Boiledbeans

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2009

Saturday, September 5, 2009

Someone should make a GTA: Bengaluru city

—srikanth @ 23:59

Who was this supposed to parody? Also, what delightfully sad thing did that person do in response?

(The timings of questions on here have seemingly gotten offset by about 12 hrs. Mea culpa. I’ll try to catch up from tomorrow onwards.)

Cracked by Logik, Rogi, Debasish, Gurupad, Chinmaya U.Holla, shrik, achyuth, udupendra, prateekbhatt, Vardhan Shenoy, AmK, krudebox and Rithwik K


Vote for Congress

—srikanth @ 23:59

Which company’s journey started with the birth of these identical twins?

Cracked by gagan, prateekbhatt, udupendra, Debasish, madhur, Rogi, Deepthi JS, achyuth, Raghuvansh, krudebox, AmK, joe, varuns88, akhi, Gurupad, Dibyo, xtremevarun, Vardhan Shenoy, Nakul and shrik

Fairly simple, innit? Palm, Inc. The pics are of Casio & Tandy’s “Zoomer”, which was designed by Palm.


Thursday, September 3, 2009

Neck exercise

—devadutta @ 23:59

Identify the game

_HeadbangHero

It actually works.. here is an action shot

hb1

Apologies for the delay folks, question will be up longer.

Cracked by: varuns88, Debasish, Logik, Advaith, Raghuvansh, Dibyo, udupendra, Rogi, p vs np, xtremevarun, Chinmaya U.Holla, Vardhan Shenoy, krudebox, AmK and Rithwik K


Wednesday, September 2, 2009

To infinity and beyond

—srikanth @ 21:30

More audio goodness, although this one should be frighteningly simple.

Identify the song and the singer of this clip:

[audio:02sep09q.mp3]

Cracked byChinmaya U.Holla, shenoyvarun86, Rogi, abhijeet, AmK, Dibyo, udupendra, vardhans94, gagan, Raghuvansh, Logik, varuns88, Ananth, Mihir Rege, shrik, xtremevarun, nishansolo, Divya, krudebox, joe, Advaith and Rithwik K


Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Hello?

—srikanth @ 21:30
  1. [audio:01sep09q.mp3]
    (direct link to clip)

(1) composed (2) in 1902. It shot to fame much more recently when someone started using it, specifically the part that is muted out in the clip. What is (2) now more famous as?

Cracked by Goutham DL, shenoyvarun86, MKen_, achyuth, Dibyo, Divya, shrik, Manish Mani, Chinmaya U.Holla, Debasish, udupendra, AmK, Vardhan Shenoy, vardhans94, Rithwik K, sidsen, Rogi, Aditya, varuns88, satyeki, Hitesh T S, Logik, xtremevarun and abhijeet

shenoyvarun86 points out that he’d already asked this question (to which fact I shall claim ignorance :p). :-)


Monday, August 31, 2009

Recursive hint

—devadutta @ 21:43

Another sitterish question. Identify

first_digital_camera1

The question content is a recursive hint

Cracked by: Chinmaya U.Holla, achyuth, Debasish, shrik, Thejas V R, AmK, Rogi, sidsen, udupendra, Nakul, Raghuvansh, shenoyvarun86, Gurupad, Logik and abhijeet


Sunday, August 30, 2009

Showcase

—devadutta @ 23:09

1 inspired 2 to start something. What?

  1. 200px-Swami_Vivekananda-1893-09-signed 2. JNTata

Cracked by: shrik, MKen_, Rogi, AmK, Dibyo, Jobin, v.chandrashekar, prasanth, Rahul, udupendra, Chinmaya U.Holla, joe, Debasish, Anubhav, darthshak, vardhans94, srikar, Nakul, Ananth, madhur, Rithwik K, prasadbhat, BASAB, Logik, Raghuvansh, wanderlust, Deepthi JS, emrohit, Thejas V R and Vivek


Saturday, August 29, 2009

Green's anatomy?

—srikanth @ 21:30

In what book are you going to find these images and more?

Cracked by: darthshak, Rogi, Prasad, AmK, Raghuvansh and shrik


Friday, August 28, 2009

Does NFS count?

—devadutta @ 23:59

Who he?

225px-Jöns_Jacob_Berzelius

Without further ado, hints

646px-Types_of_Carbon_Nanotubes240px-GraphiteUSGOV240px-Brillanten160px-C60a

The hints list is not exhaustive.

Apologies for the delay folks, the question will be up 12 hrs more than usual.

Cracked by: Gagan, udupendra, Rogi, Dibyo, Rithwik K, AmK, shrik and akhi


Thursday, August 27, 2009

Things are getting a little steamy

—srikanth @ 21:30

Identify the people in (1) ( of (2) fame ).

shrik, udupendra, AmK, Rogi, varuns88, shenoyvarun86, emrohit, McNeill Ivan S, Rand Al’Thor, xtremevarun, Ananth, prasadbhat, Logik, Raghuvansh, Gurupad and Sridhar C have most probably gone through the Indian engineering education system :p