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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Grow a spines!

—srikanth @ 23:59

What/who came after 1 and 2?

Cracked by: Rogi, bluegem4, Kaustubh, Pawankumar Hegde, dineshk, Ananth, Raghuvansh, Bharath, apar, jowens, Manish Achuth, Rahulk, Thejas V R, username, shrik, raklodramA, Sumanth Patlolla, aditthya, v.chandrashekar, udupendra, Ramprasad, Ramprasad and krikkrak

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SEGA wanted a mascot to rival Nintendo’s Mario. Their first attempt was Opa-opa (1). Then they tried Alex Kidd (2). They eventually hit upon Sonic the hedgehog, and stuck with it till now.


Chain

—devadutta @ 23:59

Simple one for the day. Identify 1 and 2 (which will actually connect them too).

Cracked by: Bharath, apar, jowens, Rogi, Pawankumar Hegde, shrik, bluegem4, Sumanth Patlolla, Rahul Rajeev, v.chandrashekar, krudebox, pavan, dineshk, Raghuvansh, username, raklodramA, Abhiram Bharadwaj Diddigi, Thejas V R, Ananth, SS, Piyush, aditthya and Shwetha Maiya

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FERMIAC - an Analog computer invented by Enrico Fermi!


Sunday, November 14, 2010

No more turtles?

—srikanth @ 23:59

This programming language kinda saw a revival with the OLPC. What’s it called?

Cracked by: Pawankumar Hegde, shrik, Rahul Rajeev, dineshk, apar, Rogi, SV, shenoyvarun86, jowens, krudebox, Rahulk, Manish Achuth, bluegem4, raklodramA, Vinay Nair Karath, Thejas V R, SS, username and udupendra

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eToys. The wiki page has neat info on its pedigree.


Saturday, November 13, 2010

Awkward name

—devadutta @ 23:59

Guest question from Manish Achutha %gqh%. Thank you sire and congrats on winning your first GQH trophy!

Identify.

Cracked by: SS, apar, jowens, Raghuvansh, username, Ananth, Rogi, pavan, Pawankumar Hegde, byslexia, Vaibhav Bajpai, Rohit, Vijay, raklodramA, dineshk, Thejas V R, krudebox, Anubhav Chatterjee, Shwetha Maiya, Dhan, mankuTimma, Anjul, shrik, Rahul Rajeev, KK, Abhiram Bharadwaj Diddigi, shenoyvarun86, Sumanth Patlolla, Rahulk, bluegem4, Logik, v.chandrashekar, Manish Achuth, Bharath and Piyush

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Fujitsu IPad. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujitsu_iPAD


Friday, November 12, 2010

Pip Peep

—devadutta @ 23:59

This dude, an artist by profession, has painted awesome stuff like 2. But he is appearing on BB today for an invention of his which revolutionized communication.

Who he?

Cracked by: shenoyvarun86, apar, Ananth, Mr.Bay Leaf, jowens, Pawankumar Hegde, Bharath, Raghuvansh, shrik, username, Rogi, aditthya, Sumanth Patlolla, dineshk, Shwetha Maiya, KK, mankuTimma, Abhiram Bharadwaj Diddigi, Dhan, krudebox, Thejas V R, Manish Achuth, bluegem4, Logik, v.chandrashekar, pavan, SS, vinayaknp, Rohit, bulldozer, raklodramA, fifthape, Rahul Rajeev, Rahulk, soumya g, Martin Antony, Mikey and Atul Mathew

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Samuel Morse, inventor of the Morse Code!


Thursday, November 11, 2010

They're all lining up!

—srikanth @ 23:59

Sorry for the delay, folks. A fairly direct question for today. Identify this British radio/television personality.

Cracked by: Thejas V R, apar, krudebox, Ananth, Mr.Bay Leaf, Pawankumar Hegde, jowens, Bharath, Raghuvansh, shrik, username, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, aditthya, dineshk, Shwetha Maiya, KK, mankuTimma, Abhiram Bharadwaj Diddigi, Dhan, madhur, Manish Achuth, bluegem4, Logik, pavan, v.chandrashekar, SS, fifthape and raklodramA

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Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Play that funky music!

—devadutta @ 23:59

Popular. What is the dancing “thing” called?

P.S: If you are in the SF Bay area, dineshk is conducting a quiz on 13th November, most probably in the Google campus in Mountain View. For more info mail sfbayquizclub@googlegroups.com

Cracked by: apar, Pawankumar Hegde, krudebox, dineshk, jowens, Ananth, SS, Thejas V R, Rogi, Dhan, aditthya, shrik and Shwetha Maiya

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The robot Keepon (developed by Hideki Kozima and programmed by Marek Michalowski) dancing to the Spoon song, “Don’t You Evah.”


Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Nuts and bolts...

—srikanth @ 23:59

Early patent diagrams for something. How do we know these today?

Cracked by: udupendra, Ananth, Goyal, apar, Pawankumar Hegde, Rogi, dineshk, Mikey, username, jowens, krudebox, Dhan, Bharath, Thejas V R, Raghuvansh, shenoyvarun86, Shwetha Maiya and quaziluffy

This question was, apparently, previously featured on shenoyvarun86’s blog. The petering was completely accidental :-)


Monday, November 8, 2010

Like this a?

—devadutta @ 23:59

Every dog’s dream vehicle. What is this?

Cracked by: username, Rogi, krudebox, raklodramA, dineshk, Thejas V R, Pawankumar Hegde, Manish Achuth, Vinayak, Raghuvansh, vinayaknp, shrik, udupendra, Rahulk, Nanda, KK, apar, v.chandrashekar, Sumanth Patlolla, nishansolo, Ananth, jowens, Bharath, Piyush, Mikey, byslexia, Anjul, Dibyo, mankuTimma and Shwetha Maiya

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Space vehicle used by Russians to carry dogs for sub-orbital and space vehicles


Monday, November 8, 2010

One more? Is there anything they didn't do?

—srikanth @ 01:10

Identify:

Sorry for the late post, folks.

Also, looks like the YC question I posted was more-or-less a repeat. I’ll be posting another one today to make up for that, and then deleting that one. :-)

Cracked by: Bharath, Rogi, username, raklodramA, Thejas V R, shrik, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Mukul, apar, jowens, bluegem4, dineshk, Pawankumar Hegde, Mikey, krudebox, Rahulk, udupendra, Ananth and Dibyo

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Gyricon Electric Paper - the first “electronic ink” mechanism, developed by Xerox PARC!