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Friday, December 30, 2011

I've got the whole world in my hands...

—srikanth @ 23:59

What is the (superficial) connection?

Cracked by everyone.

KK, Manish Achuth, Rogi, rohanquizzer, Sumanth Patlolla, jowens, Bharath, badideabear, raklodramA, Rahulk, shrik, Rajesh, rickde, Ananth, Shwetha Maiya, debjani, Vicky and Thejas V R


Part 2?

—srikanth @ 23:59

Tell us the story connecting (1), (2) and (3)

Cracked by Rey de Vaqueiros, jowens, KK, Manish Achuth, Rogi, Amarendra Kumar, rohanquizzer, Sumanth Patlolla, Dibyo, shrik, Jayaprakash B R, Bharath, badideabear, raklodramA, Rahulk, Rajesh, rickde, Ananth, Shwetha Maiya, Vishwas B Sharma and Thejas V R


Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Kaboom!

—devadutta @ 23:59

Theory X, widely misattributed to have been discovered by 1 was actually discovered by this dude in 2 and interestingly, he was a catholic priest. What is X? Who is 2?

Cracked by Logik, sandeep bhat, Amarendra Kumar, badideabear, Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, Bharath, rohanquizzer, shrik, Ananth, KK, Rogi, jowens, Dibyo, raklodramA, Rahulk, Rajesh, rickde, Shwetha Maiya and Vishwas B Sharma


Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Controlled Kaboom

—devadutta @ 23:59

Picture of four bulbs lit for the first time using X. What is X? 2 is a well needed hint.

Cracked by: jowens, Anjul, shrik, Manish Achuth, Rahulk, KK, Amarendra Kumar, Bharath, Madan, Vishwas B Sharma, Sumanth Patlolla, rickde, rohanquizzer, raklodramA, Ananth, sandeep bhat, badideabear, Prasad, sanador, Rogi, Dibyo, Jayaprakash B R, Rajesh and Shwetha Maiya

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The first light bulbs lit by electricity generated by nuclear power at EBR-1(now Idaho National Laboratory)


Monday, December 26, 2011

Slow

—devadutta @ 23:59

What is this?

Cracked by: jowens, sandeep bhat, Ananth, badideabear, Manish Achuth, Amarendra Kumar, raklodramA, Rajesh, Sumanth Patlolla, rickde, Rahulk, KK, shrik, rohanquizzer, sanador, Anjul, Bharath, Vishwas B Sharma, Rogi, Shwetha Maiya and grey_matters

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Quoting Bharat


Sunday, December 25, 2011

Fast!

—devadutta @ 23:59

Recent work by this dude and his team from MIT achieved 2. What is 2? What is it a “photo” of?

Jayaprakash B R, Sumanth Patlolla, Rahulk, KK, raklodramA, rohanquizzer, Manish Achuth, Rogi, shrik, Ananth, Vivek Gokuladas, Prasad, jowens, badideabear, rickde, Rajesh, Saurabh, hapadapa, Bharath, sanador, Logik, Urthstripe, Siddharth Ravi, tanwi and Anjul


Saturday, December 24, 2011

Boom!

—srikanth @ 23:59

What is?

Cracked by: sanador, Sumanth Patlolla, Logik, shrik, badideabear, jowens, KK, rohanquizzer, Rajesh, Rahulk, raklodramA, hapadapa, Manish Achuth, Dibyo, Nandha K Samy, rickde, Anjul, Shwetha Maiya, Rogi, Ananth, Prasad and Vishwas B Sharma

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A mockup of some of the detectors of the LHC made using Lego blocks :)


Friday, December 23, 2011

Get the ghost.

—srikanth @ 23:59

Two random items connected by a name. What?

Cracked by: rohanquizzer, Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, Logik, shrik, badideabear, jowens, Raghuvansh, KK, Rahulk, raklodramA, rickde and Rogi

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The Ceratophys frog, also called the Pac-man frog because of its shape.


Thursday, December 22, 2011

iFall

—devadutta @ 23:59

Personal coat of arms of a major physics stud. Who?

Cracked by: Jayaprakash B R, rohanquizzer, Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, Gurupad, shrik, badideabear, jowens, KK, anubha, Rahulk, Rajesh, raklodramA, Nandha K Samy, rickde, Shwetha Maiya, Ananth, Rogi, sandeep bhat and Siddarth Pai


Wednesday, December 21, 2011

R.I.P

—devadutta @ 23:59

Guest question from %gqh% Yuan Niu.

Identify the dude who is standing. Great man. This is our tribute to him.

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Sumanth Patlolla, jowens, Amarendra Kumar, shrik, badideabear, Rogi, rohanquizzer, Ananth, voodoonodle, rickde, Manish Achuth, Bharath, KK, Rahulk, Rajesh, raklodramA, Shwetha Maiya, Vishwas B Sharma and Jayaprakash B R

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Jack Goldman, Founder of Xerox PARC