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Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Understanding edward nashton

—srikanth @ 20:53

Connect these cities

to this organization that was very useful to the Allies during WW2, and became terribly famous in many recent literary works.

Cracked by Dibyo , akhi , varuns88 , joe , vinod , duriel , Rey de Vaqueiros , udupendra and Tathagata Chatterjee.

Dibyo, akhi, varuns88, joe, vinod, duriel, Rey de Vaqueiros, udupendra and Tathagata Chatterjee


Bad Robot!

—devadutta @ 22:27

Connect

Link to the video
p.s: Today is Firefox 3 release day. Get it if you have not got it already!

p.p.s: Yes, the robot in 1 was spotted on BB earlier..

Cracked by: joe , varuns88 , duriel , akhi , Dibyo , madhur , udupendra , shashank.

joe, varuns88, duriel, akhi, Dibyo, madhur, udupendra and shashank


Monday, June 16, 2008

Not GIGO?

—srikanth @ 22:53

What is this strange device?

A convoluted clue:

(Explain the clue for bonus points :-) )

Cracked by Rohan , akhi , udupendra , varuns88 , vinod and jayanth.

Rohan, akhi, udupendra, varuns88, vinod and jayanth


Sunday, June 15, 2008

The art of writing checks

—devadutta @ 20:53

Easy one to begin the week.

What do you have to do to get a check like this, which famous computer scientist gives it and why is it $2.56?

Cracked by: Goyal , Rey de Vaqueiros , VikraM , Keerthi Kiran M , duriel , akhi , Atul Mathew , Ganesh Prasad , Rohan , jayanth , vinod , Ajay Parasuram , uma , Rithwik , gvivekcbe , joe , svgreatest , Abid , Abid , udupendra , madhur , priyananda , varuns88 , Debasish , pratap , yaksha , Dibyo , Biki , shenoyvarun86 , Tathagata Chatterjee , piezocake! phew!!

Goyal, Rey de Vaqueiros, VikraM, Keerthi Kiran M, duriel, akhi, Atul Mathew, Ganesh Prasad, Rohan, jayanth, vinod, Ajay Parasuram, uma, Rithwik K, gvivekcbe, joe, svgreatest, Abid, Abid, udupendra, madhur, priyananda, varuns88, Debasish, pratap, yaksha, Dibyo, Biki, shenoyvarun86, Tathagata Chatterjee and piezocake


Saturday, June 14, 2008

Captured...

—srikanth @ 22:32

Identify this iconic device, the brand that it created, and the reason for its fame:

Just some of the thousands of possible clues (for the brand)

Cracked by varuns88 , jayanth , udupendra , akhi , Rohan , duriel , Goyal , piezocake , Dibyo , VikraM , priyananda , ajayparasuram , pratap , vivekusc , bobo , Keerthi Kiran M and madhur!

varuns88, jayanth, udupendra, akhi, Rohan, duriel, Goyal, piezocake, Dibyo, VikraM, priyananda, ajayparasuram, pratap, vivekusc, bobo, Keerthi Kiran M and madhur


Friday, June 13, 2008

Aaa-choo!

—devadutta @ 22:57

X was originally designed during the WW II to be used in 1. But today, it is used for other reasons and you can find it in many places, including the pockets of some people. What is X?

Only varuns88 got it! Nice work dude! (Jayanth also got it, late though)

varuns88 and jayanth


Thursday, June 12, 2008

Arbit

—srikanth @ 21:17

Identify (name the book):

Cracked by Goyal , Rey de Vaqueiros , varuns88 and duriel.

Goyal, Rey de Vaqueiros, varuns88 and duriel


Wednesday, June 11, 2008

300!

—devadutta @ 22:23


Yesterday’s final question of the theme round marked the 300th post on Boiledbeans! In fact, the theme round was a way to celebrate this.

It has been an amazing 300 days for us. We have loved every bit of it.
Tell us what you think of Boiledbeans, What you would like to see in the future and what would make you come back to Boiledbeans over and over again.

Please leave it as a comment to this post.

What we would like to see from you guys is more participation in the form of guest questions. That way, Boiledbeans will have a wide variety of content.

Again, thanks for coming back and keep telling your friends about Boiledbeans!

(The image is of galaxy NGC 300. Courtesy NASA :) )


Wednesday, June 11, 2008

My screen is too small

—devadutta @ 21:46

Few guys claimed to have done 1 using 2. It turned out to be a hoax. 3 does something similar to 1 for real as in 4 using something similar to 2.
What is 4 called as? How is it done?

  1. 2.

  2. 4.

Hint:

Cracked by: akhi , Dibyo , shashank , varuns88 , Tathagata Chatterjee , udupendra , manubhardwaj , yaksha.

akhi, Dibyo, shashank, varuns88, Tathagata Chatterjee, udupendra, manubhardwaj and yaksha


Tuesday, June 10, 2008

They're all connected...

—srikanth @ 21:14

Final question of the theme round!

X started out as a research project - (1). This entire theme round centres around the core tech behind X. BTW, it recently got an “official” mascot - (2) (Many thanks Mr. BiGFooT!).

Identify X

Cracked by: varuns88 , shyam , VikraM , udupendra , svgreatest , wasi manazir, Tathagata Chatterjee and shenoyvarun86

udupendra and svgreatest cracked the theme… Congrats

The theme round ends with this question. Check the theme question post for the final stats!

varuns88, shyam, VikraM, udupendra, svgreatest, wasi manazir, Tathagata Chatterjee and shenoyvarun86