Identify this unsung hero of modern science:

who was a major influence on the work of this guy:

And both of their work would’ve been useless without this guy’s work:

This question comes courtesy Prabhu, muchos gracias maga!

**Cracked by: **udupendra , Poornima , Piyush , Swetha , Madan , ram , nihit , asha , Abhishek , Prasanth, Srichand Pendyala , and Archana.

udupendra, Poornima, Piyush, Swetha, Madan, ram, nihit, asha, yaksha, Abhishek, Prasanth, Srichand Pendyala and Archana

Here’s a staple question of the tech quizzing industry; connect:

Cracked by: prabhu_dc , udupendra , Mahesh, srichand , Shashank , ram & Madan (twice), Piyush , Dibyo , Archana, and prasanth.
(archana took it to the next level [heh] by identifying the exact level in the game!)

Answer:
A part of the soundtrack for the original QUAKE (and not Doom) was composed by Trent Reznor, of Nine Inch Nails fame. The “complete” connect would’ve been that the ammunition boxes in the game have the NIN logo on them.

prabhu_dc, udupendra, srichand, Shashank, Mahesh Herle, ram, Madan, Piyush, Dibyo, Archana and Prasanth

2.

2 pays tribute to what 1 is based on. How?

Cracked by:
Srikanth , Anuj , nihit , Hema , Shashank Hegde , Preetish , piezocake , Abhishek , Ganesh Prasad , prabhu_dc , srichand, keerthi (a bit late)

Srikanth, Anuj, nihit, Hema, Shashank Hegde, Preetish, piezocake, Abhishek, Ganesh Prasad, prabhu_dc, srichand and Keerthi

We have a great guest question today, courtesy Nihit.
Thank you dude!

Identify and connect the following images to a concept/theory.

Bonus hint

Don’t forget to send in your questions to boiledbeans (at) gmail.com. We love guest questions :)

Cracked by:**
Srichand Pendyala, prabhu_dc, udupendra, Bikiran Goswami, Swetha, Prasanth, bs, Prasad, Tathagata Chatterjee, Dibyo, yaksha, Shashank and asha**

Archana finds a different connect. Cool! :)

Answer

Connect: Game theory

Details:

1. Sylvia Nasar who wrote the novel “A Beautiful Mind” and a poster of the movie with the same title, connecting to John Nash.
2. Oskar Morgenstern and John von Neumann

Oskar Morgenstern and John von Neumann founded the field of mathemetical Game theory. John Nash did extensive work on game theory.

The extra hint was Donald Rumsfeld who claims to be using game theory for his defense strategies.

Srichand Pendyala, prabhu_dc, Archana, udupendra, Biki, Swetha, Prasanth, bs, Prasad, Tathagata Chatterjee, Dibyo, yaksha, Shashank and asha

Row 1 and Row 2 below present an analogy each. Complete the analogy in Row 3

1. :

2) :

3) :

You don’t need to post a picture as the response. Just the name will do.

Cracked by: Shashank, Archana, Hema, Jayanth, Bikiran, Dibyo, Keerthi, Yaksha, Mahesh, Udupendra, Devadutta, Nihit and Prabhu

Shashank, Archana, Hema, jayanth, Biki, Dibyo, Keerthi, yaksha, Mahesh Herle, udupendra, devadutta, nihit and prabhu_dc

Identify the molecule.

(Bigger image)

For the non chemistry geeks, hints

( this is how the top strip eventually ends. NOT caused by the molecule in question :) )

Cracked ( without any pains ) by:
Hema, Poornima, Jayanth, Shashank, yaksha, Abhinav, asha, Keerthi, Dibyo, piezocake, Abhishek, nihit, Archana

Answers:

Aspirin, 2-acetoxybenzoic acid or acetylsalicylic acid is the common analgesic . Low dose Aspirin has many other medicinal qualities.
The hints:

1. Judas Priest’s Painkiller, hinting the “Painkiller” properties of Aspirin.
2. Thompson and Thompson eating mysterious pills thinking it to be aspirin in"The Land of Black Gold"

Hema, Poornima, jayanth, Shashank, yaksha, Abhinav, asha, Keerthi, Dibyo, piezocake, Abhishek, Abhishek, nihit and Archana

:-?

Answered by: Abhishek, Shashank, jayanth, devadutta, yaksha and piezocake.

Abhishek, Shashank, jayanth, devadutta, yaksha and piezocake

For all the chemistry fans. Connect images 1,2 and 3

2. and 3.

and if you still are looking for hints, try

4.

Perfect

jayanth, Biki, Jayanth Srinivasa, Sumant, Mahesh Herle, Keerthi, Prasad, udupendra, asha, piezocake, yaksha, Anuj and Shashank

Identify the people in A and B, and connect them with the object in C. The connect is a specific event in the history of science/technology

A) B)

C)

And, as an additional clue (and to add some spice to the question):

This is definitely not a “core CS” question :-)

Almost everyone who attempted identified A and B right, and came close to the connect. I’m going to be somewhat generous.

On the dot:
jayanth, Bikiran, udupendra, nihit, Archana and rishabh

Came really close:
devadutta, Shashank, Abhinav, Poornima, Bikiran, Anuj, sai_ganesh, karthik, Abhishek, bs, dingdong and yaksha

Abhinav(2), jayanth, Biki, udupendra, Shashank, nihit, Poornima, Biki, Anuj, sai_ganesh, karthik, Abhishek, Archana, bs, rishabh, dingdong and yaksha

We have a guest question for the day. This question comes to you courtesy Prabhu. Thanks a lot dude, and keep ’em coming!

Identify the guy in the pic:

Clues:

BTW, I’d just like to say that we love guest questions! Send in any questions that you think will befuddle, bamboozle and otherwise baffle our readers to [email protected] and we’ll review them and put them up (if they meet our exacting standards ;-) )

Note: Don’t forget, there’s a Geek Quiz at the Daly Memorial Hall, Bangalore on August 26th at 2PM. The quiz is organized by the over-bright people at the KQA, so its guaranteed to be a helluva lot of fun. Our advice: be there!

Cracked by everyone… Chargesheeted: Anuj, Bigfoot, Bikiran, Prasad, Abhishek, Nihit, udupendra, Jayanth and Shashank.

Anuj, BiGFooT, Biki, Prasad, Abhishek, nihit, udupendra, jayanth and Shashank