Category: Quiz
What organization connects -
[This will be a replacement for the lavarand repeat]
Cracked by: Raghuvansh, shrik, krudebox, Rogi and Thejas V R
Texas instruments - two boards called the ‘Beagleboard’ and the ‘Panda board’, the DaVinci series of DSP hardware, and the Arago linux overlay for TI embedded devices.
Ed - 28May: Sorry folks, turns out this was a repeat of a question I had asked earlier (I was convinced I’d asked it in a live quiz and not BB, but I guess I was wrong. Oh well :( ). I’ll replace this with another question soon.
What invention?
Cracked by: badideabear, Urthstripe, Ananth, shrik, Rogi, Raghuvansh, shrey and dineshk
SGI’s patent for a random number generator that was seeded by the state of a lava lamp. Most likely, many trees were smoked in the invention of this device :P
Identify this fully functional computer “toy”
Video of it in action
Cracked by: raklodramA, Rogi, badideabear, Ananth and Raghuvansh
Digi Comp 1. Fully functional mechanical digital computer.
First, our sincere apologies for not posting questions and answers on time. Very crazy times, please to adjust. We will be back to normal posting schedule ASAP. Some questions are kept open without answers for longer duration intentionally. These questions would have been posted insanely late.
If all had went well, this phone would have been the best selling phone in market now and two companies would not have had epic legal battles going on.
Identify the phone and tell us who built it.
Cracked by: shrik, Jayaprakash B R, Rahulk, Thejas V R, raklodramA, krudebox, Rogi, KK, Ananth, dineshk, badideabear, sandeep bhat, Manish Achuth, Shwetha Maiya, Sumanth Patlolla, udupendra, Raghuvansh and Dibyo
Motorola ROKR which was the first phone to support iTunes sync.
Which fictional scientist character was inspired by this real scientist with a penchant for balloons?
Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Mo, Ananth, badideabear, Anjul, Dibyo, v.chandrashekar, Manish Achuth, raklodramA, Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, shrik, Rahulk, Supreeth Raveesh, Thejas V R, jins, thiru d gr8, dineshk, Nanda, Rithwik K, Jayaprakash B R, krudebox, Shwetha Maiya and udupendra
Professor Cuthbert Calculus, from the Tintin series, inspired by Prof Auguste Picard.
Famous event. Which company is he talking about?
Cracked by: udupendra, Sumanth Patlolla, Thejas V R, shrey, raklodramA, dineshk, badideabear, apocalypse, shrik, Anjul, Ananth, Rogi, Raghuvansh, Jayaprakash B R, Urthstripe, Manish Achuth and Supreeth Raveesh
Steve Jobs talking about a partnership with Microsoft in Macworld 97
What is going on here?!
Cracked by: shrik, Raghuvansh, dineshk, badideabear and Rogi
Jordan Mechner’s Karateka game had an easter egg - insert the disc upside down into a regular floppy drive and it would play an upside down version of the game on screen!
Identify this parallel network that had research groups around the world going ga-ga for a while.
In fact, one of their concerts was broadcast on it:
Cracked by: dineshk, Ananth, badideabear, shrik, Dibyo, Sumanth Patlolla, Raghuvansh, Rogi, Manish Achuth, raklodramA, Jayaprakash B R, udupendra, Thejas V R, Rahulk and Shwetha Maiya
M-Bone, aka the Multicast Backbone -an experimental research network designed to allow multicasting. The Rolling Stones Voodoo Lounge 1994 tour concert from Texas was multicasted out on it.
Identify invention and inventor. He’s better known for a ‘bridge’ he created, FYI.
Cracked by: Urthstripe, Ananth, jowens, badideabear, Dibyo, shrey, Rogi, shrik, Sumanth Patlolla, dineshk, Raghuvansh, Thejas V R and udupendra
Charles Wheatstone’s Stereoscope. The inventor of the eponymous Wheatstone’s bridge also created one of the world’s first 3D viewing mechanisms.
What is this?
There is a wealth of information in the image
Cracked by: Ananth, dineshk, KK, badideabear, jowens, Dibyo, Anjul, Manish Achuth, vishwanath, Rogi, shrik, Sumanth Patlolla, Raghuvansh, s m muneer ali, krudebox, raklodramA, Thejas V R, udupendra and Rahulk
The first ever atomic clock
