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Yellow Submarine would be a typo

—devadutta @ September 18, 2010

What do these people have in common?

Hint: Think insects

Cracked by: byslexia, jowens, Ananth, Logik, shrik, Bharath, dineshk, Raghuvansh, Vardhan Shenoy, krudebox, raklodramA, Dibyo, Manish Achuth, Thejas V R, Shwetha Maiya, Rogi, lanu, Qbrain, username, v.chandrashekar, achals, Sumanth Patlolla, Bheema V, bluegem4, Rahul Rajeev, nishansolo, udupendra, Rahulk, Saurabh, Mikey and ElatedSipun010


Small speck

—devadutta @ September 17, 2010

Apologies for the delay in posting people. Please consider this as a late post of yesterday’s question. Today’s question will be posted in a few hours.

Sitter. What is this pic of? For fake bonus points, Tell us where it was taken from.

Cracked by: Rogi, jowens, Logik, Ananth, shrik, dineshk, shrey, Qbrain, lanu, udupendra, Thejas V R, Anjul and Shwetha Maiya


Slap him!

—devadutta @ September 16, 2010

What triggered this meme?

and.. countless other images.

Update: Hint: Think French!

I like 3 the most. Subtle and awesome :)

Hint: This meme is not from the US and definitely not from 4chan!

Cracked by: udupendra, Rahul Rajeev, Logik, shrey, Bharath, Ananth, achals, Dibyo, Raghuvansh, Manish Achuth, Rogi, dineshk, shrik, Thejas V R and Shwetha Maiya


Hello!

—srikanth @ September 15, 2010

What’s the strange object above?

Cracked by everyone…

SV, Anjul, Rogi, Bharath, Ananth, bluegem4, username, achals, raklodramA, Shwetha Maiya, Thejas V R, byslexia, lanu, rohanquizzer, Rahulk, Qbrain, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, dineshk, Mo, shrik, Dibyo, Rahul Rajeev, Logik, Raghuvansh and jowens


Quizmeme

—devadutta @ September 14, 2010

The news aggregation website launched by this guy turned 5 years old recently and he is regarded as one of the most influential people on the web for the sheer amount of traffic his site can drive. Who he?

Cracked by: dineshk, udupendra, Logik, jowens, Rahul Rajeev, Rogi, krudebox, Dibyo, madhur, Raghuvansh, KK, Ananth, SV, username, raklodramA, Bharath, Prateek Agarwal, Manish Achuth, rohanquizzer, Vasanth Kamath, Thejas V R, Rahulk, achals, lanu, byslexia, Sumanth Patlolla, shrik and Shwetha Maiya


Imagine the latency

—srikanth @ September 13, 2010

This man coined a term, that, some believe, is the the root of the word “internet”. Who he?

Cracked by everyone!

shrik, udupendra, jowens, Mo, Rogi, Ananth, KK, Bharath, SV, raklodramA, Qbrain, Thejas V R, byslexia, v.chandrashekar, Raghuvansh, Rahulk, Shwetha Maiya, Dibyo, rohanquizzer, callezee, Sumanth Patlolla, Logik, username, kriskingle, joey, Rahul Rajeev, dineshk and Manish Achuth


No. Not the browser

—devadutta @ September 12, 2010

Supposedly the first of its kind. What is this? What is the guy talking about?

It was in news very recently.
Video link for the Flash Challenged.

P.S: Someone please do a video editor startup and make an editor that does not suck. KTHXBAI.
Cracked BY; udupendra, Dibyo, Rogi, achals, jowens, Logik, shrey, dineshk, shrik, Raghuvansh, Rahulk, Bheema V, Anonymous, ht, joe, varuns88, username, Aparna, raklodramA and Thejas V R


LSD

—srikanth @ September 11, 2010

What recent (well, relatively) discovery connects? We’re looking for a specific object.

Cracked by everyone.

Logik, jowens, Raghuvansh, Bharath, shrik, Ananth, Rahulk, dineshk, Rogi, Manish Achuth, Thejas V R, udupendra, username, Dibyo, v.chandrashekar, Sumanth Patlolla, SV, Rahul Rajeev, joe, Qbrain, lanu, raklodramA, byslexia and Shwetha Maiya

Show Answer

Quoting udupendra, “BPM 37093, named Lucy after the Beatles song inspired by the painting”


Photoshoped

—devadutta @ September 10, 2010

Game developers and photographers are very fond of using technique X to achieve the exact opposite effects as illustrated in the image below. What is X?

Hint: Photographers use it while exposing pictures and game developers use it while rendering games.
cracked by: Raghuvansh, shrik, Anjul, Qbrain, Gurupad, Logik, Bharath, raklodramA, Rogi, Dibyo, username, Rahul Rajeev, krudebox, Bipin Banavalikar, Manish Achuth, jowens, Ananth, byslexia, achals, Rahulk, dineshk, Thejas V R, udupendra, lanu, Uday, Anubhav, Sumanth Patlolla, v.chandrashekar and Shwetha Maiya


H20 + Heat

—srikanth @ September 9, 2010
  1. Duke Nukem Forever is the crowning glory
  2. Half Life 2 has topped one list
  3. 3G networks have shown up on one
  4. The latest list featured Pixel Qi’s technology
  5. MS Vista has made one of the lists

What lists am I talking about?

Cracked by Dibyo, dineshk, shrik, krudebox, Raghuvansh, Logik, jowens, Manish Achuth, vijayaraghavan, Rogi, Ananth, raklodramA, udupendra, Sumanth Patlolla, Abhiram Bharadwaj, Gurupad, achals, Rahulk and Thejas V R.