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Professional Witness

—srikanth @ September 3, 2010

Fully-formed guest question from Rogi - the latest winner of the shiny

The gentleman in (1) created the device in the foreground of (2) with all the stickers on it.
If you can tell us what the stickers are, we’ll assume you know who he is and what he created.

Got more questions? [email protected] awaits.

Cracked by jowens, Rogi, Bharath and shrik

Check out Rogi’s answer for the full details.


The other phone

—devadutta @ September 2, 2010

Simple. What is this phone called? (It is blanked out in the image below)

Cracked by: jowens, krudebox, username, Rogi, Logik, Bharath, shrik, Dibyo, Ganesh Prasad, Raghuvansh, Ananth, Manish Achuth, Bipin Banavalikar, madhur, Jean Valjean, dheeraj, varuns88, vijayaraghavan, udupendra, Hitesh T S, v.chandrashekar, Rahulk, Gurupad, Sumanth Patlolla, Thejas V R, Qbrain, Shwetha Maiya, Vinay Nair Karath, raklodramA and lanu


0 calories

—srikanth @ September 1, 2010

What is connection?

Cracked by everyone.

Rogi, Dibyo, jowens, byslexia, shrik, Manish Achuth, Ananth, Gurupad, lanu, Qbrain, Shwetha Maiya, Rahulk, udupendra, Thejas V R, Vinay Nair Karath, Sumanth Patlolla, krudebox, nishansolo, username, Logik, Bharath, Bipin Banavalikar, Jean Valjean, dheeraj, varuns88 and v.chandrashekar


Ha Ha!-ic

—srikanth @ August 30, 2010

These are examples of a certain class of devices (x) manufactured by a certain company (y). x & y?

Cracked by udupendra, username, vijayaraghavan, jowens, Bharath, shrik, Rogi, Ananth, Manish Achuth, Gurupad, raklodramA, lanu, Thejas V R, Dibyo, Bheema V, v.chandrashekar, Rahul Rajeev, krudebox, Logik, Qbrain and Shwetha Maiya


The future is here?

—devadutta @ August 29, 2010

Identify and connect.

We sent out mails to Boiledbeans t-shirt winners today. We do not have working email IDs for the following people.

username
Auysh Agarwal
vinay.tk

Please send an email to [email protected]

Cracked by: prasanth, Girish, shrik, udupendra, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, krudebox, Logik, Gurupad, Rahul Rajeev, nishansolo, vijayaraghavan, Rogi, Ananth, Bharath, jowens, byslexia, Jean Valjean, v.chandrashekar, Rahulk, username, Anurag Sharma, Chaitanya, lanu, Bheema V, Qbrain, Bipin Banavalikar, Dibyo, raklodramA, joe, Xanda, Thejas V R and Shwetha Maiya

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Marty McFly wears a self lacing shoe in “Back to the future part 2” which was recently patented by Nike. They will probably bring it to production soon.


They're getting faster!

—srikanth @ August 28, 2010

What’s the name of the artist responsible?

Cracked by everyone.

shrik, Vasanth Kamath, Prateek Agarwal, Ananth, Logik, Jean Valjean, Dibyo, Rogi, Girish, lanu, udupendra, Rahul Rajeev, Manish Achuth, krudebox, jowens, Thejas V R, Qbrain, Bheema V, Bharath, Shwetha Maiya and Rahulk


http://guitarist.

—srikanth @ August 27, 2010

Fully framed guest question from logik!
W - founded by the people shown in (1)
X - The company that currently runs W.
The speaker adopted a very famous nickname Y, in reference to a section in the book (3) ..
Give me W, and Y

Cracked by udupendra, Logik, Manish Achuth, Rogi, shrik, Bharath, Raghuvansh, Dibyo, Qbrain, Girish, lanu, Rahulk, jowens and Thejas V R.

Check out Logik’s comment for the answer, of course :)


Question asking question

—devadutta @ August 26, 2010

Simple. Lego recreation of which masterpiece?

Cracked by: Logik, Gurupad, Ananth, Goyal, SV, shrik, byslexia, Bheema V, Girish, krudebox, Manish Achuth, Rogi, Bharath, Anjul, username, v.chandrashekar, Dibyo, dheeraj, Vasanth Kamath, Vardhan Shenoy, Rahulk, Qbrain, dineshk, Rahul Rajeev, vijayaraghavan, lanu and Jean Valjean

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Ascending and Descending by M.C. Escher


TRUE.

—srikanth @ August 25, 2010

Identify this husband-and-wife couple - who together run a famous website (that has stopped many an email forward in its tracks :p) :

A very roundabout clue below. Pseudobonus points for identifying how the clue links to the question :)

Cracked by Logik, Gurupad, shrik, Girish, krudebox, byslexia, SV, Rogi, dineshk, Raghuvansh, Manish Achuth, Ananth, v.chandrashekar, username, Vasanth Kamath, Smitha R Maiya, Rahulk, Qbrain, lanu, Shwetha Maiya, raklodramA, Thejas V R, Dibyo, Prateek Agarwal, udupendra, ht, joe, Atul Mathew, Sumanth Patlolla, Bharath, Rahul Rajeev, Bheema V and Vardhan Shenoy


Who is it?

—devadutta @ August 24, 2010

Company X that manufactured computers like the one below has its name in the history books as the first to “register” something. What?

Cracked by: username, Ananth, shrik, Rogi, Raghuvansh, Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, krudebox, Dibyo, raklodramA, Nanda, Shwetha Maiya, Rahulk, lanu, Qbrain, Vasanth Kamath, Rahul Rajeev, Vardhan Shenoy, Bheema V, udupendra, SV, Bharath, Gurupad, Logik, dineshk, v.chandrashekar, Thejas V R, mankuTimma and nishansolo