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Connect:

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ANSWER: The Doors. For details refer any of the comments below

CRACKED BY: Seven of you.

@maga: Blanking Marriage of Heaven and Hell leaves almost nothing to be seen in the picture.

A Simple one. Connect.

Cracked by Johny Walker,p vs np.

ANSWER: Lincoln Continental, Garfield , Mt. Mckinley, JFK Airport.

Connect is US Presidents assassinated while in office.

Connect

Cracked by Johny Walker.

ANSWER: Yale University. The mascot Handsome Dan(Yale Bulldog)  and Elihu Yale after whom its named. (Dedic to Yog).

Voyages of ?

Cracked by Gautam,Tejas,Vikram,wanderlust,tarantinofan,The Editor.

ANSWER: St.Francis Xavier.

Where? What?

The top of the Statue of Liberty. Cracked by Nishanth Raman!

From Vikram Shashimohan.

1 and 2 virtually symbolise American politics. Id both, and, what’s the story?

1. 2.

Cracked by Johny Walker.

ANSWER: Andrew “Jackass” Jackson(1) inspired Nast(2) to represent the Democrats with a Donkey, and later went on to show “the Republican Vote” as a fleeing elephant, and the Republican Elephant Resulted.

Simple.ID the kids.

Rohan,Tarantinofan,Sudarshan,Logik,Neeraj,cbfry,Wanderlust and Johny Walker(half-correct) get this one.

ANSWER: Shahid Kapoor and Ayesha Takia.

From Vikram Shashimohan.

What unique ignominy connects these 5 movies?

Cracked by Logik,Johny Walker,Aditya Sridhar,Tarantinofan,Tejas.

ANSWER: David Manning, Sony’s fake critic gave good reviews for these movies, which eventually made Sony pay $5 to anyone who watched them in American theaters.(And Vikram adds:”Too bad RGV didn’t know this when he released RGV ki Aag “)

Please gimme specific connect between these pictures. Where do these particular snapshots appear?

Answer: As they appear on th stamps released by the United States.

Cracked by Tejas and wanderlust!

This one is from Logik.Thank you.

ID maadi and then connect maadi.

A. A particularly cool / dirty method of loop unrolling in C. [ depending on whether you're a fan of obfuscation or not ]

B. A box-office-bomb. And a cult classic.

C . A parody of what?

Cracked by Sudarshan,Vikram,Wanderlust,partly by cbfry.

A. Duff’s Device, an optimized implementation of a serial copy that uses a technique widely applied in assembly language for loop unrolling
B. THX_1138, a sci-fi movie presenting a dystopian view of the future.
C. Starwars Kid, as portrayed on American Dad.

Connect is George Lucas.
Tom Duff wrote this piece of code while working at Lucasfilm
THX_1138 was the first feature length film by George Lucas.

Whats this rigged up gadget?

E.T. Phone home! Cracked by Sudarshan, Vikram and The Editor!

Though its a sitter and a St.Peter!,Their claim to fame please? (die hard fans please excuse )

Answer: Pink Floyd. Numbed out by Rithwik, Priya and Logik!

Hello Folks

This summer the NITK Quiz Blog completes its first year as an active quiz blog. We have thouroughly enjoyed posting and thank our regular visitors for their participation and suggestions. Beginning this month, we are welcoming guest questions from our regular visitors.

Mail the questions to sridhar.aditya@gmail.com and we’ll put it up on the blog.

-Aditya Sridhar

The first and the second. Who could be the third? We’ll have to wait and watch!

Answer: To quote mahesh: gasquet and the connect is cocaine…
the first two faced a suspension from world tennis and gasquet mite also get it…

Also cracked (pun intended) by Johny Walker