Boiledbeans

Drama! Intrigue!! Geekiness!!!

2014

Sunday, February 9, 2014

Nice way to retire

—devadutta @ 15:29

Another question from %gqh% Manish Achuth

Identify the artist and the song (Tell us who is covering whom)

[audio:http://www.boiledbeans.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/dfe0b505f84f41fc1a463770c0f899a1.mp3]

Cracked by: Manish Achuth, buk, varun, Sumanth Patlolla, AmK, Mayukh Bose, shenoyvarun86 and Rogi

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Chris Hadfield, the Canadian Astronaut. Song - Space Oddity by David Bowie.


Finches. You need Finches.

—devadutta @ 22:35

Guest Question from %gqh% Manish Achuth. Send your questions to [email protected]. We like them!

What was the controversy? Also identify the dude (For AutoRaja)

Cracked by: Manish Achuth, Pawankumar Hegde, s m muneer ali, Bipin Banavalikar, Sumanth Patlolla, Bastet, shenoyvarun86, buk and AmK

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Although Darwin was never inspired by Humming birds, these notes make him like he was. He was actually observing Finches.


Monday, February 3, 2014

From Ponds to deBeers

—devadutta @ 17:01

Guest Question after a looooooong time. From %gqh% shenoyvarun86.

Bust of a German mineralogist. Identify

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, ShreyGoyal, Manish Achuth, Rogi, s m muneer ali, Sayan Chaudhry, Pawankumar Hegde, Bipin Banavalikar and Bastet

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Friedrich Mohs and the Mohs Scale of Mineral Hardness


Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Like a Jedi

—devadutta @ 10:48

Identify

Cracked by: Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, KnowQout, s m muneer ali, Bipin Banavalikar, Sayan Chaudhry, shenoyvarun86, Sanjeet Dash, Rogi, Bablu and Siddarth Pai

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Mattel’s power glove. It was like a wimote, but people did not like it.


Sunday, January 26, 2014

First Class

—devadutta @ 11:53

What is happening here?

Cracked by: Sanjeet Dash, Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, s m muneer ali, shenoyvarun86, Siddarth Pai, KnowQout and Sayan Chaudhry

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In 1913, you could mail children by parcel post in the U.S.


Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Bow Bow

—devadutta @ 21:57

Italian, British, American. 1 and 2 have appeared on BB quite a bit. Identify 3.

Cracked by: s m muneer ali, Sumanth Patlolla, Sanjeet Dash, anurag, Bipin Banavalikar, Manish Achuth, Rogi and Sayan Chaudhry

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BeagleBone Black. One awesome thing!


Monday, January 20, 2014

Keep thinking, I will come back after dinner

—devadutta @ 12:51

First of its kind. What is this? Cookie points if you identify the inventor.

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, s m muneer ali, KnowQout, Bipin Banavalikar, Swarun, Sanjeet Dash, Rogi and Sayan Chaudhry

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Tumbling chess clock, invented by Thomas Bright Wilson. Until this was invented, people took 14 hours to finish a chess game.


Monday, January 13, 2014

Hot Chile

—devadutta @ 11:03

First of its kind. What is this? Who took this image?

Hint: This thing takes 63 Years to reach when you travel at the speed of light.

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, s m muneer ali, Manish Achuth, bablu, Rogi and Sayan Chaudhry


Thursday, January 9, 2014

Santana has a song

—devadutta @ 17:54

Connect

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Cracked by: Manish Achuth, s m muneer ali, Rogi, Ramvo, Mayukh Bose, Madan, hiranmaya and bablu

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MariaDB is a drop in compatible MySQL replacement, authored by the original MySql Authors. Pretty Slick.


Wednesday, January 8, 2014

If only the Illuminati had this video..

—devadutta @ 13:57

Proof that someone was very right. Who? Cookie points if you tell us who is doing this experiment.

[video width=“490” height=“360” mp4=“http://www.boiledbeans.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/a8aa084b60a3ede366336c775c939841.mp4”][/video]

Cracked by: Manish Achuth, buk and Rogi

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Galileo’s famous feather and hammer experiment done in space, by Apollo 15 astronauts.