Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 20th, 2010
Clue added for 452 . Have another shot , all of you .
Connect the gadget A to the ‘coffin’ B .
A is a prototype of Lunokhod , the Soviet Lunar Rover . B shows the Sarcophagus , the protective concrete structure built over the wrecked Chernobyl reactor .
Immediately after the Chernobyl Disaster , remote controlled [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 19th, 2010
After a hiatus of 2 months , the Monthly is back !
Same format , you have a week to send in your answers .
All the best !
Find MS-12 here .
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 19th, 2010
Identify this deity .
Clue :
Terminus , the Roman god of boundaries .
Second pic is Chennai Central , which is a terminus .
Uncracked.
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 19th, 2010
Laziness prevents me from posting photos of more of these people. The most famous one is missing. Or is he?
The dude missing is Ian Fleming.
Rithwik, Manu Sathian, Freestyler, Anonymous, vinayak007, abhijeet, Rajith, Vijaynath and Balakrishnan all avoided embarrassment. Those of you who gave it a miss will find the comments section an interesting read.
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 17th, 2010
Id the phenomenon.
Morning Glory Clouds , commonly seen in Northern Australia .
Cracked by Freestyler , Siddharth Jain , Rajith Ravi , Vinayak007 , Dr Vijaynath V , Arun and Rithwik .
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 17th, 2010
Who ? Wot occasion?
Dr Elena Bodnar , winner of the 2009 IgNobel in the public health category , demonstrating her gas-mask bra . The bra can be quickly converted into a pair of gas masks, one for the wearer and one to be given to a needy bystander.
Cracked by Abhijeet , Manu Sathian , Dr [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 15th, 2010
Pioneering couple. Though not quite willingly.
Quoting Rithwik ,
“Frederick Douglass and Victoria Woodhull
In 1872, Douglass became the first African American nominated for Vice President of the United States as Victoria Woodhull’s running mate on the Equal Rights Party ticket and she was the first ever woman US POTUS candidate”
Rithwik was the only one to crack this [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 14th, 2010
What could A expect to find if he used B ?
If a butler ( Nestor from Tintin featured in A ) looked through a mutoscope ( B ) , he would have seen a woman disrobing . Read more here.
Uncracked.
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 13th, 2010
Identify this immortal lady.
Henrietta Lacks , who was the involuntary donor of cells from her cancerous tumor, which were cultured by George Otto Gey to create an immortal cell line for medical research. This is now known as the HeLa cell line .
Cracked by Debasish , Rithwik , Manu Sathian , Kaushik Saha , Krishna [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 12th, 2010
These souvenirs are based on ?
Ampelmannchen , the symbolic person shown on traffic lights in ( former ) East Germany.
Cracked by Abhijeet , Rajith Ravi , Dr Vijaynath V , Arun Warrier , Rithwik and Manish Jajodia .
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