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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!
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.
Identify this Nobel laureate.
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Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, liquefied Helium, discovered superconductivity. Super cool dude.
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
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.
Sitter. Top 5 of which list?
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Google Zeitgeist 2010
Alright, let’s get this question out of the way before it becomes another tech-quiz cliche :p. Who is the author?
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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.
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.
What are these molecules known as?

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Nanoputian – Molecules whose structural formulae look like humans!
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”