Now, you can get your own boiledbeans web badge! Like the one below
If you don’t want to show off your score, here are a few other badges
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1 is a computer program which prints “Hello World”. Really.
2 is the logo of a Google’s internal product (quite famous for some reasons).
The language in which 1 is written and the product 2 are both named as a tribute to the same person. Who is he?
Hint: Both 1 & 2 resemble what this person has created. Specially 2.
Cracked by: **udupendra , bobo , jayanth , yaksha , Tathagata Chatterjee , sumanthvanahalli , nisha’s thambi , Suyog , Shakeel **and Shreyas.
udupendra, bobo, jayanth, yaksha, Tathagata Chatterjee, sumanthvanahalli, nishas thambi, Suyog, Shakeel and Shreyas
We have added a new “Round Toppers” section to boiledbeans frontpage. This section shows 5 boiledbeans users who have scored the highest points in the past 15 questions.
Take a look at the “Round Toppers” right below the “Hall of fame” section.
Originally, some users wanted us to give multiple points for “harder” questions. While some others suggested that we turn the “Hall of Fame” section to “This month’s hall of fame” or some such. But, by doing that, we will be unfair to our all time high scorers. Thus this new section has emerged :)
Identify and connect:
Cracked by: udupendra , yaksha , Shreyas , Biki , Atul Mathew , alephnull , Tathagata Chatterjee , bobo , and prasanth
udupendra, yaksha, Shreyas, Biki, Atul Mathew, alephnull, Tathagata Chatterjee, bobo and prasanth
The man is John Lasseter and the light is the Luxo tabletop lamp. The Luxo lamp on Lasseters desk inspired Steve Jobs and John Lasseter to create their famous “Luxo Jr” animation, and later became part of Pixar’s logo :-)
As promised, we are posting this question sent in by sidsen after his streak of 12 right answers was broken *(alas dude.. one more and you could have beaten Poornima ;) )
*Thanks for the question dude!
What does this map depict?
Useful information: This visual was brought out in 2007.
** Shakeel , yaksha , Atul Mathew , MGS , shivathilak , prasanth , Rahul Ranade , Gammafunction , Ganesh Prasad , Keerthi , VikraM , Tathagata Chatterjee , iamniks and udupendra** are aware of this event horizon.
Shakeel, yaksha, Atul Mathew, MGS, shivathilak, prasanth, Rahul Ranade, Gammafunction, Ganesh Prasad, Keerthi, VikraM, Tathagata Chatterjee, iamniks and udupendra
These cars finished 1,2 and 3 in a race held recently. Which race?
(Sorry about the badly mutilated images.. they had their logo everywhere )
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Hint: Take a close look at the driver’s seat.
Cracked by: **srikanth , 2ndratequizzer , alephnull , Teju , Shreyas , yaksha , MGS , Mahesh , Biki ( *with a wide smile ;) *) , nihit , Tathagata Chatterjee , Vinod P.V , VikraM , vijayaraghavan , Rahul Ranade , BiGFooT , prasanth , Ganesh Prasad , Gammafunction , udupendra , jayanth and shivathilak. **
srikanth, 2ndratequizzer, alephnull, Teju, Shreyas, yaksha, MGS, Mahesh, Biki, nihit, Tathagata Chatterjee, Vinod P.V, VikraM, vijayaraghavan, Rahul Ranade, BiGFooT, prasanth, Ganesh Prasad, Gammafunction, udupendra, jayanth and shivathilak
Connect
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Cracked by: **srikanth , alephnull , Gammafunction , prasanth and piezocake. **
srikanth, alephnull, Gammafunction, prasanth and piezocake
The key was to look at the menu options in 1. They would have given away that 1 was dbase. The strange dots kind of thing is a result of pixelizing the word “database” in 1 and its not Vulcan script :)
To offset the extreme seriousness of the last few questions, here’s an extremely pointless question that’s worth wasting your time on:
First name:
Last Name:
Close associates:
Who is this character? (Extra-jobless people can please identify the character’s associates, too)
Cracked by: Tathagata Chatterjee , sidsen , Keerthi Kiran M , **VikraM **, **prasanth **, yaksha , udupendra , **BiGFooT **and nihit. (All the names in bold were extra-jobless.)
Tathagata Chatterjee, sidsen, Keerthi Kiran M, VikraM, prasanth, yaksha, udupendra, BiGFooT and nihit
Guybrush Threepwood, protagonist of the Monkey Island series of games. The designers saved his model as “guy” in Deluxe Paint, which saved it with a .brush extension and became the first name. The last name was chosen by voting.
This question was sent in by Arjun. Thanks a lot, saar…
(And for all the rest of you, we demand that you to get off your lazy backsides and send in guest questions to boiledbeans@gmail.com , so that we can just post those and get back onto our lazy backsides)
This image below shows a strange phenomenon. It is an image of the shadow of an object, but there seem to be bands of light in the shadow!
What is this, and why is it significant?
And just in case you’re under the smart-alecky impression that this phenomenon is not significant, here’s a clue. A clue to get the clue: why is their logo so weird?
Cracked (in whole or in part) by: 2ndratequizzer , sidsen , iamniks , prasanth and VikraM.
2ndratequizzer, sidsen, iamniks, prasanth and VikraM
That is the picture of what is called Arago’s Spot. This phenomenon “proved” the wave-particle duality of light. In essence, it was predicted that if light was only particle, there cannot be any brightness in the circular objects shadow, and if it had a dual nature, there would be brightness in the shadow of the object due to diffraction. Further, Poisson hypothesized that the exact center would have a bright spot since all the waves would interfere constructively.
Connect
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Cracked by: sidsen , vaibhav008 , Biki(of course..) , bobo , Tathagata Chatterjee , udupendra , Prithvi , prasanth , 2ndratequizzer , shreyas , VikraM , Keerthi , Varun.M , Gammafunction , iamniks , yaksha , Shakeel and MGS.
sidsen, vaibhav008, Biki, bobo, Tathagata Chatterjee, udupendra, Prithvi, prasanth, 2ndratequizzer, shreyas, VikraM, Keerthi, Varun.M, Gammafunction, iamniks, yaksha, Shakeel and MGS