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Sunday, August 26, 2007

Connect to a concept

—devadutta @ 10:21

We have a great guest question today, courtesy Nihit.
Thank you dude!

Identify and connect the following images to a concept/theory.

  1. 10507591a3058123cc054cfbd85e5c84.jpg dd057d0aa1bdd981cc53d9a3af16ec79.jpg

  2. d2aed8569c81e672affdaa416cea194f.jpg 3b8f31e84cc163b990bb508a26b0c9fd.JPG

Bonus hint

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Don’t forget to send in your questions to boiledbeans (at) gmail.com. We love guest questions :)

Cracked by:**
Srichand Pendyala, prabhu_dc, udupendra, Bikiran Goswami, Swetha, Prasanth, bs, Prasad, Tathagata Chatterjee, Dibyo, yaksha, Shashank and asha**

Archana finds a different connect. Cool! :)

Answer

Connect: Game theory

Details:

  1. Sylvia Nasar who wrote the novel “A Beautiful Mind” and a poster of the movie with the same title, connecting to John Nash.
  2. Oskar Morgenstern and John von Neumann

Oskar Morgenstern and John von Neumann founded the field of mathemetical Game theory. John Nash did extensive work on game theory.

The extra hint was Donald Rumsfeld who claims to be using game theory for his defense strategies.

Srichand Pendyala, prabhu_dc, Archana, udupendra, Biki, Swetha, Prasanth, bs, Prasad, Tathagata Chatterjee, Dibyo, yaksha, Shashank and asha


Analogically speaking...

—srikanth @ 09:13

Row 1 and Row 2 below present an analogy each. Complete the analogy in Row 3

  1. b06f10af5d85963951f323d581df0e93.jpg : f664b694cb09843287569fb869e058b4.jpg

2)149fdf3994b41a1195576e68cbb3d33e.jpg : e8b34b9fe491f840f1f0dedb4ad34c72.jpg

3)777e99c2342e4b3bfd1fb44141fa6335.jpg :

You don’t need to post a picture as the response. Just the name will do.

Cracked by: Shashank, Archana, Hema, Jayanth, Bikiran, Dibyo, Keerthi, Yaksha, Mahesh, Udupendra, Devadutta, Nihit and Prabhu

Shashank, Archana, Hema, jayanth, Biki, Dibyo, Keerthi, yaksha, Mahesh Herle, udupendra, devadutta, nihit and prabhu_dc

Show Answer

These are the messages generated by various platforms when they get screwed up beyond recovery; the BSOD on windows and the Sad Mac on Macintosh. For the Amiga Commodore, it was called the “Guru Meditation” error.


Friday, August 24, 2007

My favourite molecule

—devadutta @ 09:13

Identify the molecule.

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(Bigger image)

For the non chemistry geeks, hints

d720364a5c8dc6314a3754aa3ce65ef1.jpg

0da14fc4090485af14da1681d49a95d4.jpg

( this is how the top strip eventually ends. NOT caused by the molecule in question :) )

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Cracked ( without any pains ) by:
Hema, Poornima, Jayanth, Shashank, yaksha, Abhinav, asha, Keerthi, Dibyo, piezocake, Abhishek, nihit, Archana

Answers:

Aspirin, 2-acetoxybenzoic acid or acetylsalicylic acid is the common analgesic . Low dose Aspirin has many other medicinal qualities.
The hints:

  1. Judas Priest’s Painkiller, hinting the “Painkiller” properties of Aspirin.
  2. Thompson and Thompson eating mysterious pills thinking it to be aspirin in"The Land of Black Gold"

Hema, Poornima, jayanth, Shashank, yaksha, Abhinav, asha, Keerthi, Dibyo, piezocake, Abhishek, Abhishek, nihit and Archana


Thursday, August 23, 2007

...??

—srikanth @ 09:33

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:-?

Answered by: Abhishek, Shashank, jayanth, devadutta, yaksha and piezocake.

Abhishek, Shashank, jayanth, devadutta, yaksha and piezocake

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The question was to identify the chap in the picture. The clue you had was the emoticon below him. The dude in the pic is Scott Fahlman, the first person on record to use a smiley. More details in the wiki link below.


Wednesday, August 22, 2007

"Bond" the images

—devadutta @ 09:15

For all the chemistry fans. Connect images 1,2 and 3

  1. b4026ce159c66b1863731ae67d8a1e36.jpg

2.bd5ebd3c03c887e705998a02f194d0e6.jpeg and 3.00f6a9b5fd17fd8fa37819fb7a929ac2.gif

and if you still are looking for hints, try

4.3920eb522a9daf80b0e2f449a9841c82.jpg

Perfect

jayanth, Biki, Jayanth Srinivasa, Sumant, Mahesh Herle, Keerthi, Prasad, udupendra, asha, piezocake, yaksha, Anuj and Shashank

Show Answer

Srikanth, jayanth, Bikiran Goswami, Jayanth Srinivasa, udupendra, asha, Shashank


Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Up and down and up and down

—srikanth @ 09:49

Identify the people in A and B, and connect them with the object in C. The connect is a specific event in the history of science/technology

A)1d9da2f599a740867d8326b94a423727.jpg B) 9a9a035c712ac52d0405c925f53b4efd.JPG

C)a0338d10eb1f0fd67be20d33e62ac6f6.jpg

And, as an additional clue (and to add some spice to the question):

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This is definitely not a “core CS” question :-)

Almost everyone who attempted identified A and B right, and came close to the connect. I’m going to be somewhat generous.

On the dot:
jayanth, Bikiran, udupendra, nihit, Archana and rishabh

Came really close:
devadutta, Shashank, Abhinav, Poornima, Bikiran, Anuj, sai_ganesh, karthik, Abhishek, bs, dingdong and yaksha

Abhinav(2), jayanth, Biki, udupendra, Shashank, nihit, Poornima, Biki, Anuj, sai_ganesh, karthik, Abhishek, Archana, bs, rishabh, dingdong and yaksha

Show Answer

(A) is Edison who was a proponent of DC. (B) is Nikola Tesla who advocated AC. AC had clear advantages over DC for distribution and usage, but Edison didn’t want to give up. The war of currents ensued. Edison set up a smear campaign against AC, including funding the development of (C), the electric chair that used AC, to prove AC was bad.


Monday, August 20, 2007

Scheming

—srikanth @ 09:44

We have a guest question for the day. This question comes to you courtesy Prabhu. Thanks a lot dude, and keep ’em coming!

Identify the guy in the pic:

abbcf0d9810ad167f2ffdbcf38ffcf49.jpg

Clues:

6bf6d02a78de9dd1ddd263de4617b69e.gif a57b735439da51073be76db426fc38d5.jpg

BTW, I’d just like to say that we love guest questions! Send in any questions that you think will befuddle, bamboozle and otherwise baffle our readers to boiledbeans@gmail.com and we’ll review them and put them up (if they meet our exacting standards ;-) )

Note: Don’t forget, there’s a Geek Quiz at the Daly Memorial Hall, Bangalore on August 26th at 2PM. The quiz is organized by the over-bright people at the KQA, so its guaranteed to be a helluva lot of fun. Our advice: be there!

Cracked by everyone… Chargesheeted: Anuj, Bigfoot, Bikiran, Prasad, Abhishek, Nihit, udupendra, Jayanth and Shashank.

Anuj, BiGFooT, Biki, Prasad, Abhishek, nihit, udupendra, jayanth and Shashank


Sunday, August 19, 2007

Like father like son

—devadutta @ 09:39

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We have all studied the first man’s theory in high school physics classes. He won a Nobel prize in Physics for that.
His son (the other man) also won a Nobel prize in Physics and made his father really proud.
Identify this famous father-son pair.

Cracked by almost 20 people!**
Srikanth, poo, Poornima, abhinavrm, Shashank, nihit, prabhu_dc, Bikiran Goswami, chetanjs, Keerthi, Ganesh Prasad, Sandesh, Mahesh Herle,vinayak, yaksha, Archana, udupendra, jayanth**
We also see some new users. Welcome!!

I will just quote Yaksha for the answer.
“Niels and Aage Bohr.
And the theory is the Bohr’s theory.
in 1975 Aage Bohr along with other two scientists were awarded Nobel Prize in Physics, for research on the quantum mechanical description of nucleons orbiting inside an oscillating rotating droplet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aage_Niels_Bohr "

Prasad(2), poo, Poornima, abhinavrm, Shashank, nihit, prabhu_dc, Biki, chethanjs, Keerthi, Ganesh Prasad, Sandesh, Mahesh Herle, asha, vinayak, yaksha, Archana, udupendra, jayanth and gammafunction


Sunday, August 19, 2007

A good reason to register

—devadutta @ 01:48

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Take a sneak peak at the Hall of Fame here!

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Saturday, August 18, 2007

Blog Post To a German Princess

—srikanth @ 10:08

Identify, and connect the two images below to the field of math/CS. Make your connect as specific as possible:
A) 7cc12b865b8970325208fee34c920a61.jpeg

B) 8495d3b27f79c53b8c153135f3d9a3b2.jpeg

** Cracked by: Devadutta, Abhinav (too easy? :-) ), Poornima, Yaksha, Bikiran, Jayanth, Srichand, Keerthi, Anusree, Shashank, Piezocake and Vinayak. Srichand went the extra step to connect with the blog title as well.
**

Abhinav(2), Poornima, yaksha, Biki, jayanth, Srichand Pendyala, Keerthi, anusree, Shashank, piezocake, Sandesh, vinayak and keerthi.m.rar