Boiledbeans

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2010

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Three monkeys

—devadutta @ 23:59

Who is this dude and whose very famous “motto” did he coin?

Cracked by: Amarendra, Rogi, Thejas V R, udupendra, Rithwik K, shenoyvarun86, Raghuvansh, Rahulk, sidsen, Sourya, googboog, mk, shrik, varuns88, Logik, dineshk, Dibyo, Manish Achuth, Bharath, reddevil_ani, Treyambak Madyalkar, wanderlust, Shwetha Maiya and mankuTimma


PC Load letter

—devadutta @ 23:59

Old-school sitter. Identify

Cracked By: krudebox, shenoyvarun86, Shwetha Maiya, Thejas V R, googboog, udupendra, Logik, Qbrain, shrik, Rogi, Manish Achuth, varuns88, Aparna, Bharath, dineshk, v.chandrashekar, Dibyo, sidsen, umang, Rahulk, reddevil_ani, Mukul, Rithwik K and mk


Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Follow that man!

—srikanth @ 21:30

Iconic picture of scientist. Who’s he, and what makes this image special?

Cracked by shrik, Thejas V R, Raghuvansh, Rogi, Aparna, varuns88, krudebox, sidsen, Dibyo, udupendra, googboog, Nihar, Gowri, reddevil_ani, Shwetha Maiya, Manish Achuth, Raison, v.chandrashekar, Arun Krishnamoorthy, Anubhav, AmK, wanderlust, shenoyvarun86, Logik, Qbrain, lanu, Bharath, dineshk, Rahulk and Sourya


Monday, May 3, 2010

Sunday ho ya Monday.. roz..

—devadutta @ 23:59

Something makes these animals very different. What? (We know it from high-school)

Cracked by a lot of people. Namely: shenoyvarun86, Thejas V R, Logik, shrik, googboog, udupendra, Shwetha Maiya, pranav, Gowri, Dibyo, Rahulk, Qbrain, Suhel Banerjee, Rogi, krudebox, Aparna, Nihar, Anirudh, wanderlust, Manish Achuth, Raghuvansh, kriskingle, vishwas, Inglourious, madhur, varuns88, Bharath, AmK, sidsen, Anonymous, reddevil_ani, Raison, Sourya, v.chandrashekar, Siddharth Jain, Anubhav, prateek, theJoker, BASAB and dineshk


Sunday, May 2, 2010

Look Deep

—devadutta @ 21:42

Question from Karthik Ramesh.

What was 1 is soon to be replaced by 2. Identify.

Cracked by: Logik, Thejas V R, Rogi, googboog, Raghuvansh, Shwetha Maiya, shenoyvarun86, shrik, Nihar, akhi, Manish Achuth, KK, Arun Krishnamoorthy, Treyambak Madyalkar, Aparna, AmK, v.chandrashekar, Dibyo, Bharath, krudebox, udupendra, Gowri, Rahulk, Inglourious, varuns88, Qbrain, sidsen, reddevil_ani and Raison


Saturday, May 1, 2010

All the best things in life are free...

—srikanth @ 20:32

This man started a site for storing a few physics papers temporarily. Slowly, people wanted the docs to last forever. Out of this a very popular service was born.

Who is he, and what is the site he created?

Cracked by everyone!

Logik, shenoyvarun86, googboog, akhi, shrik, Mo, AmK, Aparna, Thejas V R and Rogi


Friday, April 30, 2010

Rumors Ringing

—devadutta @ 23:59

This dude, a super famous blogger had successfully hid his identity for many years and apparently even his employees did not know his name. His blog recently got acquired, bringing him to limelight. Who he? What blog did he write?

Cracked by: shrik, umang, Rogi, Raghuvansh, googboog, Logik, Bharath, shenoyvarun86, akhi, Aparna, Dibyo, Thejas V R, Shwetha Maiya and Qbrain

Show Answer

Jonathan Geller, who used to be called “Boy genius” until his blog “Boy Genius Report” was bought out by Mail.com (aah.. mail.com.. I used to have an account there.. fond memories)


Thursday, April 29, 2010

You can sing?

—srikanth @ 23:59

This is the famed creator of a controversial tool that has large parts of its industry up in arms. Who is he and what’s the tool?

Clue - follow the blue ribbons:

Sorry for the late post ppl.

Cracked by varuns88, Rogi, shrik, googboog, nihit, Logik, krudebox, kriskingle, Raghuvansh, Aparna, AmK, shenoyvarun86, akhi, Dibyo, sidsen and Thejas V R


Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Don't push that button...

—srikanth @ 23:59

A guest question from shenoyvarun86.

Simple - identify the man in the picture below. Pay attention to the props in the pic. And ,oh, his grandfather was famous.

Cracked by everyone.

Rogi, varuns88, Anubhav, Dibyo, Bharath, Logik, Srikara, Thejas V R, googboog, sidsen, shenoyvarun86, shrik, Rasik Treyambak, reddevil_ani, AmK and umang


Tuesday, April 27, 2010

What about the box with a bird?

—devadutta @ 23:59

First few iterations of a now ubiquitous and advanced device. Identify the device, cookie points if you identify 1, 2 and 3 here.

2.

3.

Cracked by: Thejas V R, krudebox, googboog, udupendra, Raghuvansh, Anubhav, Dibyo, Aparna, shrik, Bharath, Rogi, Rithwik K, varuns88, sidsen, Anirudh, kriskingle, shenoyvarun86, sandesh and Shwetha Maiya