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Saturday, January 16, 2010

Apologies

—devadutta @ 20:54

Apologies, people for slipping schedules on questions and not keeping the scores up to date.

We are facing a rare solar-eclipse type situation where both of us have Internet access issues, something that never happened simultaneously until now.

Also, an update to the Wordpress core has broken our scoring system and we need to fix our backend php code, which needs some time.

Please hang on and we will be back to normalcy very soon!


Koi-ni-chi-wa!

—devadutta @ 23:59

Japanese awesomeness to control what?

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Gurupad, madhur, Rogi, udupendra, sidsen, shenoyvarun86, varuns88, Aditya, akhi, Anurag, foobar, Dibyo, Logik, duriel, bobo, shrik, KK, Anubhav, alephnull, krudebox, Ps, RahulN, Chinmaya U.Holla and Vijay


Thursday, January 14, 2010

Watch your step

—devadutta @ 20:11

Inspired by a wrong answer given by rr (rhoitrau) to this question. You get the GQHero trophy: , nevertheless! :)

What are these genetically modified plants capable of detecting?

They turn red when they “detect” something.

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, shenoyvarun86, eli, krudebox, Rogi, alephnull, Dibyo, Chinmaya U.Holla, Gurupad, Ps, sidsen, shrik, udupendra, prasanth, madhur, akhi, varuns88, piezocake, Mo, KK, malcaluffin, SV, Logik and Aditya


Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Epic

—devadutta @ 19:46

Kind of a simple question

1 was recently mapped using data from devices like 2. What does 1 show?

  1. 2.

Cracked By: Chinmaya U.Holla, Rogi, Dibyo, Raghuvansh, sidsen, Ps, alephnull, udupendra, Logik, madhur and akhi


Tuesday, January 12, 2010

0 < x < 14

—devadutta @ 21:12

This commonly seen flower changes its color based on soil type. What does the color tell about the soil?

Here you can see both possible colors this flower can take

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Chinmaya U.Holla, Aditya, udupendra, eli, Kaushik, Rogi, shenoyvarun86, varuns88, krudebox, rr, shrik, Gurupad, abhijeet, akhi, Andre, sidsen, Siddarth Pai, Shrey Goyal, PrK, madhur, KK, Logik, Jean Valjean, GhoSTWhoWALKS, Sridhar C, Dibyo, Ps, alephnull, Chitananda, Siddhartha Mohapatra, piezocake, Mo and SV

Show Answer

Hydrangea flower, which changes its color based on the pH value of the soil


Monday, January 11, 2010

Cannot get it

—devadutta @ 19:57

What connects

1 is a Hot Wheels car

Cracked By: Raghuvansh, krudebox, Aditya, shenoyvarun86, Chinmaya U.Holla, Rogi, Kaushik Saha, shrik, Dibyo, achyuth, RahulN, Gurupad, PrK, varuns88, sidsen, madhur, Jean Valjean and Ps


Sunday, January 10, 2010

ac/dc?

—srikanth @ 21:30

What connects?

Cracked by krudebox, Chinmaya U.Holla, shrik, Gurupad, Raghuvansh, Debasish, Rogi, Kaushik, udupendra, shenoyvarun86, Aditya, varuns88 and sidsen


Saturday, January 9, 2010

Wuhoo...

—srikanth @ 23:59

Identify (1), connect to (2). (3)s a clue.

Cracked by Logik, dheeraj, Raghuvansh, akhi, Rogi, Dibyo, madhur, udupendra, krudebox, Gurupad, Chinmaya U.Holla, shrik, shenoyvarun86, RahulN, varuns88, Aditya, Siddarth Pai, sidsen and eli


Friday, January 8, 2010

Midway upon the journey of our life...

—srikanth @ 23:59

Advertisement of what?

Cracked by Logik, Gurupad, udupendra, dheeraj, madhur, akhi, Raghuvansh, Rogi, Dibyo, varuns88, shrik, shenoyvarun86 and alephnull


Thursday, January 7, 2010

When's the next olympics?

—srikanth @ 23:59

Hot off the presses! A new look at an old device. What’s this?

Cracked by Raghuvansh, quaziluffy, Dibyo, Chinmaya U.Holla, shenoyvarun86, Rogi, Gurupad, priyananda, Debasish, Aditya, Higgers, Logik, madhur, KK, krudebox, achyuth, xtremevarun, Kaushik Saha, udupendra and dheeraj