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Not all that linear.

—srikanth @ December 31, 2011

Identify the man in the photograph:

(Question will be modded on the 6th)

Cracked by Vishwas B Sharma, debjani, raklodramA, Rajesh, KK, Riyaz Usman, Sumanth Patlolla, badideabear, Manish Achuth, Rahulk, rickde, Rogi, rohanquizzer, shrik, Shwetha Maiya, jowens, byslexia, Thejas V R, Ananth, Bharath and Saill


I've got the whole world in my hands...

—srikanth @ December 30, 2011

What is the (superficial) connection?

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KK, Manish Achuth, Rogi, rohanquizzer, Sumanth Patlolla, jowens, Bharath, badideabear, raklodramA, Rahulk, shrik, Rajesh, rickde, Ananth, Shwetha Maiya, debjani, Vicky and Thejas V R


Part 2?

—srikanth @ December 29, 2011

Tell us the story connecting (1), (2) and (3)

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Slow

—devadutta @ December 26, 2011

What is this?

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Quoting Bharat


Boom!

—srikanth @ December 24, 2011

What is?

Cracked by: sanador, Sumanth Patlolla, Logik, shrik, badideabear, jowens, KK, rohanquizzer, Rajesh, Rahulk, raklodramA, hapadapa, Manish Achuth, Dibyo, Nandha K Samy, rickde, Anjul, Shwetha Maiya, Rogi, Ananth, Prasad and Vishwas B Sharma

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A mockup of some of the detectors of the LHC made using Lego blocks :)


Get the ghost.

—srikanth @ December 23, 2011

Two random items connected by a name. What?

Cracked by: rohanquizzer, Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, Logik, shrik, badideabear, jowens, Raghuvansh, KK, Rahulk, raklodramA, rickde and Rogi

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The Ceratophys frog, also called the Pac-man frog because of its shape.


High entropy?

—srikanth @ December 20, 2011

There are many connections between (1) and (2), and this is just one. (1) hired (2) to run (3). Identify 1, 2 and 3 please.

Cracked by: Manish Achuth, KK, Ashwini Kumar, Rogi, Raghuvansh, rickde, shrik, Rajesh, Aditya S, rohanquizzer, Sumanth Patlolla, jowens, badideabear, Bharath, Ananth and Rahulk

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Vannevar Bush (1) and his team were among the first people to construct a usable differential analyzer machine (3). Interestingly enough, Claude Shannon (3) was hired as a Research Assistant to help run the machine!


Google can also do it!

—devadutta @ December 17, 2011

Sitter. First of its kind. Identify.

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The first ever graphing calculator.


F**k Pluto.

—srikanth @ December 16, 2011

Identify.

This is not a serious question at all.

Cracked by: Shrey Goyal, rohanquizzer, Sumanth Patlolla, jowens, shrik, Logik, Manish Achuth, Rogi, Rahulk, badideabear, Rajesh and Bharath

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Neil deGrasse Tyson, the american scientist.


But the dawn is brief.

—srikanth @ December 14, 2011

What’s special about these? Bits have been edited out to increase suspense.

Cracked by: Rogi, badideabear, Raghuvansh, Manish Achuth, Ananth, KK, Dibyo, Sumanth Patlolla, Rahulk, Aditya S, shrik, Amarendra Kumar, rohanquizzer, rickde, jowens and Shwetha Maiya

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LOTR book covers designed by Tolkien himself.