First, second, and third prize winners - of what contest?

Cracked by Raghuvansh, Rogi, AC, byslexia, Dibyo, xtremevarun, Logik, shrik, sidsen and Siddharth Jain

A big round of applause to Rogi , for setting an awesome new run-length record of 70 correct answers in a row! Amazing!

AmK also deserves a round of applause for breaking into the top 5 run-lengths with a cool 45 correct answers in a row!

Amazing job Rogi and AmK!

Now for the question

Many people swear by this new(kind of) philosophy in design. What is it called?

Google (in)famously did the above with around 41 choices.

Happy Deepavali to all of you!

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, udupendra, Logik, Rogi, shashank, Dibyo and shrik

Today’s question comes from udupendra. This question is special. Not because it is framed differently, but because with this, he will hit 500 points on bb!

Awesome!

So, with another round of applause to udupendra, we give you today’s slightly involved guest question.
Here’s how it works -
Four crossword style cryptic clues, cracking which will lead you to a
stage-2 kind of a connect.

1. This bond fellow is a nanogram more than the exclusion principle guy.
2. Odd ranges discover protein structures
3. Listen to the radio, sounds like he is barred in!
4. Mother of Christ finds one in a cure.
   Here’s how it works -

Four crossword style cryptic clues, cracking which will lead you to a stage-2 kind of a connect.

1. This bond fellow is a nanogram more than the exclusion principle guy.

2. Odd ranges discover protein structures

3. Listen to the radio, sounds like he is barred in!

4. Mother of Christ finds one in a cure.

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Logik, Debasish, emrohit, achyuth, Mitesh, shenoyvarun86, udupendra and daspar

Identify experiment:

Hint: It gained fame/infamy in 2005.

Cracked by Raghuvansh, arun, Logik, krudebox, quaziluffy, Wasi Manazir, Rogi, xtremevarun, xtremevarun, udupendra, Martin, shenoyvarun86, abhijeet, emrohit, achyuth, abhishek chakraborty, malcaluffin, byslexia, AC and sidsen

Connect:

/me puts on a flame-proof suit.

Cracked by Dibyo and shrik

Identify this device

Apologies for the delay folks.. we at least got 3 days in a row on time :) We are getting better.

Cracked by: udupendra, Logik, Wasi Manazir, madhur, Ananth, Dibyo, Rogi, Calvin, shrik, xtremevarun, krudebox, joe, eli, foobar and 2-D

Connect

Here’s a close-up that will be useful

Cracked by: Chinmaya U.Holla, Raghuvansh, krudebox, madhur, sidsen, xtremevarun, djds4rce, AC, shrik, Debasish, raklodramA, Rogi, udupendra, joe, nishansolo, Ananth, Logik, Champakali, Dibyo, shenoyvarun86, Ramkumar, Mihir Rege, yuvnesh, junmohan and Sourya

What controversy connects:

Cracked by everyone.

Dibyo, krudebox, Chinmaya U.Holla, udupendra, Rogi, shrik, Logik, sidsen, Mo and nishansolo

This guy who looks very happy with a cat(not his, I guess) here, ironically has a dead cat with tire marks on it as the icon/logo for his super famous freeware software. Which software?

Here’s the logo

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, udupendra, emrohit, raklodramA, shenoyvarun86, krudebox, Chinmaya U.Holla, Rogi, Amarendra Kumar, xtremevarun, shrik, Dibyo, yaksha, prateekbhatt, Debasish, Suhel, Keerthi Kiran M, varuns88, joe, jackandlagoon, Vaishnavi, Ananth, Logik and Martin

Identify the device and its famous inventor.

Some other inventions of the same famous chap:

Hint, he’s not famous for his inventions.

Cracked by Raghuvansh, Rogi and shrik