Category: Quiz
Identify and connect.
Total sitter. Cracked by:sidsen , madhur , duriel , Shreyas , Dibyo , prasanth , jayanth , udupendra , RajT and shashank.
sidsen, madhur, duriel, Shreyas, Dibyo, prasanth, jayanth, udupendra, RajT and shashank
Connect
Cracked by: udupendra , sidsen , teju , madhur , duriel , prasanth , nishansolo , Dibyo , Vinod P.V , Poornima , shashank , Ganesh Prasad , jayanth and Shreyas.
udupendra, sidsen, teju, madhur, duriel, prasanth, nishansolo, Dibyo, Vinod P.V, Poornima, shashank, Ganesh Prasad, jayanth and Shreyas
Cracked by: udupendra , madhur , Poornima , teju , Biki , Dibyo , Ganesh Prasad , Vinod P.V , Shakeel , prasanth , nishansolo , Prasad , sidsen , shashank , duriel , jayanth , BiGFooT and yaksha.
udupendra, madhur, Poornima, teju, Biki, Dibyo, Ganesh Prasad, Vinod P.V, Shakeel, prasanth, nishansolo, Prasad, sidsen, shashank, duriel, jayanth, BiGFooT and yaksha
This image of two Marvin-the-Martians was etched onto the image sensor onboard the Spirit and Opportunity mars Rovers. what makes it special is that this is what is called “chip art”. Many details all over teh intarwebs to understand what makes this so special.
Many congrats to yaksha for scoring 100 points on Boiledbeans! He is the second bb user to hit this mega geek milestone.
He has sent in a guest question to commemorate this event and we will be posting it on bb tomorrow.
Nice work yaksha!
Now for today’s question: Identify and Connect
Cracked by: Dibyo , udupendra , duriel(almost lost the point ;) ) , shashank , Vinay and yaksha.
Dibyo, udupendra, duriel, shashank, Vinay and yaksha
To quote udupendra: Dean Kamen (of Segway fame created the) Luke Arm (which gets its name from) Luke Skywalker.
This is a chronologically ordered series of pictures capturing the steps involved in something. What is being implemented here?
Forward path
Return path:
Cracked by:madhur , jayanth , udupendra , Dibyo , prasanth , Rahul Ranade , shashank , sumanth , yaksha and duriel.
madhur, jayanth, udupendra, Dibyo, prasanth, Rahul Ranade, duriel, shashank, sumanth and yaksha
Fairly obvious, innit. This is an implementation of the April Fool’s RFC 1149 (IP Over Avian Carriers). Some jobless hackers got together and ran a ping command with pigeons as the PHY layer.
Millions of geeks started off their coding life using this man’s invention. Identify the man in the photograph below, the contraption in his hands, and what it created.
Many clues in the picture.
Cracked by: shashank , madhur , jayanth , Dibyo , duriel , piezocake (can’t just come out and say it, can you…), Shreyas , udupendra , sidsen and sumanth.
shashank, madhur, jayanth, Dibyo, duriel, piezocake, Shreyas, udupendra, sidsen and sumanth
To quote dibyo: “Seymour Papert, and this is the mechanical turtle, and this went on to tranform into the programming langage Logo.”
This popular internet retailer is the pioneer of a particular business model. They are also known for their un-conventional marketing style, where they sometimes mock themselves and/or their customers.
For example:
In-spite of these un-conventional methods, they are immensely popular.
Identify the retailer and the business model they pioneered.
Cracked by: jayanth , RajT , Biki , bs , duriel , madhur , teju , pratap , Vinod P.V , sidsen , yaksha , shashank , sumanth , BiGFooT , Arjun Chennu and Dibyo.
jayanth, RajT, Biki, bs, duriel, madhur, teju, pratap, Vinod P.V, sidsen, yaksha, shashank, sumanth, BiGFooT, Arjun Chennu and Dibyo
This question was sent in by Prasanth. Just 3 of 300+, identify the three and name the inventor.
Don’t forget: guest questions should go to [email protected].
Also, please try to avoid copy-pasting websites verbatim into answers. We’re usually quite liberal if you just give us a one-liner that captures the essence of the answer, so that’s more than enough!
Cracked by: Dibyo , teju , duriel , Shakeel , udupendra , sumanth , sidsen , jayanth and shashank.
Dibyo, teju, prasanth, duriel, Shakeel, udupendra, sumanth, sidsen, jayanth and shashank
Nikolai Tesla’s patents on
This ancient sword is made out of steel which is full of a “miracle material”, “discovered” only in 1991. The presence of this material made this sword extremely hard and flexible. This sword is claimed to be the first place where this “miracle material” was used (much before it was “discovered”).
Identify the sword and the “miracle material”
Cracked by: vaibhav008 , jayanth , madhur , teju , gammafunction , Dibyo , duriel , nishansolo , shenoyvarun86 , shyam , sumanth , shivathilak , , Tathagata Chatterjee , yaksha , shashank , prasanth , udupendra and sidsen.
vaibhav008, jayanth, madhur, teju, gammafunction, Dibyo, duriel, nishansolo, shenoyvarun86, shyam, sumanth, shivathilak, Anonymous, Tathagata Chatterjee, yaksha, shashank, prasanth, udupendra and sidsen
This question may be a month too late, but it deserves to be asked. Identify and connect all of the above.
Cracked by: bs , jayanth , teju , madhur , Arjun Chennu , Dibyo , duriel , udupendra , shenoyvarun86 , Ganesh Prasad , Archana , shashank , Shakeel , prasanth , nishansolo , sidsen , yaksha and gammafunction.
See the comments for the answer. Everyone who posted got it right.
bs, jayanth, teju, madhur, Arjun Chennu, Dibyo, duriel, udupendra, shenoyvarun86, Ganesh Prasad, Archana, Anonymous, Anonymous, shashank, Shakeel, prasanth, nishansolo, sidsen, yaksha and gammafunction
