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September 2008

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Its spelt as force

—devadutta @ 22:53

What are these “action figures” called as?

Hint: A lame misspelling of “force” can be found in their “group name”

Cracked by: shenoyvarun86 , Goyal , varuns88 , nihit , Rc , Phani , Achilles , madhur , Priya , duriel , Rohan , yaksha , akhi.

shenoyvarun86, Goyal, varuns88, nihit, Rc, Phani, Achilles, madhur, Priya, duriel, Rohan, yaksha and akhi


Monday, September 29, 2008

Lines

—srikanth @ 22:16

Simple. What it is? And why is it special?

(This time, the order doesn’t matter much, so I can’t really mess up).

Went uncracked.

Answer

Most of you got the tetris part right, but that’s not what makes it special. This is, officially, the worlds smallest ever game of Tetris, being played by “optically trapping 42 glass microspheres (1 μm diameter) in a 25 μm x 20 μm sized field under a microscope. Their positions are then steered with a computer.


Sunday, September 28, 2008

2^2=4

—devadutta @ 22:44

Math question. What is this operation called?

Computer scientis write it like this

Cracked by: Goyal , Achilles , nihit , Keerthi M R , Phani , Dibyo , varuns88 , shenoyvarun86 , akhi , madhur , sidsen , Ananth , udupendra and mandakhawke.

Goyal, Achilles, nihit, Keerthi M R, Phani, Dibyo, varuns88, shenoyvarun86, akhi, madhur, sidsen, Ananth, udupendra and mandakhawke


Saturday, September 27, 2008

Credit where it's due

—srikanth @ 19:42

Identify everyone and connect with fundae.

(Yes, I’m using this image yet again. I think Dev is planning on maintaining a stats page on this photo alone :-))

(Edit: Fixed images. sigh, looks like i mixed them up again.)

Cracked by akhi , joe , nihit , Dibyo , udupendra , Achilles , mandakhawke and Goyal.

akhi, joe, nihit, Dibyo, udupendra, Achilles, mandakhawke and Goyal


Friday, September 26, 2008

XXV

—srikanth @ 21:15

Guest question from duriel. Thanks a bunch dude! Folks, send in your questions to [email protected] .

Who is this guy and what is he celebrating?

Cracked by Achilles , Lord Labak Das , shenoyvarun86 , Priya , sidsen , Goyal , duriel , Atul Mathew , sappola , Boneywasawarriorwayayix , Dibyo , jayanth , gammafunction , Pillai and svgreatest.

Achilles, Lord Labak Das, shenoyvarun86, Priya, sidsen, Goyal, duriel, Atul Mathew, sappola, Boneywasawarriorwayayix, Dibyo, jayanth, gammafunction, Pillai and svgreatest


Thursday, September 25, 2008

Anil Kumble Special

—devadutta @ 22:56

Before this ubiquitous logo took its current form, many design variations like the ones below were tried. Which logo are we talking about?

  1. 2.

Hint: These are just parts of the whole logo(as though it is not obvious enough)..

Cracked by: Ajay Parasuram , Kamal Rathi , srikar , Atul Mathew , anirvan , Rohan , Achilles , shenoyvarun86 , anirudh , Dibyo , Priya , rajeshvj , Debasish , Nakul , varuns88 , Ananth , Anu , sidsen , udupendra , teju.

Ajay Parasuram, Kamal Rathi, srikar, Atul Mathew, anirvan, Rohan, Achilles, shenoyvarun86, anirudh, Dibyo, Priya, rajeshvj, Debasish, Nakul, varuns88, Ananth, Anu, sidsen, udupendra and teju


Thursday, September 25, 2008

Featured on QuizBlogs.com!

—devadutta @ 10:49

Boiledbeans has been featured on QuizBlogs.com, the cool meta aggregator of quiz blogs.

Thank you, Naveen & Sujith!


Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Thought is free.

—srikanth @ 12:32

If movie (1) is based on the play (2), then which awesome fictional character is based on (3) (3 is a character in 2)?

Cracked by Dibyo , shenoyvarun86 , udupendra , varuns88 , sidsen and Pillai.

Dibyo, shenoyvarun86, udupendra, varuns88, sidsen and Pillai


Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Antagonizing Dan Brown

—srikanth @ 21:18

1, 2, and 3 did not like something related to 4 and hence started what?

Cracked by Achilles , shenoyvarun86 , Dibyo , Goyal , Ajay Parasuram , Kamal Rathi , sidsen , Rohan , udupendra and jayanth.

Achilles, shenoyvarun86, Dibyo, Goyal, Ajay Parasuram, Kamal Rathi, sidsen, Rohan, udupendra and jayanth


Monday, September 22, 2008

Wabbit

—devadutta @ 22:33

1 was world’s first. 2 followed footsteps of 1. Both made using 3.
Identify 1,2 and 3.

  1. 2.

Cracked by: Goyal , nihit , Rc , shenoyvarun86 , Tathagata Chatterjee , Kamal Rathi , Achilles , gammafunction , Dibyo , Phani , pinaki sarkar , madhur , joe , varuns88 , jayanth , Ajay Parasuram , ali , akhi , udupendra , duriel , malcaluffin , Rohan.

Goyal, nihit, Rc, shenoyvarun86, Tathagata Chatterjee, Kamal Rathi, Achilles, gammafunction, Dibyo, Phani, pinaki sarkar, madhur, joe, varuns88, jayanth, Ajay Parasuram, ali, akhi, udupendra, duriel, malcaluffin and Rohan