Boiledbeans

Drama! Intrigue!! Geekiness!!!

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

FTW.

—srikanth @ 23:59

Simple enough - identify the event. Many clues in the image.

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Urthstripe, shrik, username, Manish Achuth, Amarendra, Rogi, jowens, Rahulk, raklodramA, Thejas V R, Shwetha Maiya, Dibyo, Swarun, Bipin Banavalikar, rickde, Ananth, Sumanth Patlolla, Rahul Rajeev and badideabear

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The 3 winners of the 2011 Google Science Fair. The cups seem to be a tribute to/design by Lego - one of the other organizations involved!


kekekeke

—srikanth @ 23:59

Recent pictures. Question is, from where?

Cracked by: Urthstripe, shrik, jowens, Ananth, raklodramA, username, Rahulk, Thejas V R, Bharath, Sumanth Patlolla, Amarendra, Swarun, rickde, Bipin Banavalikar, Rogi, Dibyo, yaksha and Shwetha Maiya

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The photographs are from Joyland - a World of Warcraft + StarCraft themed adventure park in China.


Sunday, July 24, 2011

We're up there too...

—srikanth @ 23:59

Connect. We’re looking for the name of an organization.

Cracked by: shrik, jowens, Rogi, Ananth, raklodramA, username, Thejas V R, Rahulk, Bharath, Sumanth Patlolla, Swarun, Amarendra, Bipin Banavalikar, rickde and Dibyo

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The European Space Agency’s (ESA) so-called cornerstone missions - respectively named after Gaia, Max Planck, Rosetta and William Herschel


Saturday, July 23, 2011

Chomp.

—srikanth @ 23:59

What’s going on here? Give us the name of the ’event’, please.

Cracked by: Urthstripe, Rogi, Ananth, username, Manish Achuth, KK, jowens, raklodramA, Bipin Banavalikar, Jayaprakash B R, rickde, dineshk, shrik, Thejas V R, Rahulk, Sumanth Patlolla, rohanquizzer, Debasish, Mridul, Amarendra and Bharath

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Pac-manhattan - a ‘real life’ enactment of Pac-Man on the streets of New York.


Friday, July 22, 2011

Destruction

—devadutta @ 23:59

This question comes in from %gqh% shrik. Tumba Thanksu Saa!

Who are these guys?

Cracked by: grey_matters, Sumanth Patlolla, Anonymous, username, Anjul, jowens, shrey, raklodramA, dineshk, Raghuvansh, sandeep bhat, Bipin Banavalikar, rickde, Dibyo, Ananth, rohanquizzer, shrik, Rogi, Rahulk, Thejas V R, KK, Swarun, Manish Achuth, Bharath-TK, Bharath, Amarendra and Shwetha Maiya

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Doom development team – John Carmack et al.


Thursday, July 21, 2011

Style

—devadutta @ 23:59

If you were doing something according to any of the below “styles”, what would you be doing?

The list is not exhaustive and 2 is just a hint.

Cracked by: dineshk, shrey, Ananth, shrik, Sumanth Patlolla, username, Rogi, Raghuvansh, jowens, raklodramA, Rahulk, Thejas V R, Bharath, Swarun and Jayaprakash B R

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Quoting Sumanth Patlolla -


Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Your body is the controller.

—devadutta @ 23:59

This happened much before Kinect. Identify.

Video Link

Cracked by: dineshk, Ananth, shrik, Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, username, Rogi, rickde, Raghuvansh, jowens, Rahulk, Swarun and Thejas V R

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Sega Activator


Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Circle? Take this

—devadutta @ 23:59

The dude in 1 proposed 2 to explain something. Who is this dude? What are those funky curves known as?

Cracked by: Urthstripe, username, Bharath, shrik, Ananth, Thejas V R, jowens, Manish Achuth, Dibyo, Bipin Banavalikar, KK, Sai Subramanian, raklodramA, rickde, anurag, Sumanth Patlolla, Smitha R Maiya, Swarun, grey_matters, kapinjal chowdhury, Rahulk, rohanquizzer, Rogi, dineshk, Anjul, Shwetha Maiya and Raghuvansh

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Quoting Anjul - This is Ptolemy who used these diagrams to explain the orbits of planets under his geocentric theory of the universe. Those funky curves are called deferents and epicycles.


Monday, July 18, 2011

Ring Ring Ringa

—devadutta @ 23:59

Identify the controversy

Cracked by: Jayaprakash B R, jowens, shrik, username, Bharath, Thejas V R, Ananth, Manish Achuth, Dibyo, Bipin Banavalikar, KK, Sai Subramanian, raklodramA, rickde, anurag, Sumanth Patlolla, Swarun, thiru d gr8, grey_matters, kapinjal chowdhury, Rahulk, sandeep bhat, Rogi, Shwetha Maiya and dineshk

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Elisha Gray and Graham Bell’s telephone invention controversy


Sunday, July 17, 2011

Row, row, row your boat

—srikanth @ 23:59

There are two places marked on the map below (with the usual Google map markers). What is the significance of the two places, and the major geographical feature you see in the map?

Cracked by: jowens, Rogi, SV, shrik, Manish Achuth, Shwetha Maiya, username, Ananth, Bharath, rickde, Swarun, Sumanth Patlolla, Raghuvansh, Rahulk, Thejas V R, Bipin Banavalikar, raklodramA, Bharath-TK, shreesh, anurag, krudebox, Dibyo, Jayaprakash B R, dineshk and Sai Subramanian

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Amazon.com’s first page rendering engine was called Obidos, named after the town on the banks of the Amazon. This was phased out and replaced with Gurupa, another town on the banks of the Amazon and seemingly ‘upstream’ :)