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Friday, August 17, 2007

The Divine Technique

—devadutta @ 09:39

This picture depicts a concept, which is a very powerful programming technique.
Identify the technique. Also, tell us what is special about this picture.

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Our friends at the KQA are conducting a technical quiz at the Daly Memorial Hall, Bangalore on August 26th at 2pm. Please be there. We love KQA quizzes and since you are reading this blog, you will surely enjoy them too.

Cracked By:
Srikanth, jayanth, BiGFooT, Hema, abhinav, Sagnik,Deepshikha, Bikiran Goswami, piezocake, Shashank, Archana, Poornima and yaksha

Hema and Poornima** got the specialty part. Abhinav came very close.**

jayanth, BiGFooT, Hema, abhinav, Sagnik, Deepshikha, Biki, piezocake, Shashank, Archana, Poornima and yaksha

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“Iteration is human, recursion is divine “


The answer is out there, Neo, and it's looking for you, and it will find you if you want it to.

—srikanth @ 04:18

Thought I would go a little into geek canon for this question. Connect everything:

**Mark 3:11 **- Whenever the unclean spirits saw Him, they would fall down before Him and shout, “You are the Son of God!”

Mark 14:14 - and wherever he enters, say to the owner of the house, ‘The Teacher says, “Where is My guest room in which I may eat the Passover with My disciples

Mark 6:16 - But when Herod heard [of it], he kept saying, “John, whom I beheaded, has risen!”

Mark 14:62 - And Jesus said, “I am; and you shall see THE SON OF MAN SITTING AT THE RIGHT HAND OF POWER, and COMING WITH THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN.”

Mark 3:9 - And He told His disciples that a boat should stand ready for Him because of the crowd, so that they would not crowd Him;

Mark 13:32 - But of that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but the Father [alone].

I need the overall funda for this connect. Individual explanations for each point are not strictly needed.

Tip: Think bold. Google smart.

Cracked By: Abhinav, Devadutta, Jabba. Sandesh was in the general vicinity of the right

abhinav and Jabba the Hutt

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Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Identify

—devadutta @ 11:12

This man, has many firsts to his name.
His initials can be found as the magic number for one of the first file formats Microsoft churned out.
Identify him

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Now for the not-so-important stuff.
We try to make the questions as “un-googleable” as possible, but Google is smart and you are smarter, so we place no restrictions on how you arrive at the answer. We are just interested in the

prabhu_dc, Anuj and Biki

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Monday, August 13, 2007

Beginnings

—srikanth @ 11:13

We quiz.

Devadutta and me, we used to engage in this weird activity known as quizzing. Quizzing, if you didn’t know, basically involves a quizmaster (usually a totally pompous guy who’s convinced he’s god) asking a bunch of participants (also totally pompous guys who’re convinced they’re gods) a series of questions. Most of these questions would have absolutely no consequence, no real life value, and were a complete waste of time. But we loved it.

We did show a slight affinity to quizzes with a geeky slant. The more the questions about Google and Star Wars, the more answers we could get. But these so called tech-quizzes are few and far between. So, to attempt to make up for this lack, we have decided to put up a few “tech quiz” questions on this blog.

The rules are quite simple:

  • We ask
  • You answer
  • We tell if you’re right or wrong

So, let’s kick start things off with this one: What is special about this image ?
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**Cracked by: Hema, Jabba the Hutt, Bikiran, Abhinav, Mahesh (you won’t have it so easy the next time around, mate), piezocake (lbh frrz evtug), Bigfoot and yaksha. Sandesh **just made it in :)

** Click below for answer**:

This is, obviously, a photograph of a band called Les Horribles Cernettes (a parody band that was founded at CERN). Back in the day, Tim Berners-Lee was looking for an image to post on his newfangled “internet” concept, and used this picture of some of the early members of LHC, thus making this the first picture ever seen through a web browser on the WWW.

Hema, Jabba the hutt, Biki, Abhinav Mathur, Mahesh Herle, BiGFooT, Anuj, yaksha, Sandesh and prabhu_dc