Boiledbeans

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2010

Saturday, August 28, 2010

They're getting faster!

—srikanth @ 23:59

What’s the name of the artist responsible?

Cracked by everyone.

shrik, Vasanth Kamath, Prateek Agarwal, Ananth, Logik, Jean Valjean, Dibyo, Rogi, Girish, lanu, udupendra, Rahul Rajeev, Manish Achuth, krudebox, jowens, Thejas V R, Qbrain, Bheema V, Bharath, Shwetha Maiya and Rahulk


http://guitarist.

—srikanth @ 23:59

Fully framed guest question from logik!
W - founded by the people shown in (1)
X - The company that currently runs W.
The speaker adopted a very famous nickname Y, in reference to a section in the book (3) ..
Give me W, and Y

Cracked by udupendra, Logik, Manish Achuth, Rogi, shrik, Bharath, Raghuvansh, Dibyo, Qbrain, Girish, lanu, Rahulk, jowens and Thejas V R.

Check out Logik’s comment for the answer, of course :)


Thursday, August 26, 2010

Question asking question

—devadutta @ 23:59

Simple. Lego recreation of which masterpiece?

Cracked by: Logik, Gurupad, Ananth, Goyal, SV, shrik, byslexia, Bheema V, Girish, krudebox, Manish Achuth, Rogi, Bharath, Anjul, username, v.chandrashekar, Dibyo, dheeraj, Vasanth Kamath, Vardhan Shenoy, Rahulk, Qbrain, dineshk, Rahul Rajeev, vijayaraghavan, lanu and Jean Valjean

Show Answer

Ascending and Descending by M.C. Escher


Wednesday, August 25, 2010

TRUE.

—srikanth @ 23:59

Identify this husband-and-wife couple - who together run a famous website (that has stopped many an email forward in its tracks :p) :

A very roundabout clue below. Pseudobonus points for identifying how the clue links to the question :)

Cracked by Logik, Gurupad, shrik, Girish, krudebox, byslexia, SV, Rogi, dineshk, Raghuvansh, Manish Achuth, Ananth, v.chandrashekar, username, Vasanth Kamath, Smitha R Maiya, Rahulk, Qbrain, lanu, Shwetha Maiya, raklodramA, Thejas V R, Dibyo, Prateek Agarwal, udupendra, ht, joe, Atul Mathew, Sumanth Patlolla, Bharath, Rahul Rajeev, Bheema V and Vardhan Shenoy


Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Who is it?

—devadutta @ 23:59

Company X that manufactured computers like the one below has its name in the history books as the first to “register” something. What?

Cracked by: username, Ananth, shrik, Rogi, Raghuvansh, Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, krudebox, Dibyo, raklodramA, Nanda, Shwetha Maiya, Rahulk, lanu, Qbrain, Vasanth Kamath, Rahul Rajeev, Vardhan Shenoy, Bheema V, udupendra, SV, Bharath, Gurupad, Logik, dineshk, v.chandrashekar, Thejas V R, mankuTimma and nishansolo


Monday, August 23, 2010

Star Wars

—srikanth @ 23:59

Fully-framed question from udupendra!

(1) was built. In response, (2) was built. What are they?

Got a question? Send it to [email protected]!

Cracked by yevvryone.

Plz to be seeing udupendra’s reply for the answer straight from the horse’s mouth.

udupendra, Logik, Raghuvansh, Ananth, Aparna, nishansolo, Dibyo, Rogi, shrik, Manish Achuth, krudebox, Nanda, Goyal, raklodramA, Girish, Thejas V R, Prateek Agarwal, username, Sumanth Patlolla, Vasanth Kamath, Qbrain, Vardhan Shenoy, Vishnu, Rahul Rajeev, Bharath, Gurupad, dineshk, Bheema V, Aditya Sridhar, Rahulk, Shwetha Maiya, ht, lanu, Vinay Nair Karath, SV and v.chandrashekar


Monday, August 23, 2010

The 300 Man

—devadutta @ 00:02

A big round of applause to Rogi** **for recording an unbeaten run-length of 300! Just Amazing! Keep it up!

In other updates, we were looking through the usage stats of bbPlay and looks like a lot of you like it! So we were thrilled and we have refreshed bbPlay with some major bug-fixes and added a few nice new features. Go ahead and click on the Play! button and you will notice

  1. You can now reach the post from inside bbPlay by clicking on the title
  2. Images are un-clickable. This was a major pain, sorry about having that bug there in the first place :)

The exciting new feature we have is that now you can tell us if you like a question by pressing **“l” ( l for like ) **within bbPlay and your vote will be registered. We will be displaying how many people liked a question and other stats shortly. Until then, you can just vote :)

Go ahead, Play and hit “l” to see for yourself :)
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Sunday, August 22, 2010

Greetings!

—devadutta @ 23:25

This question is inspired by another question sent in by Thejas V R. He gets the shiny %gqh% nevertheless.

1 is from India, 2 from the Navajo tribe, 3 from Peru and 4 from USA. Which “album” has these songs along with 23 other songs from all around the world?

  1. [audio:http://boiledbeans.net/audio/1india.mp3]

  2. [audio:http://boiledbeans.net/audio/2navajo.mp3]

  3. [audio:http://boiledbeans.net/audio/3peru.mp3]

  4. [audio:http://boiledbeans.net/audio/4usa.mp3]

Cracked by: username, udupendra, Vardhan Shenoy, Anonymous, Girish, lanu, Qbrain, Manish Achuth, joe, Aparna, Rogi, Anjul, shrik, Logik, dineshk, krudebox, Raghuvansh, Bharath, Thejas V R, byslexia, Rahulk, mankuTimma, nishansolo, ht and Shwetha Maiya


Saturday, August 21, 2010

Botweiser, anyone?

—srikanth @ 23:59

Another “current affairs” question" :-) Identify?

Cracked by Vardhan Shenoy, shrik, Thejas V R, Manish Achuth, Logik, Dibyo, Aparna, Girish, Raghuvansh, krudebox, Rogi, Prateek Agarwal, udupendra, dheeraj, Bheema V, Mahesh, dineshk, Bharath, Vasanth Kamath, Shwetha Maiya, Rahulk, Ananth, Qbrain and lanu


Friday, August 20, 2010

Does not talk

—devadutta @ 23:59

This game is famous for 2 reasons. 1 because it was co-written by the founder of a very big company and 2, it was one of the first games written for the platform it ran on.

Identify the game and the co-writer we are talking about.

Cracked by: Manish Achuth, Logik, dineshk, Raghuvansh, Ganesh Prasad, Dibyo, Ananth, Rogi, Rahulk, v.chandrashekar, sandman, Vardhan Shenoy, Bharath, Prateek Agarwal, raklodramA, krudebox, Qbrain, Shwetha Maiya, shrik, Thejas V R, Aparna, Nanda, udupendra, blntechie, Vinay Hegde, username, dheeraj, Sumanth Patlolla, lanu and Bheema V