Simple . Connect to a Song.

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Answer:

Vincent ( aka Starry, Starry Night) is a song by Don Mclean, which pays tribute to Vincent VanGogh’s works.
The paintings referenced are:

Lyrics Painting
Flaming Flowers: The Sunflower Series
Swirling Clouds: Starry Night
Field of Amber Grain: Wheat Field with Crows
Weathered Faces: The Potato Eaters

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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.

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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.

Answer:

World Wildlife Fund ( WWF) came up with the .wwf format which is a tweak of .pdf.
It cannot be printed. and so makes the world a greener place.

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:

W – Balalaika
X – The Doubble Donkey Disc
Y – Yuri Gagarin
Z – Korobeiniki – The Tetris theme

Note: the balaklava is a piece of clothing, a music album, a city etc. But not what I’m looking for.

Turns out they bought the rights from the organization Z shown in the pic.

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X, Y, Z?

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Went Uncracked.
Answer:

American Farm Bureau (Z) recently sold the rights to www.fb.com to Facebook (X) [ who else ].

Since facebook launched their messaging service, codenamed Project Titan(Y), every user would get a @facebook.com email id.
So the employees of facebook were made to switch to @fb.com for their internal email ids.

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Cracked by niranjan, paatala veera and arjun B.

Answer:

Michael Phelps.
Reference to his 8 Olympic medals at the Beijing Olympics.
Also the Marijuana Smoking controversy.

The title is a reference to a famous Onion News post about this return to Seaworld after the olympics.

1. American Saxophonist

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

3. Hugely popular and controversial TV show.

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Went Uncracked.

Answer:

1. Boots Randolph
2. Yakkety Sax meme
3. The Benny Hill Show

Connection:
Yakety Sax is a piece of music written by James Q. “Spider” Rich, and released as a 45 rpm single by Boots Randolph in 1963.

Yakkety Sax became famous as the hilarious chase sequence music in the Benny Hill Show. [ Also the theme music]

Some Internauts discovered that any video with the Benny hill theme music automatically makes it funny, this became a viral meme.

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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:

Nice n easy. Bernie Madoff.

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.

Answer:

Quoting Kaustubh
“That’s Mario Segale (who’s name was given to the character Mario). On September 13th, Super Mario Bros. turns 25. And that’s a creepy looking picture of Ron Jeremy. “

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

What’s the controversy?

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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:

This is a sitcom from Belarus called “The Theorists”, which basically flicked complete episode ideas from “The Big Bang Theory”. Controversy followed.

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

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Cracked by Kaustubh, Paatala Veera, and Kumar.

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

Answer:

This is the “Bed Intruder Song” , an auto-tuned version of this chap called “Antoine Dodson” reporting an unfortunate incident in his locality.

The Gregory Brothers made it into a track, which went viral.

Things we’ve done so far.

• Been active for 2 years
• 200 odd questions.
• Some themed rounds.
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Things you can do.

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

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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:

Quoting Royan,

X: Senator Ted Stevens, who passed away recently in an aircrash
Y: The Internet. The black-box object was described to be the internet and was seen on the british comedy series “IT-Crowd”.

Ted Stevens, who was passionate about the internet, had given his own popular interpretation of the internet sometime back, saying, “internet is not a big truck, but a series of tubes”.

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gets its name from

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

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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

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Give me A, B, C.

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

Answer:

A: The band’s name is Niacin
B: The instrument is the Hammond B3 organ, which is prominent in the band’s works.
C: Chemical structure of the Vitamin B3, also
known as niacin.

The title clue was a reference to cigarettes->nicotine.
Niacin is also known as Nicotinic acid.

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:

This is Franz Reuleaux and the Reuleaux triangle.

Any curve of constant width ( a circle, for example) can be used as an ideal manhole cover. So these are the only two 2-d surfaces that quallify.

The interview question made famous by Microsoft was along ‘lateral thinking’ lines, asking why square covers can’t be used instead.

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Cracked by tejasbr and Royan.
Answer:

Redhead=Anna Chapman(Russian Spy)
Cookie Monster from Sesame Street

Who/What happened?(I think the pic is enough.)

Cracked by Nihar and Chaitu.

Answer:
This is Evelyn McHale.
She committed suicide by jumping from the Empire state building.It is called as the “Most Beautiful Suicide” because she looked like she was in deep slumber when she landed on the car.

Surprisingly went uncracked.
Answer:

The Connect is Ronnie James Dio. RIP.
Pic1 shows Johnny Dio, a Mafiosi from whom Ronnie gets his surname. Pic2 and Pic3: Heaven & Hell, Elf are bands of which Dio was part of.

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

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Answer:

‘The Duckworth and Lewis Method ‘ band.

V Jayadevan, who created the VJD method used in some matches of ICL. Said to be a replacement for Duckworth n Lewis system.

What’s this structure called? Where’s it to be displayed?
Put extra fundae if you’re feeling generous.

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Cracked by all and sundry.

This is the Seed Cathedral.

Refer to malcaluffin’s answer for full knowledge.

Cracked by Nihar,vikram,cheezy and tattwa.
Answer:

Woody Guthrie and ”Bound For Glory”.