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Family Time

—devadutta @ March 8, 2014

What is this? Where can you find this?

Cracked by: Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, [email protected], Bipin Banavalikar, Abhiram Bharadwaj Diddigi, Shwetha Maiya, AmK, Rogi, KK and Supritha Maiya

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In 1972, as part of the Apollo 16 mission to the moon, astronaut Charles Duke embarked on a mission to the explore the moon’s surface in a lunar roving vehicle. While there, he shot a picture of a photo of himself, his wife, and his two sons which was enclosed in plastic on the moon’s surface, where it remains to this day.

About Time

—devadutta @ March 4, 2014

Who made these watches?

Cracked by: Manish Achuth, KK, Sumanth Patlolla, s m muneer ali, Rogi, AmK, Abhiram Bharadwaj Diddigi, Shwetha Maiya and Supritha Maiya

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Intel. Well, Microma, but Intel.

Naturally awesome

—devadutta @ March 1, 2014

Guest question from %gqh% Manish Achuth.

What is happening here?

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Supritha Maiya, s m muneer ali, Abhiram Bharadwaj Diddigi, bastet, Rogi, AmK and KK

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This is an animation of DNA replication by DNA polymerase.

Thirsty?

—devadutta @ February 23, 2014

Fill in the blanks. Water on ___________ discovered by ____________ .

Cracked by: Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, KK, s m muneer ali, AmK, buk, Rogi and Supritha Maiya

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Water on the Moon, discovered by Chandrayaan

Don't forget the tab

—devadutta @ February 20, 2014

What is this? How can you get it to appear?

Cracked by: AmK, Rakesh_KK, Sumanth Patlolla, Shwetha Maiya, Manish Achuth, Dibyo and Abhiram Bharadwaj Diddigi

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Zen of Python. import this in Python :)

Ask away!

—devadutta @ February 19, 2014

What are these people providing proof for? Cookie points if you id 1 and 3. Negative cookie points if you cannot id 2.

Cracked by: Rakesh_KK, buk, Manish Achuth, s m muneer ali, Goyal, Sumanth Patlolla, Saarthak, AmK, Dibyo, Abhiram Bharadwaj Diddigi, Dhruv and Rogi

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Famous people providing proof that they are themselves to the Reddit community.

—devadutta @ February 15, 2014

Who wrote this letter?

Cracked by: Supritha Maiya, Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, Saarthak Sachdeva, KK, varun, s m muneer ali, Shwetha Maiya, buk, Bipin Banavalikar, Abhiram Bharadwaj Diddigi, AmK, Rogi, bablu and Mayukh Bose

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Carl Sagan, writing to Mr. Tyson

Nice way to retire

—devadutta @ February 9, 2014

Another question from %gqh% Manish Achuth

Identify the artist and the song (Tell us who is covering whom)

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Cracked by: Manish Achuth, buk, varun, Sumanth Patlolla, AmK, Mayukh Bose, shenoyvarun86 and Rogi

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Chris Hadfield, the Canadian Astronaut. Song - Space Oddity by David Bowie.

Finches. You need Finches.

—devadutta @ February 5, 2014

Guest Question from %gqh% Manish Achuth. Send your questions to [email protected]. We like them!

What was the controversy? Also identify the dude (For AutoRaja)

Cracked by: Manish Achuth, Pawankumar Hegde, s m muneer ali, Bipin Banavalikar, Sumanth Patlolla, Bastet, shenoyvarun86, buk and AmK

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Although Darwin was never inspired by Humming birds, these notes make him like he was. He was actually observing Finches.

From Ponds to deBeers

—devadutta @ February 3, 2014

Guest Question after a looooooong time. From %gqh% shenoyvarun86.

Bust of a German mineralogist. Identify

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, ShreyGoyal, Manish Achuth, Rogi, s m muneer ali, Sayan Chaudhry, Pawankumar Hegde, Bipin Banavalikar and Bastet

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Friedrich Mohs and the Mohs Scale of Mineral Hardness