Slightly borderline question.
Connect the three to a specific work of art.
Cracked by: Urthstripe, jowens, shrik, badideabear, Mayukh Bose, username, Rogi, Manish Achuth, Bharath, Ananth, raklodramA, Bipin Banavalikar, amarendra, Sumanth Patlolla, Dibyo, Rahul Rajeev, anurag, Shwetha Maiya and Thejas V R
The so-called “First Cylindric Chrono-Hologram: Portrait of Alice Cooper’s Brain” was an artwork by Salvador Dali featuring Alice Cooper captured in a Hologram.
Who was the inventor?
PS: Happy Independence Day to our Indian quizzers!
Cracked by: KK, Rogi, shrik, Rahulk, amarendra, Thejas V R, username, raklodramA, Sumanth Patlolla, Bharath, mankuTimma, Manish Achuth, jowens, Siddarth Pai, Rahul Rajeev, Urthstripe, Ananth, Dibyo, badideabear, rickde, anurag, Swarun, Mayukh Bose and Bipin Banavalikar
Al-Jazari, the famous polymath who lived in mesopotamia and made some really funky things.
What ’event’ was sketched here ?
This is one of the outcomes of said event:
Boston operator (to Portland operator): “Please cut off your battery [power source] entirely for fifteen minutes.”
Portland operator: “Will do so. It is now disconnected.”
Boston: “Mine is disconnected, and we are working with the auroral current. How do you receive my writing?”
Portland: “Better than with our batteries on. - Current comes and goes gradually.”
Boston: “My current is very strong at times, and we can work better without the batteries, as the aurora seems to neutralize and augment our batteries alternately, making current too strong at times for our relay magnets. Suppose we work without batteries while we are affected by this trouble.”
Portland: “Very well. Shall I go ahead with business?”
Boston: “Yes. Go ahead.”"
PS: Please try not Googling the text. That just makes things boring.
Cracked by: Rogi, username, amarendra, Sumanth Patlolla, KK, Siddarth Pai, kapinjal chowdhury, Rahul Rajeev, shrik, jowens, Thejas V R, Swarun, badideabear, Shwetha Maiya, Ananth, raklodramA, Martin, rickde, Rahulk, Bipin Banavalikar, mankuTimma, Manish Achuth, s m muneer ali and Urthstripe
The strongest ever solar flare - first observed by British amateur astronomer Richard Carrington - occurred in 1859. The Aurora Borealis caused by the flare was strong enough to be visible till the equator, and in fact induced enough current to let telegraph services operate without batteries!
Ladies and Gents,
Boiledbeans turned 4 years old today!
Most people would expect us to be stereotypical and say that it feels like yesterday when we posted our first question. But, it actually does not. Srikanth and I have gone through so much of landscape change in the past four years that it feels like we posted our first question ages ago!
What has not changed though, is the most awesome user-base Boiledbeans enjoys. I mean, How often do we bump into a quiz blog with multiple users clocking over 1000 points on the board? How often do you see a blog with users answering hundreds of questions correctly in a row? How often do you visit a blog that has users super excited about points and medals? How often do you read a blog with users pouring in awesome guest questions?
Not too often, I am sure!
Srikanth and I would like to thank all of our users, for keeping us running for all these years.
We have not missed posting a question till date and we do not plan on missing one either!
Thank you!
To celebrate, many things
Starting next week, AutoRaja will post questions at a fixed time everyday.
The way it works is simple, we will make a buffer of questions from which AutoRaja will pick one and post.We are currently filling up the buffer, so, we request you send in some fully framed guest questions.
*The Einstein in the pic is 1 year old. It was gift we received for marking 3 years of Boiledbeans!
Identify the ‘kit’ in the pic below:
Cracked by: Raghuvansh, rickde, Thejas V R, Rahul Rajeev, Rogi, KK, jowens, thiru d gr8, Bharath, amarendra, rohanquizzer, Siddarth Pai, Ananth, Abhiram Bharadwaj Diddigi, Swarun, anurag, shrik, username, Sumanth Patlolla, Shwetha Maiya, Urthstripe, Dibyo, Manish Achuth, Chaitanya, badideabear, raklodramA, Rahulk and Bipin Banavalikar
The Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab - a kit meant to get kids interested in atomic energy that included geiger counters and radiation sources :|
The ages-old predecessor to this object is probably far more popular than the object itself. Nevertheless, identify the object in the picture.
Cracked by: Rogi, raklodramA, Siddarth Pai, username, anurag, Thejas V R, Ananth, Bharath, KK, Logik, amarendra, jowens, rickde, Raghuvansh, kapinjal chowdhury, Rahul Rajeev, Aravind, Swarun, shrik, Sumanth Patlolla, Shwetha Maiya, Urthstripe, Dibyo, Manish Achuth, badideabear, Rahulk and Bipin Banavalikar
Version 1.0 of the “Rosetta disk”, created by the Long Now foundation. The disk attempts to record all languages that might go extinct in the near future.
Simple question - identify the man and the project.
(Also: Hello peoples! In case any of you noticed, I’ve been missing for a while, but I’m back now :) )
Cracked by: Swarun, VK, KK, Thejas V R, username, badideabear, raklodramA, Shwetha Maiya, shrik, Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, amarendra, Bipin Banavalikar, Manish Achuth, rickde, Ananth, jowens, anurag, Bharath, Raghuvansh and Rahul Rajeev
DEC genius Gordon Bell showing off the recorder he used in Microsoft Research to record his entire existence as part of the ‘MyLifeBits’ project.
What it is? Who are “they”? (see below)
And yeah, “they” set it into orbit.
Cracked by: raklodramA, username, Ananth, Thejas V R, Rogi, shrik, Sumanth Patlolla, Rahulk, KK, rickde, kapinjal chowdhury, Dibyo, Manish Achuth, Bipin Banavalikar, Goyal, jowens, badideabear, Bharath, amarendra, anurag, Urthstripe, Raghuvansh, VK, Swarun, Siddarth Pai, Mayukh Bose, Rahul Rajeev, Aravind and Shwetha Maiya
What is happening here?
Very bad. Very bad.
Cracked by: username, Thejas V R, jowens, Goyal, anurag, shrik, Bharath, Amarendra, Rogi, badideabear, VK, Ananth, Urthstripe, Shwetha Maiya, grey_matters, raklodramA, Martin, Sumanth Patlolla, Jayaprakash B R, Dibyo, Bipin Banavalikar, Rahulk, kapinjal chowdhury, Sridhar C, rickde, udupendra, Manish Achuth, Godzilla101, vinayaknp, SV, chaitanya, Swarun, Subramania Rao, Mayukh Bose and Shankar
Sale of these weapons went up by 5000% due to riots in London. Very depressing.
What is this guy already camping out for?
Ye gods.
Cracked by: jowens, Godzilla101, shrik, KAMANASISH CHOWDHURY, Rogi, badideabear, username, VK, Dibyo, Ananth, Shwetha Maiya, Goyal, Thejas V R, Amarendra, anurag, Rahulk, Bipin Banavalikar, Jayaprakash B R, Siddarth Pai, Sumanth Patlolla, Swarun, raklodramA, rickde, Bharath, grey_matters, Manish Achuth, kapinjal chowdhury, Sridhar C, udupendra, chaitanya and Raghuvansh
This bloke is already camping for an iPhone 5. Apparently.