Boiledbeans

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2011

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Overload

—srikanth @ 23:59

Today’s question comes to us from %gqh% Dibyo, to celebrate his 1000 point run :)

Cryptic Question: This is three of what?

(AutoRaja will probably not be able to handle this answer very well, so it’ll be evaluated manually eventually)

Cracked by: Rogi, udupendra, Urthstripe, jowens, SV, Manish Achuth, Raghuvansh, dirty-i, raklodramA, Debasish, Thejas V R, Prasad, Sumanth Patlolla, anurag, krudebox, koolkinks, Mod, shrik, Ananth, sandeep bhat, Shwetha Maiya, grey_matters, username, Fib Onachi and Siddarth Pai

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1-1000, 2-1000!

—srikanth @ 23:59

More good news today - udupendra has hit 1000 points! Excellent stuff saar - congratulations!

udupendra was one of the earliest people on this site, and has been a regular face for years now. This is also definitely not his first record here :) He was consistently topping the charts at BB before receiving some very stiff competition! Here’s hoping for many, many more answers from you!

Udupendra gets a star of honor – an achievement badge plus a special badge as well.

Today’s question’s dedicated to udupendra of course :) (although there’s no ‘1000’ funda in this question like there was in yesterday’s)

Very simple - identify the ‘system’ being depicted here.

Cracked by: Urthstripe, Rogi, Ananth, shrik, jowens, Dibyo, sandeep bhat, Manish Achuth, grey_matters, Nagendra U M, username, raklodramA, dhruv, Jayaprakash B R, anurag, Thejas V R, Sumanth Patlolla, Siddarth Pai, Raghuvansh, dirty-i, Prasad, Bogie, krudebox, Mod and Shwetha Maiya

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The three locations of NASA/JPL’s Deep Space Network. You will notice they are roughly 120 degrees apart, giving the ‘best’ coverage to track deep space spacecraft.


Sunday, June 26, 2011

A 'grand' old man.

—srikanth @ 23:59

Hello intrepid quizzers! Today is a landmark day in the history of Boiledbeans :) Those of you who’ve been keeping track of the scores would have noticed this already.

Dibyo has just scored ONE THOUSAND POINTS!

Congratulations Mr. Dibyo! This is no mean feat, and we at BB really appreciate the effort! It’s always great to see people regularly coming onto BB to answer questions and really encourages us to keep posting.

Dibyo gets a star of honor - an achievement badge plus a special badge that we’ll apply shortly.

Today’s question is also dedicated to Dibyo!

The box in the map below points out a special path. Which vehicle holds the record for the fastest crossing of this path (albeit inaccurate)?

Cracked by: Ananth, SV, Urthstripe, dineshk, Rogi, shrey, Sumanth Patlolla, username, dhruv, jowens, Dibyo, grey_matters, Nagendra U M, anurag, raklodramA, Raghuvansh, Thejas V R, Mod, udupendra, krudebox, Siddarth Pai, Logik, Ebzhent, jins, shrik, sandeep bhat, Manish Achuth, dirty-i and Prasad

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The Millennium Falcon - Han Solo’s ship from Star Wars - completed the “Kessel Run” in 12 parsecs (ridiculous as that sounds).


Saturday, June 25, 2011

Before the Castles

—devadutta @ 23:59

Before becoming the iconic company that they are now, company X churned out random toys like these. The last one is especially super lol + WTF. Which company?

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Sai Subramanian, Ananth, shrik, Manish Achuth, Rogi, Urthstripe, Raghuvansh, Dibyo, grey_matters, username, raklodramA, anurag, Swarun, Thejas V R, s m muneer ali, mankuTimma, dirty-i, udupendra, Ebzhent, krudebox, Manoj Venkat, Jayaprakash B R, SV, dhruv, jowens, Mod, Rahulk, Siddarth Pai, Logik, sandeep bhat, Prasad and Shwetha Maiya

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Nintendo. Even bigger WTF than this is that they apparently ran Love hotels.


Friday, June 24, 2011

Close your windows?

—devadutta @ 23:59

Who shot to instant fame due to this news report? Obviously, the important part is cut out.

Video Link

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Ananth, shrey, shrik, Rogi, Urthstripe, Anjul, Manish Achuth, Raghuvansh, Dibyo, grey_matters, raklodramA, Thejas V R, dirty-i, anurag, username, udupendra, Ebzhent, Manoj Venkat, krudebox, SV, jowens, Mod, Siddarth Pai, Logik, sandeep bhat and yaksha

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Antoine Dodson and the Bed Intruder song


Thursday, June 23, 2011

Gandhiji loves it.

—devadutta @ 23:59

Yay! Guest question time! %gqh% raklodramA (Ameya) sent us this question. Thanks saar!

Simple. Identify this device.

Cracked by: thiru d gr8, Sumanth Patlolla, Ananth, shrey, Manish Achuth, shrik, akhi, Rogi, raklodramA, Urthstripe, Martin, Anjul, Raghuvansh, Dibyo, username, grey_matters, KK, Shwetha Maiya, anurag, Benjamin, Swarun, Nagendra U M, Thejas V R, dirty-i, s m muneer ali, mankuTimma, udupendra, Ebzhent, krudebox, Jayaprakash B R, SV, jowens, dhruv, Mod, Rahulk, Siddarth Pai, Logik and BastardoH

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Sewing machine


Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Only in Japan!

—devadutta @ 23:59

Japanese pop group. What is special about the last girl?

See this image for reference.

Video Link

Cracked by: udupendra, Thejas V R, raklodramA, Goyal, Ananth, Rogi, Ebzhent, Anjul, Dibyo, sandeep bhat, Raghuvansh, grey_matters, Vegus Sixx, Sumanth Patlolla, shrik, Logik, D’Anconia, username, thiru d gr8, Martin, jins, Manish Achuth, Sridhar C, Urthstripe, dirty-i, Qqsachin, Swarun, Shwetha Maiya and s m muneer ali

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She is CGI. Not real! Entire Japan thought she was real and awesome!


Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Tarty!

—devadutta @ 23:59

Yay! Another obscure meme question time.

Observe the seek bar. Which meme is Youtube celebrating here?

Cracked by: udupendra, Nagendra U M, raklodramA, shrey, Ananth, Rogi, Ebzhent, Anjul, Dibyo, sandeep bhat, Raghuvansh, ragwho, Jayaprakash B R, Bharath, Swarun, Thejas V R, shrik, Sumanth Patlolla, jins, Logik, D’Anconia, username, vkamath, thiru d gr8, dineshk, Manish Achuth, Urthstripe, Nikhil Acharya, dirty-i, Shwetha Maiya and Abhinav

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Nyan Cat


Monday, June 20, 2011

<avoids obvious Portal joke>

—srikanth @ 23:59

Sitters ahoy. What’s the story?

Cracked by: wanderlust, Ananth, Rogi, Pawankumar Hegde, dineshk, Dibyo, Manish Achuth, grey_matters, dhruv, raklodramA, sandeep bhat, KK, username, Bharath, Thejas V R, D’Anconia, Raghuvansh, Sumanth Patlolla, shrik, Jayaprakash B R, anurag, Rahulk, Sai Subramanian, Siddarth Pai, udupendra, Nagendra U M, Goyal, shrey, Ebzhent and Swarun

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The Internet Explorer team in Microsoft sends the Mozilla Firefox team a cake to celebrate every release! These are a few of those cakes.


Sunday, June 19, 2011

Pirates of the Silicon Fen?

—srikanth @ 23:59

Identify the show that these images would connect to:

Cracked by: Rogi, Ananth, Urthstripe, Manish Achuth, Bharath, Raghuvansh, Rahulk, raklodramA, username, Sumanth Patlolla, Thejas V R, shrik, arpit mehta, udupendra, grey_matters, Pawankumar Hegde and dineshk

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BBC’s 2009 show ‘Micro Men’ or ‘Syntax Era’, a show about the ‘war’ between Sir Clive Sinclair of Sinclair computers and Chris Curry of Acorn.