1. 2.

Identify 1 and 2.

Cracked by: jayanth , udupendra , deepak , teju , , iamniks , Ganesh Prasad , Abhishek , alephnull , shivathilak , prasanth , Keerthi Kiran M , bobo , sidsen , A Nony Mouse , Gammafunction , yaksha , Tathagata Chatterjee , piezocake , piezocake and nisha’s thambi.

jayanth, udupendra, deepak, teju, Anonymous, iamniks, Ganesh Prasad, Abhishek, alephnull, shivathilak, prasanth, Keerthi Kiran M, bobo, sidsen, A Nony Mouse, Gammafunction, yaksha, Tathagata Chatterjee, piezocake, piezocake and nishas thambi

What is blanked out in this postage stamp?

For extra credit: What is the whole thing the guy is wearing called?

Cracked by: udupendra , teju , shivathilak , rajeshvj , Ramanand , Mahesh , teju , sidsen , alephnull , prasanth , Tathagata Chatterjee , Shreyas , A Nony Mouse , bs , VikraM , bobo , deepak , and nisha’s thambi.

udupendra, teju, shivathilak, rajeshvj, Ramanand, Mahesh, teju, sidsen, alephnull, prasanth, Tathagata Chatterjee, Shreyas, A Nony Mouse, bs, VikraM, bobo, deepak and nishas thambi

This question is based on a suggestion from Anirudh Deshpande. Thanks a lot dude!

Identify and connect.

Cracked by: teju , sidsen , VikraM , jayanth, Nishas thambi and udupendra.

@piezocake: what!?

teju, sidsen, VikraM, jayanth, nishas thambi and udupendra

Connect the images to one of the greatest geek culture icons of all time.

Cracked by: teju, VikraM, prasanth, udupendra, Mahesh, Madan, Gammafunction, Shreyas, Biki, sidsen, and nisha’s thambi.

teju, VikraM, prasanth, udupendra, Mahesh, Madan, Gammafunction, Shreyas, Biki, sidsen and nishas thambi

a. Hold the picture 1 close to your face so that your nose touches it (You might want to print it out.. you know its the flu season :P)
b. Slowly move away from it and try not to focus on 1
c. Continue moving it away from you very slowly until you see a Shark.

Now for the question. What are images like 1 called?

Cracked by: udupendra, deepak, teju, sidsen, jayanth, shivathilak, Abhishek, iamniks, Gammafunction, asha, Anonymous, alephnull, Tathagata Chatterjee, Biki, Madan, Mahesh, nisha’s thambi, bobo, prasanth, and Poornima (list was wrong. Fixed on 25/11/07)

udupendra, deepak, teju, sidsen, jayanth, shivathilak, Abhishek, iamniks, Gammafunction, asha, Anonymous, alephnull, Tathagata Chatterjee, Biki, Madan, Mahesh, nishas thambi, bobo, prasanth and Poornima

Why did we have the theme round?Just to celebrate, in our peculiarly own geeky way, that we’ve posted a hundred questions!

The question titled 0x64, was the 100th question posted on Boiledbeans, and therefore we chose it to be the last question of the theme round.This post is just a shout out to say, we’ve had one amazing time doing the hundred questions, and it’s great seeing all of you answering them!

We promise you lots more Drama, Intrigue and Geekiness in the questions to come. Here’s hoping you’ve enjoyed it too :)

And with that previous question, we wrap up the theme round :-)

The answers
Question 1: Heisenberg
Question 2: Benoit Mandelbrot
Question 3: Neils Bohr
Question 4: Schrodinger
Question 5:Eric S Raymond

What connects this strange bunch of people?

Bugs.

Eric S Raymond is the current Maintainer of the Jargon File (A glossary of commonly used hacking terms). The clip in Q5 has ESR talking about bugs. The Jargon File defines four classes of bugs:

Heisenbug: A bug that disappears or alters its behavior when one attempts to probe or isolate it.
Mandelbug: A bug whose underlying causes are so complex and obscure as to make its behavior appear chaotic or even non-deterministic
Bohrbug:one that manifests reliably under a possibly unknown but well-defined set of conditions
Schroedinbug:A design or implementation bug in a program that doesn’t manifest until someone reading source or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point the program promptly stops working for everybody until fixed

Lots of people guessed the Unusual Computer Bugs part of it right. None got the jargon file connection :-) Read through the answers for some interesting guesses

Question 5 of 5 from the theme round. Last chance!

Simply put, identify the speaker in this audio clip.

[audio:http://www.boiledbeans.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/d5fb57d67f86dd8071163e21aca9a11b.mp3]

Cracked by:
sidsen , Biki , shivathilak , Mahesh , bobo , nisha’s thambi , alephnull , jayanth , Poornima , prasanth , and piezocake.

sidsen, Biki, shivathilak, Mahesh, bobo, nishas thambi, alephnull, jayanth, Poornima, prasanth and piezocake

Question 4 of 5 from the theme round. Be sure to read the guidelines :)

Connect 1 and Nazi Poet Laureate in 2 (the one facing you.. not the other one)

1. 2.

** A Nony Mouse, shreyas , WikiWaki , Tathagata Chatterjee, teju , Poornima , udupendra** get the theme and 2 points. Nice work!

This question was cracked by: udupendra , nisha’s thambi , deepak , sidsen , Poornima , teju , shivathilak , iamniks , Gammafunction , alephnull , yaksha , Ganesh Prasad , Tathagata Chatterjee , Shakeel , Mahesh , shyam , prasanth , VikraM and bobo.

• A Nony Mouse - Please post a seperate comment with the answer for this question.
  WikiWaki - Please post a comment with the answer for this question*

udupendra(2), Poornima(2), teju(2), Tathagata Chatterjee(2), nishas thambi, deepak, sidsen, shivathilak, iamniks, Gammafunction, alephnull, yaksha, Ganesh Prasad, Shakeel, Mahesh, shyam, prasanth, VikraM and bobo

Question 3 of 5 from the theme round. Be sure to read the rules in that post carefully!

What’s the missing number 4 in the series below?

1 - 2 - 3 -

4 - **?? **

5 -

Cracked by: nisha’s thambi , VikraM , iamniks , Gammafunction , Tathagata Chatterjee , sidsen , deepak , Abhishek , alephnull , bobo , yaksha , prasanth , udupendra, and Keerthi Kiran M.

bobo, sidsen, Gammafunction and nisha’s thambi got the theme! 1 point for the answer + 2 points for the theme added to their totals :-)

nishas thambi(3), Gammafunction(3), sidsen(3), bobo(3), VikraM, iamniks, Tathagata Chatterjee, Keerthi Kiran M, deepak, Abhishek, alephnull, yaksha, prasanth and udupendra