Boiledbeans

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Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Wherever I may roam

—devadutta @ 23:25

What is this comic’s claim to fame?

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(This comic series and not this strip in particular)

Cracked by **varuns88 **only. Fantastic dude!

varuns88

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This is “Where the buffalo roam”, the first comic on the internet. It started on print, then appeared on USENET groups and even made it to the web.


Guns N' Roses

—devadutta @ 21:38

Guest question time! This one comes in from Dheeraj K. Thanks a bunch man.

Connect
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The rest of you, send in your questions to boiledbeans@gmail.com

Cracked by: Ps , username , shenoyvarun86 , Goyal , varuns88 , Vishnu , Rohan , Martin , Dibyo , Aditya , Prasad and Sruti.

Ps, username, shenoyvarun86, Goyal, varuns88, Vishnu, Rohan, Martin, Dibyo, Aditya, Prasad and Sruti

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Obama’s campaign ran in game ADs in Burnout Paradise. This was a first in political campaign history.


Monday, December 15, 2008

Abracadabra

—srikanth @ 22:54

What GUI metaphor did this program introduce that we cannot live without?

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Clue:

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Cracked by Goyal , nikhil , username , Priya , varuns88 , sne , shashank , jayanth , Ananta , Rahulk and Siddharth Jain.

MS Publisher introduced the concept of wizards.

Goyal, nikhil, username, Priya, varuns88, sne, shashank, jayanth, Ananta, Rahulk and Siddharth Jain


Monday, December 15, 2008

Boiledbeans live quiz contest!

—devadutta @ 02:14

On 24th December this year, we will be reaching an awesome milestone. We will be posting our 500th question!
So, to celebrate, we have put together a live quiz contest and we will be conducting it on 24th December. See below

We have built a very exciting interface to conduct the quiz online and we are sure that you will love it! (Think of it as the Google Code Jam arena for quizzes ;) )

Questions will be a mix of trivia and riddles, so it will not only test your Googleing skills, but it will also test your problem solving skills.

Here are some details

  1. Live Online Quiz
  2. Link to the interface will appear on 24th December at 9:00 PM IST January 3rd 2009 at 9:30PM IST exactly.
    UPDATE: See this. Date and time changed to January 3th 2009.
  3. Each correct answer will take you to the next level
  4. The first one to finish all levels wins

A surprise awaits the first one to finish!

So, mark your calendars and keep yourself free on 24th December to take on the rest of bb users live!

P:S: We want maximum number of bb users to take part in this EPIC event ( ;) ), so please let us know if this time/date does not work for you(post a comment). We will see what we can do about it.


Sunday, December 14, 2008

Round and round we go

—devadutta @ 22:19

Connect 1 and 2 by telling us how they are not actually connected :)
This question is inspired by another question yaksha sent.

  1. 157aa44db08fce6a82300c607c730857

Cracked by: gudanggurum , Pawankumar , sidsen , varuns88 , akhi , Nakul , username , yaksha , shashank , priyananda , shenoyvarun86 , Siddharth Jain and dheeraj.

Gurupad, Pawankumar, sidsen, varuns88, akhi, Nakul, username, yaksha, shashank, priyananda, shenoyvarun86, Siddharth Jain and dheeraj


Saturday, December 13, 2008

5! 6! 7! 8! We all love to litigate!

—srikanth @ 21:16

Connect

  1. This audio clip
    [audio:http://www.boiledbeans.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/879c15afa0a57444df0061bf77ae1f71.mp3]
  2. e4952c61a13c4e7e7fea86972f55fd02

Cracked by username , Goyal , varuns88 , Ananta , UDit , shashank and sidsen (Neat work!)

Yes, the clip was tiny: It’s barely a second long. That was the clue :-)

username, Goyal, varuns88, Ananta, UDit, shashank and sidsen


Friday, December 12, 2008

Call it something, say..

—devadutta @ 23:19

Connect to a “variable name”

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Hint: 1 is in Tibetan script. Its very sacred for them.

Cracked by: Debasish , dheeraj , shenoyvarun86 , Goyal , Ananta , gudanggurum , Johny Walker , Kal , varuns88 , priyananda , mach101 and Siddharth Jain.

Debasish, dheeraj, shenoyvarun86, Goyal, Ananta, Gurupad, Johny Walker, Kal, varuns88, priyananda, mach101 and Siddharth Jain

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Foo


Thursday, December 11, 2008

Process these

—srikanth @ 21:06

(1) claims that he discovered some inexplicable things as part of his work for (2). Which company was named after these inexplicable things? Also, identify (1).

  1. f1f9fb821c00b7c218bc021dada2c2fd
  2. ba672e387eb4f1ae996288acab41845a

Cracked by Goyal , Srivats , udupendra (hmmm, no) , dheeraj , Jean Valjean , varuns88 and shenoyvarun86.

Goyal, Srivats, udupendra, dheeraj, Jean Valjean, varuns88 and shenoyvarun86


Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Software, I has it

—devadutta @ 23:59

Connect

Hint: Recent news

Cracked by: Goyal , shenoyvarun86 , Jean Valjean , Rahulk , akhi , varuns88 and dheeraj.

Goyal, shenoyvarun86, Jean Valjean, Rahulk, akhi, varuns88 and dheeraj

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“Softwear”, a “geek” clothing line up from MS has signed up this rapper named “Common” for marketing.


Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Bad light did not stop play

—srikanth @ 21:04

Identify and connect.

Cracked by Goyal , Rc (Conspiracys aside :-) ), shenoyvarun86 and Atul Mathew.

Goyal, Rc, shenoyvarun86 and Atul Mathew