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Star Wars

—srikanth @ August 23, 2010

Fully-framed question from udupendra!

(1) was built. In response, (2) was built. What are they?

Got a question? Send it to [email protected]!

Cracked by yevvryone.

Plz to be seeing udupendra’s reply for the answer straight from the horse’s mouth.

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#include < stdio.h >

—devadutta @ August 2, 2010

Guest question from udupendra

In any other quiz blog, I’d have asked about the men, but on Boiledbeans … Identify the robot.

Thanks saar, for the question!

L33t cr0wd s3nd 1n gu3st qu3st10ns t0 [email protected]

Cracked by: raklodramA, udupendra, Rahulk, Dibyo, Thejas V R, krudebox, Qbrain, lanu, Rogi, Bharath, dheeraj, Shwetha Maiya, Goyal, Vinay Hegde, username, Manish Achuth, Bheema V, SV, shenoyvarun86, Logik, Ananth, dineshk, quaziluffy, sandman, Aparna, shrik, varuns88, mankuTimma and Inglourious


3GQ

—devadutta @ July 15, 2010

No, not a new video format. 3 guest questions today, all sent in by Dibyo. Thanks a lot sire and apologies about the late post. You get 3 shiny trophies for this!

Rules: One point per correct answer. Get at least one right to count for your run-length.

  1. Put details about this funky image.

  1. a is Japan’s favorite, b is Russia’s favorite and c is Mexico’s favorite. What are these microscopic images of?

a.

b.

c.

  1. Identify, and connect to hottest marketing meme around.

Cracked by: Dibyo(3), Thejas V R(3), Raghuvansh(3), Goyal(3), krudebox(3), byslexia(3), varuns88(3), Rahulk(3), Hegde(3), Rogi(3), raklodramA(3), lanu(3), Qbrain(3), Bharath(3), Manish Achuth(3), Sumanth Patlolla(3), udupendra(3), Aparna(3), Logik(3), Ananth(3), dineshk(3), madhur(2), Jean Valjean and dhruv.sharma . All got three points, except Except Jean Valjean(1), drruv.sharma(1) and madhur(2)


Holy Ocean Floor!

—devadutta @ July 8, 2010

Another Guest Question from Rogi! Thanks!

Identify

Hint:

Cracked by: Aparna, Rogi, Rahulk, Logik, Bharath, Rahul Rajeev, Shwetha Maiya, dineshk, Qbrain and lanu


Smash Hits

—devadutta @ July 2, 2010

Guest question from Rogi. Thanks!

Tell us how these “music” clips were made.

1 [audio:http://boiledbeans.net/audio/l1.mp3]

2 [audio:http://boiledbeans.net/audio/l2.mp3]

Hint:

P.S: Ladies and Gents, please to send guest questions to [email protected]. We like them a lot, but we have only a few trickling in lately. So, please to send. KTHX

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, dineshk, Rogi, Aparna, Dibyo, Logik, Vishnu, Thejas V R and Shwetha Maiya

Show Answer

‘Sonification’ of data collected at the LHC


Drill, baby, drill

—srikanth @ June 15, 2010

Stamp commemorating what urban-legend-causing structure?

Cracked by everyone! Also, turns out that shenoyvarun86 sent us this question more than a year ago, so this is a guest question and shenoyvarun86 get’s the shiney

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Oscilloscope Open

—devadutta @ June 3, 2010

Another one from raklodramA. Cannot believe we had not asked this one before :)

What is this?

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, varuns88, udupendra, Thejas V R, shrik, Rogi, dineshk, SV, Ananth, Manish Achuth, Dibyo, Shwetha Maiya, Anubhav, eswar, googboog, krudebox, Rahulk, Smitha R Maiya, Vishnu, Sumanth Patlolla, KK, Treyambak Madyalkar, Logik, reddevil_ani, Roy, raklodramA, Bharath, lanu, Qbrain, shenoyvarun86, dheeraj, sandesh, Arun T P, Ajay Parasuram, varun, rohanquizzer, chubaka, Advaith and Xanda


Un-Distort

—devadutta @ May 25, 2010

Modified version of a question sent in by raklodramA. Congrats on your first GQHero trophy :)

What are paintings/art forms like this called? Fake cookie points if you can identify the dude in 2.

P.S: Apologies about the delay in moderating so many questions. It will be done soon.

Cracked By: shenoyvarun86, umang, raklodramA, Logik, Rogi, Thejas V R, krudebox, shrik, Rahulk, Raghuvansh, Dibyo, Shwetha Maiya, googboog, bharath357, Qbrain, sandesh, yaksha, wanderlust, Vishnu, varuns88, dineshk, nishansolo, Treyambak Madyalkar, reddevil_ani, kapinjal sharma, Aparna, Bharath, Vardhan Shenoy, udupendra, mankuTimma and Anubhav


Please Give Up

—devadutta @ May 18, 2010

Guest question from udupendra after a long time. Thanks saar!

These two created something that does not have a pronounceable acronym. What?

Cracked by Thejas V R, Dibyo, googboog, Qbrain, shrik, lanu, raklodramA, Rahulk, Arun Krishnamoorthy, Bharath, Vishnu, dineshk, Logik, varuns88, Rogi, Manish Achuth, Ganesh Prasad, krudebox, Shwetha Maiya, Smitha R Maiya, reddevil_ani, udupendra, bharath357, Raghuvansh, The One and Only, mankuTimma and shenoyvarun86


Spin it!

—srikanth @ May 14, 2010

Guest question from shrik!

Identify the monstrous looking contraption - and tell us why it’s been in the news recently.

Got any questions you’d like us to ask? Send them in to [email protected]!

Cracked by Logik, Vishnu, Thejas V R, Raghuvansh, googboog, shenoyvarun86, Rogi, krudebox, Rahulk, Dibyo, Bharath, reddevil_ani, Smitha R Maiya, Aparna, varuns88, shreiisc, umang, Inglourious, Treyambak Madyalkar, sandesh, Manish Achuth, udupendra, Arun Krishnamoorthy, mankuTimma, Shwetha Maiya, dineshk and shrik