Boiledbeans

Drama! Intrigue!! Geekiness!!!

2011

Thursday, December 22, 2011

iFall

—devadutta @ 23:59

Personal coat of arms of a major physics stud. Who?

Cracked by: Jayaprakash B R, rohanquizzer, Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, Gurupad, shrik, badideabear, jowens, KK, anubha, Rahulk, Rajesh, raklodramA, Nandha K Samy, rickde, Shwetha Maiya, Ananth, Rogi, sandeep bhat and Siddarth Pai


R.I.P

—devadutta @ 23:59

Guest question from %gqh% Yuan Niu.

Identify the dude who is standing. Great man. This is our tribute to him.

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Sumanth Patlolla, jowens, Amarendra Kumar, shrik, badideabear, Rogi, rohanquizzer, Ananth, voodoonodle, rickde, Manish Achuth, Bharath, KK, Rahulk, Rajesh, raklodramA, Shwetha Maiya, Vishwas B Sharma and Jayaprakash B R

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Jack Goldman, Founder of Xerox PARC


Tuesday, December 20, 2011

High entropy?

—srikanth @ 23:59

There are many connections between (1) and (2), and this is just one. (1) hired (2) to run (3). Identify 1, 2 and 3 please.

Cracked by: Manish Achuth, KK, Ashwini Kumar, Rogi, Raghuvansh, rickde, shrik, Rajesh, Aditya S, rohanquizzer, Sumanth Patlolla, jowens, badideabear, Bharath, Ananth and Rahulk

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Vannevar Bush (1) and his team were among the first people to construct a usable differential analyzer machine (3). Interestingly enough, Claude Shannon (3) was hired as a Research Assistant to help run the machine!


Sunday, December 18, 2011

Tile

—devadutta @ 23:00

Another sitter. One of the earliest images on the web. What is blacked out?

Yay! Free points!

Cracked by: Bharath R, Urthstripe, shrik, Sumanth Patlolla, badideabear, Rajesh, jowens, rohanquizzer, Manish Achuth, Rogi, Bharath, Logik, voodoonodle, Vishwas B Sharma, rickde, KK, Aditya S, Shwetha Maiya, Madan, Prasad, Raghuvansh and Rahulk

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Mosaic, one of the first web browsers


Saturday, December 17, 2011

Google can also do it!

—devadutta @ 23:59

Sitter. First of its kind. Identify.

Cracked by: rohanquizzer, Amarendra Kumar, Sumanth Patlolla, Dibyo, jowens, shrik, Logik, Manish Achuth, Rogi, Rahulk, badideabear, Urthstripe, ashwin, Rajesh, Anjul, voodoonodle, Vishwas B Sharma, rickde, KK, Aditya S, Shwetha Maiya, Prasad, Raghuvansh, Ananth and nandha k samy

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The first ever graphing calculator.


Friday, December 16, 2011

F**k Pluto.

—srikanth @ 23:59

Identify.

This is not a serious question at all.

Cracked by: Shrey Goyal, rohanquizzer, Sumanth Patlolla, jowens, shrik, Logik, Manish Achuth, Rogi, Rahulk, badideabear, Rajesh and Bharath

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Neil deGrasse Tyson, the american scientist.


Thursday, December 15, 2011

Could you make it tinier?

—srikanth @ 16:31

Guest question from %gqh% KK

Identify the standing man:

Cracked by: Rogi, badideabear, Raghuvansh, Manish Achuth, Ananth, KK, sandeep bhat, Sumanth Patlolla, Rahulk, Amarendra Kumar, grey_matters, rickde, shrik, jowens, Satya Saha, thiru d gr8, Shwetha Maiya, soda buddi and rohanquizzer

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Jack Kilby


Wednesday, December 14, 2011

But the dawn is brief.

—srikanth @ 23:49

What’s special about these? Bits have been edited out to increase suspense.

Cracked by: Rogi, badideabear, Raghuvansh, Manish Achuth, Ananth, KK, Dibyo, Sumanth Patlolla, Rahulk, Aditya S, shrik, Amarendra Kumar, rohanquizzer, rickde, jowens and Shwetha Maiya

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LOTR book covers designed by Tolkien himself.


Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Love and Cabbage?

—devadutta @ 23:59

What were these used for?

You have all the hints in the pic. And sorry about the stupid question title.

Cracked by: Rogi, shrik, Sumanth Patlolla, jowens, badideabear, Manish Achuth, KK, Vishwas B Sharma, Aditya S, Rahulk, Rajesh, rohanquizzer, raklodramA, Shivathilak, Amarendra Kumar, Bharath, Raghuvansh, Ananth, Dibyo, tanwi, vinayaknp, rickde and Shwetha Maiya

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Punched cards used to program Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine.


Monday, December 12, 2011

We are social too

—devadutta @ 23:59

yay! Guest question after a long time! This one is from %gqh% Jayaprakash B R. Thanks a lot sire.

Founders of which social networking website?

We are running critically low on guest question supplies. Please to feed the monster at [email protected] before it goes on a mad rampage.

Cracked by: raklodramA, s m muneer ali, jowens, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Rahulk, Aditya S, Amarendra Kumar, Ananth, Rogi, sandeep bhat, Shwetha Maiya, badideabear, Raghuvansh, Bharath, Jayaprakash B R, Rajesh, shrik, Vishwas B Sharma, voodoonoodle, KK, arunabha18, Thejas V R and Hitesh T S

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Diaspora, the Facebook alternative. R.I.P Ilya Zhitomirskiy