What connects?

Cracked by: shrik, Bharath, Rogi, dineshk, Ananth, Sumanth Patlolla, vinayaknp, Manish Achuth, jowens, Dibyo, puneet_k, rohanquizzer, Thejas V R, sandesh, raklodramA, Sohail Nijas, Rahul Rajeev, v.chandrashekar, lotuseater, Logik, vijayaraghavan, Kaustubh, vkamath, Shwetha Maiya and mankuTimma

Where would you see this?

Cracked by: Ananth, Rogi, Kaustubh, jowens, Dibyo, dineshk, Anjul, KK, Tushar S, Sumanth Patlolla, Sanador, xeqtor, Manoj Venkat, Shwetha Maiya, Thejas V R, vinayaknp, Rahul Rajeev, soumya g, Manish Achuth, Siddarth Pai, Inglourious, mankuTimma, puneet_k, Moju21, Sohail Nijas, rohanquizzer, Mo, cnik, shrik and Bharath

Identify

Cracked by: KK, Sumanth Patlolla, Sohail Nijas, vinayaknp, Bharath, Moju21, Rahul Rajeev, lotuseater, Tushar S, shrey, Rogi, Kaustubh, madhur, dineshk, Ananth, Dibyo, Manish Achuth, Shwetha Maiya, Thejas V R, puneet_k, v.chandrashekar, lanu, Sanador, rohanquizzer, Aditya Date, cnik and jowens

(Very borderline geeky) What phrase has its origins in this seemingly trivial device?

Cracked by: Rogi, xeqtor, dineshk, vinayaknp, Dibyo, puneet_k, Whattra, cnik, Manish Achuth, Rahul Rajeev, udupendra, Siddarth Pai, Sumanth Patlolla, v.chandrashekar, shrik, Moju21, lotuseater, Ananth, Bharath, duriel, Sanador, Kaustubh, jowens, Atul Mathew and Thejas V R

Yay obscure meme question time! Identify the animal.

Pseudo-bonus points for full context.

Cracked by: Tushar S, Logik, puneet_k, Raghuvansh, jowens, Kaustubh, Rogi, Rahul Rajeev, dineshk, Bharath, Dibyo, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, buk, vinayaknp, Siddarth Pai, Ananth, Moju21, Higgers, v.chandrashekar, Prachi, shrik, wanderlust, sandesh, udupendra, Thejas V R, syed muneer ali, lotuseater, Sohail Nijas, Shwetha Maiya, raklodramA, Mo and duriel

This question (including the title clue) comes to us from %gqh% Rogi!

What is this device?

Cracked by: Rogi and jowens

See stage-1 for the rules.

4 variables here (D, E, F, G). Get all 4 right to get 1 point.

D was a famous syntax convention invented much, much later by famous programmer **E during **his employment at F. Although D and B sound similar the connection between the two is, at best, a play on words. The only similarity between D and B is that both are named after the nation-of-origin of their creator. C and F on the other hand, have had a fairly long and fairly amenable relationship. C and F teamed up hoping to pre-empt the announcement of device G last year, but that flopped. Although they hit the market a month before G, no one heard of their device.

Cracked by dineshk, Kaustubh, Rogi, apar, jowens, p vs np, puneet_k, shrik, Sumanth Patlolla, Dibyo, Bharath, Pawankumar Hegde, madhur, lanu, Raghuvansh, Qbrain, vinayaknp, udupendra and Siddarth Pai

A slight twist. Three questions, back-to-back, all related. All you need to do is tell us what the variables A through K stand for.

Anyone who gets the whole set gets a bonus point. All questions remain open for 3 more days!

This post has 3 variables (A, B, C). Get all 3 right to get 1 point :-)

Eastern-european logician A invented B around 1920 in order to simplify sentences used in propositional calculus. B remained in use largely in logic and didn’t see much interest in mainstream arithmetic. Despite this, a “reversed” version of B became popular with some electronic devices, notably those from company C! The devices from C, especially, have become iconic and gained a cult following. (Though many people consider them to be merely a curiosity, C’s devices have some very advanced arithmetic in them and a Turing Award winning UCBerkeley maths/CS prof was involved in their design!).

Cracked by Rogi(2), dineshk(2), Kaustubh(2), jowens(2), p vs np(2), puneet_k(2), Sumanth Patlolla(2), shrik(2), Dibyo(2), vinayaknp(2), Bharath(2), Pawankumar Hegde(2), madhur(2), Qbrain(2), lanu(2), Goyal, buk, Anjul, apar, Siddarth Pai and Aravind

And these people got the **bonus point! **

Rogi, dineshk, Kaustubh, jowens, p vs np, puneet_k, Sumanth Patlolla, shrik, Dibyo, vinayaknp, Bharath, Pawankumar Hegde, madhur, Qbrain, lanu,

In homage to what?

Cracked by: dineshk, Atul Mathew, puneet_k, Qbrain, duriel, Pawankumar Hegde, Rogi, Anjul, Ananth, Manish Achuth, jowens, Rahul Rajeev, Moju21, shrik, v.chandrashekar, Thejas V R, vijayaraghavan, Kaustubh, apar, Bharath and aditthya

Where would you find this?

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Dibyo, Siddarth Pai, Rogi, Raghuvansh, Rahul Rajeev, Tushar S, Pawankumar Hegde, dineshk, Shwetha Maiya, shrik, jowens, Kaustubh, v.chandrashekar, Bharath, rohanquizzer, raklodramA, lanu, apar, Sanador, mankuTimma, Qbrain, xeqtor, duriel, aditthya, Ananth and Moju21