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What made him think of something like this?

—srikanth @ November 23, 2011

What is this picture depicting?

Cracked by Manish Achuth, Rahulk, Amarendra Kumar, jowens, Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, badideabear, rickde, Bharath, Vishwas B Sharma, shrik, jinz, KK, Ananth and raklodramA


Are you still there?

—devadutta @ November 22, 2011

Identify and connect

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Rahulk, Amarendra Kumar, jowens, Rogi, badideabear, rickde, krudebox, Bharath, raklodramA, Manish Achuth, Siddarth Pai, shrik, KK and Ananth

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1 is a turret from Portal, 2 is a real life turret (automatic sentry gun) from Korea.


CEDECEDE ACECACEC CEDBCEDB GGG GGG GGG

—devadutta @ November 21, 2011

Identify and connect to the audio clip below


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Audio Link

Cracked by: finkle, Sumanth Patlolla, Rahulk, Amarendra Kumar, jowens, Rogi, rohanquizzer, badideabear, rickde, Thejas V R, Bharath, Manish Achuth, raklodramA, Siddarth Pai, shrik, mankuTimma, KK and Ananth

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Phonautograph, the earliest known device to record sound invented by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville.


Transfer now?

—devadutta @ November 20, 2011

Screenshot of a text block question. You are very likely to have have seen this folder structure. This is an old industry standard and it is prevalent even now.

What is blocked in green? For bonus cookie points, tell us what it stands for.

Cracked by: shrik, jowens, Anjul, Sumanth Patlolla, Ananth, Rahulk, Bipin Banavalikar, Rogi, badideabear, mankuTimma, Manish Achuth, Amarendra Kumar, Bharath and raklodramA

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DCIM. Design rule for Camera File system / DCF. The stuff you see on your camera SD card.


Forget nasal drops

—devadutta @ November 19, 2011

Just another day, just another robot. For the Japanese maybe. What spooky as hell function does this “cute” looking robot do?

Cracked by: Rogi, badideabear, Sumanth Patlolla, KK, Ananth, Rahulk, raklodramA, Bipin Banavalikar, Thejas V R, Vishwas B Sharma, Aditya S, jinz, jowens, shrik, mankuTimma, Manish Achuth, Amarendra Kumar, rickde, krudebox, Bharath and Siddarth Pai

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“Jukusui-Kun” that wakes up snoring people. Mad.


MOV AX,BX

—devadutta @ November 18, 2011

40 years ago, X was invented to go into 1. Later, the company that made X realized its potential and became very rich and famous. Identify X.

Cracked by: shrik, mankuTimma, sandeep bhat, Sanador, Sumanth Patlolla, Rahulk, finkle, Rogi, Dibyo, badideabear, KK, Ananth, Jayaprakash B R, Bipin Banavalikar, Thejas V R, Vishwas B Sharma, Aditya S, jowens, rini, Manish Achuth, Amarendra Kumar, Bharath, Siddarth Pai and rickde

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Intel 4004 that was made to go into a Busicom calculator.


Cliiiiick

—devadutta @ November 17, 2011

EPIC photo by the dude in 2. Who he? Identify the image.

Cracked by: Dibyo, Aditya S, UDit, Jayaprakash B R, Bipin Banavalikar, Sumanth Patlolla, Sanjeet Dash, Rahulk, Thejas V R, Vishwas B Sharma, KK, Siddarth Pai, jowens, Rogi, Bharath, mankuTimma, badideabear, shrik, raklodramA, Sujoy, Ananth, rohanquizzer, Shwetha Maiya, Manish Achuth, Amarendra Kumar and rickde

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Boulevard du temple, the first photograph by Daguerreotype, Louis Daguerre. – rickde


0 1 1 2 3 5

—devadutta @ November 16, 2011

This kid became very famous for inventing 2. All mainstream press covered it and hailed him as king. Until someone disproved his results. Who he? What is 2?

Cracked by: jowens, Bharath, shrik, KK, badideabear, Dibyo, Jayaprakash B R, Aditya S, Bipin Banavalikar, UDit, Thejas V R, Sumanth Patlolla, Rahulk, Vishwas B Sharma, mankuTimma, Siddarth Pai, Rogi, raklodramA, Ananth, Logik, rohanquizzer, Manish Achuth, Vicky, Amarendra Kumar and rickde

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Aidan Dwyer and his Fibonacci solar tree. Supposedly works miracles. Proven wrong though.


We have enemy behind our tail

—devadutta @ November 15, 2011

yay! Obscure meme question time. Bayeux Tapestry version of which meme?

2 is a Hint

Actually the meme is not so obscure ever since Google did a tribute.

Cracked by: Urthstripe, KK, Aditya S, shivathilak, Rahulk, shrik, Thejas V R, Siddarth Pai, Ananth, jowens, Sumanth Patlolla, badideabear, Rogi, Mo, finkle, Bharath, Dibyo, raklodramA, jinz, Manish Achuth, Amarendra Kumar and rickde

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Do a barrel roll! Google it for some fun!


Did they meet Marvin?

—devadutta @ November 14, 2011

These people “went to Mars” and came back. Who are they? Where did they actually go?

Cracked by: Urthstripe, Anjul, jowens, shrik, meenakshi, Manish Achuth, Rogi, KK, raklodramA, Shwetha Maiya, shivathilak, badideabear, Sumanth Patlolla, Sanjeet Dash, Rahulk, Bipin Banavalikar, finkle, Bharath, Prabhu DC, Thejas V R, Ananth, Aditya S, Siddarth Pai, thiru d gr8, Subhrajeet C, Sri Krishna, Amarendra Kumar and rickde

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Mars 500