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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Aaa... TikTikTikTikTikTik Daarling!

—devadutta @ 23:59

What is this?

There is a wealth of information in the image

Cracked by: Ananth, dineshk, KK, badideabear, jowens, Dibyo, Anjul, Manish Achuth, vishwanath, Rogi, shrik, Sumanth Patlolla, Raghuvansh, s m muneer ali, krudebox, raklodramA, Thejas V R, udupendra and Rahulk

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The first ever atomic clock


You can touch my hair and _dash_ me anywhere ;)

—devadutta @ 23:59

What it is?

Cracked by: Jayaprakash B R, Sajith T S, vrashabh, Sumanth Patlolla, shrik, Anjul, vishwanath, Manish Achuth, raklodramA, sandeep bhat, Tsunami, krudebox, Siddarth Pai, puneet_k, KK, vinayaknp, jins, Dibyo, jowens, Rogi, badideabear, Ananth, dineshk, Urthstripe, Shwetha Maiya, Bipin Banavalikar, Rahul Rajeev, Thejas V R, aditthya, Anonymous, hypertonic, udupendra, wanderlust, Raghuvansh and s m muneer ali

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Computer Geek Barbie!


Monday, May 16, 2011

ding ding

—srikanth @ 23:59

Identify experiment that’s been running since 1840.

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Urthstripe, shrik, Ananth, jowens, KK, dineshk, Anand T R, Shwetha Maiya, Rogi, Manish Achuth, Dibyo, Sumanth Patlolla, Jayaprakash B R, raklodramA, sandeep bhat, krudebox, Siddarth Pai, badideabear, Bipin Banavalikar, Rahul Rajeev and Thejas V R

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The Oxford Electric Bell.


Sunday, May 15, 2011

Paid Piper

—devadutta @ 23:59

First ever picture taken of a particular company. Which?

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Urthstripe, Rogi, shrik, jowens, Jayaprakash B R, badideabear, shrey, dineshk and Ananth

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PayPal


Saturday, May 14, 2011

Sunrise

—devadutta @ 23:59

Connect

Cracked by: Jayaprakash B R, badideabear, Goyal, Sajith T S, Raghuvansh, Ananth, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, raklodramA, Anjul, udupendra, Siddarth Pai, shrik, jowens, s m muneer ali, dineshk and vishwanath

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Facebook’s new campus is Sun’s ex campus. Wah.


Friday, May 13, 2011

Can he patent anything here?

—srikanth @ 23:59

What’s the ‘space’ connection?

Cracked by: badideabear, dineshk, shrik, Siddarth Pai, Rogi, Raghuvansh, raklodramA, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Ananth, vishwanath, Thejas V R, udupendra, Thiru, jowens, Shwetha Maiya and shenoyvarun86

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Jeff Bezos (1) started a private space flight company called Blue Origin. Their first flight is named after Robert H Goddard (2). As an aside, Neal Stephenson (3) used to be an employee there.


Thursday, May 12, 2011

Ran out of latin names, did ya?

—srikanth @ 23:59

Three kinds of what?

Cracked by: shrik, jowens, dineshk, badideabear, Rogi, Raghuvansh, raklodramA, jins, Aravind, Manish Achuth and Ananth

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Taxons :) Zombie taxons, lazarus taxons, and elvis taxons - names given to taxons that have vague/incomplete ancestries :)


Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Is that a duck?

—devadutta @ 23:59

Simple question. Identify.

Cracked by: piezocake, badideabear, Rogi, shenoyvarun86, Anjul, Ananth, Manish Achuth, sandeep bhat, Mo, Raghuvansh, jowens, Sumanth Patlolla, rohanquizzer, shrik, vishwanath, s m muneer ali, Anonymous, emato, Siddarth Pai, Thejas V R, Shwetha Maiya, dineshk, Urthstripe, raklodramA, jins, Aravind and udupendra

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Tangram


Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Smorter than the average bear?

—srikanth @ 23:59

Identify.

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, badideabear, jowens, Ananth, shrik, dineshk, Dibyo, Rogi, Manish Achuth, raklodramA, shenoyvarun86, udupendra, s m muneer ali, krudebox, rohanquizzer, Siddarth Pai, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish, Thejas V R, vishwanath and sandeep bhat

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Hidetsugu Yagi, holding up a Yagi-Uda antenna.


Monday, May 9, 2011

Says a lot

—devadutta @ 23:59

Guest Question from udupendra %gqh%. Thanks saar!

What pop-culture icon of the 1980s is this the patent diagram of?

Cracked by: udupendra, Raghuvansh, Rogi, badideabear, shenoyvarun86, Urthstripe, jowens and dineshk

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Simon game. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_%28game%29