Guest question time! Nihit has brought to us this nice thought provoking question.

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Cracked by: srichand , Arun Krishnamoorthy , Abhishek , Prasad , prasanth, and yaksha

srichand, Arun Krishnamoorthy, Abhishek, prasanthnori, Prasad and yaksha

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

1. [audio:http://www.boiledbeans.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/b20bd3952676194031d315d210acba7a.mp3]

Microsoft is said to have got this band (2)

to compose this song (3)
3. [audio:http://www.boiledbeans.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/b26d5bd1d44f80cb5b2bedf2fc07fb51.mp3]

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. [audio:http://www.boiledbeans.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/dc1e542f7d368fd5b813b411c9c2e602.mp3]

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.

1. “Linux Can!” by Phenom. We love this band :)

2. Parikrama . I love this band, except for the song “Superhero” which was clue 3.

3. Is “Mysore se aye” by Antragni. I love this band too. Gaurav Joshua Vaz who played for Phenom now plays for the raghudixit project. The dude in the pic is Raghupati Dixit.

Srikanth, udupendra, Poornima, bs, ram, prasanth, Preetish, Piyush, yaksha and Abhishek

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.

udupendra, Poornima, Piyush, Swetha, Madan, ram, nihit, asha, yaksha, Abhishek, Prasanth, Srichand Pendyala and Archana

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

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:
A part of the soundtrack for the original QUAKE (and not Doom) was composed by Trent Reznor, of Nine Inch Nails fame. The “complete” connect would’ve been that the ammunition boxes in the game have the NIN logo on them.

prabhu_dc, udupendra, srichand, Shashank, Mahesh Herle, ram, Madan, Piyush, Dibyo, Archana and Prasanth

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)

Srikanth, Anuj, nihit, Hema, Shashank Hegde, Preetish, piezocake, Abhishek, Ganesh Prasad, prabhu_dc, srichand and Keerthi

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

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

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

Connect: Game theory

Details:

1. Sylvia Nasar who wrote the novel “A Beautiful Mind” and a poster of the movie with the same title, connecting to John Nash.
2. Oskar Morgenstern and John von Neumann

Oskar Morgenstern and John von Neumann founded the field of mathemetical Game theory. John Nash did extensive work on game theory.

The extra hint was Donald Rumsfeld who claims to be using game theory for his defense strategies.

Srichand Pendyala, prabhu_dc, Archana, udupendra, Biki, Swetha, Prasanth, bs, Prasad, Tathagata Chatterjee, Dibyo, yaksha, Shashank and asha

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

1. :

2) :

3) :

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

Shashank, Archana, Hema, jayanth, Biki, Dibyo, Keerthi, yaksha, Mahesh Herle, udupendra, devadutta, nihit and prabhu_dc

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:

Aspirin, 2-acetoxybenzoic acid or acetylsalicylic acid is the common analgesic . Low dose Aspirin has many other medicinal qualities.
The hints:

1. Judas Priest’s Painkiller, hinting the “Painkiller” properties of Aspirin.
2. Thompson and Thompson eating mysterious pills thinking it to be aspirin in"The Land of Black Gold"

Hema, Poornima, jayanth, Shashank, yaksha, Abhinav, asha, Keerthi, Dibyo, piezocake, Abhishek, Abhishek, nihit and Archana

:-?

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

Abhishek, Shashank, jayanth, devadutta, yaksha and piezocake

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

2. and 3.

and if you still are looking for hints, try

4.

Perfect

jayanth, Biki, Jayanth Srinivasa, Sumant, Mahesh Herle, Keerthi, Prasad, udupendra, asha, piezocake, yaksha, Anuj and Shashank