Saturday, March 27, 2010

#213 - Fish

Connect.







Cracked by everyone. Highlight for answer.
Movies with the maximum usage of the word fuck - Casino, Summer of Sam, Nil by Mouth

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

#212 Conundrum

A tight LitSoc (read inter-hostel literary trophy) schedule, kept both moderators busy. And now, exams going on, so we are still busy. Sorry for the long delay. Connect.






Cracked by everyone. Highlight for answer -
Tower of Hanoi. It was invented by French mathematician Edouard Lucas.

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

#211 What did you say?

X is the origin of a very popular term A. That term can be generically applied to the origin of D by B + C. E is a hint to D. Identify X,A,D.


X

B

C

E

Everyone got a part of the answer, only Varun and AyuJain cracked it fully. Highlight for answer-
In-a-gadda-da-vida (D) by Iron (B) Butterfly (C). A commonly related story says that the song's title was originally "In The Garden Of Eden" (E) but at one point in the course of rehearsing and recording, singer Doug Inge became intoxicated and slurred the words, creating the mondegreen (A) that stuck as the title. X is Bonnie Earl O' Murray, which is the origin of the term mondegreen.

Monday, March 8, 2010

#210 - Quite Strange

Connect



Nice crack by Nakul

Answer (highlight to read) : The Uncanny Valley proposed by Masahiro Mori.