1,2 and 3 have a common mega geek title.
What is the title? Identify 1,2 and 3 for full points :)

1. 2. 3.

srikanth , udupendra , jayanth , bs , Piyush , Gammafunction , Prasad , alephnull , SidSen , prasanth and yaksha get full points.

“Benevolent Dictator for Life” is the title. Nice title, isn’t it :)

What this means is they have the final word on anything concerned to the projects they control.

1. Guido von Russom for Python
2. Larry Wall for Perl
3. Patrick Volkerding for Slackware

Others with a similar tile include Linus Torvalds for the Linux Kernel.

srikanth, udupendra, jayanth, bs, Piyush, Gammafunction, Prasad, alephnull, sidsen, prasanth and yaksha

This service started off in 1991, displaying something along these lines:

The original service eventually ended in 2001: this was its last transmission:

The object you see in the first image was sold for £3,350, and the service now shows this:

What “service”?

Answered by: Shashank , bs , Poornima , Piyush , Sharath , Abhishek , uma , Gammafunction , udupendra , Prasad , Dhruva , LordJim and jayanth.

Answer: The Trojan Room Coffee Pot. The pot was sold for a huge amount to Der Speigel, which broadcasts the second type of image.

Shashank, bs, Poornima, Piyush, Sharath, Abhishek, uma, Gammafunction, udupendra, Prasad, Dhruva, LordJim and jayanth

If you have been to any high-school science fair, it is almost impossible that you have not seen 1.
What is 1 popularly known as?

Hint: A time exposure shot of the above thing in action looks like this

Answered by: Srikanth ( back in full form ;) ) and yaksha

1 is called the Jacob’s ladder.

If you see the time exposure shot in 2, you can easily guess why it is called so. If you have not seen a Jacob’s Ladder and wish to see one and want to win bonus points offered by srikanth, head right away(with a camera) to Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum (VITM) in Bangalore(One of the most incredible technological museums on this planet :) )

yaksha and jayanth

Actually, no. No encoding. We stop a step before that :)
If you look at the right-side bar of this page, below the “Hall Of Fame” section, you can see a new “Runlengths” section.

This new section features 5 hard-working boiledbeans users on the front page, who have the longest chain of right answers.

Let us see Shashank’s stats to understand the feature better

Shashank

3 => 4 => 5 => 6 => 7 => 8 => 9 => 10 => 11 => 12
14
22 => 23 => 24 => 25
27
30
32
34
37 => 38 => 39 => 40
43
46
Shashank’s max runlength = 10

The numbers we see here are chains of question numbers where “Shashank” has got the answer right. The longest chain of right answers has a length of 10. Notice that he has other chains which have lengths equal to 4 and 1.

So, now you know how simple it is to reach the front page of boiledbeans.. just get more right answers in a row than the user with 5th longest right answer chain! Simple :)

Also, please stick to the user names which you prefer to use.

A plaintext question today.

Connect these numbers:
212 //// 796 //// 0735
///415///704///0402///
///678///248///2352///

and the TV series LOST.

This question is officially closed. Answers will be announced when Srikanth comes back from his Amazonian expedition.

Answered “perfectly” by Tathagata Chatterjee. Atul Mathew came really really close.

Tathagata Chatterjee and Atul Mathew

Connect 1 and 2 via 3

1. 2.

3.

Cracked by: udupendra , bs , Shashank , srikanth and yaksha

Others came close

3. Wiki Wiki Bus at Honolulu
4. Ward Cunningham, creator of the wiki concept named it after 3
5. Jimmy Wales, creator of wikipedia used 2’s concept

udupendra, bs, Shashank, srikanth and yaksha

The Alliance has signed a treaty with the pirates, but, soon enough, they were betrayed! These clips from a famous game cutscene illustrate the story:

The betrayed hero:

A first-hand view of the betrayal (notice the explosions):

And, finally, the evil villain pirate:

Identify the game and the reason for its popularity (identify all the pics, if you so wish)

Answered by: devadutta, udupendra, bs and Atul Mathew.

devadutta, udupendra, bs and Atul Mathew

Identify and connect 1 and 2 .

Cracked by: srikanth , udupendra(cracks the cryptic title too) , bs , Biki , rajeshvj , Sharath , Gammafunction , Sharath , Naresh , Ganesh Prasad , Preetish , Abhishek , alephnull , yaksha , uma , prasanth , shyam , Prasad*(what is the secret of your energy?) *and Tathagata Chatterjee. **

1. Slackware’s mascot. Tux with a pipe and cool hairdo.

2. J.R. “Bob” Dobbs, the diety of the “Church of the sub-genius”

Patrick Volkerding, who created Slackware Linux named it based on the term “Slack”, a very important concept of the church of the sub-genius. Slackware’s mascot Tux is smoking a pipe as a direct reference to Bob.

srikanth, udupendra, bs, Biki, rajeshvj, Sharath, Gammafunction, Sharath, Naresh, Ganesh Prasad, Preetish, Abhishek, alephnull, yaksha, uma, prasanth, shyam, Prasad and Tathagata Chatterjee

What arose from this cartoon?

Gammafunction , udupendra , devadutta , uma , ramsaravana , Ganesh Prasad , Abhishek , Prasad , alephnull , Tathagata Chatterjee , yaksha , Archana , Shashank , asha, (bs, sharath, Non Descript)* and Biki got it right.

*They posted their answers as a comment on the image.

Gammafunction, udupendra, devadutta, uma, ramsaravana, Ganesh Prasad, Abhishek, Prasad, alephnull, Tathagata Chatterjee, yaksha, Archana, Shashank, asha and Biki

1 is known for inventing 2, and for his research using what you see on the table in 1.

Who is he? What is 2.

Everyone recognised 1, but we will give full points only to udupendra , rajeshvj , Vinod , ramsaravana , Sharath , Gammafunction , shyam , yaksha , Tathagata Chatterjee , srikanth , Abhishek , prasanth and asha who named the instrument in 2.

Update: Preetish gets it too. I blame R2D2 for the goof up :)

1. Jagadis Chandra Bose. Check this site http://www.tuc.nrao.edu/~demerson/bose/bose.html which describes his work on wireless in detail.

2. Crescograph – http://www.edsanders.com/bose/ for an in-depth coverage

This dude was indeed a genius!!

udupendra, rajeshvj, Vinod, ramsaravana, Sharath, Gammafunction, shyam, yaksha, Tathagata Chatterjee, Preetish, Abhishek, prasanth and asha