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Never too late?

—devadutta @ June 16, 2010

Something that happened recently connects 1 to people like 2, 3. What?

Cracked by: Logik, udupendra, Jean Valjean, varuns88, Rogi, dineshk, Sumanth Patlolla, krudebox, shrik, Shwetha Maiya, Thejas V R, Avneeth, Manish Achuth and Siddharth Jain

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Edison won a Grammy this year. Its funny, because the Grammy is named after Edison’s invention.


Drill, baby, drill

—srikanth @ June 15, 2010

Stamp commemorating what urban-legend-causing structure?

Cracked by everyone! Also, turns out that shenoyvarun86 sent us this question more than a year ago, so this is a guest question and shenoyvarun86 get’s the shiney

Logik, Raghuvansh, Rogi, Ananth, byslexia, Dibyo, Manish Achuth, dineshk, KK, Sumanth Patlolla, Shwetha Maiya, shrik, Bharath, Xanda, krudebox, lanu, Qbrain, Thejas V R, Aravindh, Anubhav, Kaiser Soze, udupendra, varuns88, shenoyvarun86 and Aparna


Say that again?

—srikanth @ June 13, 2010

Who connects:

Cracked by shrik, varuns88, dineshk, Sohan, Rogi, Aravindh, Sumanth Patlolla, udupendra, Anubhav, Xanda, Rahulk, Thejas V R, Kaiser Soze, googboog, Dibyo, Manish Achuth, Prasanth, Logik, Hari, Qbrain, lanu, Ananth, Shwetha Maiya and Bharath


That stick would've been an awesome prank tool...

—srikanth @ June 12, 2010

Who’s the mystery man in (1)? (2) is a clue.


Cracked by varuns88, Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, Dibyo, Rahulk, shrik, Thejas V R, lanu, udupendra, dineshk, Manish Achuth, KK, Anubhav, akhi, Kaiser Soze and Qbrain


Less than 42

—devadutta @ June 11, 2010

Which company connects

Awesome crack by Rogi, shrik, varuns88, Dibyo and dineshk

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37signals, the company which developed Ruby on Rails.

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Going thrice, Sold!

—devadutta @ June 10, 2010

Identify 1, Connect to 2 and put some details

Hint: Right-click on desktop > properties.

Cracked by: dineshk, Rogi, Raghuvansh, varuns88, KK, Dibyo, Sumanth Patlolla, Bharath, Thejas V R, Anubhav, shrik, Rahulk, Shwetha Maiya, umang, Manish Achuth, Aravindh, krudebox, udupendra, lanu and Xanda

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Bill Gates bought Codex Leicester authored by Leonardo Da Vinci for 30 Million USD and made screensavers and wallpapers for Windows. If you have even tried to change themes on Win 98, you will see “Leonardo Da Vinci” as a theme. Most stuff on that is from the Codex Leicester.


Yet another equivalence

—srikanth @ June 9, 2010

What connects:

My apologies in advance for this question.

Cracked by Ananth, shrik, Raghuvansh, varuns88, dineshk, Rogi, Manish Achuth, Dibyo, Sumanth Patlolla, Thejas V R, Bharath, krudebox, Rahulk, udupendra, Shwetha Maiya, KK and Anubhav


-er or -re?

—srikanth @ June 8, 2010

4 things used in the definitions of what?

Cracked by varuns88, dineshk, Rogi, Manish Achuth, Aparna, Ganesh Prasad, Dibyo, Ananth, krudebox, Thejas V R, Rahulk, Anubhav, Shwetha Maiya, udupendra, Logik, Xanda, Bharath, Qbrain, shrik and Higgers


The first gods

—devadutta @ June 7, 2010

First few winners of which award

Hint to identify the third dude:

Cracked by: Rogi, varuns88, Aparna, dineshk, Raghuvansh, KK, Thejas V R, Ganesh Prasad, Ananth, rohanquizzer, mankuTimma, krudebox, Aravindh, Logik, shrik, lanu, Qbrain, Rahulk, udupendra, akhi, eswar, Dibyo, googboog, shenoyvarun86, Shwetha Maiya, Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, Bharath, Treyambak Madyalkar, Anubhav and Xanda


Tinfoil hats on!

—srikanth @ June 5, 2010

There was a rush of UFO sightings over western Australia in the last few days.

What did it turn out to be?

Cracked by udupendra, wanderlust, Rogi, AmK, Dibyo, akhi, Ganesh Prasad, krudebox, dineshk, umang, Thejas V R, shrik, Qbrain, googboog, Rahulk, varuns88, Sumanth Patlolla, Anubhav, dheeraj, sandesh, Ananth, Treyambak Madyalkar, Arun T P, Ajay Parasuram, KK, Shwetha Maiya and Xanda

Lots of people pointed out the mistake. It was eastern Aus, not western. Mea culpa.