Boiledbeans

Drama! Intrigue!! Geekiness!!!

August 2012

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Freedom

—devadutta @ 10:17

Identify and connect

Cracked by: Rogi, Ananth, vinayaknp, Jayaprakash B R, Sumanth Patlolla, KK, raklodramA, duriel, Dibyo, mankuTimma, Manish Achuth, chetana and Bipin Banavalikar

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Merrie Curie named Radium F as Polonium as a way to bring world’s attention to Poland’s political crisis.


Clicker

—devadutta @ 09:28

Guest question from %gqh% Dibyo.

Recently discovered species. Where was it discovered?

Cracked by: Logik, Rogi, Ananth, Sumanth Patlolla, duriel, Dibyo, hitchhiker, mankuTimma and Bipin Banavalikar

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Flickr! http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2012/08/11/158570034/a-new-species-discovered-on-flickr


Sunday, August 19, 2012

Past is past..

—devadutta @ 21:52

Guest question from %gqh% Logik.

All too familiar game with another familiar car not belonging here. What is happening?

Cracked by: Anjul, Rogi, Ananth, Sumanth Patlolla, KK, raklodramA, Harsha, duriel, Dibyo, Jinz, mankuTimma, Manish Achuth and Bipin Banavalikar

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Back to the future mod for GTA


Saturday, August 18, 2012

Robo Star

—devadutta @ 21:43

Identify

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, Manish Achuth, mankuTimma, raklodramA, KK, Harsha, duriel, Dibyo, Supritha Maiya and Bipin Banavalikar

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Double Robotics’s Conference bot. It is just super awesome.


Friday, August 17, 2012

Rule No 1: Cardio

—devadutta @ 19:22

Guest question from %gqh% Manish Achuth.

This is the winning entry in which competition?

Cracked by: Ananth, Bipin Banavalikar, Rogi, vinayaknp, Dibyo, KK, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Supritha Maiya and Siddarth Pai

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Zombie architecture. Design houses to ensure that they are zombie-proof.


Thursday, August 16, 2012

Just in case...

—devadutta @ 23:37

What is this?

Cracked by: Bipin Banavalikar, Sumanth Patlolla, mankuTimma, Supritha Maiya, KK, Rogi, Ananth, Dibyo and Siddarth Pai

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Apollo astronauts’s “Autograph Insurance” plans


Wednesday, August 15, 2012

R.I.P

—devadutta @ 00:49

Who is this? Where is this?

Cracked by: Manish Achuth, Shyam, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, Supritha Maiya, Kaustubh Mhatre, Siddarth Pai, Jayaprakash B R, rahul rohit, Amarendra Kumar, Anjul, Bipin Banavalikar, PNS, mankuTimma, Anu, Mayukh Bose, Ananth, KK, vinayaknp, Vishwas B Sharma and EvilHom3r

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R.I.P Neil Armstrong


Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Not the tile guy

—srikanth @ 23:59

Stamps commemorating who? Who else did something similar a lot later?

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, KK, Rogi, Logik, Ananth, Amarendra Kumar, Saugata Chakraborty, Supritha Maiya and Siddarth Pai

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Oscar Reutersvärd. The mathematician Roger Penrose independently re-created the Penrose triangle impossible figure years later.


Monday, August 13, 2012

5 years of Boiledbeans!

—devadutta @ 11:13

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Boiledbeans turned 5 years old today! It has been a super amazing experience for the two of us and we have enjoyed every bit of it, thanks to the awesome community we have here.

We covered memes before they were annoying, we covered XKCD before it was famous and we knew about moot before everyone. We have covered so many topics on BB that these days, it takes us a good amount of searching before we can get to a “good” question.

5 years ago, iPhone had just launched, Facebook was “small”, MySpace was popular, the Poincare conjecture was still unproven!

So, 5 years is no short time and you have kept us running for so long! Your awesomeness has no limits!

Here are some of the things we have done:

One post every day with atleast one question. without fail for 5 years!

of which

and

including theme rounds, treasure hunts, puzzles

Which contained…

On which you posted

and we automatically had..

And all this has been possible because of our

Of whom, more than 1300 people have more than 1 point.

I am so happy and excited that I can go on writing about the awesome stuff we have done. But I will only put one last thing here, and that is

We have some interesting announcements coming up, so stay tuned. Here is our first ever logo

**Bon(g)us question for the day: **Website X started out as a free web-space provider for the founder’s classmates. Later completely transformed into a blog. Which website? What did it transform into?

Cracked by: Jayaprakash B R, mankuTimma, Sumanth Patlolla and Anjul


Sunday, August 12, 2012

Add an e

—srikanth @ 23:59

Simple - connect:

Cracked by: Jayaprakash B R, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Supritha Maiya, KK, Rogi and Ananth

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(2) was named after the nobel laureate Charles Hard Townes (1)