Boiledbeans

Drama! Intrigue!! Geekiness!!!

2008

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Crunch time

—srikanth @ 22:03

Identify and explain who connects:

Cracked by sidsen , haroon siyech , udupendra , Goyal , Atul Mathew , akhi , varuns88 , svgreatest , Rohan , teju , Prasad , duriel , gudanggurum , Keerthi Kiran M , Tathagata Chatterjee and rubhatta.

sidsen, haroon siyech, udupendra, Goyal, Atul Mathew, akhi, varuns88, svgreatest, Rohan, teju, Prasad, duriel, Gurupad, Keerthi Kiran M, Tathagata Chatterjee and rubhatta


Hotel did you say?

—devadutta @ 23:15

Another Uber simple question. What are these Microsoft geeks playing Pac-Man on?

Very close to the most cracked question on Boiledbeans! Cracked by: Keerthi Kiran M , Dibyo , varuns88 , Atul Mathew , svgreatest , Goyal , Rc , udupendra , Amith , Prasad , anirudh patil , krishnendu , Ajay Parasuram , Keerthi M R , Kamal Rathi , joe , Priya , RajT , Ashwin , Rohan , jayanth , vijayaraghavan , prasanth , Archana , Poornima , akhi , Tathagata Chatterjee , duriel , malcaluffin , piezocake , Sine , yaksha , Siddharth Jain , Pulkit Gupta , rubhatta , srikar , rajeshvj , madhur.

Keerthi Kiran M, Dibyo, varuns88, Atul Mathew, svgreatest, Goyal, Rc, udupendra, Amith, Prasad, anirudh patil, krishnendu, Ajay Parasuram, Keerthi M R, Kamal Rathi, joe, Priya, RajT, Ashwin, Rohan, jayanth, vijayaraghavan, prasanth, Archana, Poornima, akhi, Tathagata Chatterjee, duriel, malcaluffin, piezocake, Sine, yaksha, Siddharth Jain, Pulkit Gupta, rubhatta, srikar, rajeshvj and madhur


Sunday, August 17, 2008

Go!

—srikanth @ 20:54

Two names of this product:

Both names were chosen for similar reasons. Why was each name chosen?

Wholly cracked by Dibyo , Atul Mathew , Goyal , Prasad , Chandrakant Nair , udupendra , svgreatest , joe , varuns88 , Rohan , Ajay Parasuram , duriel , rajeshvj , Tathagata Chatterjee , prasanth , jayanth , Amith , yaksha and sidsen.

Dibyo, Atul Mathew, Goyal, Prasad, Chandrakant Nair, udupendra, svgreatest, joe, varuns88, Rohan, Ajay Parasuram, duriel, rajeshvj, Tathagata Chatterjee, prasanth, jayanth, Amith, yaksha and sidsen


Saturday, August 16, 2008

Red

—devadutta @ 22:59

Which university is named in honor of this kid?

The second image can be used as a hint.

Cracked by: Atul Mathew , varuns88 , Amith , joe , shyam , duriel , Dibyo , Rohan , Prasad , jayanth.

Rohan(2), Atul Mathew, varuns88, Amith, joe, shyam, duriel, Dibyo, Prasad and jayanth


Friday, August 15, 2008

tweet tweet

—srikanth @ 21:37
  1. What word is blanked out?
  2. Who made this brochure?
  3. What’s special about the product?

Cracked by Rohan , Dibyo , svgreatest , Chandrakant Nair , varuns88 , gudanggurum , madhur , akhi , Pulkit Gupta and duriel.

Atul Mathew fell for it :-)

Rohan, Dibyo, svgreatest, Chandrakant Nair, varuns88, Gurupad, madhur, akhi, Pulkit Gupta and duriel


Thursday, August 14, 2008

Plain Captcha

—devadutta @ 22:52

If you were solving a captcha which looked like this, what would you be doing along with proving that you are not a spam bot?

Simple one :)

Cracked by: Dibyo , Rohan , Kamal Rathi , gudanggurum , varuns88 , duriel , Sujoy , piezocake , akhi , Atul Mathew , Priya , Pulkit Gupta , madhur and Anu.

Dibyo, Rohan, Kamal Rathi, Gurupad, varuns88, duriel, Sujoy, piezocake, akhi, Atul Mathew, Priya, Pulkit Gupta, madhur and Anu


Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Rock steady

—srikanth @ 21:09

Been a long time since we had a very deep connect, so here goes.

The mathematician/astronomer (1) solved an age old problem in classical mechanics (X) in an interesting way. He predicted a quirky side-effect of this (Y) that was only confirmed many years later in the interactions between (2) and the groups represented by (3) and (4).

Identify 1, 2, X, Y and the groups represented by 3 and 4.

Cracked by vijayaraghavan , udupendra , Chandrakant Nair , joe , akhi , Prasad , Atul Mathew , Dibyo , varuns88 , Rohan and ludwig. Glad many of you liked the question, too :-)

vijayaraghavan, udupendra, Chandrakant Nair, joe, akhi, Prasad, Atul Mathew, Dibyo, varuns88, Rohan and ludwig


Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Happy Birthday, Boiledbeans!

—devadutta @ 11:13

One year ago, at this exact timestamp, we posted the first question on Boiledbeans with a lot of excitement. 365 days have passed since then and the excitement is still growing!

We have not missed posting a question even for a single day and given the fact that we are seperated by timezones, face crazyly strict corporate firewalls at work and have bursts of out of phase “social life”, it is quite a feat for two lazy procastinators like Srikanth and me :)

We are very thankful to all Boiledbeans users who have inspired and motivated us to keep Boiledbeans ticking and as a token of appreciation, we will be handing out FREE T-Shirts which look like this (click to enlarge) to the following people. The reasons for picking them is also stated here

**udupendra **– All time highest scorer
**Dibyo **– All time second highest scorer

**duriel **– Longest runlength
**varuns88 **– Second longest runlength
**sidsen **– For sending in maximum number of awesome guest questions.
**hema **– Special thanks to her for helping us co-ordinate posting activities.
**piezocake **– Just like that :)
Thanks guys! We will be contacting you soon to get your t-shirt sizes.

And now for the best part:
Two of this month’s toppers will get free t-shirts! There are a few things though,

  1. It cannot be someone who is already in the list above. So, if varuns88 ends up the topper of this month, he will not get another t-shirt. Instead, the next highest scorer will get it
  2. If there is a tie, we will post a tie-breaker and pick only 2 winners.

So, if you want a free t-shirt, dont miss out any question posted this month!

For those of you who are interested in buying a t-shirt, please contact us at [email protected] and we will be happy to send you one.

Thanks all, and keep quizzing!


Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Script Kung-Fu

—devadutta @ 22:51

The splash screen of this popular software looks very decent and artistic on release versions. But on development versions, it looks a little bit different and most of the time it glorifies the amount of bugs the software has.

Which software sports these awesome splash screens

Hint: Related to this

Cracked by: varuns88 , Pulkit Gupta , akhi only. Great job!

varuns88, Pulkit Gupta and akhi


Monday, August 11, 2008

Ich brauche Geld für Gasolin

—srikanth @ 21:52

Identify and connect

Cracked by Rc , Pulkit Gupta , shenoyvarun86 , anirudh patil , Priya , svgreatest , gudanggurum , Guneet , srikar , anirvan , Atul Mathew , Rohan , akhi , Nakul (Rammstein song), Siddharth Jain , Ajay Parasuram , jayanth , malcaluffin , Wasi Manazir , varuns88 , Anu , udupendra , Prasad , haroon siyech and vijayaraghavan.

Rc, Pulkit Gupta, shenoyvarun86, anirudh patil, Priya, svgreatest, Gurupad, Guneet, srikar, anirvan, Atul Mathew, Rohan, akhi, Nakul, Siddharth Jain, Ajay Parasuram, jayanth, malcaluffin, Wasi Manazir, varuns88, Anu, udupendra, Prasad, haroon siyech and vijayaraghavan