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Black and white....

—srikanth @ April 17, 2011

Identify famous book.

Book has incredibly annoying TV-show named after it. Not that I ever watch the show.

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, shrey, Mo, Ananth, Rogi, shrik, jowens, rohit, Manish Achuth, Dibyo, rohanquizzer, Debasish, Martin Antony, jins, Sanador, krikkrak, Sumanth Patlolla, Siddarth Pai, aditthya, krudebox, S M MUNEER ALI, udupendra, dineshk, grey_matters, Aravind, varun, Shwetha Maiya, Jayaprakash B R, Thejas V R, Pawankumar Hegde, raklodramA and Riyaz Usman

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This book is popularly called Gray’s Anatomy. Sitter.


Apple of his eye.

—srikanth @ April 16, 2011

Whose eye?

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, aditthya, Sumanth Patlolla, Siddarth Pai, Riyaz Usman, Ananth, KK, shrik, Manish Achuth, jowens, Dibyo, Rogi, dineshk, raklodramA, rohanquizzer, Thejas V R, smhashmi123, udupendra, jins, Mo, Bharat, krudebox, Shwetha Maiya and Pawankumar Hegde

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This is Isaac Newton’s diagram of an experiment where he stuck a needle under his eyeball and twisted it around to check how the colours would change.


Bleeping magnets.. how do they work?

—devadutta @ April 15, 2011

What is this?

Video link for the Flash challenged.

Cracked by: S M MUNEER ALI, Rahul Rajeev, Rogi, shrik, Raghuvansh, jowens, Manish Achuth, Ananth, aditthya, Siddarth Pai, Sumanth Patlolla, Riyaz Usman, Dibyo, dineshk, raklodramA, Moju21, Thejas V R, smhashmi123 and udupendra

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Ferrofluids – Ferromagnetic particles suspended in a liquid takes these weird shapes when subjected to magnetic fields.


Burning love!

—devadutta @ April 14, 2011

Which now super popular software started off with 1 as its logo?

They got into trademark disputes etc and eventually changed the name to what it is now.

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Sumanth Patlolla, Anjul, Manish Achuth, Rogi, Debasish, shrey, jins, Jean Valjean, shrik, Riyaz Usman, aditthya, Antariksh Bothale, vinayaknp, Sandor, Dibyo, Ananth, sandeep bhat, Siddarth Pai, dineshk, KK, Logik, Mo, jowens, S M MUNEER ALI, Rahul Rajeev, chaitanya, piezocake, Atul Mathew, raklodramA, rohanquizzer, Shwetha Maiya and Moju21

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FireFox, which was earlier called Phoenix and later Firebird


Tick tock

—srikanth @ April 13, 2011

Identify.

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Ananth, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Rogi, shrik, Dibyo, Siddarth Pai, dineshk, Logik and jowens

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Hello Kitty

—devadutta @ April 12, 2011

Mascot of a “famous” company from the early 2000s. Which company?

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

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Pets.com, another .com bubble flop


1up

—srikanth @ April 11, 2011

Audio sitter. Identify the band.

[audio:13apr2011q.mp3]

Sorry for late post folks.

Cracked by: udupendra, shrik, Ananth, Raghuvansh, Rogi, dineshk, jowens, Thejas V R, aditthya, krudebox and raklodramA

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The NESkimos - a nintendocore band that pretty much always played music of this sort :)


SYN

—devadutta @ April 10, 2011

Favorite tool of many recent Internet “rebels”. Identify

Hint:

Cracked by: Ananth, shrik, Rogi, dineshk, Shwetha Maiya, Manish Achuth, Raghuvansh, Aravind, jayaprakashbr, krudebox, raklodramA, jowens, Siddarth Pai, Sumanth Patlolla, Dibyo, Logik, aditthya, Thejas V R, udupendra and Prasad

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Low Orbit Ion Canon – The tool used to DDoS web-pages.


Once upon a time..

—devadutta @ April 9, 2011

Guest Question from %gqh% Manish Achutha. Thanks saar!

What is happening here?

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, udupendra, Manish Achuth, Atul Mathew, jins, raklodramA, Cunning Linguist, krudebox, Rogi, Thejas V R, Anjul, Sumanth Patlolla, rohanquizzer, aditthya, Shwetha Maiya, Siddarth Pai, KK, shrik, Logik, grey_matters, Aravind, shrey, Dibyo, bobo, Mo, Sanador, jowens and dineshk

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This was how the iconic text crawl for Star Wars movies were made. Now it is just drag and drop in iMovie.


quack();

—srikanth @ April 8, 2011

I’m probably going to get roasted for this question, but here goes.

(1) (most likey) said something about (2) that created a “test”. This test is used as the definition of a programming concept. Name the concept.

Cracked by: Ananth, jowens, Raghuvansh, Dibyo, Abhilash Bhandari, dineshk, aditthya, Rogi, Manish Achuth, shrey, shrik, Sumanth Patlolla, Logik, udupendra, krudebox, raklodramA, Thejas V R, Rahulk, Shwetha Maiya, jins and Siddarth Pai

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Duck Typing. Look it up.