Identify the author (caricature circled below) of this article that appeared in Mad magazine ~50 years ago.

Cracked by everyone… (piezocake , Keerthi , prabhu_dc , Arun Krishnamoorthy , udupendra , BiGFooT , srichand , bs , Pratap , Swetha , Ganesh Prasad , Sagnik , nihit , shyam , Tathagata Chatterjee , ram , Abhishek , Prasad , Mahesh Herle , yaksha , prasanth , Archana , alephnull, and shashank)

piezocake, Keerthi, prabhu_dc, Arun Krishnamoorthy, udupendra, BiGFooT, srichand, bs, Pratap, Swetha, Ganesh Prasad, Sagnik, nihit, shyam, Tathagata Chatterjee, ram, Abhishek, Prasad, Mahesh Herle, yaksha, prasanth, Archana, alephnull and Shashank

Who he?

He is best known for taking this photograph

Cracked left right and center.
**srikanth, udupendra , yaksha , srichand , Pratap , Abhishek , prabhu_dc , Swetha , nihit , Keerthi , shyam , Bikiran Goswami , insufferablejake , Prasad , ram , Arun Krishnamoorthy , prasanth , Poornima , jayanth
**

udupendra, yaksha, srichand, Pratap, Abhishek, prabhu_dc, Swetha, nihit, Keerthi, shyam, Biki, insufferablejake, Prasad, ram, Arun Krishnamoorthy, prasanth, Poornima and jayanth

The pictures below capture a few of a long-running series of unrelated events that have become an integral part of geek mythos. What is the term used to describe all these events?

Cracked by: Anuj , Poornima , srichand , Abhishek , ram , nihit , Prasad , yaksha and asha.

srichand(5), Anuj, Poornima, Abhishek, ram, nihit, Prasad, yaksha and asha

Posting on behalf of devadutta, who’s caught up with real life.

Connect:

and

Additional clue:

Cracked by only two: udupendra , prabhu_dc. Bravo!!

udupendra and prabhu_dc

His was the only 0:

This Googler is proudly placed at 2 …

and the bongo-playing genius is at 3,

while this actress has 4.

Question : Identify the man with 0, and tell me what this number is.

Cracked by: nihit , udupendra , srichand , Pratap , prabhu_dc , Sagnik , BiGFooT , and jayanth

nihit, udupendra, srichand, Pratap, prabhu_dc, Sagnik, BiGFooT and jayanth

Guest question time! Nihit has brought to us this nice thought provoking question.

Connect

and

If you have a question to share with us, please send it to boiledbeans at gmail.com

Cracked by: srichand , Arun Krishnamoorthy , Abhishek , Prasad , prasanth, and yaksha

srichand, Arun Krishnamoorthy, Abhishek, prasanthnori, Prasad and yaksha

When a famous Bengalooru (Bangalore) based band came up with this song (1),

1. [audio:http://www.boiledbeans.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/b20bd3952676194031d315d210acba7a.mp3]

Microsoft is said to have got this band (2)

to compose this song (3)
3. [audio:http://www.boiledbeans.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/b26d5bd1d44f80cb5b2bedf2fc07fb51.mp3]

Identify 1,2 and 3.

Hint: One of the members of the band which played song 1, now plays for the band formed by the dude who is on the lead vocals for this song
4. [audio:http://www.boiledbeans.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/dc1e542f7d368fd5b813b411c9c2e602.mp3]

If you are still wondering (unlikely), the dude who sang the above song (4) looks like this

This question was a tribute to our favorite Indian bands
Cracked by:

**Srikanth , udupendra , bs , ram , prasanth , Preetish , Piyush , Srichand Pendyala , Abhishek and yaksha ( Congrats to our new top scorer! ) **

Others came really close.

1. “Linux Can!” by Phenom. We love this band :)

2. Parikrama . I love this band, except for the song “Superhero” which was clue 3.

3. Is “Mysore se aye” by Antragni. I love this band too. Gaurav Joshua Vaz who played for Phenom now plays for the raghudixit project. The dude in the pic is Raghupati Dixit.

Srikanth, udupendra, Poornima, bs, ram, prasanth, Preetish, Piyush, yaksha and Abhishek

Identify this unsung hero of modern science:

who was a major influence on the work of this guy:

And both of their work would’ve been useless without this guy’s work:

This question comes courtesy Prabhu, muchos gracias maga!

**Cracked by: **udupendra , Poornima , Piyush , Swetha , Madan , ram , nihit , asha , Abhishek , Prasanth, Srichand Pendyala , and Archana.

udupendra, Poornima, Piyush, Swetha, Madan, ram, nihit, asha, yaksha, Abhishek, Prasanth, Srichand Pendyala and Archana

Here’s a staple question of the tech quizzing industry; connect:

Cracked by: prabhu_dc , udupendra , Mahesh, srichand , Shashank , ram & Madan (twice), Piyush , Dibyo , Archana, and prasanth.
(archana took it to the next level [heh] by identifying the exact level in the game!)

Answer:
A part of the soundtrack for the original QUAKE (and not Doom) was composed by Trent Reznor, of Nine Inch Nails fame. The “complete” connect would’ve been that the ammunition boxes in the game have the NIN logo on them.

prabhu_dc, udupendra, srichand, Shashank, Mahesh Herle, ram, Madan, Piyush, Dibyo, Archana and Prasanth

2.

2 pays tribute to what 1 is based on. How?

Cracked by:
Srikanth , Anuj , nihit , Hema , Shashank Hegde , Preetish , piezocake , Abhishek , Ganesh Prasad , prabhu_dc , srichand, keerthi (a bit late)

Srikanth, Anuj, nihit, Hema, Shashank Hegde, Preetish, piezocake, Abhishek, Ganesh Prasad, prabhu_dc, srichand and Keerthi