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What single institution connects this bunch?
Cracked by: username, Dibyo, Thejas V R, Manish Achuth, mankuTimma, raklodramA, KK, jowens, Bharath, amarendra, Aditya S, Urthstripe, Bipin Banavalikar, Sumanth Patlolla, badideabear, Rogi, Rahulk, rickde, anirvan, shrik, Siddarth Pai and anurag
The Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth. All these personalities participated in CTY programs!
Guest question from %gqh% Manish Achuth.
What is this? Identify the dude in the video.
Cracked by: username, badideabear, raklodramA, shrik, Manish Achuth, jowens, Urthstripe, anurag, Rogi, Thejas V R and Siddarth Pai
This is the Unimate, first ever industrial robotic arm. Invented by George Devol.
Identify the flowers. Pseudo bonus points for the full story :)
PS: wikipedia-copy-pasta is not needed :)
Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Urthstripe, grey_matters, Shwetha Maiya, Manish Achuth, Ananth, Dibyo, Sumanth Patlolla, Anonymous, jowens, raklodramA, anurag, shrik, Thejas V R, badideabear, rickde, username, s m muneer ali, amarendra, Rogi, Bharath, thiru d gr8, Rahul Rajeev, mankuTimma, vishwanath and Rahulk
Kimiljongia flowers (1) and Kimilsungia flowers (2), specially created for the Fearless Leaders of North Korea :) The Kimiljungia, in fact, is designed to bloom every year during Kim Il-Jong’s birthday.
What connects?
This list is by no means exhaustive, although it is in chronological order :)
EDIT: Added one more, on public demand:
Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Urthstripe, Manish Achuth, Ananth, Shwetha Maiya, Dibyo, Anonymous, jowens, Sumanth Patlolla, raklodramA, Bipin Banavalikar, shrik, Thejas V R, amarendra, rickde, username, Rogi, Bharath, Rahul Rajeev, mankuTimma, Swarun, Logik, anurag, badideabear and Manoj Venkat
Sitters ahoy! What’s blanked out?
Cracked by: Urthstripe, Jayaprakash B R, jowens, shrik, badideabear, SV, Mayukh Bose, username, Rogi, Manish Achuth, Bharath, KK, anurag, Ananth, raklodramA, rickde, Bipin Banavalikar, Martin, mankuTimma, amarendra, Sumanth Patlolla, Dibyo, vinayaknp, Rahul Rajeev, Shwetha Maiya, Thejas V R, me, Nanda, s m muneer ali, Siddarth Pai, Logik, Mo, Raghuvansh and Abinash
Captain James T. Kirk :)
Slightly borderline question.
Connect the three to a specific work of art.
Cracked by: Urthstripe, jowens, shrik, badideabear, Mayukh Bose, username, Rogi, Manish Achuth, Bharath, Ananth, raklodramA, Bipin Banavalikar, amarendra, Sumanth Patlolla, Dibyo, Rahul Rajeev, anurag, Shwetha Maiya and Thejas V R
The so-called “First Cylindric Chrono-Hologram: Portrait of Alice Cooper’s Brain” was an artwork by Salvador Dali featuring Alice Cooper captured in a Hologram.
Who was the inventor?
PS: Happy Independence Day to our Indian quizzers!
Cracked by: KK, Rogi, shrik, Rahulk, amarendra, Thejas V R, username, raklodramA, Sumanth Patlolla, Bharath, mankuTimma, Manish Achuth, jowens, Siddarth Pai, Rahul Rajeev, Urthstripe, Ananth, Dibyo, badideabear, rickde, anurag, Swarun, Mayukh Bose and Bipin Banavalikar
Al-Jazari, the famous polymath who lived in mesopotamia and made some really funky things.
Identify the ‘kit’ in the pic below:
Cracked by: Raghuvansh, rickde, Thejas V R, Rahul Rajeev, Rogi, KK, jowens, thiru d gr8, Bharath, amarendra, rohanquizzer, Siddarth Pai, Ananth, Abhiram Bharadwaj Diddigi, Swarun, anurag, shrik, username, Sumanth Patlolla, Shwetha Maiya, Urthstripe, Dibyo, Manish Achuth, Chaitanya, badideabear, raklodramA, Rahulk and Bipin Banavalikar
The Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab - a kit meant to get kids interested in atomic energy that included geiger counters and radiation sources :|
The ages-old predecessor to this object is probably far more popular than the object itself. Nevertheless, identify the object in the picture.
Cracked by: Rogi, raklodramA, Siddarth Pai, username, anurag, Thejas V R, Ananth, Bharath, KK, Logik, amarendra, jowens, rickde, Raghuvansh, kapinjal chowdhury, Rahul Rajeev, Aravind, Swarun, shrik, Sumanth Patlolla, Shwetha Maiya, Urthstripe, Dibyo, Manish Achuth, badideabear, Rahulk and Bipin Banavalikar
Version 1.0 of the “Rosetta disk”, created by the Long Now foundation. The disk attempts to record all languages that might go extinct in the near future.
Co-Founder of 2 very important mobile companies. Who he?
Cracked by: jowens, Goyal, raklodramA, KK, Bipin Banavalikar, badideabear, Thejas V R, username, Shwetha Maiya, Rogi, Raghuvansh, rickde, rohanquizzer, Nagendra U M, Sumanth Patlolla, Bharath-TK, Bharath, shrik, Jayaprakash B R, Rahulk, Manish Achuth, Amarendra, Siddarth Pai, vishwanath, Smitha R Maiya, Swarun, SV, thiru d gr8, Ananth, Dibyo, VK, s m muneer ali and dhruv
Andy Rubin, co-founder of Danger and Android