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3 for 500

—devadutta @ March 8, 2011

Today, we are posting a special round of 3 questions all sent in by %gqh% Rogi. Reason? Rogi registered an unbeaten runlength of 500 correct answers in a row! Congrats sire! Just fantastic!

Leave your answers (and any note to Rogi) in a single comment. One point per correct answer. Get at least one correct for keeping your runlength intact.

  1. The actor (1) starred in two movies, made almost three decades apart, based on ideas put forth by (2) and shared with his screenwriter wife (3). Name either of the 2 films.
    Note: While the pic in (1) is a clip from a movie, it is not one of the movies we’re looking for.

  1. Connect the three gentlemen by naming a fourth. The last one wasn’t as smart as the other two.

Hint:

  1. This is a cool puzzle.

Tell us what’s found here
[Sum of all digits].[1991, AUC] , -1 x [Unbitrium].[Lucas Number]

(Maybe a different Lucas?)

Update: Made the question 1 simpler.

Update 2: Fixed a typo in Q 3

Update 3: Question 3 is super cool. Do not miss it. Hint: Zoom in and look around.

Cracked by: Rogi(3), shrik(3), jowens(3), Raghuvansh(3), dineshk(3), Siddarth Pai(2), udupendra(2), Bharath(2), Logik, Sumanth Patlolla, Shwetha Maiya, Mo and Anubhav

Only shrik, jowens, Raghuvansh and dineshk(close enough :) ) cracked the puzzle! Good crack guys! That was an awesome puzzle and you got it!

Answers:

  1. TRON or TRON:Legacy
    1=Jeff Bridges (As seen in Thunderbolt and Lightfoot)
    2=Alan Kay (Yes the guy from PARC)
    3=Bonnie MacBird

  1. The three guys pictured are:
    Hugo de Vries
    Carl Correns
    Erich von Tschermak

All of whom were thought to have independently “rediscovered” in the year 1900, the work of Gregor Mendel and after some prodding for at least one of them, gave him the posthumous credit for his discoveries in genetics. Tschermak is no longer recognized as a rediscoverer as he obviously didn’t understand what Mendel had figured out, earlier.


  1. Sum of digits 0-9 is 45
    “Ab urbe condita” 1991 is “Gregorian”, 1238
    Unbitrium’s atomic number will be 123
    George Lucas’ Easter Egg number is 1138 (Not to be confused with the Numbers of François Édouard Anatole Lucas)

Filling in the variables gives:
45.1238
-123.1138

Or:
45.1238, -123.1138

Quick link:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=45.1238,-123.1138&aq=&sll=45.125284,-123.113393&sspn=0.010401,0.018904&ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=45.123989,-123.113673&spn=0.004088,0.018711&z=16

Answer is: “Firefox” or “Firefox logo”


Objectify?

—srikanth @ March 7, 2011

Kinda staying with the “spirit” of the day. Identify the greenish stuff in the first pic, and connect to the lady in the second.

Cracked by: Rogi, jowens, shrik, Siddarth Pai, Sri Priyanka, Keerthi Kiran M, Shwetha Maiya, dineshk, Thejas V R, Logik and Bharath

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The greenish object is the so-called “Hanny’s Voorwerp”. It was named so because it was discovered by amateur astronomer and Dutch schoolteacher Hanny van Arkel. The name translates to Hanny’s object. Why this region of space behaves this way is still unknown, although some hypotheses exist.


No escape...

—srikanth @ March 6, 2011

Who connects?

Cracked by: udupendra, shrik, Rogi, dineshk, Sumanth Patlolla, Raghuvansh, vinayaknp, jowens, Dibyo, Bharath, lanu, Qbrain, Muthu sndaresan, Siddarth Pai, puneet_k, Ananth, Shwetha Maiya and Thejas V R

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Karl Schwarzschild - the headstone on his grave, and a typical illustration of the so-called Schwarzschild radius.


Lets hack that too!

—devadutta @ March 5, 2011

Influential and very popular blogger. Who she? What popular blog did she start (and sell)?

Hint:

Cracked by: lanu, vinayaknp, raklodramA, udupendra, puneet_k, shrik, Raghuvansh, srinivasan, Siddarth Pai, Amarendra, Dibyo, wanderlust, Thejas V R, rohanquizzer, Muthu sndaresan, S.M.MUNEER ALI, vishal golcha, Rahulk, KK, Ananth, Manish Achuth, Logik, Abinash, Rogi, Riyaz Usman, dineshk, Sumanth Patlolla, jowens, Bharath and Anjul

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Gina Trapani - Lifehacker


Orbit Me

—devadutta @ March 4, 2011

Guest question from %gqh% sidsen. After a long long time. Thank you sire!

The text in the image reads(approximately :) ) The gentlemen above were nominated but did not make it. The mooning characters below did. What would they collectively be known as.

Apologies for the delay folks.

Cracked by: shrik, vinayaknp, udupendra, Rogi, jowens, Raghuvansh, Siddarth Pai, Thejas V R, Rahulk, dineshk, Ananth and Bharath

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The Galilean Moons! Galileo first proposed the name Medicea Sidera (“theMedicianstars”), honouring the four Medici brothers: Cosimo, Francesco, Carlo, and Lorenzo.


You can text and "drive" this car?

—devadutta @ March 3, 2011

Yay! Sitter!

Identify

Cracked by: Manish Achuth, Dibyo, raklodramA, vinayaknp, Vinay Nair Karath, shrik, SYED MOHAMMED MUNEER ALI, Bharath, Anjul, Rogi, dineshk, Raghuvansh, jowens, lanu, Qbrain, krikkrak, udupendra, Ananth, Sandesh and Thejas V R

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Google’s awesome self driving cars.


Take it higher.

—srikanth @ March 2, 2011

You are likely to know the three on the right. Who’s the chap on the left (circled)?

Cracked by: Bharath, shrik, Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, KK, dineshk, Abinash, jowens, Manish Achuth, Dibyo, raklodramA, Vrashabh, lanu, Qbrain, vinayaknp, krudebox, Raghuvansh, rohanquizzer, Thejas V R, Siddarth Pai, SYED MOHAMMED MUNEER ALI, v.chandrashekar, Ananth and Shwetha Maiya

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Roger Mayer, a sound engineer. He is responsible for creating several electric guitar effects that have come to define the “sound of rock”, so to speak.


Tape them together!

—devadutta @ March 1, 2011

Identify the white object in 1 and connect to 2

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Dibyo, Thejas V R, shrik, Sumanth Patlolla, vinayaknp, Siddarth Pai, Rogi, Manish Achuth, KK, krudebox, jowens, Bharath, dineshk, Ananth and Mo

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A Gömböc, that comes back to its upright position no matter how you place it (on a flat surface). A turtle’s shell is shaped up like a Gömböc (not all turtles), which helps it get back on feet when it is flipped over!


Elementary.

—srikanth @ February 28, 2011

What did this supposedly inspire?

Cracked by: udupendra, Vijayaraghavan, Riyaz Usman, Rogi, Jassim, Chirag, jowens, Sumanth Patlolla, dineshk, Bharath, vinayaknp, Raghuvansh, shardul, Sanador, puneet_k, Siddarth Pai, KK, rohanquizzer, raklodramA, Mo, srinivasan, lanu, Thejas V R, Dibyo, shrik, Shwetha Maiya, Manish Achuth, S M MUNEER ALI, Manoj Venkat, krudebox, vishal golcha and Qbrain

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The IBM Thinkpad! Apparently, IBM had a campaign in the 90s that involved the word “Think!”. As part of this campaign they released a series of notepads within IBM for employees which just had the word “Think” on them. Hence, when the tablet/notebook/laptop was eventually announced, that was named the ThinkPad.


Hushed voices.

—srikanth @ February 27, 2011

What connects?

Cracked by: Bharath, Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, Manish Achuth, udupendra, jowens, vinayaknp, Riyaz Usman, puneet_k, shrik, appu s, dineshk, Dibyo and Thejas V R

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Google Earth Outreach - Google’s program to support non-profits that are trying increase global awareness. Check out the Outreach showcase and .KMLs!