Category: Rigged Timestamp
Identify and connect
Cracked by: Rogi, Ananth, vinayaknp, Jayaprakash B R, Sumanth Patlolla, KK, raklodramA, duriel, Dibyo, mankuTimma, Manish Achuth, chetana and Bipin Banavalikar
Merrie Curie named Radium F as Polonium as a way to bring world’s attention to Poland’s political crisis.
Stamps commemorating who? Who else did something similar a lot later?
Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, KK, Rogi, Logik, Ananth, Amarendra Kumar, Saugata Chakraborty, Supritha Maiya and Siddarth Pai
Oscar Reutersvärd. The mathematician Roger Penrose independently re-created the Penrose triangle impossible figure years later.
Simple - connect:
Cracked by: Jayaprakash B R, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Supritha Maiya, KK, Rogi and Ananth
(2) was named after the nobel laureate Charles Hard Townes (1)
This is the wolframalpha solution to a question. That question is representative of a particular style of questions. What are the style of questions called?
Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth and Mo
Fermi Problems - this specifically is “How many Piano Tuners are there in Chicago”. Fermi’s approximation was 125. WA has 250 based on actual data.
What is the man in the lab coat holding? WTF is it all about?
Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, KK, Supritha Maiya, Manish Achuth, Rogi and Ananth
A spherical cow of uniform density - a parody animal that’s frequently used to point out how ridiculous the “assumptions” underlying physics work are.
What famous problem does this try to describe?
Cracked by: KK, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Supritha Maiya, Amarendra Kumar, Rogi, Siddarth Pai, Kaustubh Mhatre, Ananth, debjani and hitchhiker
The Multi-Armed Bandit
Identify/connect to the brain:
Cracked by: KK, Sumanth Patlolla and Manish Achuth
Paul Broca and Carl Wernicke - discovered the major speech centers of the human brain
What specific term was used to describe images such as these? The 3 below are representative (perhaps even iconic) of the term, but by no means an exhaustive collection.
Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Supritha Maiya, Rogi, Siddarth Pai, Ananth and Manish Achuth
Composographs
Identify the art installation.
Cracked by: Supritha Maiya, KK and Manish Achuth
Movable type, at the NY times.
Identify the company whose technology is being demonstrated here
Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, Supritha Maiya, KK and Siddarth Pai
BrainGate - a sensor implanted in the brain being used to control a robot arm.