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Shiny

—devadutta @ December 13, 2010

Guest question from krudebox %gqh%. Thank you, sire!

Fresh off the press. If you had solved the problem on the board before anybody else, what would you have won for yourself?

This is a frame-grab from a recently popular video made by a popular company announcing a new product. Needless to say, someone already solved it!

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This is a video made for the release Google’s Chrome OS and some dude named Sylvain Zimmer solved the problem on the blackboard to win himself a Cr-48 laptop!


Is this statement a lie?

—srikanth @ December 12, 2010

Identify the source of the extract.

Pseudo-bonus points for identifying the specific item being talked about in this clip :)

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Logicomix, a graphic novel that follows the life of Bertrand Russell and talks about some foundational concepts of mathematics.


Cool dude.

—devadutta @ December 11, 2010

Identify this Nobel laureate.

Hint:

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Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, liquefied Helium, discovered superconductivity. Super cool dude.


Probably won't last as long though.

—srikanth @ December 10, 2010

Modern day replica of what?

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A fully functional replica of the Antikythera mechanism built out of Lego parts, by a certain Mr Andrew Carol


Purple ink

—devadutta @ December 9, 2010

Guest question from udupendra %gqh%. Thanks saar!

Identify this person pictured here with an award that calls him a pioneer, and what is his claim to fame?

Sorry for the delay folks. Question will be kept open longer.

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Quoting udupendra: Hari Krishna Prasad Vemuru, who discovered security flaws in the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) used in Indian elections. He was awarded an EFF Pioneer award for his efforts.


The list

—devadutta @ December 8, 2010

Sitter. Top 5 of which list?

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Google Zeitgeist 2010


Cumuloblogus

—srikanth @ December 7, 2010

Alright, let’s get this question out of the way before it becomes another tech-quiz cliche :p. Who is the author?

Cracked by: Pawankumar Hegde, apar, Kaustubh, Bharath, shrey, Mikey, jowens, Anjul, Dibyo, dineshk, Rogi, Ananth, lanu, Piyush, shrik, Thejas V R, Logik, aditthya, duriel, krudebox, Vinay Nair Karath, Moju21, SS and udupendra

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Image is the cover of “With a little help”, Cory Doctorow’s self-published short story collection. The image on the cover is, of course, one of the recurring characters on XKCD - a stick figure that represents Cory.


Self-answering question

—srikanth @ December 6, 2010

A guest question from Piyush who gets the shiny.

What’s special about this formula?

PS: Sorry for the delay, folks.

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A self-referential formula defined by Jeff Tupper that, when graphed in two dimensions, can visually reproduce the formula itself.


Very Small

—devadutta @ December 5, 2010

What are these molecules known as?

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Nanoputian – Molecules whose structural formulae look like humans!


2250

—srikanth @ December 4, 2010

Computer history trivia: Look at the picture, and tell us what the computer on the right is called.

Bonus points for naming the famous bearded man.

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In 1977 at Bell Laboratories, Ken Thompson (beard) and Joe Condon developed a custom chess-playing computer called “Belle”