OK folks, multiple questions per day from now on till we try and catch up again.

Question – Who imitating who doing what?

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Cracked by: KK , Sumanth Patlolla , finkle , rickde , Bharath , Rogi , Manish Achuth , Raghuvansh , jowens , Amarendra Kumar , tsmyelin , Godzilla101 , Ananth , shrik , Shwetha Maiya , raklodramA and Rahulk

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Hello folks,

This is not a question – it’s an apology for not posting for the last few days. I’ve been swamped with work, and Devadutta’s going through some big life changes at the moment :)

We’ll get right back to posting starting tomorrow, and I’ll be posting multiple questions per day to make sure we catch up.

Thanks so much for your patience!

In the meantime, if you would like to donate time to the recovery efforts, we would like a few questions from you guys/girls! Please send them in to boiledbeans@gmail.com if you’ve got something for us.

Guest question from Manish Achuth

1. Identify the man.
2. He was an assistant to someone. Who?
3. And what first does this “Movie” have?

In the wake of all the SOPA/PIPA (yeno papa) talk going around, this does seem fairly relevant :)

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla , Manish Achuth , finkle , Bharath , Ananth , Amarendra Kumar , rickde , Rogi , jowens , Nandha K Samy , Gurupad , Raghuvansh , Bipin Banavalikar , Vishwas B Sharma , KK , soda buddi , rohanquizzer , shrik , Shwetha Maiya , Hari K Raghavan , raklodramA and Rahulk

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What are these? Or rather, more importantly, how did we get these?

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Here’s a clue:

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Cracked by: Bharath , rickde , Rogi , jowens , Manish Achuth , Raghuvansh , shrik , Ananth and Shwetha Maiya

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Veery borderline geeky. What special achievement connects:

1. Colby Nolan
2. George/Chris Jackson
3. Henrietta/Ben Goldacre
4. Kitty O’Malley
5. Sassafrass Herbert
6. Sonny/John Licciardello

This is, sadly, not an exhaustive list at all. There are many more.

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Cracked by: Jayaprakash B R , rohanquizzer , KK , Sumanth Patlolla , rickde , jowens , Bharath , Rogi , Vishwas B Sharma , Amarendra Kumar , akhi , Manish Achuth , tsmyelin , badideabear , shrik , finkle , Ananth , Gurupad , soda buddi and Shwetha Maiya

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(1) was the first and, believe it or not, the paper it was published in was rejected! The technique did take hold though and grew to become very popular. (2) was the first of a body part.

What technique?

The technique goes by multiple names – we’ll be liberal with the points.

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Cracked by: rohanquizzer , KK , Sumanth Patlolla , rickde , jowens , Bharath , Rogi , finkle , Vishwas B Sharma , Amarendra Kumar , Manish Achuth , tsmyelin , badideabear , shrik , Ananth , Gurupad and Raghuvansh

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A relatively recent rumour about the 4 things below was “created” by a very popular book. What’s the rumour?

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Cracked by: rohanquizzer , KK , , Sumanth Patlolla , Rogi , jowens , Bharath , Vishwas B Sharma , akhi , rickde , Manish Achuth , tsmyelin , badideabear and shrik

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(1) is to (2) as (3) is to what?

Cracked by: rickde , shrik , rohanquizzer , jowens , badideabear , Manish Achuth and Ananth

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Stumbled across this bit of computer history recently. 3 examples of what technology?

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla , Bharath , Rogi , rickde , Manish Achuth , Ananth , shrik , rohanquizzer , jowens , Vishwas B Sharma , KK , badideabear and tsmyelin

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Plaintext question. Obviously, rampant googling might occur, but then again we trust you to not do it, so please don’t :P

“Formal” syntax of what?

       Accept-Additions = "Accept-Additions" ":"
                          #( addition-range [ accept-params ] )

        addition-type   = ( "*"
                          | milk-type
                          | syrup-type
                          | sweetener-type
                          | spice-type
                          | alcohol-type
                          ) *( ";" parameter )
        milk-type       = ( "Cream" | "Half-and-half" | "Whole-milk"
                          | "Part-Skim" | "Skim" | "Non-Dairy" )
        syrup-type      = ( "Vanilla" | "Almond" | "Raspberry"
                          | "Chocolate" )
        alcohol-type    = ( "Whisky" | "Rum" | "Kahlua" | "Aquavit" )

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla , Bharath , Rogi , rickde , Manish Achuth , Ananth , shrik , Vishwas B Sharma , rohanquizzer , KK , Shwetha Maiya , siddhanthrao and jowens

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