Daily Question #139

Very workable. Identify the invention.

Cracked by Navin, Bad Ass Thambi, Kamal Rathi and Karthik!!

Answer : Designer Jinsun Park from Korea has come out with a simple tool called Color Picker. Place the pen against an object and press the scan button, the color will be detected by the color sensor and the RGB cartridges in the pen will mixed the required inks to create the target color.

Daily Question #138

What is this?

Cracked fully by Kamal Rathi, Bad Ass Thambi and sbrahul!!

Answer : First ARPANET IMP log - a record of the first message ever sent over the ARPANET which took place at 10:30PM on October 29, 1969. This record is an excerpt from the "IMP Log" kept at UCLA, and describes setting up a message transmission to go from the UCLA SDS Sigma 7 Host computer to the SRI SDS 940 Host computer.

Daily Question #133

A is named after the inventor B. We have all used A or its variation. Identify A.

Cracked by Gravediggah and Ajay!! Great!

Answer : The Brannock Device (A) is a measuring instrument invented by Charles F. Brannock (B) for computing a person's shoe size.

Daily Question #127

Makeover time for the blog. Let me know if you like it.

X is a phrase coined by A and used by the company B. C is a hint and D is a comical representation of X. Identify X.

Cracked by V.chandrashekar, Rithwik, raghu and Chithananda!!

Answer : Cogito ergo sum ("I think therefore I am")

A - Rene Descartes
B - ITTIAM Systems logo ( acronym for I Think Therefore I AM)
C - Thinking Man statue

Daily Question #119

A is a phenomenon, inspired from a similar phenomenon B. A and B originated through a site started by C. D is related to the first appearance of A. Identify all.

Cracked by 8 of you!!

Answer : Rickrolling (A) is an Internet meme typically involving the music video for the 1987 Rick Astley song "Never Gonna Give You Up". The meme is a bait and switch: a person provides a web link that he or she claims is relevant to the topic at hand, but the link actually takes the user to the Astley video. The practice is said to have begun as a variant of an earlier prank from the imageboard 4chan (founded by Christopher Poole aka moot (C)) known as duckrolling (B), in which a link to somewhere (such as a specific picture or news item) would instead lead to a thread or site containing an edited picture of a duck with wheels. The first known instance of Rickroll occurred in May 2007 on /v/, 4chan's video game board, where a link to the Rick Astley video was claimed to be a mirror of the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto IV (D).

Daily Question #116

An early version of a very common item which we have all used. Identify.

Cracked by 10 of you!!

Answer : Pencil Sharpener

Daily Question #110

What is being shown?

Cracked by 9 of you!! Good work!

Answer : Michael Jackson-related searches on Google was first interpreted as an attack on its service. The spike in queries began at about 2:45 p.m. PDT Thursday, and Google thought the traffic was an attack for about 25 minutes.

Daily Question #103

gyThe men shown in the first pic became famous due to a reason. B is a recreation of the place where they worked together. Who are they?

Cracked by Rithwik, Chithananda, Sandipan, Anubhesh, lordmaldy, Navin and Kamal Rathi!

Answer : The two radio operators aboard the Titanic - Jack Phillips and Harold Bride

Daily Question #99

Connect the six pics...

Went Uncracked!

Answer: Code names of various Nintendo game consoles.

- Athanasius Kircher's map of 'Atlantis' (Game boy advance)

- Album cover of the David Bowie album 'Reality'(Nintendo 64)

- 'Nitro' compound(Nintendo DS)

- Joseph Priestly who discovered 'Oxygen'(Game Boy Micro)

- Prince. He formed the band 'The Revolution'(Wii)

- 'Dolphin'(Game Cube)

Daily Question #98

A sitter. X (later renamed after E), modelled after A was first proposed by B, the Founder and Chairman of the X foundation. Funded by C, D developed F which won X. Identify all.

PS : I'm off for a couple of days. sumo_ftb will do the needful. Have a nice weekend!

Cracked by Rithwik, Sandipan, lordmaldy and Kamal Rathi!

Answer : X - X Prize (later Ansari X-Prize)

A - Orteig Prize
B - Peter Diamandis
C - Paul Allen
D - Burt Rutan
E - Anousheh Ansari
F - SpaceShipOne

Daily Question #97

X, invented by A, is a term that originated in 2003. The popularity and ease of organising X can be attributed to the rise of social networking sites. B is a famous instance of X while C is named after X. Identify X.

Cracked by gerimox, Sandipan Chakravarty, Navin Pai and triviafreak!!!

Answer: X- Flash Mob

A- Bill Wasik

B- Silent Disco

C- Flash Mob Computing.

Daily Question #94

Who connects?

Cracked by lordmaldy, triviafreak, yossarian, Sandipan and pappan!!

Answer : Vyacheslav Molotov, a Soviet politician and diplomat, foreign minister under Stalin

A - Molotov cocktail, the generic name for a variety of crude incendiary weapons
B - Molotov line, a line of fortifications built by the Soviet Union in World War II following the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
C - Molotov bread basket, a type of incendiary cluster bomb

Daily Question #85

X was created with an intent to foster better thinking. The projects of X include A and B. The famous composer C, is one of the board members of the X. One of the initiatives of the X, if implemented, will be able to counter the D problem. Identify all.

PS : Attempt Quiz Bonanza #3

Cracked by Chithananda, Sandipan and Wasi Manazir!!

Answer : X - Long Now Foundation
A - Clock of the Long Now
B - Rosetta Project
C - Brian Eno
D - Year 10,000 problem (similar to Y2K problem and can be avoided by using 5 digits to write years i.e 02009)

Daily Question #81

Today's question contributed by Bad Ass Thambi a.k.a Deepu. Send your questions to johnywalker420@gmail.com

Claim to fame of this meticulously designed chamber?

PS : Check below post for Quiz Bonanza #3

Cracked by Chithananda, Navin, lordmaldy and Kamal Rathi!!

Answer : Anechoic chambers are commonly used in acoustics to conduct experiments in nominally "free field" conditions. All sound energy will be traveling away from the source with almost none reflected back. According to Guinness World Records, 2005, Orfield Laboratory's NIST certified Eckel Industries-designed anechoic chamber is "The quietest place on earth" measured at -9.4 dBA. The human ear can typically detect sounds above 0 dB, so a human in such a chamber would perceive the surroundings as void of sound.

Daily Question #78

Do attempt Quiz Bonanza #2

Also, have a look at Shrey Goyal's (one of our regulars) blog (http://shrey-knows.blogspot.com). There is a very interesting post about good quiz questions.

Today's question. X created the innovative website Y to raise money for his university education. Identify X and Y.

Cracked by 11 of you!! Good job!

Answer : X - Alex Tew, Y - http://milliondollarhomepage.com

The Million Dollar Homepage is a website conceived in 2005 by Alex Tew, a student from Wiltshire, England, to raise money for his university education. The homepage consists of a million pixels arranged in a 1000 × 1000 pixel grid; the image-based links on it were sold for $1 per pixel in 10 × 10 blocks. The aim of the website was to sell all of the pixels in the image, thus generating a million dollars of income for the creator.

Daily Question #75

X (shown in first pic) has become an indispensable aspect of the aviation industry. The second pic shows X in action. Identify X or give funda.

PS : Quiz Bonanza #2 is still open

Cracked only by Madhu!! Hats off! lordmaldy was close.

Answer : Bird strike simulator / Chicken Gun simulates the impact of a bird with an aircraft. This is of particular importance as many planes are traveling at 160 mph or faster soon after takeoff, near where birds may be flying. Common practice is to fire a chicken carcass in a sabot from a pneumatic cannon at a stationary aircraft or part of an aircraft, allowing the fowl to approach speeds of over 450 mph (720 km/h). Fowl are fired at crucial areas such as the frontal cross section of the windshield, canopy, engine, and wings.

Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birdstrike_simulator

Daily Question #58

A, an American cartoonist and B, a British cartoonist are famous for their drawings which were based on similar concepts. Their names have entered the English language and are synonymous with the unique character of their drawings. C was inspired from their creations. Identify A and B.


Hint :

Cracked by shrey and aamaadmi!

Answer : Rube Goldberg/Heath Robinson machines are complex devices that perform simple tasks in indirect, convoluted ways.
A - Rube Goldberg
B - Heath Robinson
C - Mouse Trap (game)

An example :

Daily Question #48

Tech question. A "standard" connect.

Cracked by Debasish, aamaadmi, Srini Rajagopal, saurabh, stuntman mike!

Answer : Standard test objects

- Lena Soderberg's pic used as a standard test image for image processing
- Cornell Box used to check accuracy of rendering software
- Stanford Bunny is a computer graphics test model
- Suzanne Vega's Tom's Diner used by Fraunhofer institute for MP3

Daily Question #42

Connect.

Uncracked!

Answer : Arecibo Telescope

- Operated by Cornell University
- Featured in "GoldenEye" as the villain's antenna
- SETI project (Wow! signal) uses this telescope
- Graphic of Arecibo telescope which was part of Arecibo message aimed at global star cluster M13

Daily Question #29

What is this used for?

Cracked by Ajay Parasuraman, Bob and MrQ!

Answer : Marble adder

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