Why did we have the theme round?Just to celebrate, in our peculiarly own geeky way, that we’ve posted a hundred questions!

The question titled 0x64, was the 100th question posted on Boiledbeans, and therefore we chose it to be the last question of the theme round.This post is just a shout out to say, we’ve had one amazing time doing the hundred questions, and it’s great seeing all of you answering them!

We promise you lots more Drama, Intrigue and Geekiness in the questions to come. Here’s hoping you’ve enjoyed it too :)

And with that previous question, we wrap up the theme round :-)

The answers
Question 1: Heisenberg
Question 2: Benoit Mandelbrot
Question 3: Neils Bohr
Question 4: Schrodinger
Question 5:Eric S Raymond

What connects this strange bunch of people?

Bugs.

Eric S Raymond is the current Maintainer of the Jargon File (A glossary of commonly used hacking terms). The clip in Q5 has ESR talking about bugs. The Jargon File defines four classes of bugs:

Heisenbug: A bug that disappears or alters its behavior when one attempts to probe or isolate it.
Mandelbug: A bug whose underlying causes are so complex and obscure as to make its behavior appear chaotic or even non-deterministic
Bohrbug:one that manifests reliably under a possibly unknown but well-defined set of conditions
Schroedinbug:A design or implementation bug in a program that doesn’t manifest until someone reading source or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point the program promptly stops working for everybody until fixed

Lots of people guessed the Unusual Computer Bugs part of it right. None got the jargon file connection :-) Read through the answers for some interesting guesses

Question 5 of 5 from the theme round. Last chance!

Simply put, identify the speaker in this audio clip.

[audio:http://www.boiledbeans.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/d5fb57d67f86dd8071163e21aca9a11b.mp3]

Cracked by:
sidsen , Biki , shivathilak , Mahesh , bobo , nisha’s thambi , alephnull , jayanth , Poornima , prasanth , and piezocake.

sidsen, Biki, shivathilak, Mahesh, bobo, nishas thambi, alephnull, jayanth, Poornima, prasanth and piezocake

Question 4 of 5 from the theme round. Be sure to read the guidelines :)

Connect 1 and Nazi Poet Laureate in 2 (the one facing you.. not the other one)

1. 2.

** A Nony Mouse, shreyas , WikiWaki , Tathagata Chatterjee, teju , Poornima , udupendra** get the theme and 2 points. Nice work!

This question was cracked by: udupendra , nisha’s thambi , deepak , sidsen , Poornima , teju , shivathilak , iamniks , Gammafunction , alephnull , yaksha , Ganesh Prasad , Tathagata Chatterjee , Shakeel , Mahesh , shyam , prasanth , VikraM and bobo.

• A Nony Mouse - Please post a seperate comment with the answer for this question.
  WikiWaki - Please post a comment with the answer for this question*

udupendra(2), Poornima(2), teju(2), Tathagata Chatterjee(2), nishas thambi, deepak, sidsen, shivathilak, iamniks, Gammafunction, alephnull, yaksha, Ganesh Prasad, Shakeel, Mahesh, shyam, prasanth, VikraM and bobo

Question 3 of 5 from the theme round. Be sure to read the rules in that post carefully!

What’s the missing number 4 in the series below?

1 - 2 - 3 -

4 - **?? **

5 -

Cracked by: nisha’s thambi , VikraM , iamniks , Gammafunction , Tathagata Chatterjee , sidsen , deepak , Abhishek , alephnull , bobo , yaksha , prasanth , udupendra, and Keerthi Kiran M.

bobo, sidsen, Gammafunction and nisha’s thambi got the theme! 1 point for the answer + 2 points for the theme added to their totals :-)

nishas thambi(3), Gammafunction(3), sidsen(3), bobo(3), VikraM, iamniks, Tathagata Chatterjee, Keerthi Kiran M, deepak, Abhishek, alephnull, yaksha, prasanth and udupendra

Not that boiledbeans was not showing up on the iPhone before this, but now, another version optimized for the iPhone has been added. This version shows up automatically when you visit http://boiledbeans.net from your (or someone else’s…) iPhone.

This makes us the first Science and Technology trivia/quiz page sporting a special iPhone version*. WE IZ NEAT. NO? ;)

“Screen Shot” :

(I know the quality of the photo is bad.. But, we will have to do with this steam-punk method of actually taking the shot of a screen until Apple decides to release an SDK or at least a screen shot utility. )
*We claim to be :)

Question 2 of 5 from the theme round. Be sure to read the guidelines :)

1. [audio:http://boiledbeans.net/audio/s.mp3]
   Link to MP3 file for those of you who don’t have flash support ( like iPhone users )

Who is song 1 a tribute to. (The part of the song which carries the answer is beeped out)

Hint: 2 is the title of another song composed by the same artist

**VikraM, Abhishek and Bikiran have cracked the theme! They walk away with 4 points!!
Congrats!! and ****brilliant work, guys! **

Cracked by: sidsen , Mahesh , shivathilak , VikraM , udupendra , iamniks , Anirudh , bobo , Abhishek , prasanth , ram , Keerthi Kiran M , A Nony Mouse , yaksha , deepak , nisha’s thambi , gammafunction , Ganesh Prasad , 2ndratequizzer and Tathagata Chatterjee. (and bikiran)

The name beeped out in 1 is Benoit Mandelbrot.
1 is a song called “Mandelbrot set” by Jonathan Coulton.
2 is called a “Code Monkey”, which is another song composed by him.

VikraM(4), Abhishek(4), Biki(4), sidsen, Mahesh, shivathilak, udupendra, iamniks, Anirudh, bobo, prasanth, ram, Keerthi Kiran M, A Nony Mouse, yaksha, deepak, nishas thambi, gammafunction, Ganesh Prasad, 2ndratequizzer and Tathagata Chatterjee

Question 1 of 5 from the theme round. Be sure to read the rules in that post carefully!

In a particular episode of this show, the scientists (pic 1) decide something based on their observations but the guy (pic 2) objects. Why does he object?

Cracked by: nisha’s thambi , alephnull , prasanth , Biki , VikraM , Anirudh , sidsen , piezocake , shreyas , udupendra and Tathagata Chatterjee. (and deepak)

(tejurao, please post this answer separately from the theme. Your answer is right, but currently we can’t give you points for it :-) ).

No one got the theme right.

nishas thambi, alephnull, prasanth, Biki, deepak, VikraM, Anirudh, sidsen, piezocake, shreyas, udupendra and Tathagata Chatterjee

Has anyone else felt the standings have been a little too static for a long time? Like all good geeks, we like to shake things up a little every now and then. So here’s what we’re planning to do:

The next five questions will form a Theme round.

The format is this: all of the five answers are going to be related in some way. This common thread between all of them is the theme. You need to figure out what the theme is and post it.

For example, if the answers to the 5 questions are Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, John Bonham and Peter Grant, respectively, then the “theme” is that they were the founding members of Led Zeppelin. So, for each question, you answer with the actual answer, and the theme (in separate posts). If you give us that theme, you get the points.

Scoring:

1. You get your usual 1 point for the answer, if you get it right
2. Additionally, you will get

• 4 points if you get the theme from the first question

3. 3 points if you get the theme from the second question
4. 2 points if you get the theme from the third question
5. 1 point if you get the theme from the fourth question
6. and no points for getting the theme from the fifth question, but your name will be mentioned.

And no negative points at all. We’re throwing away points :-)

Rules:

Please post the theme answer and the regular answer in separate posts! Do not make them a part of the same post. I cannot emphasize this enough!

• You’re allowed one attempt at the theme in each question.
• Any number of people can get the theme

We will hide all the theme answers till the end of 5 days. If you crack the theme before that, we’ll announce your name and give you the points.

The theme comes out at the end of 5 days.

Connect 1 and 2 to a physics concept.

Cracked by: **srikanth , nisha’s thambi , udupendra , teju , Biki , Anirudh , alephnull , shreyas , Shakeel , sidsen , piezocake , bs , Tathagata Chatterjee , Arjun , yaksha , Gammafunction , jayanth , VikraM , bobo **and Quehin.

srikanth, nishas thambi, udupendra, teju, Biki, Anirudh, alephnull, shreyas, Shakeel, sidsen, piezocake, bs, Tathagata Chatterjee, Arjun, yaksha, Gammafunction, jayanth, VikraM, bobo and Quehin