Alright folks.

It’s been a while since we deviated from the bog-standard question-a-day format, so here’s something slightly different.

The next five questions form a theme round. i.e., all their answers are connected by a common theme.(e.g, if the five answers were to be Jimmy Page, John Bonham, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, and Ahmet Ertegun, the theme would be Led Zeppelin).

Point scoring rules:

1. For answering each question, you get one point, as usual.
2. If you guess the theme after the first question, you get five additional points. Second question: four points. Third question: three points. Fourth question: two points. Fifth question: one point.
3. Please post your answer to each question, and the guesses to the theme if any, as separate posts.
4. One theme attempt per question, only.
5. Our decisions are final :)

So here’s the first question of the set.

Question 1: Identify the object being demonstrated in this audio clip.

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Please note that this set is exhaustive (i.e. these are the only 5 related to this particular theme)

Cracked by Shrey Goyal , Kaiser Soze , Higgers , udupendra , Raghuvansh , Rogi , lordmaldy , krudebox and Johny Walker.

A few attempts, but no-one cracked the theme yet.

Shrey Goyal, Kaiser Soze, Higgers, udupendra, Raghuvansh, Rogi, lordmaldy, krudebox and Johny Walker

Connect to a celestial body

Cracked by: shenoyvarun86 , udupendra , varuns88 , Advaith , superbrat , Joshan , Dibyo , tete80 , p vs np , Rogi and Jean Valjean.

shenoyvarun86, udupendra, varuns88, Advaith, superbrat, Joshan, Dibyo, tete80, p vs np, Rogi and Jean Valjean

Almost everyone would have seen devices designed by this guy, but not too many people have seen him.

Who is he?

Cracked by: varuns88 , shenoyvarun86 , Johhny Walker , Rogi , joe , Raghuvansh , Gaurav Jindal , Advaith , Rohan , shashank , Jean Valjean , superbrat , Joshan , nishansolo , tete80 , gudanggurum and saurabh arora.

varuns88, shenoyvarun86, Johhny Walker, Rogi, joe, Raghuvansh, Gaurav Jindal, Advaith, Rohan, shashank, Jean Valjean, superbrat, Joshan, nishansolo, tete80, Gurupad and saurabh arora

Guest question from duriel. What it is?

Sorry for the delay folks. As usual, this stays up 12hrs longer :)

[others@everywhere #] echo “Guest Question” > /dev/[email protected]

Cracked by udupendra , Shrey Goyal , byslexia , Rogi , shenoyvarun86 , foobar , superbrat , Joshan , gudanggurum , dheeraj , anirudh patil , Dibyo , Johny Walker , Jean Valjean , varuns88 , tete80 , wanderlust and Logik. Yes , duriel , you do get points :-)

udupendra, Shrey Goyal, byslexia, Rogi, shenoyvarun86, foobar, superbrat, Joshan, Gurupad, dheeraj, anirudh patil, Dibyo, Johny Walker, Jean Valjean, varuns88, tete80, wanderlust, Logik and duriel

Connect

Hint: The list is missing one “thing”

Cracked by: Raghuvansh , madhur , Ananth , varuns88 , Logik , shenoyvarun86 , Joshan , foobar and Dibyo.

Raghuvansh, madhur, Ananth, varuns88, Logik, shenoyvarun86, Joshan, foobar and Dibyo

Guest question from udupendra. Thanks saar! (update: I like this question!)

Identify and connect

Cracked by: Atul Mathew , Fakeer , Logik , Shrey Goyal , AmK , Ananth , Siddharth Jain , nishansolo , raklodramA , foobar , p vs np , krudebox , sidnag , emrohit , udupendra , Prabodh , Vivek , rajeshvj , Dibyo , abhinav kadambi , Raghuvansh , Nakul , achyuth , varuns88 and Kiran.

Atul Mathew, Fakeer, Logik, Shrey Goyal, AmK, Ananth, Siddharth Jain, nishansolo, raklodramA, foobar, p vs np, krudebox, sidnag, emrohit, udupendra, Prabodh, Vivek, rajeshvj, Dibyo, abhinav kadambi, Raghuvansh, Nakul, achyuth, varuns88 and Kiran

Today’s question is almost plain text only.

X is a software written by this extremely famous guy Y. Y jokes that X is named after himself, just like the other really famous piece of software he has authored. Identify X and Y.

Here is the logo of X

Y got really frustrated with existing software which did the kind of job X does, thus he created Y. Here is a hint to the class of software we are talking about here

p.s. Apologies for the delay. The question will be up 12hrs longer

Cracked by: Raghuvansh , piezocake , Sandipan Chakravarty , dheeraj , byslexia , Rogi , krudebox , lordmaldy , Ananth , foobar , wanderlust , Logik , udupendra , varuns88 and mwnn.

Raghuvansh, piezocake, Sandipan Chakravarty, dheeraj, byslexia, Rogi, krudebox, lordmaldy, Ananth, foobar, wanderlust, Logik, udupendra, varuns88 and mwnn

Sitter for the Sunday. What is this?

Lived up to its sitter status. Cracked by everyone.

p vs np, shenoyvarun86, Rogi, raklodramA, lordmaldy, krudebox, varuns88, abhijeet, bobo, akhi, Raghuvansh, Rithwik K, joe, Johny Walker, Kamal Rathi, Siddharth, anirudh patil, shyam, Dibyo, wanderlust, K.Manish, Chitananda, Atul Mathew, Gautam DN, piezocake, amarendra, Nakul, madhur, dheeraj, Wasi Manazir, sumo_ftb, superbrat, Anoop and Mo

Guest question time. This one comes from p vs np. DhanyavadagaLu, saar.

Connect

Guest questions can be sent to [email protected]

Cracked by: Raghuvansh , udupendra , Rogi , Rogi , superbrat , lordmaldy , shenoyvarun86 and p vs np.

Raghuvansh, udupendra, Rogi, Rogi, superbrat, lordmaldy, shenoyvarun86 and p vs np

Connect these seemingly arbit things

Hint: They are not in order

Cracked by: byslexia , Johny Walker , Dibyo , Joshan , Advaith , varuns88 and p vs np.

byslexia, Johny Walker, Dibyo, Joshan, Advaith, varuns88 and p vs np