Guest question from Raghuvansh. Fully framed by him. Thanks sire, you’ve earned a GQHero Trophy!

X is a corrupt version of an extract from a work by 1. We know X for its ubiquitousness in a certain context.

X’s first non-tech usage in said context is thought to be in catalogs published by a company A which specialized in making 2, so much so that the A became a generic term for 2.

This non-tech use was duplicated in a tech form for the first time in a well-known software B which was originally made by a company C (named after 3). C merged with D (named after 4) some time ago and since then, B has been branded as a D product.

ID X. In case of joblessness, you may also try to ID all the other variables in the question.

Hint: Any place like this

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Cracked by: udupendra, varuns88, sidsen, Shrey Goyal, Rogi, Dibyo, Logik, Ps and Mrinalini

Identify the device in the image above. It’s considered the first of its kind. Also identify its inventor.

Cracked by Logik, Jean Valjean, shashank, sidsen, Rogi, udupendra, varuns88 and Ps

Identify this super famous pair of physics educators.

They have written really famous physics books.

p.s: This one’s for all the BASE junta here :)

Cracked by: shrik, Raghuvansh, shyam, shashank, Subhash, krudebox, shenoyvarun86, p vs np, varuns88, Thejas V R, yaksha, Ps, prasanth, Dibyo, akhi, Mrinalini, udupendra, Aravindhan, madhur, umang, Sanjeet Dash, Sourya, Atul Mathew, AC, Keerthi Kiran M, Rogi, Logik, Sakalakalavallaban, Mo, Ananth, Mihir Rege, sidsen, K.S.Manish, emrohit and Jean Valjean

Who’s the missing ‘desi’?

Cracked by: udupendra, Chinmaya U.Holla, varuns88, krudebox, Venkatrangan, Rogi, shrik, sidsen, AC, nishansolo, Prabodh, v.chandrashekar, Thejas V R, Raghuvansh, raklodramA, xtremevarun, Dibyo, madhur, Logik, umang, Sanjeet Dash, Ananth, Atul Mathew, Rand Al’Thor, Abinaya, Bharath, santhakumar.s., arun, Vijay, shenoyvarun86 and Ramkumar

Logo of which software?

This design recently won their logo design contest recently

Cracked by: umang, Mrinalini, Sourya, AC, sidsen, Rogi, Chinmaya U.Holla, sai, varuns88, shrik, akhi, Dibyo, Ananth, Logik, nishansolo, Raghuvansh, Anurag, byslexia, krudebox, ANONYMOUS and shenoyvarun86

The dude with the hat writes about what the old dude sitting in the middle says. It is now an internet sensation.
Who are they? What made them famous?

Cracked by: Chinmaya U.Holla, Atul Mathew, Logik, SV, Abinaya, Rogi, nishansolo, sidsen, shrik, akhi and umang

Internet obscuridae for today. These sites were the first few members of one particular “system” that was very popular among websites of years ago. What system?

1. bendall.de
2. crypt.eldritchs.com
3. www.qrq.de
4. kloth.net
5. qsl.net
6. …

Hint:

• FOLDOC
• 

Q will be up for 12 hrs longer.

Cracked by Logik, Raghuvansh, Rogi, udupendra, varuns88, byslexia, BASAB, madhur, Dibyo, Ps, sidsen and Chinmaya U.Holla

Latest meme spreading like fire on the internet. It goes by many names, tell us any one.

The one above is my favorite.. here is another awesome one

Cracked by everyone. Namely, Raghuvansh, Dibyo, AC, Chinmaya U.Holla, raklodramA, sidsen, krudebox, shrik, foobar, Mo, akhi, PrK, udupendra, Sourya, varuns88, byslexia, Rogi, Ps and Logik

(1) developed a scale commonly depicted as (2). (3) extrapolated it and says that we are approximately around 0.7 on that scale today. This scale is a staple theme in sci-fi. Identify 1, 3 and the scale.

Cracked by Raghuvansh, Abinaya, Dibyo, Rogi, Ananth, krudebox, Logik, shrik, sidsen, Chinmaya U.Holla, akhi, Sourya, udupendra, yaksha, p vs np, byslexia, Ananth, varuns88, piezocake and shenoyvarun86

The third (and final) set of questions of Dibyo’s 500 point quiz.

Set 3 » Question 1

What is this?

Set 3 » Question 2

Who’s he?

Set 3 » Question 3

Logo of?

A few stage-2 cracks, no stage-3 cracks!

sidsen(4), Dibyo(4), Logik(2), akhi(2), raklodramA, udupendra, shrik, AC, Rogi and Mr.Bay Leaf