Question #64

What is so special about what he is saying? What is this effect known as?

Went uncracked!
Answer: The McGurk Effect which demonstrates an interaction between hearing and vision in speech perception. In this video, a visual /ga/ combined with an audio /ba/ is heard as /da/. Try closing your eyes and play the video again!

Question #62

He provided scientists with an extraordinary window into the human brain and the nature of memory. Who is he? What is so special about him?

Answered correctly by Nihar, indian and mak

Answer: Kim Peek. The man who could recite whole books by heart but could not button his own shirt. He suffered from the Savant Syndrome.

Question #57

Answered by all who tried.
Ans: The book is 'Fire in the Valley' on which the movie- 'Pirates of Silicon Valley' is based.
The rivalry between Gates and Jobs

Question #46

It is said that the world’s first computer programmer was a woman. She was an apprentice to Charles Babbage and was a daughter of Lord Byron. Who is she?
Hint: A computer language is named after her.

Correctly answered by 10 people.

Answer: Ada Lovelace.

Question #41

They are talking about a very famous holy war.Name it and give funda.

Cracked correctly by vish and Arun Mallya.
Ans: They are talking about the famous editor war, i.e holy war between Vi(m) and Emacs.

Question #38

What is this strange looking device? What can it do?

HINT: It violates one of the very fundamental laws of physics - conservation of energy and hence cannot exist in reality (though a device which much less powerful than this one does exist and was probably the inspiration for this one)

Answered correctly by Vish and Aviral

Answer: Pinch from Ocean’s 11 where it is used to blow off the electricity of a whole city for 30 seconds. It has been inspired by the Z-Pinch though its capabilities/power are far more than the real life device

Question #33

Sitter for tech geeks.
Identify him and the thing he is holding in his hands.

Ans: Its K R Shridhar holding "Bloom Box"

Question # 21

Especially for cyber geeks

Answer: Unreleased versions of Microsoft Windows (Nashville, Neptune, Cairo)
              Anticlockwise from top right : Nashville, Neptune, Cairo

Question #12

Simple one.
What has been used to make this work of art?

Answer: Rubik's Cube

Question #2

Connect.
Hint: Can you arrange them in a sequence?

Highlight to view answer.

Answer: Red Hat Linux

(Clockwise from Top Left): Guiness, Hedwig, Cartman, Manhattan, Apollo

All versions of Red Hat Linux.