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Like Battle School, except many people win and no one killed anything.

—srikanth @ August 24, 2011

What single institution connects this bunch?

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The Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth. All these personalities participated in CTY programs!


Howwwwl

—devadutta @ August 23, 2011

Identify the game.

No, there is nothing wrong with the screenshot. Here is another one.

Cracked by: username, Rahulk, Manoj Venkat, Bipin Banavalikar, badideabear, raklodramA, Dibyo, KK, Riyaz Usman, Thejas V R, Anjul, vinayaknp, Sumit, amarendra, Jayaprakash B R, Saill, shrik, Manish Achuth, mankuTimma, Ananth, rickde, Aditya S, jowens, aditthya, Bharath, Sumanth Patlolla, Mayukh Bose, Urthstripe, anurag, Rogi, rohanquizzer, Rahul Rajeev, Saurabh, Siddarth Pai, Ganesh Prasad, Shwetha Maiya and Raghuvansh

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Wolfenstein 1D


Compute Compute

—devadutta @ August 22, 2011

Guest question from %gqh% Manish Achuth.

What is this? Identify the dude in the video.

Video Link

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This is the Unimate, first ever industrial robotic arm. Invented by George Devol.


Round 1

—devadutta @ August 21, 2011

Guest question from %gqh% raklodramA. Thanks sire!

What is this graphic showing?

Cracked by: Thejas V R, username, KK, Bipin Banavalikar, Debasish, badideabear, raklodramA, Riyaz Usman, Anjul, amarendra, shrik, Manish Achuth, mankuTimma, Ananth, Aditya S, jowens, anurag, aditthya, Bharath, Mayank Agarwa, Goyal, Sumanth Patlolla, Mayukh Bose, Urthstripe, Rahulk, Rogi, vinayaknp, Rahul Rajeev and vkamath

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Companies suing each other over patents. huh.


Best. Golfer. Ever.

—srikanth @ August 20, 2011

Identify the flowers. Pseudo bonus points for the full story :)

PS: wikipedia-copy-pasta is not needed :)

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Urthstripe, grey_matters, Shwetha Maiya, Manish Achuth, Ananth, Dibyo, Sumanth Patlolla, Anonymous, jowens, raklodramA, anurag, shrik, Thejas V R, badideabear, rickde, username, s m muneer ali, amarendra, Rogi, Bharath, thiru d gr8, Rahul Rajeev, mankuTimma, vishwanath and Rahulk

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Kimiljongia flowers (1) and Kimilsungia flowers (2), specially created for the Fearless Leaders of North Korea :) The Kimiljungia, in fact, is designed to bloom every year during Kim Il-Jong’s birthday.


Sorry, no clue here.

—srikanth @ August 19, 2011

What connects?

This list is by no means exhaustive, although it is in chronological order :)

EDIT: Added one more, on public demand:

RAJNI DOES NOT NEED ALT TEXT. ALT TEXT NEEDS RAJNI.

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Urthstripe, Manish Achuth, Ananth, Shwetha Maiya, Dibyo, Anonymous, jowens, Sumanth Patlolla, raklodramA, Bipin Banavalikar, shrik, Thejas V R, amarendra, rickde, username, Rogi, Bharath, Rahul Rajeev, mankuTimma, Swarun, Logik, anurag, badideabear and Manoj Venkat


Well i was cruising down the road trying to ++NOCARRIER

—srikanth @ August 18, 2011

Identify:

Cracked by: Urthstripe, jowens, shrik, badideabear, SV, Mayukh Bose, username, Rogi, Bharath, KK, Ananth, raklodramA, rickde, Bipin Banavalikar, Martin, mankuTimma, amarendra, Sumanth Patlolla, anurag, Dibyo, Manish Achuth, Rahul Rajeev, Anjul, Shwetha Maiya, Thejas V R, s m muneer ali, Siddarth Pai, Logik and Raghuvansh

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Google’s Driverless cars. Wuhoo :)


Damn it man!

—srikanth @ August 17, 2011

Sitters ahoy! What’s blanked out?

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Captain James T. Kirk :)


Art geeks unite.

—srikanth @ August 16, 2011

Slightly borderline question.

Connect the three to a specific work of art.

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The so-called “First Cylindric Chrono-Hologram: Portrait of Alice Cooper’s Brain” was an artwork by Salvador Dali featuring Alice Cooper captured in a Hologram.


?yaw siht ebyaM

—srikanth @ August 15, 2011

Who was the inventor?

PS: Happy Independence Day to our Indian quizzers!

Cracked by: KK, Rogi, shrik, Rahulk, amarendra, Thejas V R, username, raklodramA, Sumanth Patlolla, Bharath, mankuTimma, Manish Achuth, jowens, Siddarth Pai, Rahul Rajeev, Urthstripe, Ananth, Dibyo, badideabear, rickde, anurag, Swarun, Mayukh Bose and Bipin Banavalikar

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Al-Jazari, the famous polymath who lived in mesopotamia and made some really funky things.