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Sunday, December 27, 2009

Super Saver

—devadutta @ 23:59

Easy one.

First phone to use a technology that is now ubiquitous in a different class of gadgets. What technology?

MOTOFONE

Cracked by: udupendra, eli, shrik, dheeraj, Gurupad, emrohit, Vinay Nair, shenoyvarun86, Ps, Raghuvansh, Rogi, p vs np, Higgers, shashank, Logik, varuns88, madhur and krudebox

Show Answer

Motofone F3, the first phone to use E-Ink display, now ubiquotus in e-book readers like Kindle


Its still your fault!

—devadutta @ 23:59

We’ve asked this one in one of our “live” quizzes, so some of you might have seen it.

Celebrating 30 years of Star Wars. Who?

r2d2_mailboxes

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, varuns88, Ananth, dheeraj, madhur, Rogi, shenoyvarun86, Logik, Gurupad, udupendra, shrik, Ps, sidsen, Higgers, shashank and krudebox


Friday, December 25, 2009

I can hold a lot

—devadutta @ 23:59

If 1 = 2/3, identify 1,2 and 3.

200px-Faraday_Cochran_Pickersgill 250px-Charles_de_coulomb

225px-Volta_A

Cracked by: varuns88, udupendra, Ps, v.chandrashekar, shrik, sidsen, madhur, shenoyvarun86, Logik, dheeraj, Raghuvansh, Ananth, Rogi, Dibyo, Debasish, p vs np, Gurupad, piezocake, Rithwik K, emrohit and krudebox


Thursday, December 24, 2009

Happy Holidays!

—devadutta @ 20:23

Holiday cheer, easy question from Shrikant Narasimhan ( shrik ). Thanks sire, your trophy:

What is this?

Xmas09TreeSpherical

Cracked By: udupendra, Dibyo, shrik, Gurupad, Logik, p vs np, Rogi, Sandesh, joe, Ananth and grey


Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Do you understand what I feel?

—devadutta @ 23:59

Fully framed guest question from [p vs np](http://boiledbeans.net/user/p vs np). Thanksu Sir. Your trophy:

  1. started this whole idea behind X, although Mother-Daughter duo 2 and 3 were the ones who produced results and are acknowledged for it.

It was created in order to facilitate better job opportunities to women in the Second World War.

X is now used as a self-litmus test by many a folk around the world and is the center of unnecessary debates and ramblings in the virtual world.

X through 3 please.

1 (1)

2 (1)

3 (1)

Cracked by: udupendra, Logik, sidsen, Gurupad, Rogi, shrik, shenoyvarun86, dheeraj, Rithwik K, p vs np, Chinmaya U.Holla, krudebox, Ps, Dibyo and Raghuvansh


Tuesday, December 22, 2009

What? Not really...

—srikanth @ 21:30

What connects?

  1. 0111377ed951b6580af2dc6ae552bb17
  2. 4e96c83b320e183b27a64b48c986da80
  3. f38bf3ee8544e4b914f1c64f12df34c7
  4. 5e8897e67e61bb9ab0e9644512ab30af
  5. bd86891d430317c3b955fc8dabd8c794

Cracked by everyone!

shenoyvarun86, udupendra, p vs np, Gurupad, Raghuvansh, Dibyo, dheeraj, shrik, varuns88, byslexia, joe, Chinmaya U.Holla, Rogi, Abhishek, umang, Ps, Ananth, Logik, madhur, sidsen, Saswata Das, Kaushik Saha and Shrey Goyal


Monday, December 21, 2009

Search this

—devadutta @ 23:59

Identify and connect

googlephonemain-420x0 Blade_Runner_poster

Cracked by: shashank, anurag, krudebox, p vs np, joe, shrik, madhur, Logik, MadGenius, shenoyvarun86, Suhel Banerjee, prasanth, varuns88, udupendra, Rogi, Ps, SV, Gurupad, Dibyo, Ananth, Jean Valjean, umang, Raghuvansh, dheeraj and Chinmaya U.Holla

Show Answer

Google’s Nexus One phone, whocse name is supposedly a reference to the bots in Bladerunner.


Sunday, December 20, 2009

ho ho ho

—srikanth @ 21:30

What exactly is this?

Call it holiday cheer :-P This is just free points for everyone!

Cracked byjoe, p vs np, Dibyo, byslexia, akhi, udupendra, eli, Gurupad, Rogi, varuns88, RahulN, shenoyvarun86, umang, shrik, shashank, Logik, madhur, Ananth, Raghuvansh, dheeraj, Sandesh, Anubhav, anurag, quaziluffy and Higgers


Saturday, December 19, 2009

Its snowing men!

—devadutta @ 23:56

Traffic lights in regions with heavy snowfall did not have this problem until recently.

What makes present day traffic lights susceptible to this kind distributed devastation by snow (DDbS ;) ) attack?

Snow Covered Stoplights

@Logik: Glad you liked the question sire!

@varun uncle: the interwebs is a small place :P

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Logik, krudebox, Ps, varuns88, Rogi, shenoyvarun86, Gurupad, akhi, byslexia, adiS, umang, p vs np, shashank, Higgers, Shrey Goyal, Ananth, sidsen, dheeraj, madhur, Dibyo, Sandesh, BASAB, Ludwig, joe and Aditya


Friday, December 18, 2009

Killing me softly with her game

—devadutta @ 23:59

Fully framed guest question from sidsen(after a long long time). Your trophy, sire:

Id. this Uber pretty chika, who has also been ranked as one of the 100 most desirable women by askmen.com.

266864.4

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Ps, sidsen, Rogi, shenoyvarun86, xtremevarun, udupendra, Dibyo, Gurupad, Logik, dheeraj, Jean Valjean, Mitesh, akhi, Aditya, Swamy, p vs np and umang