Greetings intrepid quizzers,

Foolish and sentimental as we humans are we do tend to attach undue importance to arbitrary conventions such as calendars. We, at Boiledeans, are not too different. Here’s hoping you had a great 2008 and will have a great 2009!

On to today’s question: slightly risque stuff to keep you interested :) . Connect:

It has been a while since we posted a sitter, so here it is.

What is this kid’s claim to fame?

Hint: I did a screen grab of an Indian news channel. She was that famous recently.

Cracked by: Atul Mathew , kal , username , Nakul , Goyal , duriel , Dibyo , p vs np , udupendra , yaksha , dheeraj , Neeraj , Arun T P , Raghuvansh and shenoyvarun86.

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Plain text question for today. Where (and how) would you see the following people up next to each other?

• John Venn
• Charles Scott Sherrington
• Francis Crick
• James T Chadwick
• R A Fisher

Cracked by Goyal , Dibyo , username , Ps , sriram , p vs np , Neeraj , saurabh arora , Ananth and udupendra.

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Guest question from duriel. Connect:

For your kind information contributors are hereby requested to please kindly send their contributions to boiledbeans@gmail.com Please do the needful thanking you.

Cracked by Dibyo , Goyal , nishansolo , Rahulk , Vishaka Datta , prasanth , sriram , teju , udupendra , username , Vinay Nair , Rahul , Johny Walker and p vs np.

Answer: See duriel’s answer in the comments below

1 discovered this algorithm first. 2 independently discovered it again 27 years later. 3 discovered it again 2 years later. Which?
1. 2. 3.

Hint: Every guy who has got screwed for using goto statements in C/C++ will know 3.

Cracked by: sriram , username , Goyal. Very Nice!

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Identify and connect

Cracked by Bipin Banavalikar , udupendra and username.

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What’s the connection between objects like (1) and (2)?

Cracked by duriel and username!

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Identify this robot whcih has become a recent internet phenomenon.

Here are some famous scenes from its demo video

Cracked by: akhi , Rohan , Bipin Banavalikar , karthik , yaksha , mach101 , Saurabh Arora , duriel , Ananth , Prasad , username , madhur , Neeraj , Rahulk , Vinay Nair.

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What is this?

Congratulations to udupendra for becoming the first bb user to cross 300 points. Bravo Mr. udupendra!

Cracked by: Goyal , Bipin Banavalikar , shenoyvarun86 , Dibyo , varuns88 , Prasad , Nakul , sne , username , duriel , nishansolo , udupendra , Rahul , dheeraj and madhur.

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1. I hate the captcha on your comments page. It is disgusting and I want it to be gone.

Can you take it off? (ok.. Please! I said please. Now take it off..!)

A.  You can get rid of the captcha all by yourself.

Register and log in, you will not see the captcha.  It is that simple!

We hate the dang captcha more than you do, but it works like a charm. Ever since we added it, we have not had a single spam comment. You read it right, not even one.

2. But.. I am posting since forever and I was never a registered user. What will happen to all my hard earned points?

A. If you are registering using the name which you used to post earlier, you don’t have to worry. If you are picking a new user name, let us know in the feedback section and we will move all your points to the new user name.

3. I sent in a guest question and it did not appear on the front page!

A. We screen the questions we get for a certain level of Drama, Intrigue and Geekiness. Apart from that, we don’t post the question if we have seen it on any other blog. Sometimes we get questions that have been asked on Boiledbeans itself. We obviously cannot post such questions.

4. Where is the cake?

A. The cake is a lie!

And, Oh, BTW, Send in your guest questions to boiledbeans@gmail.com