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2012

Friday, July 27, 2012

Before Breakfast

—devadutta @ 11:44

Guest question from %gqh% Dibyo after a long time!

Who is this?

This is supposedly a very rare photo.

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Ananth, Shwetha Maiya, Jayaprakash B R, KK, Dibyo, Rogi, Supritha Maiya, Bipin Banavalikar, mankuTimma and Siddarth Pai

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Matt Inman of the oatmeal.


Why so curious?

—devadutta @ 11:41

Guest question from %gqh% Manish Achuth.

What is the significance of this image?

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Ananth, vinayaknp, Shwetha Maiya, Rogi, chetana, Jayaprakash B R, bhargava, KK, Dibyo, mankuTimma, Supritha Maiya, Rajiv Rai, Siddarth Pai and Anjul

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First Image sent by Curiosity.


The mad scientist tweets again!

—srikanth @ 00:59

The twitter issue should be fixed now. If you all see this going down again, please do let us know - email us at [email protected] or tweet @boiledbeans!


Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Wrong Spelling for default answer

—devadutta @ 12:22

This professor accidentally (re)named a company after getting their spelling wrong. Who is he, which company and where did he get the spelling wrong. AutoRaja will be happy with company name.

Cracked by: Anjul, Amarendra Kumar, Manish Achuth, Jayaprakash B R, bhargava, Ananth, mankuTimma, KK, manas, Sumanth Patlolla, vishwanath, Rogi and Jinz

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David Cheriton, who wrote a $100,000 check for “Google” instead of “Googol”


Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Very Beautiful

—devadutta @ 11:07

Which “unit of measurement” is named after her?

KK, Amarendra Kumar, Manish Achuth, Jayaprakash B R, bhargava, Ananth, mankuTimma, Sumanth Patlolla, Supritha Maiya, Rogi, daniel and jinz


Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Very important research

—devadutta @ 11:03

What is this paper, authored by hundreds of physicists about?

Cracked by: KK, Shrey Goyal, Manish Achuth, Amarendra Kumar, Jayaprakash B R, Ananth, mankuTimma, Sumanth Patlolla, Supritha Maiya and Rogi

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Effects of Peanut Butter on the Rotation of Earth


Monday, July 23, 2012

Gold

—devadutta @ 11:10

Guest question from %gqh% raklodramA. Spirit of the season and all that

Identify and connect.

Cracked by: Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, Ananth and KK

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Anish Mistry and David Fox of the warwick university synthesized the olympicene molecule as tribute to the Olympic symbol


Sunday, July 22, 2012

Chips with that?

—devadutta @ 10:41

Guest question from %gqh% Manish Achuth.

Identify

Cracked by: Rogi, Ananth and KK

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burritob0t, Burrito making bot.


Saturday, July 21, 2012

Click here

—devadutta @ 00:03

%gqh% Manin Maga has sent in this guest question.

Connect to a single term

manin maga and Jean Valjean have revived their quiz blog! Do give them a swing.

Jayaprakash B R, Manish Achuth, Rogi, Bharath and KK


Friday, July 20, 2012

Let's see who gets arrested this time.

—srikanth @ 23:59

Current affairs question. A few of what?

Cracked by: Rogi, Sujoy, Manish Achuth and Bharath

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This years DEF CON’s badges