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Smorter than the average bear?

—srikanth @ May 10, 2011

Identify.

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, badideabear, jowens, Ananth, shrik, dineshk, Dibyo, Rogi, Manish Achuth, raklodramA, shenoyvarun86, udupendra, s m muneer ali, krudebox, rohanquizzer, Siddarth Pai, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish, Thejas V R, vishwanath and sandeep bhat

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Hidetsugu Yagi, holding up a Yagi-Uda antenna.


Finally?

—devadutta @ May 8, 2011

%gqh% krudebox had sent us a very similar question a few days ago but we had not seen it. So, we are marking this question as his contribution.

Identify the “game”

Cracked by: Jayaprakash B R, udupendra, badideabear, shrik, Sumanth Patlolla, Ananth, dineshk, Rogi, jowens, Anjul, Manish Achuth, Dibyo, Raghuvansh, Thejas V R, Siddarth Pai, krudebox and raklodramA

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KumaWar’s game to assassinate Bin Laden.


Before Google

—srikanth @ May 7, 2011

Identify this late-19th-century/early-20th-century inventor. He created some famous cameras, steganography techniques and also what some call the first electronic ‘search engine’ for searching for documents.

Cracked by: shenoyvarun86, jowens, badideabear, dineshk, Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, Raghuvansh, raklodramA, udupendra, shrik, vishwanath, Dibyo, Rogi, Shwetha Maiya, Ananth, Siddarth Pai, Supreeth, Thejas V R and krudebox

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Emanuel Goldberg.


Zero G at the earth.

—srikanth @ May 6, 2011

This term has its origins in an old kind of memory (pictured below). The term remains popular in programming (well, debugging) circles with a very similar meaning to how it originated, although the technology has moved on. (Variants of the term are often used, however, to mean things that have nothing to do at all about the origin, especially among management types). What term?

Cracked by: badideabear, Raghuvansh, jowens, Anjul, dineshk, shrik, Ananth, Rogi, vishwanath, Siddarth Pai, shenoyvarun86, Manish Achuth, mrsgollum, udupendra and Aravind

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‘Core Dump’. Core dumps would dump the state of ferrite core memory (pic) to allow programmers to debug causes for crash.


Not an ad campaign, we swear.

—srikanth @ May 5, 2011

What’s the connection? Don’t look too deep.

Cracked by: badideabear, Rogi, jowens and dineshk

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Jonathon Coulton singing ‘Still Alive’ the end credits song of Portal, and Lisa Miskovsky’s official music video of her song ‘Still Alive’, used in the game Mirror’s Edge. Two wonderful tracks in two amazing games, coincidentally sharing the same name!


Ages 3-100

—srikanth @ May 4, 2011

Geek overload in this one. Name the set -

Cracked by: shrik, Raghuvansh, Rogi, jowens, raklodramA, dineshk, Ananth, Manish Achuth, Dibyo, Shwetha Maiya and udupendra

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Maia Weinstock’s Scitweeps - set of lego minifigs of science personalities with twitter accounts :)


As light as.. wait, that wont work

—devadutta @ May 3, 2011

Famous video, famous experiment. What did this experiment confirm?

Yep, the audio is muted out.

Cracked by: badideabear, jowens, Aravind, shrik, Raghuvansh, Dibyo, Ananth, Thejas V R, Rogi, dineshk, shrey, udupendra, vinayaknp, krudebox, Nanda, Mo, krikkrak and Manish Achuth

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The famous footage of the Apollo 15 astronaut that dropped a hammer & feather on the moon to prove Galileo’s theory that in the absence of atmosphere, objects will fall at the same rate regardless of mass. – Quoting Manish


Addictive

—devadutta @ April 30, 2011

Identify and connect.

Eye candy. Yay!

Cracked by: udupendra, raklodramA, shrik, rohanquizzer, shrey, Urthstripe, krudebox, Ananth, Siddarth Pai, dineshk, Rogi, jowens, yniu, badideabear, duriel, Manish Achuth, Raghuvansh, Sumanth Patlolla, lanu, Dibyo, Aravind, Shwetha Maiya, Thejas V R, Pharmd14 and Pharme684

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Alesia Glidewell is the body and voice model for Chell in Portal – Quoting Thejas V R


Maybe MS can get a lifetime achievement award?

—srikanth @ April 29, 2011

OK the snide remark in the title was wholly unnecessary.

Identify the award:

Cracked by: jowens, Urthstripe, Logik, Rogi, Manish Achuth, dineshk, udupendra, jins, shrik, badideabear and Raghuvansh

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The ‘pwnie’ awards, handed out every year for people who’ve made good/bad achievements in security research.


We are everywhere.

—devadutta @ April 28, 2011

Who made these watches and coffee makers?

well, yes, name the “biggest” company involved. Bonus cookie points if you name the common “technology” these two used.

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Ananth, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, vishwanath, shrik, Smitha R Maiya, Thejas V R, dineshk, jowens, udupendra, rohanquizzer, Logik and Shwetha Maiya

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Well, yes, Microsoft made watches and coffee makers (Software for it). It was called SPOT: Smart Personal Objects Technology. Good old glory days of tech randomness :D