It has been more than a month since we did anything “different” on boiledbeans, so, this post is an attempt to re-seed the random number generator. We have a bunch of great questions sent in by bb users, which has been compiled into a multi-shot post.

Rules:

• UPDATE: For this special post only, contributors of the question also get a point. But you need to post a comment to get your points (its back-end requirement)
• This post will be open for 3 days
• You get one point per right answer(For users who have contributed questions, you will get points for right answers to questions other than yours.)
• Post all the answers in one comment. Please collate all answers and post it as a single comment. In case you need to re-post, please copy, paste the answers of all the other questions you have answered along with your new answer.

1. Courtesy sidsen

Caricature of which principle/person?

2. sidsen again

This sort of diagram is named after whom?

3. sidsen’s hattrick

This happens to be one of the first known representations of what?

4. Varun asks you to connect these images

5. Vinod PV asks you to identify the dude using the other two pics as a hint

6. Abhishek Krishnan’s question ( My Favourite )
   Who connects
   

Cracks/Scores:
nishansolo: 2
bobo: 4
gammafunction: 5
udupendra : 5
shenoyvarun86: 1
Dibyo: 4
nishas thambi: 6
sidsen: 6
Tathagata Chatterjee: 5
Shashank : 3
jayanth: 5

Answers: As sidsen said:

1. Occam’s razor the principle named after the friar William of Ockham.

The principle states that the explanation of any phenomenon should make as
few assumptions as possible, eliminating those that make no difference in
the observable predictions of the explanatory hypothesis or theory. Also
known as the “law of succinctness”.

BTW cbse students most definetly studied this in physics in class 8 or 9.

More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_Razor

2. The Pythagoras tree is a plane fractal constructed from squares. It is
   named after Pythagoras because each triple of touching squares encloses a
   right triangle, in a configuration traditionally used to depict the
   Pythagorean theorem.

more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoras_tree

3. Count the dots and do the maths
   1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9 = 45
   number of coloumns/rows = 3
   45/3 = 15

15
/

4 9 2 = 15

3 5 7 = 15

8 1 6 = 15

|| || ||
15 15 15 15

for more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo_Shu_Square
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_square

4. The opening sequence of Time from the album Dark Side of the Moon was
   played as a wakeup call for the crew of space mission STS-69

5. John Kanzius

6. John Perry Barlow - lyricist for grateful dead, author of a declaration
   of the independence of cyberspace, co-founder of EFF

nishas thambi(6), sidsen(6), gammafunction(5), udupendra(5), Tathagata Chatterjee(5), bobo(4), Dibyo(4), jayanth(4), Shashank(3), nishansolo(2), shenoyvarun86 and jayanth

Identify and connect:

Cracked by: nishansolo , jayanth , nishas thambi , Shreyas , teju , udupendra , Atul Mathew , madhur , Dibyo , Rohan , shenoyvarun86 , bobo , BigFooT , shashank , Tathagata Chatterjee and yaksha.

There was another profanity overloaded answer, which we have not approved(although it was right). We like our blog and we like it clean.

nishansolo, jayanth, nishas thambi, Shreyas, teju, udupendra, Atul Mathew, madhur, Dibyo, Rohan, shenoyvarun86, bobo, BigFooT, shashank, Tathagata Chatterjee and yaksha

This question, comes from Purnateja. If you are wondering how to send in questions, you have to mail it to boiledbeans@gmail.com :)

1. 2.

1’s work on 2 is the earliest example of an arrangement used to achieve a special effect 3.
Identify 1,2 and 3.

(1’s work on 2 has been an inspiration for other inventions which we enjoy big time these days :) )

Put your hands together for Tathagata Chatterjee and bobo. They get the exact answer we were looking for.

sidsen , jayanth , udupendra , bs , teju , madhur , vaibhav008 , Shashank and nishas thambi were in the vicinity of the answer, so they get their points.

sidsen, jayanth, udupendra, bobo, bs, teju, madhur, vaibhav008, Tathagata Chatterjee, Shashank, nishas thambi and yaksha

Identify and connect the two images.

Cracked by: bobo , jayanth , udupendra , teju , Dibyo , nishas thambi , varun , Shashank and Shreyas.

bobo, jayanth, udupendra, teju, Dibyo, nishas thambi, varun, Shashank and Shreyas

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The game Lemmings [http://www.elizium.nu/scripts/lemmings/ has a version playable in the browser] is the answer.

Our friend Keerthi Kiran M came up with a suggestion that we start maintaining “profile” pages of bb users so that he can get to know his fellow “geeks”. As a first step towards that, you can now add a picture to your profile and it will appear next to your comments, like this

To set up your profile pic, click on “My Profile” link which you can see at the top right of the screen when you log in to bb.

In the “Your Photo” section, browse to(or type (considering the audience :) ) ) the path to the pic and click update profile.

NOTE: Please upload your pictures only.

Connect all of them

Bonus credit if you can extend your connect to this

Gammafunction gets the perfect answer along with the bonus credit (this is the bonus credit :P ).
Rohan gets the perfect answer.
nishas thambi is almost perfect in spite of his fading powers due to the missing apostrophe.
jayanth , Dibyo , bobo , shreyas , BiGFooT , A Nony Mouse and Vinay were also more or less correct.

jayanth, Dibyo, bobo, shreyas, BiGFooT, A Nony Mouse, Gammafunction, Vinay, Rohan and nishas thambi

A)

B)

(A) is a professor of biochemistry, although he is better known for his contributions in a different field. While using (B) in his work, he saw something, and hypothesized something interesting. His hypotheses led to a paper titled (C).

Identify A, B and, mainly, C.

Cracked by: udupendra , teju , Ranjana Ninan , Dibyo , Tathagata Chatterjee , shyam , Lord Jim , Gammafunction , BiGFooT , sidsen and prasanth.

udupendra, teju, Ranjana Ninan, Dibyo, Tathagata Chatterjee, shyam, Lord Jim, Gammafunction, BiGFooT, sidsen and prasanth

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A- Isaac Asimov

Identify 1.(Hint: 2 will take you into the right forest :) )

1. 2.

Once in a while, we like to put up questions which have a huge number of cracks. Makes us really happy to see so many people crack a question. This was one of those. Some 33 people, namely, udupendra , Gammafunction , nisha’s thambi , jayanth , Dibyo , Shashank , teju , Arjun Chennu , madhur , bobo , shenoyvarun86 , iamniks , shivathilak , varun , Ganesh Prasad , VikraM , Archana , Vinay , RahulRanade , Vinod P.V , yaksha , Napoleon Dammit , Keerthi Kiran M , Lord Jim , Ranjana Ninan , Atul Mathew , Tathagata Chatterjee , prasanth , Madan , sidsen and Arjun June have got it right.

udupendra, Gammafunction, nishas thambi, jayanth, Dibyo, Shashank, teju, Arjun Chennu, madhur, bobo, shenoyvarun86, iamniks, shivathilak, varun, Ganesh Prasad, VikraM, Archana, Vinay, RahulRanade, Vinod P.V, yaksha, Napoleon Dammit, Keerthi Kiran M, Lord Jim, Ranjana Ninan, Atul Mathew, Tathagata Chatterjee, prasanth, Madan, sidsen and Arjun June

What’s common to all of these?

Cracked by: udupendra , sidsen , madhur , Dibyo , Lord Jim , jayanth , Tathagata Chatterjee , varun , shivathilak , VikraM , RahulRanade , Ranjana , iamniks , Shashank and yaksha

udupendra, sidsen, madhur, Dibyo, Lord Jim, jayanth, Tathagata Chatterjee, varun, shivathilak, VikraM, RahulRanade, Ranjana, iamniks, Shashank and yaksha

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The TARDIS from the Dr. Who series.

Connect 1,2 and 3.

1. 2.

2. 

Please don’t take the pains of identifying 3, but do identify 1 and 2.

Cracked by: udupendra(but, of course!) , bobo , nisha’s thambi , jayanth , Lord Jim , RahulRanade , Shashank , prasanth , Tathagata Chatterjee , sidsen and Dibyo(Perseverance is the key, huh dude? ;) ).

udupendra, bobo, nishas thambi, jayanth, Lord Jim, RahulRanade, Shashank, prasanth, Tathagata Chatterjee, sidsen and Dibyo