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August 31, 2007

Unleash the power of imagination

— devadutta @ 10:50 am, GMT +0000 ( 1188557402 )

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

Answer:
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August 30, 2007

Music Can!

— devadutta @ 9:08 am, GMT +0000 ( 1188464900 )

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

Microsoft is said to have got this band (2)

2.

to compose this song (3)
3.

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.

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.

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August 29, 2007

George Bush hates this question

— srikanth @ 9:27 am, GMT +0000 ( 1188379658 )

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.

Answer:

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August 28, 2007

The other kind of game theory

— srikanth @ 9:55 am, GMT +0000 ( 1188294935 )

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


and

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:
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August 27, 2007

after seven and a half million years of calculation…

— devadutta @ 10:25 am, GMT +0000 ( 1188210327 )

1.

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)

Answer:

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August 26, 2007

Connect to a concept

— devadutta @ 10:21 am, GMT +0000 ( 1188123719 )

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

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

1.

2.

Bonus hint

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

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August 25, 2007

Analogically speaking…

— srikanth @ 9:13 am, GMT +0000 ( 1188033239 )

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

1) :

2) :

3) : <Insert Answer Here>

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

Answer:
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August 24, 2007

My favourite molecule

— devadutta @ 9:13 am, GMT +0000 ( 1187946788 )

Identify the molecule.

(Bigger image)

For the non chemistry geeks, hints

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

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

Answers:

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August 23, 2007

…??

— srikanth @ 9:33 am, GMT +0000 ( 1187861599 )

:-?

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

Answer:

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August 22, 2007

“Bond” the images

— devadutta @ 9:15 am, GMT +0000 ( 1187774104 )

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

1.

2. and 3.

and if you still are looking for hints, try

4.

Perfect answer:
Srikanth, jayanth, Bikiran Goswami, Jayanth Srinivasa, udupendra, asha, Shashank

Acceptably Correct:
Sumant, Mahesh Herle, Keerthi, Prasad ( deceived by the simplicity huh? ), piezocake, yaksha, anuj

Almost/half correct:
Archana, Sidsen, prabhu_dc

p.s: I hate chemistry :)

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