This map lead to a conjecture in graph theory in 19th century which till now has not been proved “properly”. Although computerized exhaustive search proofs exist, mathemeticians reject it by calling it a “telephone directory” and they want the proof to be a “poem”.

Identify the conjecture/theorem/problem.

Happy New Year!

Cracked by: udupendra(Congratulations on scoring a century!) , jayanth , madhur , Dibyo , shenoyvarun86 , sumanth , sidsen , Ranjana Ninan , Shreyas , Keerthi , VikraM , piezocake , BiGFooT , nishas thambi , Gammafunction , prasanth , yaksha , Poornima , bobo , shashank and Arjun Chennu.

udupendra, jayanth, madhur, Dibyo, shenoyvarun86, sumanth, sidsen, Ranjana Ninan, Shreyas, Keerthi, VikraM, piezocake, BiGFooT, nishas thambi, Gammafunction, prasanth, yaksha, Poornima, bobo, shashank and Arjun Chennu

What was the function of the structures you see at the three points marked on the map at this link?

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie= UTF8&hl=en&msa=0& msid=104245191237712906664.000 4427e679acbfa0f156&ll=50.95596, 0.953665 &spn=0.00171,0.004334&t=h&z=18&om=1

(Your browser will have to be able to handle Google maps if you want to get this one)

Here’s another clue:

Cracked by: udupendra , jayanth , madhur , vaibhav008 , Dibyo , nishas thambi , prasanth , nishansolo , shenoyvarun86 , bs and sidsen.

udupendra, jayanth, madhur, vaibhav008, Dibyo, nishas thambi, prasanth, nishansolo, shenoyvarun86, bs and sidsen

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Is Acoustic Mirrors. Japanese War Tuba is the clue.

This audio clip is a reconstruction (errors and all) of the playback of a famous British war march

[audio:http://www.boiledbeans.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/17d3934178bc86ed1d71613c7852c9f7.mp3 ]

Who or what is playing this, and why is it noteworthy?

Fairly low-scoring question, this; Cracked by: jayanth , Dibyo and nishas thambi.

jayanth, Dibyo and nishas thambi

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This is the tune of Colonel Bogey March, as played by CSIRAC earlier called the CSIR Mk1. First ever muic played by a computer, supposedly :)

What is happening here?

1. 2.

Cracked by: udupendra , jayanth , madhur , Dibyo , yaksha , shashank , nishas thambi , sidsen and Tathagata Chatterjee.

udupendra, jayanth, madhur, Dibyo, yaksha, shashank, nishas thambi, sidsen and Tathagata Chatterjee

Connect this image:

with this audio clip:
[audio:http://www.boiledbeans.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/7dd72530a1ec7b23f1f7ddb99f823c6d.mp3] (Link for the flash-less)

Cracked by: jayanth , udupendra , nishas thambi , Dibyo , prasanth , VikraM , shashank , and Tathagata Chatterjee

jayanth, udupendra, nishas thambi, Dibyo, prasanth, VikraM, shashank and Tathagata Chatterjee

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A star (ID’d as BPM 37093) in the Centaurus constellation (1) was found to consist of 90% crystallized carbon in a BCC lattice structure, similar to that of diamonds. Astronomers promptly named it Lucy, after the famous Beatles song “Lucy in the sky with diamonds” (2)

It has been more than a month since we did anything “different” on boiledbeans, so, this post is an attempt to re-seed the random number generator. We have a bunch of great questions sent in by bb users, which has been compiled into a multi-shot post.

Rules:

• UPDATE: For this special post only, contributors of the question also get a point. But you need to post a comment to get your points (its back-end requirement)
• This post will be open for 3 days
• You get one point per right answer(For users who have contributed questions, you will get points for right answers to questions other than yours.)
• Post all the answers in one comment. Please collate all answers and post it as a single comment. In case you need to re-post, please copy, paste the answers of all the other questions you have answered along with your new answer.

1. Courtesy sidsen

Caricature of which principle/person?

2. sidsen again

This sort of diagram is named after whom?

3. sidsen’s hattrick

This happens to be one of the first known representations of what?

4. Varun asks you to connect these images

5. Vinod PV asks you to identify the dude using the other two pics as a hint

6. Abhishek Krishnan’s question ( My Favourite )
   Who connects
   

Cracks/Scores:
nishansolo: 2
bobo: 4
gammafunction: 5
udupendra : 5
shenoyvarun86: 1
Dibyo: 4
nishas thambi: 6
sidsen: 6
Tathagata Chatterjee: 5
Shashank : 3
jayanth: 5

Answers: As sidsen said:

1. Occam’s razor the principle named after the friar William of Ockham.

The principle states that the explanation of any phenomenon should make as
few assumptions as possible, eliminating those that make no difference in
the observable predictions of the explanatory hypothesis or theory. Also
known as the “law of succinctness”.

BTW cbse students most definetly studied this in physics in class 8 or 9.

More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_Razor

2. The Pythagoras tree is a plane fractal constructed from squares. It is
   named after Pythagoras because each triple of touching squares encloses a
   right triangle, in a configuration traditionally used to depict the
   Pythagorean theorem.

more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoras_tree

3. Count the dots and do the maths
   1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9 = 45
   number of coloumns/rows = 3
   45/3 = 15

15
/

4 9 2 = 15

3 5 7 = 15

8 1 6 = 15

|| || ||
15 15 15 15

for more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo_Shu_Square
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_square

4. The opening sequence of Time from the album Dark Side of the Moon was
   played as a wakeup call for the crew of space mission STS-69

5. John Kanzius

6. John Perry Barlow - lyricist for grateful dead, author of a declaration
   of the independence of cyberspace, co-founder of EFF

nishas thambi(6), sidsen(6), gammafunction(5), udupendra(5), Tathagata Chatterjee(5), bobo(4), Dibyo(4), jayanth(4), Shashank(3), nishansolo(2), shenoyvarun86 and jayanth

Identify and connect:

Cracked by: nishansolo , jayanth , nishas thambi , Shreyas , teju , udupendra , Atul Mathew , madhur , Dibyo , Rohan , shenoyvarun86 , bobo , BigFooT , shashank , Tathagata Chatterjee and yaksha.

There was another profanity overloaded answer, which we have not approved(although it was right). We like our blog and we like it clean.

nishansolo, jayanth, nishas thambi, Shreyas, teju, udupendra, Atul Mathew, madhur, Dibyo, Rohan, shenoyvarun86, bobo, BigFooT, shashank, Tathagata Chatterjee and yaksha

This question, comes from Purnateja. If you are wondering how to send in questions, you have to mail it to [email protected] :)

1. 2.

1’s work on 2 is the earliest example of an arrangement used to achieve a special effect 3.
Identify 1,2 and 3.

(1’s work on 2 has been an inspiration for other inventions which we enjoy big time these days :) )

Put your hands together for Tathagata Chatterjee and bobo. They get the exact answer we were looking for.

sidsen , jayanth , udupendra , bs , teju , madhur , vaibhav008 , Shashank and nishas thambi were in the vicinity of the answer, so they get their points.

sidsen, jayanth, udupendra, bobo, bs, teju, madhur, vaibhav008, Tathagata Chatterjee, Shashank, nishas thambi and yaksha

Identify and connect the two images.

Cracked by: bobo , jayanth , udupendra , teju , Dibyo , nishas thambi , varun , Shashank and Shreyas.

bobo, jayanth, udupendra, teju, Dibyo, nishas thambi, varun, Shashank and Shreyas

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The game Lemmings [http://www.elizium.nu/scripts/lemmings/ has a version playable in the browser] is the answer.

Our friend Keerthi Kiran M came up with a suggestion that we start maintaining “profile” pages of bb users so that he can get to know his fellow “geeks”. As a first step towards that, you can now add a picture to your profile and it will appear next to your comments, like this

To set up your profile pic, click on “My Profile” link which you can see at the top right of the screen when you log in to bb.

In the “Your Photo” section, browse to(or type (considering the audience :) ) ) the path to the pic and click update profile.

NOTE: Please upload your pictures only.