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January 2009

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Quack

—devadutta @ 23:59

Identify and tell us which internet meme this thing lead to.

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p.s: Live quiz scores have been updated for a few users. Others, please bear with us for a while.

Perfect answer by: Goyal , Vaishnavi , username , kal , Rohan , Higgers , p vs np , Ananth , Neeraj , priyananda.

Others gave incomplete answers, but get a point too.

Goyal, Sruti, mach101, Sombe, Vaishnavi, Dibyo, username, kal, Rohan, Higgers, duriel, p vs np, Ananth, Neeraj, malcaluffin, priyananda and Gurupad

Show Answer

“Duckroll” which originated on 4chan lead to “Rickroll” internet meme


.. and the beast reborn..

—devadutta @ 23:45

Guest question(or “fan question” as he likes to call it :) ) sent in by Ananth! Thank you, Sir!

Connect Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox via this pic

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Cracked by: duriel , username , Kal , Aditya , Dibyo , dheeraj , Rahulk. Nice!

Ananth, if you want a point for your question, you need to post a comment here.

duriel, username, Kal, Aditya, Dibyo, dheeraj and Rahulk


Live quiz answers

—devadutta @ 12:11

If you have not tried the quiz, we suggest you give it a shot before you look at the answers!

There are some unrevealed commands on the terminal which will let you cheat big time. Try and see if you can find them :)

This is one of the shortest paths to finishing the quiz with a score of 18.


Friday, January 9, 2009

You have to sacrifice yourself on level 3

—srikanth @ 20:49

This mash-up of two games lead to the creation of another pioneering game.Identify all three games and connect.

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Cracked by Vaishnavi , shrik , akhi and duriel.

Vaishnavi, shrik, akhi and duriel


Thursday, January 8, 2009

Three finger salute!

—devadutta @ 22:41

These three things do the same thing in three different worlds. What?

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Cracked by: Ananth , Kal , duriel , username , shrik , priyananda and Raghuvansh. Well done!

Ananth, Kal, duriel, username, shrik, priyananda and Raghuvansh

Show Answer

The “command key” on different platforms.


Wednesday, January 7, 2009

No cheat codes for these?

—srikanth @ 20:30

Claim to fame of this deck of cards?

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Cracked by everyone!

priyananda, p vs np, Dibyo, Ananth, duriel, Rahulk, Sombe, mach101, Sruti, Raghuvansh, Abhishek, Prasad, AmK, Rohan, BASAB, udupendra, username, shrik, sidsen, Wasi Manazir, quaziluffy, jo, Neeraj, Siddharth Jain and Chandrakant Nair


Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Click Here

—devadutta @ 23:34

Simple one for the day.

What is this and where is it widely used?

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here is a funkier pic

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p.s: Live Quiz scores will be applied to your accounts over the weekend. Some technical difficulties and a ton of laziness is holding it back :)

Cracked by: Neeraj , Goyal , sidsen , duriel , username , Dibyo , Raghuvansh , Kal , vishwa theja , Ananth and priyananda.

Neeraj, Goyal, sidsen, duriel, username, Dibyo, Raghuvansh, Kal, vishwa theja, Ananth and priyananda

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Pentaprism, extensively used in SLR Cameras


Monday, January 5, 2009

Do you has what it takes to serve?

—srikanth @ 20:30

Simple. ID legendary internet flash comic thingy.

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Cracked by Goyal , Neeraj , Bipin Banavalikar , Raghuvansh , Kal , Kal , duriel , username , Ananth , Big Mo and shenoyvarun86.

Goyal, Neeraj, Bipin Banavalikar, Raghuvansh, Kal, duriel, username, Ananth, Big Mo and shenoyvarun86


Sunday, January 4, 2009

Yes, Minster!

—devadutta @ 23:26

Connect

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hint:

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Cracked by:Kal , Raghuvansh , Bipin Banavalikar , Goyal , Rc , Pradeep Ramarathnam , Dibyo , username , Pillai , Rohan , nishansolo , mach101 , yaksha , Vinay Nair , duriel , priyananda , calvin , Atul Mathew , alakh_niranjan , p vs np , Aparna , Ps , Neeraj , Ananth , quaziluffy , shashank , udupendra , Wasi Manazir , bhargavaurala , Arjun Chennu , Manjith , Rahul , madhur , Dhananjay , Rahulk.

Kal, Raghuvansh, Bipin Banavalikar, Goyal, Rc, Pradeep Ramarathnam, Dibyo, username, Pillai, Rohan, nishansolo, mach101, yaksha, Vinay Nair, duriel, priyananda, calvin, Atul Mathew, alakh_niranjan, p vs np, Aparna, Ps, Neeraj, Ananth, quaziluffy, shashank, udupendra, Wasi Manazir, bhargavaurala, Arjun Chennu, Manjith, Rahul, madhur, Dhananjay and Rahulk

Show Answer

Buckminster Fuller, Buckminsterfullerene.


Saturday, January 3, 2009

Scores and Results!

—devadutta @ 23:42

Wow! That was an amazing round of live quizzing action! We had 120(and still counting) people taking part and 29 people posted their badges.

A big Thank you to everyone who participated!

We will be posting answers and some more awesome statictics from the event after a few days so that those who did not get to participate, can still give it a shot.

Results

First to finish: gorlock
Time to completion: 35 minutes

Brilliant work gorlock! You have won a Boiledbeans T-Shirt along with 20 points!

Congratulations!

Second to finish: **Dibyo
**Time to completion: 87 minutes

Awesome! Dibyo gets 15 points!

Third to finish:** anon
**Time to completion: 90 minutes (close call ;) )

We would have given you 10 points if you had used your Boiledbeans username. Please get in touch with us at [email protected].

Others who completed:

duriel
username
sidsen
bs
Neeraj
shrik
jane
and Anirudh(you both have not posted your badge here. Please do it if you want points. If you have lost it, get in touch with us)

Amazing work guys! All of you get 5 points!

Others who completed with one of more skips:

Name Score
udupendra 17
priyananda 17
Goyal 16
Ananth 15
mach101 15
srikanth 15
varuns88 15
yaksha 14
abhishek 14
keerthi2kiran 14
johnywalker 13
atulmathew 13
bulldozer 12
trinity 12
vinayprasad 12
hema 12
rohan 11
veekay 7

If your score is >=15, you get 3 points, If it is >10 and <15, you will get 2 points. The rest get 1 point.

Others have more than 1 point, but have faild to complete the login step :P
They get 1 point.

Like you can see, the scoring is quite complicated, so it may take a while for the scores to come up on the board.

Do tell us what you felt about the Live Quiz!
Would you like to see more of these?

**Let us know! **Leave comments!

Thanks everyone!**
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p.s: The quiz is still live. You can take part if you have not.