Boiledbeans

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November 2008

Monday, November 10, 2008

Corner Square in Monopoly

—devadutta @ 21:30

1 “performed” it themselves while someone else “performed” it on 2.

What is “it”?

  1. 2.

Cracked by: teju , Rc , vivek , Dibyo , Bipin Banavalikar , Goyal , Prasad , shenoyvarun86 , Ajay Parasuram , varuns88 , Ananth , priyananda , Nayantara and Vijay Shankar.

teju, Rc, vivek, Dibyo, Bipin Banavalikar, Goyal, Prasad, shenoyvarun86, Ajay Parasuram, varuns88, Ananth, priyananda, Nayantara and Vijay Shankar


Much to everyone's anguish

—srikanth @ 21:13

Who is this computing pioneer, and what programming technique is named based on him?

(My sympathies to anyone who has been forced to use this to code.)

Cracked by shenoyvarun86 , Dibyo , Vijay Shankar , varuns88 , Ajay Parasuram , udupendra and Ananth.

Answer
Charles Simonyi, a programmer-guru type chap who’s responsible for one of the few good MS products, MS Excel.

The Hungarian Notation of variable naming was named after him (since he’s from Hungary).

shenoyvarun86, Dibyo, Vijay Shankar, varuns88, Ajay Parasuram, udupendra and Ananth


Saturday, November 8, 2008

Smile

—devadutta @ 22:29

Easy one. What is this?

Cracked by: Vijay Shankar , Johny Walker , Atul Mathew , Rc , malcaluffin , shenoyvarun86 , Shyam , aditya_s , quaziluffy , Siddharth , dheeraj , varuns88 , vs and nishansolo.

Vijay Shankar, Johny Walker, Atul Mathew, Rc, malcaluffin, shenoyvarun86, Shyam, aditya_s, quaziluffy, Siddharth, dheeraj, varuns88, vs and nishansolo

Show Answer

The first ever color photograph taken by James Maxwell.


Friday, November 7, 2008

Axis of evil?

—srikanth @ 20:58

Identify 1 and their IT world counterparts (according to 2). Put fundaes, plz.

Cracked by Rc , duriel , Rahulk , Dibyo , akhi and panrod.

Rc, duriel, Rahulk, Dibyo, akhi, panrod and Vijay Shankar


Thursday, November 6, 2008

7up

—devadutta @ 22:08

Logo of?
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`@/ \ _
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| (*) | \ ))
______ |U| / //
/ \ //|| \ /
(________) (
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This is their new logo

Hint: This was extremely popular before the Internet.

Again, sorry for the delayed posting. We are working hard to fix this problem. Until then, please do not mind. The question will be open 3hours longer than usual.

Cracked by: shenoyvarun86 , dheeraj , Rahulk , Dinesh , username , Dibyo , Ananth , Vijay Shankar , Ajay Parasuram , Goyal.

shenoyvarun86, dheeraj, Rahulk, Dinesh, username, Dibyo, Ananth, Vijay Shankar, Ajay Parasuram and Goyal


Wednesday, November 5, 2008

There is only ...

—devadutta @ 22:23

Yay! Guest question time. Thanks to Dheeraj K for this question.

Connect

Please to send all guest questions to [email protected]
kthx

Cracked by: username , Vijay Shankar , Prasad , Goyal , shenoyvarun86 , Rahulk( ha ha ) , Dinesh , Anush , duriel , akhi(welcome back!!1!) , vivek , madhur , Rohan , Aditya , Ananth , alakh_niranjan , yaksha , Ajay Parasuram , priyananda , Dibyo(different connect!) and Ganesh Prasad.

username, Vijay Shankar, Prasad, Goyal, shenoyvarun86, Rahulk, Dinesh, Anush, duriel, akhi, vivek, madhur, Rohan, Aditya, Ananth, alakh_niranjan, yaksha, Ajay Parasuram, priyananda, Dibyo and Ganesh Prasad


Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Heavy machinery

—srikanth @ 23:00

Connect:

(2 people are missing from this list, because their pics are miserably hard to find and I’m already running out of time)

Apologies for the late post, folks.This question will stay open for longer.

Cracked only by Goyal and Vijay Shankar, who got the whole question perfect.

Goyal and Vijay Shankar


Monday, November 3, 2008

No hint needed here

—devadutta @ 23:15

Very easy one for the day. Who he?

Hint:

Cracked by: shenoyvarun86 , Goyal , Vijay Shankar , Anush , Siddharth , varuns88 , alakh_niranjan , yaksha , dheeraj , malcaluffin , udupendra , username and duriel.

shenoyvarun86, Goyal, Vijay Shankar, Anush, Siddharth, varuns88, alakh_niranjan, yaksha, dheeraj, malcaluffin, udupendra, username, duriel and Ajay Parasuram


Sunday, November 2, 2008

I'm almost happy here

—srikanth @ 21:19

Identify and connect:

Cracked by shenoyvarun86 , Rahulk , Vijay Shankar , Goyal , Anush , Ajay Parasuram , username , dheeraj , udupendra , Ananth , malcaluffin , Siddharth Jain and Dinesh.

shenoyvarun86, Rahulk, Vijay Shankar, Goyal, Anush, Ajay Parasuram, username, dheeraj, udupendra, Ananth, malcaluffin, Siddharth Jain and Dinesh


Saturday, November 1, 2008

"Be prepared"

—devadutta @ 21:12

Which company(electronics) derives its name from 1?

Hint:

Cracked by: nishansolo , mach101 , dheeraj , Ananth , Rahulk and Dinesh. Nice work!

Anonymous, nishansolo, mach101, dheeraj, Ananth, Rahulk and Dinesh