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Intelligent

—devadutta @ February 26, 2011

Identify this Turing award winner who happens to be a Nobel laureate too.

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Polymath genius Herbert Simon. More


Magic Smoke

—devadutta @ February 25, 2011

Yay! Sitter for the weekend!

Reverse chronological order of the 3 latest releases. What are we talking about?

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Debian releases. Simple :)


Woodcuts. Everywhere.

—srikanth @ February 24, 2011

The guy is largely irrelevant to the question. Identify the service that he is showing off on his t-shirt.

Cracked by: Rogi, Raghuvansh and jowens

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Tim O’Reilly’s Global Network Navigator - a very early web portal of sorts that was purchased by AOL.


Slow software on fast hardware

—devadutta @ February 23, 2011

Who connects

Late question is ridiculously late. Sorry folks :)

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The awesome Niklaus Wirth.


Forever.

—srikanth @ February 22, 2011

These are three images from a specific list of 12. What list?

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Dibyo, Rogi, vinayaknp, shrey, Siddarth Pai, shrik, Aditya, jowens, dineshk, raklodramA and Ananth

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The digest of “Perpetual Motion Gimmicks” maintained by the US Patent Office. All these devices are, evidently, perpetual motion machines that people tried to patent.


45 Deg.

—devadutta @ February 21, 2011

Simple question. What is this?

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iPod U2 special edition. Apparently, this happened because Steve Jobs’s favorite band is U2.


Grows outside my Window

—devadutta @ February 20, 2011

Modified version of a question sent in by %gqh% Satya Saha

1,2 are named after their inventors who had the same(almost) last name, which happens to be the name of another brand of very popular products. What is the last name we are talking about?

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McIntosh or Mackintosh. McIntosh apples invented by John McIntosh and Mackintosh waterproof coats invented by Charles Macintosh


Tasty Truth

—devadutta @ February 19, 2011

Popular “representation” of the human tongue. What tastebuds do we have in region 4 and region 1?

p.s: We all still trust our biology teacher from middle school. Or do we? (Think twice before you post your answer :) )

Cracked by: SV, Bharath, KK, Rogi, Sandesh, Sumanth Patlolla, xeqtor, raklodramA, Siddarth Pai, Riyaz Usman, Debasish, rohanquizzer, Thejas V R, shrey, AmK, jowens, aditthya, krikkrak, krudebox, Logik, Mikey, Abhiram Bharadwaj Diddigi, Dibyo, mankuTimma, S.M.MUNEER ALI, srinivasan, dineshk, Shwetha Maiya and puneet_k


They should have these for the internet as well

—srikanth @ February 18, 2011

Let’s go plaintext for today :-) A few samples from what?

“I: Any body suspended in space will remain in space until made aware of its situation.
III: Any body passing through solid matter will leave a perforation conforming to its perimeter.
V: All principles of gravity are negated by fear.
VI: As speed increases, objects can be in several places at once.
VIII: Any violent rearrangement of feline matter is impermanent.
X: For every vengeance there is an equal and opposite revengeance.”

All those of you who Google this answer please set the evil bit in your posts, and we will discard them accordingly :p

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The Cartoon Laws of Physics, originally “O’Donnell’s Laws of Cartoon Motion”, printed in Esquire, but most often refers to the reproduction in the “IEEE Institute”, 10/94; V.18 #7 p.12.


I for one welcome our new computer overlords

—devadutta @ February 17, 2011

First, congrats to jowens for reaching a runlength of 100! You won yourself a Star of Honor %soh%, sire!

Fully framed guest question from %gqh% udupendra. Thanks saar!

What is being compared here?

P.S: We have a lot of unpublished guest questions waiting in our inbox. We are going to do a GQ Run soon. If you have sent us a question(s), this is to let you know that we have not forgotten about it(them)! :)

You can send us questions at [email protected]

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Watson Vs Wolfram Alpha