Category: Rigged Timestamp
One of the world’s most talked about companies. For all the wrong reasons. Which company?
Cracked by: jowens, Ananth, Rogi, dineshk, shrik, Raghuvansh, Shwetha Maiya, KK, Dibyo, raklodramA, krudebox, Sumanth Patlolla, rohanquizzer, abinash sharma, krikkrak, Siddarth Pai, Jins, Thejas V R, Manish Achuth and s m muneer ali
webvan.com, the biggest flop of the .com bubble!
Logo for an ‘app’ that would’ve probably made facebook a lot more popular, and given lawyers something else to chew on for a while. Identify.
Cracked by: udupendra, Ananth, shrik, Rogi, Raghuvansh, Sumanth Patlolla, Dibyo, jowens, KK, Manish Achuth, rohanquizzer, Siddarth Pai, abinash sharma, Thejas V R, s m muneer ali, raklodramA, dineshk, Shwetha Maiya and krudebox
Wirehog - a peer-to-peer filesharing system created by Zuckerberg, Sean parker and David Kirkpatrick.
Guest question from %gqh% Satya Saha.
What principle is depicted here?
Cracked by: raklodramA, rohanquizzer, Raghuvansh, shrik, Rogi, Siddarth Pai, S M MUNEER ALI, dineshk, Sumanth Patlolla, Ananth, KK, jowens, udupendra, Dibyo, Manish Achuth, abinash sharma, Thejas V R, Shwetha Maiya and krudebox
Quoting wikipedia - “Reproduction of a page of Ibn Sahl’s manuscript showing his discovery of the law of refraction, now known as Snell’s law.”
This fabric lends its name to a visual artifact in digital video/imaging. Identify.
PS: apologies for superlate post. Gremlins got my internet connection this time.
Cracked by: Rogi, jowens, Raghuvansh, Anjul, shrik, Logik, dineshk and udupendra
The so-called “Moire pattern” is named after the Moire fabric. Interference between closely-spaced sets of parallel lines causes the strange patterns that you see very frequently when people wear stripes on TV :-)
What product did this guy create? Hint - the object in his hand matters.
Cracked by: Ananth, Rogi, shrik, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, jowens, Raghuvansh, KK, abinash sharma, S M MUNEER ALI, Siddarth Pai, Dibyo, Abhilash Bhandari, dineshk, Thejas V R, rohanquizzer and raklodramA
Apache Hadoop. Pictured is Doug Cutting holding his son’s stuffed toy called Hadoop. He named the famous framework after this toy :)
What is happening here?
Cracked by: udupendra, jowens, Rogi, Aravind, dineshk, Raghuvansh, Anjul and Logik
Images from Google Earth, thats all :)
What is this?
Cracked by: Debasish, udupendra, shrik, Siddarth Pai, KK, rohanquizzer, krikkrak, jowens, raklodramA, Logik, Ananth, Rogi, Dibyo, Aravind, Mo, dineshk, Sumanth Patlolla, S M MUNEER ALI, Manish Achuth, krudebox, Thejas V R, Raghuvansh and Vardhan Shenoy
Schienenzeppelin or Rail Zeppelin! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schienenzeppelin
Explain why.
Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Rogi, rohanquizzer, shrey, Anjul, Dibyo, KK, Siddarth Pai, shrik, Ananth, jowens, Sumanth Patlolla, SV, dineshk, jins, abinash, shubhang, raklodramA, Logik, Nanda, Mo, Aravind, Shwetha Maiya, Thejas V R and krudebox
Doppler Shift
This was first proposed by (1), used around the earth by (2), used in interplanetary travel by (3), and still remains in use by (4). What?
Cracked by: shrik, jowens, Rogi, Dibyo, krudebox, dineshk, Ananth and Raghuvansh
The Gravitational Slingshot, or Gravity Assist. Developed by Michael Minovitch. Used by Luna 3, Mariner 10, and now most recently by MESSENGER (which just inserted itself into orbit around Mercury!)
What are these curves known as?
Cracked by: Rogi, jowens, Sumanth Patlolla, Siddarth Pai, Shwetha Maiya, jins, kage, shrik and dineshk
Rose Curves!
