Identify and connect the two images below:

Cracked by: udupendra , Sharath and Praveen. Take a bow guys, you’re the only ones who cracked the 42nd Q on this site :-)

udupendra, Sharath and Praveen

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Cracked by: srikanth , udupendra , Poornima , 2ndratequizzer , pratap , ramsaravana , uma , Sharath , Prasad , piezocake , Abhishek , prasanth , alephnull , Shashank , yaksha

1. Is a painting by William Blake. Its called Newton.
2. Dispersion of white light through a prism. One of the many things Newton discovered.
3. Apple’s Newton PDA/message pad. Its name is a tribute to Sir Issac Newton.

So, like all of you have guessed, the connect is Sir Issac Newton.

srikanth, udupendra, Poornima, 2ndratequizzer, pratap, ramsaravana, uma, Sharath, Prasad, piezocake, Abhishek, prasanth, alephnull, Shashank and yaksha

This activity was once a very popular pastime of the poor and the nerdy.

Some who did it became famous,

while some became infamous:

In fact, it became quite a significant cultural phenomenon, managing to get references in Hollywood:

What activity is this that became a “classic” pastime? Who’re all these guys? (The pictures are full of clues )

Partially cracked by: Biki , srichand , Goutham , Mighty Anon , jayanth , shivani , Poornima , and Gammafunction. I’m feeling generous again.

The complete answer I was looking for:

1. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. They spent their formative years making Blue Boxes (see link).
2. Kevin Mitnick - The infamous “homeless hacker” started his hacking career through Phreaking.
3. Scene from the movie “Sneakers” where the character called Whistler is seen holding a Cap’n crunch box. Toy whistles found in Cap’n crunch boxes were used to generate the 2600 Hz tone (see question title) to phreak Ma bell’s phone networks. No one seemed to identify the movie.

The connect: Phreaking.

Biki, srichand, Goutham, Mighty Anon, ganesh, jayanth, Tathagata Chatterjee, shivani, Poornima, Gammafunction and Shashank

This question is inspired by a suggestion from Nihit.

What is 1’s demo of 2 popularly known as? And identify 1 and 2 please.

Cracked by: srikanth , Sharath , udupendra , uma , jayanth , yaksha , alephnull , Poornima , Shashank.

Many others got very close.

1. Douglas Engelbart
2. NLS - the first system which used video conferencing, hypertext, computer mouses (mice?) and all the other extremely brilliant things Engelbart and team came up with

This demo was so brilliant that people started referring to it as “The Mother of all Demos “

srikanth, Sharath, udupendra, uma, jayanth, yaksha, alephnull, Poornima and Shashank

First featured on screen in 1, popularly shown in 2 and claimed to have been shown in 3.
What?

1. 

2. ``

3. 

Hint: Look closely in 2 :)

Prasad , bs , ramsaravana , Abhishek , Sharath , uma , Tathagata Chatterjee , udupendra , piezocake , Mahesh Herle , Gammafunction , yaksha , Shashank “hacked” the answer. :)

2ndratequizzer got close.

The answer is nmap, a port scanning tool which can be downloaded from insecure.org. Typically, it is used by hackers (ethical or otherwise) to first find out which ports on a target machine are open.

1. Featured the Source code of nmap

2. Trinity in Matrix Reloaded using nmap to port scan and attack the “Grid System” using a well known attack called SSH1-CRC to gain access. This was even featured in a BBC news article. This is also the first Hollywood movie to show a proper hacking scene.

3. Many people claim to have seen nmap in action in this movie. Screen shots are available all around the net.

Prasad, bs, ramsaravana, Abhishek, Sharath, uma, Tathagata Chatterjee, udupendra, piezocake, Mahesh Herle, Gammafunction, yaksha and Shashank

What is this? And what is its claim to fame?

this may help a bit more

Unearthed by: Abhishek , ramsaravana , nihit , Gammafunction , Vinod , uma , Sharath , Swetha , Arjun June , Tathagata Chatterjee , shivani , yaksha , srichand.

This is the famous root(2) tablet, pretty much the first known reference to an irrational number. See Abhishek or Yaksha’s comment for more details :)

Abhishek, ramsaravana, nihit, Gammafunction, Vinod, uma, Sharath, Swetha, Arjun June, Tathagata Chatterjee, shivani, yaksha and srichand

Connect and explain

Cracked by a good bunch of people: **udupendra , Vinod , pratap , ramsaravana , shyam , Piyush , Sharath , Mahesh Herle , nihit , Goutham , Abhishek , yaksha , Arun Krishnamoorthy , Arjun June , uma , Archana , Shashank. **

Quoting Abhishek who was quoted Wikipedia :)

1.Harald being baptized by Poppo the monk
2.Bluetooth logo

Bluetooth was named after a late tenth century king, Harald Bluetooth King of Denmark and Norway. He is known for his unification of previously warring tribes from Denmark (including now Swedish Scania, where the Bluetooth technology was invented), and Norway. Bluetooth likewise was intended to unify different technologies, such as computers and mobile phones.

udupendra, Vinod, pratap, ramsaravana, shyam, Piyush, Sharath, Mahesh Herle, nihit, Goutham, Abhishek, yaksha, Arun Krishnamoorthy, Arjun June, uma, Archana and Shashank

Connect the 3 books to another:

bs , Ramanand , ramsaravana , nihit , Arun Krishnamoorthy , Sharath , BiGFooT , udupendra and jayanth cracketh the Q.

bs, Ramanand, ramsaravana, nihit, Arun Krishnamoorthy, Sharath, BiGFooT, udupendra and jayanth

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Cracked by udupendra and nihit. Nice work!

This question, which kind of looked hard, was easily workable when approached from pic 3 to 1

3. Don Knuth’s Metafont whose version numbers approach e. The versions are 2, 2.7, 2.71, 2.718 and so on

4. Google in their 2004 IPO announced its intention to raise $2,718,281,828, which is e billion dollars. Also they had hiring billboards with references to e.

5. Andrew Jackson, he was a US president, 2 times in office, 7th president and was elected in 1828. Which perfectly fits into 2.71828, which is the value of e!

udupendra and nihit