Category: Quiz
The first picture is the controller and the second is the controlled. What is it?
PS - this is not some steampunk stuff. This is genuine!
Cracked by: Rogi, Raghuvansh, dineshk, Siddarth Pai, jowens and shrik
Pictures of the Telekino. Invented by Italian engineer Leonardo Torres Quevedo, this was one of the earliest ever demonstrations of a remote controlled device. It was a remote controlled boat :-)
What are these two?
My apologies for the MSPaint-age.
Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Riyaz Usman, Manish Achuth, shrik, Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, Bharath, jowens, KK, dineshk, jins, vinayaknp, Ananth, Dibyo, Aravind, S M MUNEER ALI, grey_matters, Thejas V R, puneet_k and Shwetha Maiya
These are the mission patches for the Mars Exploration Rover missions for the Spirit and Opportunity rovers, respectively.
Famous story of how a sinking startup used these to generate funds and stayed afloat. What are these called? Which company created them?
Cracked by: Niyam, Goyal, shrik, dineshk, grey_matters, jowens, Siddarth Pai, Bharath, KK, Raghuvansh, Riyaz Usman, Manish Achuth, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, Ananth, vinayaknp, jins, s m muneerali, Dibyo and rohanquizzer
Airbnb generated thousands of dollars fromt hese creal boxes. They are called “Obama Os” and “Cap’n McCain"s. Just brilliant.
1, who appears in the Simpsons as 2 is the biological sister of one of the most revered (subjective :P ) person in the tech industry. Who she? Who she a sister of?
Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Rogi, dineshk, jowens, Sumanth Patlolla, Aparna, raklodramA, Siddarth Pai, puneet_k, shrey, Abinash Sharma, Riyaz Usman, Bharath, Manish Achuth, shrik, Satya, Smitha R Maiya, vinayaknp, vkamath, rohanquizzer, Shwetha Maiya, grey_matters, akhi and Ananth
Mona Simpson, biological sister of Steve Jobs
Intarwebs obscuridae. Identify webcomic -
Cracked by: Rogi, jowens, Raghuvansh, Siddarth Pai, Aravind, dineshk and Bharath
The webcomic is aptly titled Laika and Qubit (Schrodinger’s cat). http://deathbyorphans.com/
Simple question. Patent for what?
Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Rogi, KK, Aravind, Dibyo, vinayaknp, Bharath, Sumanth Patlolla, dineshk, Riyaz Usman, shrik, Shwetha Maiya, shrey, Siddarth Pai, Goyal, Debjani, Smitha R Maiya, jowens, Manish Achuth, SV, rohanquizzer, puneet_k, Logik, Aparna, raklodramA and Abinash
Google Books scanner that can scan open books and produce resultant images that are flat!
Hot off the presses, so to speak. What’s blanked out?
Hint: Think computer security. Pseudo-bonus points for the full story.
Cracked by: udupendra, Rogi, shrik, dineshk, Raghuvansh, jowens and Bharath
F-Secure’s Mikko Hyponnen recently went on a video shoot to trace the origins of the first ever DOS boot-sector virus “Brain”. “Brain” was written by the brothers Farooq Alvi from Pakistan more as a DRM mechanism than anything else. What’s blanked out is, obviously, brain.
First it was 1, then 2, now 3. What?
P.S: We are keeping Rogi’s 3 for 500 puzzle open for 2 more days. Give it a shot!
Cracked by: udupendra, dineshk, Riyaz Usman, Rogi, Bharath, KK, shrik, Goyal, jowens, rohanquizzer, Logik, raklodramA, Siddarth Pai, S M MUNEER ALI, Thejas V R, Sumanth Patlolla, puneet_k, Manish Achuth, Dibyo and Shwetha Maiya
Quoting Shwetha: [3] is Geminoid DK, which was constructed to look exactly like Associate Professor Henrik Scharfe of Aalborg University in Denmark.
What’s the connection?
Early question is early, for a change :-)
PS: Plug - the people over at QFI Chennai are holding an open IT quiz on Saturday. Be there!
Another Plug: RVCE QuizCorp is conducting UTPT on 18th,19th and 20th of March, 2011. Check Flyers for details.
Cracked by: Logik, Rogi, Kaustubh, Raghuvansh, KK, jowens, Siddarth Pai, Bharath, Shwetha Maiya, Sumanth Patlolla, shrik, vishal golcha, dineshk, rohanquizzer, Abinash, raklodramA, vinayaknp, Antariksh Bothale, udupendra and Thejas V R
Richard James a.k.a Aphex Twin released a single which was titled the equation in the 2nd pic. In this, if you analyzed the music signal in a spectrograph, he managed to ’encode’ his face into the signal. Pic 1 is that signal.
Big company trying to get people to stop using their creation. What?
Cracked by: udupendra, mrsgollum, Riyaz Usman, Siddarth Pai, Anonymous, Anjul, Shwetha Maiya, rohanquizzer, vinayaknp, Atul Mathew, KK, Goyal, shrik, Rogi, Higgers, Logik, shrey, Vijayaraghavan, Raghuvansh, Sandesh, dineshk, shubhang, jowens, Aravind, Bharath, Sumanth Patlolla, vishal golcha, raklodramA, Antariksh Bothale, Abinash, Dibyo and Anubhav
Microsoft’s latest effort to rid the world of IE6.
