Save our planet.

I suppose everyone knows whose ad pic 1 is. Good.  Lets call them X, and proceed.

ad

X recently came out with a decently brilliant tech-idea Y, an icon of which is shown in pic 2. Y is just a tweaked form of the industry standard Z.

icon

If adopted by the majority, Y can prove very beneficial as this post’s title suggests.

Knowing the usual set of X’s activities, deduce Y and Z.  Also put funda as to why Y is claimed to be so awesome.

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Cracked by Grim, wanderlust, Salime and Anirudh.

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Of weird instruments and Funky covers

1. Odd-looking instrument W, the name of which, is derived from words that mean “to speak/chatter” in its language.
The word W is also a popular nickname given to a Fighter Jet, since people think the jet looks like the instrument.
W?

2. X is a music album by an American indie-rock Band, which uses a story-based theme and references a popular astronaut Y in two of its songs.

Songs from X use sounds from W ( the instrument, not the fighter jet),
and one of the songs Z is a Folk tune, popular in the Computer/TV/Brick Gaming context.
X, Y, Z?

W, Y, and Z are from the same country. X can be derived by staring at the album cover

[Note: Reposting this question of mine, from a FB quizzing group]

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Cracked by Nishanth, Vic and Vishal.

Answer:

 

Meet him at Sea World…

Simple.
A comic in reference to whom?

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Cracked by niranjan, paatala veera and arjun B.

Answer:

 

Shoe chase music…

What connects?

1. American Saxophonist

album_cover

2. Moderately famous meme [ Flash video, click to play]

3. Hugely popular and controversial TV show.

tv_show

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Went Uncracked.

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Prisonomics

See picture. Id the genius.

prisonomics

ZOMG. We seem to be having a double rainbow moment here. One more question coming up by tomorrow.

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Cracked by Panda and Kaustubh.T

Answer:

 

Shrooms…

Identify this chap, and the reason why this question is being asked today.

Clue:  The character, not the legend.

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Cracked by Paatala Veera, Kaustubh, Nihar and raklodrama.

Kaustubh gets QM’s respect for identifying Ron Jeremy.

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So that’s how it started…

Sitter!

A  television show from a landlocked country in Europe. [Image + Video]

What’s the controversy?

tvshow

Lazy QM says,

All you honest quizzers, please watch the video on this site itself, coz some youtube comments might have the answer.

Also, some related videos might show up towards the end of this video. It’s quite workoutable within the first few seconds.

Thanks.

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Cracked by Nihar, Varun, and Arjun.

Answer:

 

Hide everyone. Now!!!

Fresh, almost.

Identify the meme, involving this gentleman, and the usage of the ghetto version of the lyrics shown.

interviewee

lyrics

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Cracked by Kaustubh, Paatala Veera, and Kumar.

Brownie points to paatala veera for his version of the answer.

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Respect. in memoriam

I’m sure Late. Senator X would’ve scoffed at the representation of  Y as shown in this figure.

senator

Y

The figure shown is borrowed from a show, a screenshot put below.

scene

The name of this sitcom you needn’t identify.

Id X, Y.
Put as much funda as seems fit.

P.S : Don’t worry too much about the tilted photos.
They’re an attempt to keep Leila Boujnane and Paul Bloore away.

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Cracked completely by Royan. Nihar got the name of the Senator right.

Good work, fellas.

Answer:

 

Puff.

Exceptionally talented rock/fusion band A

band

gets its name from

1. Their admiration ( and use) for this particular musical organ – B ( which is one in a series of its kind).

organ

2. Put together with the chemical name of this structure shown here.
This chemical happens to be an essential nutrient for humans, and is toxic in large doses [ or when consumed through a method which the title of this post hints at ] . Common name – C

chemical_structure

Give me A, B, C.

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Cracked by Kaustubh, Capt. Vogon, Varun, Royan, and Sriranjan.
Good work.

Answer:

 

Interview question itseems, haha

Images 1 and 2 hint at a legendary nonsense question often asked in Interviews.

Who is the mechanical engineer shown in the pic, and how does he fit into this equation?

Update: Don’t give me the funda for the two manholes, Just use that funda to think how the engineer is involved with this problem.

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Cracked by Capt Vogon Jeltz & YaavanoObba (on twitter)

Answer:

 

From Russia with Luvvu

Identify both the redhead, and the character.

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Cracked by tejasbr and Royan.
Answer:

 

Tracing the curves…

Starter: This is a musical group. The divine objects in the image lead you to the answer. Id

band

MainCourse: Using that as the starting clue, Id this IIT graduate, and put funda.

iitian

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Cracked by all
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All you need is some orientation

A celebrity in the field of Biochemistry, and a knight to boot,

this man X created a technique which has something to do with pic1. The technique is thusly, named after him. Let’s call it X1.

sir_biochemist

structure_pic1

Now, the prankster scientists in the field started naming other techniques as a pun on X1.

So, a technique based on pic2 was called Y ( which had some relevance in naming, in fact)
and one based on pic3 was called Z ( no connection whatsoever, done just for kicks) and so on.
The list continues for some 2 more techniques.

structure_pic2

structure_pic3

hints:
1. pic1, pic2, and pic3 are generic representations.
2. pic2 has three subtypes, one of which is a courier of sorts.

X, X1.
Y, Z, please.

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Cracked completely by tattwa and Tinkerbells.
Satyaki got X and X1 right.

Answer: