Created by this founder of Infocom (pic 1), it became an integral part of geek culture, and now regularly appears in nerdcore music (2) and comic strips (3). What?

Basically, fill in the part of the comic that’s blanked out. (Identify the guy in 1 too)

Uudupendra , nihit , prasanth , Archana , sumanthvanahalli , yaksha , BiGFooT , Mahesh Herle and Shashank have taken the first steps on the road to being Master Adventurers.

udupendra, nihit, prasanth, Archana, sumanthvanahalli, yaksha, BiGFooT, Mahesh Herle and Shashank

1. 

2. ?

3. 4.

1 lead to 2 ( no, there is no image there ), which in turn led to 3 and 4.
What is 2?
While you are at it, put fundas about 1,3 and 4 also

**udupendra , Arun Krishnamoorthy , srikanth , prasanth , yaksha , Abhishek ** got it almost right.

1. “Amazing Stories” cover showing Anthony Rogers, which went on to become Bucks Rogers

2. Duck Dodgers in th 24 and 1/2th century was a parody on Buck Rogers

3. The famous rocket man on a modern Jet pack.

so, 2 was Buck Rogers. The reason why a comic character made it into a tech quiz was that the jet pack, which the rocket man is wearing in the 4th pic is a concept which more or less evolved from the method Buck Rogers uses to travel. Therefore, the jet pack was the central connect.

udupendra, Arun Krishnamoorthy, prasanth, yaksha and Abhishek

Connect the three images below to an iconic system:

(Detailed fundas on all three preferred)

Cracked by: udupendra , Arun Krishnamoorthy , Biki , nihit , Shashank and Ganesh Prasad.

udupendra, Arun Krishnamoorthy, Biki, nihit, Shashank and Ganesh Prasad

Connect

Cracked by: srikanth , abhinav , Vinod , udupendra , Bikiran , bs , Mahesh Herle , nihit , Arun Krishnamoorthy , piezocake , Gammafunction , Sharath , Preetish , Sandesh , alephnull , Non Descript , yaksha , bobo , Abhishek.

Prasad gets a deeper connect. I wonder what he was on :P

Fibonacci Sequence..

1. Sunflower Florets form spirals in 34 and 55, which is a Fibonacci Sequence. Also, like Mahesh Herle points out, the number of petals in any flower is a fibonacci number

2. xkcd’s fibonacci reference.. the dude starts counting the number of times his gf touches him and associates it to the fibonacci sequence.

srikanth, abhinav, Vinod, udupendra, Biki, bs, Mahesh Herle, nihit, Arun Krishnamoorthy, piezocake, Gammafunction, Sharath, Preetish, Sandesh, alephnull, Non Descript, yaksha, bobo and Abhishek

Identify and connect the 3 celebrities below:

And just to ensure you’re thinking along the right lines:

Prasad , nihit , Abhishek , Karthik , BiGFooT , prasanth , and Bikiran radioed in the right answer. piezocake and jayanth transmitted some funny signals with a low SNR.

The demodulated signal:

The celebrities in the top row are Marlon Brando, Rajiv Gandhi, and Kamal Hassan (from L - R). As the links tell you, they all operated HAM radios at some point of time. The hint was to Guglielmo Marconi, just to get you on the right frequency.

Prasad, nihit, Abhishek, Karthik, BiGFooT, prasanth and Biki

Identify this famous pair.

The title was a hint asking you to see properly :) Many people missed a subtle difference.

Cracked by: jayanth , bs , srichand , nihit , Abhishek , shyam , Sandesh , ram , alephnull , Prasad , yaksha , Ganesh Prasad , srikanth , Shashank

Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie.
Many people thought it was Brian Kernighan and Ritchie… well, near but not right :)

jayanth, bs, srichand, nihit, Abhishek, shyam, Sandesh, ram, alephnull, Prasad, yaksha, Ganesh Prasad and Shashank

Theme music to what?

[audio:http://www.boiledbeans.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/7c93c8eccac351c07d794760ee3034ab.mp3]

Clues:

**kalyan , devadutta , Sandesh , Abhishek , Arun Krishnamoorthy, Sanket Angane , prasanth and jayanth **remember their gaming days well.

kalyan, Sandesh, Abhishek, Arun Krishnamoorthy, Sanket Angane, prasanth and jayanth

Connect

and

Look closely in the above pic

And since we do not want you to start looking for connects in deep relativity principles, here is a clue to streamline your quest

udupendra , nihit , srikanth , Ganesh Prasad , jayanth , yaksha , prabhu_dc , Shashank got the answer right.
There was one intricate detail which everybody missed :)

The connect is Pi(approximation) day which is celebrated on March 14th every year (generally by giving out free pies).

1. Is a very famous picture of Albert Einstein taken on his 72th birthday( everyone missed this) and his birthday is on March 14th.
2. Larry Shaw, the dude who started the Pi Day funda
3. Depiction of a solution to Buffon’s Needle problem, called Lazzarini’s estimate, which lets people asymptotically approximate pi by tossing needles on parallel lines. ( Shamelessly flicking srikanth’s answer)

udupendra, nihit, Ganesh Prasad, jayanth, yaksha, prabhu_dc and Shashank

Instead of plain boring text messages with numbers , if you were to get these awesome illustrations as errors, which protocol will you be using? Bonus for telling us which illustration corresponds to which boring error.

1. 2.

2. 4.

3. 6.

(Hint: All of us have seen these errors)

The following people get the bonus points: **udupendra , BiGFooT , abhinav , prabhu_dc , prasanth , yaksha , jayanth , Shashank, Srichand
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srikanth , nihit just get the protocol name (lazy! lazy!)

These are the illustrations of HTTP errors. Very easily workable.
You can see the whole set here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/apelad/sets/72157594388426362/
1.401 - Not found.
2.408 - Request timeout.
3.409 - Conflict.
4.411 - Length required.
5.413 - Request entity too large.
6.402 - Payment required.

udupendra, BiGFooT, abhinav, prabhu_dc, prasanth, yaksha, jayanth, Shashank, nihit and srichand

This question inspired by a suggestion from Prabhu

Identify this equation:

And without further ado, clues:

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Lots of jobless people, namely Arun Krishnamoorthy , Anuj , BiGFooT , bs , Swetha , Vinod , Ganesh Prasad , nihit , Preetish , Tathagata Chatterjee , jayanth , ram , Gammafunction , Shashank , Abhishek , alephnull , prasanth , yaksha , Mahesh Herle , pratap , Prasad , and udupendra , took the time to point out that:

This is the Drake Equation.

Some more people went on to identify that

(1) is the WOW! signal, and (2) is the Arecibo message, considered very likely to be our first interplanetary I/O operations (respectively) :-)

Arun Krishnamoorthy, Anuj, BiGFooT, bs, Swetha, Vinod, Ganesh Prasad, nihit, Preetish, Tathagata Chatterjee, jayanth, ram, Gammafunction, Shashank, Abhishek, alephnull, prasanth, yaksha, Mahesh Herle, pratap, Prasad and udupendra