Boiledbeans

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October 2008

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Bucket with a hole

—devadutta @ 20:01

Identify her him(apologies) and the website he co-founded. Image to the right is its logo.

The website was a hot topic of discussion in 2008.

Cracked by: madhur , Goyal , Rohan , Kamal Rathi , vishal , shenoyvarun86 , Siddharth , vishnu , Ananth , Ajay Parasuram , BiGFooT , rajeshvj , Rahulk.

madhur, Goyal, Rohan, Kamal Rathi, vishal, shenoyvarun86, Siddharth, vishnu, Ananth, Ajay Parasuram, BiGFooT, rajeshvj and Rahulk


Leaky

—srikanth @ 18:11

Guest question by sidsen.

What is this called? Gets it name from the greek mathematician who first thought of this and the manner in which it functions.

Got questions? [email protected] is waiting for them.

(Posting this a bit early, so yesterday’s question will be open till Oct 11th noon IST)

Cracked by amith , Anon, priyananda , Phani , Atul Mathew , Dibyo , shenoyvarun86 , duriel , aditya_s , Ajay Parasuram , Goyal , Apurva , nihit , vishal , BiGFooT , Archana , malcaluffin , mach101 and Ananth.

amith, Anonymous, priyananda, Phani, Atul Mathew, Dibyo, shenoyvarun86, duriel, aditya_s, Ajay Parasuram, Goyal, Apurva, nihit, vishal, BiGFooT, Archana, malcaluffin, mach101, Ananth and sidsen


Thursday, October 9, 2008

Stubborn

—srikanth @ 20:50

Scientist X (pic) accidentally created alloy Y (object in pic). He was never able to re-create it, but in the process of trying to do so he created an alloy Z that was even more awesome.

Solve for X, Y and Z

Cracked by everyone again!

duriel, vishal, vinay, Goyal, Rc, shenoyvarun86, Dibyo, udupendra, Prasad, aditya_s, Keerthi M R, sidsen, vivek, Pillai, nihit, p vs np, Nakul, Tathagata Chatterjee, Ajay Parasuram, Ananth, Kamal Rathi, varuns88, ali, jayanth, Malcaluffin, mach101, amith and Priya


Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Stimulating...

—srikanth @ 21:41

A (simple) test for your visual acuity :-) What’s the funda behind this logo?

Cracked by almost everyone!

Kamal Rathi, shenoyvarun86, PankajKR, Goyal, Ajay Parasuram, Rc, ali, duriel, K.Manish, Avinash Kumar, vivek, Chandrakant Nair, Nakul, Dibyo, ragwho, yaksha, udupendra, vinay, shyam, vishal, Rohan, rajeshvj, p vs np, Ananth, Prasad, nihit, Guneet, Siddharth Jain, jayanth, Anonymous, Malcaluffin, abi, mach101, Poornima and Atul Mathew


Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Zephyr in the sky

—devadutta @ 21:13

Connect

Cracked by: Ajay Parasuram , Goyal , shenoyvarun86 , Guneet , vishal and Rohan. nihit was very close, but no cookie for him :)

Ajay Parasuram, Goyal, shenoyvarun86, Guneet, vishal and Rohan


Monday, October 6, 2008

To posterity, and beyond!

—srikanth @ 21:26

Who are these three people, and where would you find them buried together?

Cracked by Goyal , shenoyvarun86 , Ajay Parasuram , vishal , Kamal Rathi , akhi and varuns88.

Goyal, shenoyvarun86, Ajay Parasuram, vishal, Kamal Rathi, akhi and varuns88


Sunday, October 5, 2008

No, we dont break into computers

—devadutta @ 22:39

Who’s emblem? Also connect to 2.

Cracked by: shenoyvarun86 , Goyal , nihit , Phani , Dibyo , duriel , vishal , varuns88 , madhur , akhi , sidsen , Prasad , Ananth , udupendra , K.Manish and jayanth.

shenoyvarun86, Goyal, nihit, Phani, Dibyo, duriel, vishal, varuns88, madhur, akhi, sidsen, Prasad, Ananth, udupendra, K.Manish and jayanth


Saturday, October 4, 2008

[Insert football clue here]

—srikanth @ 21:59

This question is about a very interesting bit of computer history trivia from shenoyvarun86(He has hit 300 questions on his blog.. do check it out..).
Identify and connect:

Got any more questions? Send them in to [email protected] .

Cracked by nihit , Goyal , akhi , Phani , K.Manish , madhur , varuns88 , Ananth , Ajay Parasuram , Malcaluffin , Achilles and Rahulk.

nihit, shenoyvarun86, Goyal, akhi, Phani, K.Manish, madhur, varuns88, Ananth, Ajay Parasuram, Malcaluffin, Achilles and Rahulk


Friday, October 3, 2008

Moo

—srikanth @ 21:29

Something to keep you amused for the weekend. These two depict the “evolution” of what?

  1. (__)
    (oo)
    /——/
    / | ||
  • /-–/
    ~~ ~~
  1. /—-
    ——-/
    /
    / |
    —————–/ ——–\

And what in the world is (2)? Why, it’s:

of course.

Question Closed. Srikanth will mod when he is back from his vacation.

Cracked by jayanth , Phani and duriel.

jayanth, Phani and duriel


Thursday, October 2, 2008

Smaller than a Universe

—devadutta @ 22:18

Reference to what

Simple one :)

Cracked by: shenoyvarun86 , Rahulk , Priya , Rahulk , Goyal , nihit , shyam , vivek , varuns88 , pinaki sarkar , Rohan , akhi , Achilles , vishnu , sidsen , , yaksha , yadu , froufrou , Anu , teju , jayanth , Prasad , rajeshvj , duriel , Neeraj , BiGFooT , Ananth , Siddharth Jain , Phani.

shenoyvarun86, Priya, Rahulk, Goyal, nihit, shyam, vivek, varuns88, pinaki sarkar, Rohan, akhi, Achilles, vishnu, sidsen, Anonymous, yaksha, yadu, froufrou, Anu, teju, jayanth, Prasad, rajeshvj, duriel, Neeraj, BiGFooT, Ananth, Siddharth Jain and Phani