(1) created, developed and patented [(2)] a series of items, which he tried to sell through his company. Though they never took off in his time a Danish carpenter was inspired by these designs, and started manufacturing them through his company (X). They eventually became wildly popular.

Identify (1), (2) and (X)

Cracked, in whole or in part, by varuns88 , pratap , Dibyo , yaksha , srikar , Tathagata Chatterjee , prasanth , Rahul , madhur , duriel , sidsen , udupendra , jayanth , shenoyvarun86 and BiGFooT.

sidsen: As you wish :) If your valiant efforts at training bots do work out, we’ll soon be seeing really smart learning machines. And at that point I, for one, will welcome our artificially intelligent spambot overlords. However, till then, are there any known bots (spam or otherwise) that are capable of learning from context, yet? I am very intrigued by the concept.

varuns88, pratap, Dibyo, yaksha, srikar, Tathagata Chatterjee, prasanth, Rahul, madhur, duriel, sidsen, udupendra, jayanth, shenoyvarun86 and BiGFooT

Easy one for the weekend(its easy because 2 was in news very very recently)

What is the guy in 2 staring at? Also, connect 1and 2. You don’t have to be very detailed about the connect.. the general idea is enough.

Cracked completely by: Dibyo and varuns88! Nice work!!

srikar , yaksha were close, so I will give them points.

srikar, yaksha, Dibyo and varuns88

Whose jingle is this song?

[audio:http://www.boiledbeans.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/200817051125_ed.mp3]

Cracked by: udupendra , Dibyo , varuns88 , bobo , sidsen (see devadutta’s post) , duriel , BiGFooT , Ajay Parasuram , srikar , shashank , prasanth , madhur , vijayaraghavan and jayanth.

udupendra, Dibyo, varuns88, bobo, sidsen, duriel, BiGFooT, Ajay Parasuram, srikar, shashank, prasanth, madhur, vijayaraghavan and jayanth

yay! Guest question time. udupendra asks you to “Just connect”

and

Tumba Thanksu for the question..

If you want your question to appear on bb front page, mail it to [email protected]

Two things:

First: Yes, we screen guest questions that we receive and post only those which we feel have enough “drama, intrigue and geekiness” in them.

Second: sidsen, dude, are you trying to tell us something with your encrypted code words? If yes, throw us a hint, will ya?

Cracked by: madhur , varuns88 , srikar , svgreatest , udupendra , Dibyo , jayanth , sidsen and shashank.

madhur, varuns88, srikar, svgreatest, udupendra, Dibyo, jayanth, sidsen and shashank

1 set up this huge pendulum somewhere in Europe to prove something for the first time.
Identify him and tell us what he proved.

Cracked by: VikraM , varuns88 , Tathagata Chatterjee , Keerthi Kiran M , shivathilak , Anu , Dibyo , sidsen , jayanth , BiGFooT , vijayaraghavan , Atul Mathew , udupendra( ;) ) , Rohan , akhi , srikar , svgreatest , vinod , Ginkgo100 , shashank , Rahul , Salil , Yash , duriel , madhur , chandru , Paresh , p vs np , sandesh , pratap and Shakeel.

VikraM, varuns88, Tathagata Chatterjee, Keerthi Kiran M, shivathilak, Anu, Dibyo, sidsen, jayanth, BiGFooT, vijayaraghavan, Atul Mathew, udupendra, Rohan, akhi, srikar, svgreatest, vinod, Ginkgo100, shashank, Rahul, Salil, Yash, duriel, madhur, chandru, Paresh, p vs np, sandesh, pratap and Shakeel

Top 5 of 25 of what?

Cracked by Salil , manubhardwaj , duriel , udupendra , varuns88 , vijayaraghavan and Shubhendu Saha.

Salil, manubhardwaj, duriel, udupendra, varuns88, vijayaraghavan and Shubhendu Saha

1 is an artist’s impression of a legendary event from 1990(popularized in 95). The guy who drove the car was one of the original winners of a particular “award”.
Which “award”?

Cracked by: Amar , Goyal , Dibyo , svgreatest , varuns88 , yaksha , jayanth , Atul Mathew , shashank , udupendra(Happy Birthday!) , sandesh , Ginkgo100 , duriel , madhur.

Amar, Goyal, Dibyo, svgreatest, varuns88, yaksha, jayanth, Atul Mathew, shashank, udupendra, sandesh, Ginkgo100, duriel and madhur

yaksha sent in this question. Thanks buddy!

This “club” celebrated their 20th anniversary by creating 1. Their “meetings” generally involve pitching tents like the one found in 2 and “working” in them. Who are they? Also, Identify 1.
(3 is their logo, might help)

PLZ SEND UR QUESTIONS TO [email protected] KTHXBAI

Cracked by: sidsen , sandesh , Atul Mathew , madhur , varuns88 , jayanth , shashank , vijayaraghavan , Dibyo , Keerthi Kiran M(late).

sidsen, sandesh, Atul Mathew, madhur, varuns88, jayanth, shashank, vijayaraghavan, Dibyo, Keerthi Kiran M and yaksha

(A bit of a sitter, but I couldn’t resist) Identify the dude with the laptop in the video.

teju , yaksha , Ajay Parasuram , jayanth , duriel , srikar , sandesh , svgreatest , priyananda , akhi , madhur , Atul Mathew , shashank , Prasad , BiGFooT , bobo , Rahul , rajeshvj , Dibyo , varuns88 , Keerthi Kiran M , Shakeel , and piezocake got *with *it.

teju, yaksha, Ajay Parasuram, jayanth, duriel, srikar, sandesh, svgreatest, priyananda, akhi, madhur, Atul Mathew, shashank, Prasad, BiGFooT, bobo, Rahul, rajeshvj, Dibyo, varuns88, Keerthi Kiran M, Shakeel and piezocake

Company headed by 1 created X which became very famous and as a result was acquired by Y.
X came out as a result of tools that were developed for the game in 2.

Identify 1,X,Y and 2

1.

2.

Cracked by: varuns88 , BiGFooT , Tathagata Chatterjee , madhur , Ajay Parasuram , yaksha.

varuns88, BiGFooT, Tathagata Chatterjee, madhur, Ajay Parasuram and yaksha