Boiledbeans

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2011

Friday, July 8, 2011

Faceplanet

—devadutta @ 23:59

Some people were convinced that this photo taken by Viking 1 was a sure sign of life on planet X. Which planet? (Later imagery like 2 disproved it though)

Cracked by: Anjul, shrey, shenoyvarun86, shrik, kapinjal chowdhury, Larry, Urthstripe, Rogi, Raghuvansh, thiru d gr8, Manish Achuth, sandeep bhat, dhruv, username, Bharath, Ananth, raklodramA, Swarun, krudebox, rickde, Thejas V R, Rahulk, Sumanth Patlolla, Dibyo, grey_matters, s m muneer ali, Siddarth Pai, jowens, Shwetha Maiya, dineshk, Sai Subramanian, Jayaprakash B R, anurag, malcaluffin and Jean Valjean

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Mars


Just add a display

—devadutta @ 23:59

What is this?

Cracked by: Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, KK, thiru d gr8, shenoyvarun86, Manish Achuth, shrey, jowens, Bharath, Ananth, Siddarth Pai, dirty-i, shrik, Urthstripe, Raghuvansh, dhruv, username, raklodramA, krudebox, Swarun, rickde, Thejas V R, Rahulk, Dibyo, s m muneer ali, Shwetha Maiya, Sai Subramanian and anurag

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Magnavox’s Odyssey, the first TV Video Game.


Wednesday, July 6, 2011

IMP

—devadutta @ 23:59

Guest question from %gqh% raklodramA. Thanks sire!

Identify and connect.

If you noticed, the GQH trophy has changed, thanks to a suggestion from raklodramA.
Others, at least now send us guest questions I say! You will get a star! Y U NO WANT STAR?

Cracked by: grey_matters, rickde, raklodramA, Raghuvansh, KK, Sumanth Patlolla, anurag, Bharath, Dibyo, Thejas V R, shrik, shenoyvarun86, username, shrey, Rogi, Ananth, dirty-i, s m muneer ali, Rahulk, jowens, thiru d gr8, Manish Achuth, Shwetha Maiya, krudebox and dineshk

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Connect : 1st message sent via the Arpanet.


Tuesday, July 5, 2011

2part story, part 2

—srikanth @ 23:59

Continuing from the previous question.

C created a famous programming language D, initially intended as a way to teach students structured programming. But it also became popular for production. D, named after a french mathematician, was the primary high level language used in the development of E.

E was an iconic PC that was, unfortunately, a commercial failure. Some say that E was named for its creator’s daughter. (Incidentally, one particular B from A is primarily found on E and its descendents :) )

The GUI of E was influenced by another iconic PC in development at that time - F. The creators of E paid a visit to the place where F was being created and spent a while figuring out how to make things work.

D, E and F, please, for one point in total.
C created a famous programming language D, initially intended as a way to teach students structured programming. But it

also became popular for production. D, named after a french mathematician, was the primary high level language used in the

development of E.

E was an iconic PC that was, unfortunately, a commercial failure. Some say that E was named for its creators daughter.

(Incidentally, one particular B from A is primarily found on E and its descendents :) )

The GUI of E was influenced by another iconic PC in development at that time - F. The creators of E paid a visit to the place where F was being created and spent a while figuring out how to make things work.

Cracked by: shrik, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, grey_matters, Ananth, anurag, Dibyo, Swarun, Bharath, Thejas V R, rickde, Rahulk, shrey, username, dhruv, raklodramA, sandeep bhat, jowens and Raghuvansh

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D - The pascal language


Monday, July 4, 2011

2part story, part 1

—srikanth @ 23:59

Plain text question -

A was designed by Tom Knight at MIT. One of the most influential devices of its kind, it had seven Bs. Bs, though they seem to have something to do with carbon molecules, were actually named after Swiss computer scientist C. A few of the Bs from A live on today.

Just fill in A, **B **and **C **to get one point.

Cracked by: shrik, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, Ananth, anurag, Dibyo, Swarun, Thejas V R, rickde, shrey, username, raklodramA, dirty-i, jowens and Raghuvansh

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A = the Space Cadet Keyboard,


Sunday, July 3, 2011

What is the time?

—devadutta @ 23:59

Where can you find this clock?

Happy 4th of July to our American readers!

Cracked by: Ananth, Fib Onachi, Rogi, Nagendra U M, Shwetha Maiya, KK, Dibyo, Sumanth Patlolla, anurag, dhruv, Jayaprakash B R, Raghuvansh, Thejas V R, username, Rahulk, rickde, s m muneer ali, grey_matters, Manish Achuth, mankuTimma, shenoyvarun86, raklodramA, Manoj Venkat, Siddarth Pai, shrik, krudebox, Pawankumar Hegde, Bharath, dirty-i, rohanquizzer, udupendra, Urthstripe, sandeep bhat, Swarun, malcaluffin, jowens and Sanador

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Quoting Sandeep - The Galvano-Magnetic Clock is on the east wall of the Royal Observatory building,Greenwich. It was manufactured by Shepherd, Patentee, 53 Leadenhall Street, London.


Saturday, July 2, 2011

Parkinsons?

—srikanth @ 23:59

Identify the device. The image should have all the clues you need.

Cracked by: username, Rahulk, Thejas V R, grey_matters, rickde, shrik, KK, raklodramA, Siddarth Pai, Sumanth Patlolla, dirty-i, Dibyo, s m muneer ali, Manish Achuth, Ananth, krudebox, Rogi, Shwetha Maiya, anurag, dhruv, Raghuvansh, shenoyvarun86, Pawankumar Hegde and Bharath

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Shakey the robot - created at Stanford Research Institute - was a mobile robot that could reason out commands given to it and execute them.


Friday, July 1, 2011

ASCII stupid question...

—srikanth @ 23:59

Non-serious question for today. What did I ask below (blanked out)?

Cracked by: Thejas V R, sandeep bhat, Bismaya, Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, anurag, krudebox, Sai Subramanian, username, shrik, rickde, jins, udupendra, grey_matters, Rahulk, raklodramA, jowens, dhruv, Raghuvansh and Martin

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Ask Wolfram|Alpha what men/women want and it gives up with this diplomatic footnote :)


Thursday, June 30, 2011

Give me the whip!

—srikanth @ 23:59

This collection caused quite some buzz a year or so ago - as much for its business model as for its content!

No need to identify each, just name the collection

Cracked by: Urthstripe, shrik, username, Rogi, Thejas V R, Ananth, Fib Onachi, raklodramA, Raghuvansh and Siddarth Pai

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The first “Humble India Bundle” - a collection of 6 cross platform indie games. Buyers could pay how much ever they wanted to whoever they wanted, it was just a bundle of good games!


Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Where in the world is...

—srikanth @ 23:59

Sitter for the day (kinda making up for the delay, I guess?). What is this a map of? This is not an exhaustive list.

Cracked by: Urthstripe, jowens, shrik, Ananth, username, Manish Achuth, sandeep bhat, Rogi, grey_matters, KK, Thejas V R, Fib Onachi, raklodramA, Raghuvansh and Dibyo

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Intel products are typically codenamed by the names of places around where they were designed. This is a map of a few such places.