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Wonder who were the test subjects

—devadutta @ December 10, 2009

1 has a rating of 1, 2 has 2 and 3 has a rating of more than 4 on a scale of 4. What rating are we talking about?

1 180px-Lipotriches_sp. 2 250px-European_wasp_white_bg

3. 250px-Paraponera

No need to identify the insects, very workable answer.

Cracked by: RahulN, Chinmaya U.Holla, udupendra, shrik, Ps, Shrey Goyal, Dibyo, Raghuvansh, Rogi, Sakalakalavallaban, sidsen, Logik, Ananth, prasanth, Jean Valjean, varuns88, murphy, Mitesh, shenoyvarun86, Aravindhan, akhi, Anubhav, quaziluffy and BASAB

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Schmidt Sting Pain Index rating


Fug-who?

—srikanth @ December 8, 2009

Densely interconnected mess is supposedly a small bit, of what?

Cracked by Raghuvansh, Rogi, Logik, Dibyo, Ps, krudebox, Ananth, udupendra, shrik, Chinmaya U.Holla, AC and sidsen


With caramel please

—devadutta @ December 7, 2009

What is the claimed specialty of this color?

cl

Hint:

n11lmc_noao + latte

@sidsen: sir, please post the answer, we’ll give you a point.

Cracked by: shrik, Raghuvansh, RahulN, AC, Chinmaya U.Holla, Ps, Dibyo, Jean Valjean, Logik, Mrinalini, madhur, Rogi, shenoyvarun86, quaziluffy, varuns88 and udupendra

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Cosmic Latte. The average color of the universe, apparently.


Meatspace Google?

—srikanth @ December 6, 2009

Key elements of what recent contest?

Cracked by Raghuvansh, Akshay NR, krudebox, AC, Rogi, Dibyo, Chinmaya U.Holla, shrik, sidsen, varuns88, Ps, daspar, byslexia, shenoyvarun86, joe, Jean Valjean, Logik, madhur, Ananth, piezocake, SV and udupendra

Welp, turns out this question is unintentionally a guest question. Shrik thought some other question was this, and answered this to some other question. Although that wasn’t where we got the question from, he does get first credit. So Shrik get’s a GQHero badge !, that we’ll be pushing into the system shortly :-)


Sweep this

—srikanth @ December 6, 2009

Dupe! Question canceled.

Identify famous astronomer duo:


Sent

—devadutta @ December 5, 2009

Another esoteric hardware question. Identify.

gboard-1_540x360

CRacked by: Rachit Agarwal, djds4rce, Dibyo, varuns88, Ps, Raghuvansh, Anubhav, Rogi, shrik, hackmaster, byslexia, udupendra, sidsen, malcaluffin, Gaurav, Thejas V R, Mihir Rege and yaksha


How are you feeling?

—srikanth @ December 4, 2009

Identify engineer + super nerd of WW2 era (1). One of his less serious contributions in (2)

Cracked by udupendra, sidsen, Ps, Raghuvansh, Dibyo, Rithwik K, AC, Rogi, Logik, shenoyvarun86 and shrik


Boom...

—srikanth @ December 2, 2009

(1) + (2) is which new pop-culture character?

(Stays open 12 hrs longer..)

Cracked by Raghuvansh, Rogi and Rithwik K


Salsa

—devadutta @ December 1, 2009

Identify this squishy thing which was in news recently

a633912229538845760 633912220491073700

hint: roomba_1

Cracked by: udupendra, Chinmaya U.Holla, shrik, shenoyvarun86, AC, Rithwik K, sidsen, Mrinalini, Raghuvansh, krudebox, Logik, Rogi, Anubhav, Ananth, Ps, duriel, p vs np, Dibyo and Jean Valjean


I'm enrolling for PhD

—devadutta @ November 30, 2009

Guest question from Logik. Thanks dude! Your GQHero trophy has been delivered to your house ;)

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Quake_III_Arena_q3dm0

academia_vs_business

225px-GodfreyKneller-IsaacNewton-1689

Cracked by: sidsen, Raghuvansh, Jean Valjean, krudebox, Dibyo, yaksha, Logik, shashank, shrik, Ps, SV, joe, udupendra, shenoyvarun86, Rogi, p vs np, byslexia, AC, akhi, umang, madhur, Anubhav and Ananth