


Smaller than thou

—devadutta @ December 6, 2011

This man developed one of the most popular file-format and the first software to create it. The software carried his initials in its name. Who is he? What did he create?

Cracked by: Goyal, Dibyo, Sujoy, Sumanth Patlolla, badideabear, Thejas V R, Anjul, jowens, Rahulk, Manish Achuth, Rogi, rickde, Ananth, Amarendra Kumar, aditthya, Bharath, Godzilla101, Hitesh T S, Mayukh Bose, SV, shrik, KK, Vishwas B Sharma, finkle, Bipin Banavalikar, Aditya S, rohanquizzer and soda buddi

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Phil Katz, creator of PKZIP and .ZIP file format.


Go, Speed, Go!

—srikanth @ December 5, 2011

Technology that’s hot of the presses. What is?

Cracked by: Anjul, Aditya S, Jayaprakash B R, rickde, Sumanth Patlolla, jowens, Rogi, Sujoy, Manish Achuth, Dibyo, Rahulk, badideabear, Goyal, shrik, KK, Anonymous, aditthya, Thejas V R, Ananth, Bharath, Vishwas B Sharma and Shwetha Maiya

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IBM’s Racetrack memory


Spicy?

—devadutta @ December 4, 2011

Latest meme/protest/memetivism. What led to this incident? What is the meme?

P.S: All medals up to date :)

P.P.S: We have run out of guest questions. Send some to [email protected] immediately. KTHXBAI.

Cracked by: shrik, Goyal, Manish Achuth, badideabear, Jayaprakash B R, Rogi, jowens, Sujoy, Bharath, Sumanth Patlolla, Dibyo, Vishwas B Sharma, aditthya, Mayukh Bose, Ananth, Shivathilak, Aditya S, Anjul, rickde, Rahulk, SV, KK and Thejas V R

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Casually Perpper Spray everything cop. UC Davis.