Boiledbeans

Drama! Intrigue!! Geekiness!!!

Quiz

Category: Quiz

Very important research

—devadutta @ July 24, 2012

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

Show Answer

Effects of Peanut Butter on the Rotation of Earth


Gold

—devadutta @ July 23, 2012

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

Identify and connect.

Cracked by: Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, Ananth and KK

Show Answer

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


Chips with that?

—devadutta @ July 22, 2012

Guest question from %gqh% Manish Achuth.

Identify

Cracked by: Rogi, Ananth and KK

Show Answer

burritob0t, Burrito making bot.


Click here

—devadutta @ July 21, 2012

%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


Let's see who gets arrested this time.

—srikanth @ July 20, 2012

Current affairs question. A few of what?

Cracked by: Rogi, Sujoy, Manish Achuth and Bharath

Show Answer

This years DEF CON’s badges


Their 'secrets' are safe here

—srikanth @ July 19, 2012

Which controversial website is housed in this bomb-proof underground nuclear-shelter-turned-datacenter?

Cracked by: Bipin Banavalikar, vinayaknp, Rogi, Supritha Maiya, Jayaprakash B R, Vishnu Prashanth, Bharath, Anjul, Logik, KK, Dibyo, Sumanth Patlolla, Abhishek Bagchi, Ananth and Manish Achuth

Show Answer

Wikileaks - currently housed in this place called Pionen - White Mountain.


As we may think

—srikanth @ July 18, 2012

Identify the man and the machine

Cracked by: Anjul, Dibyo, Sumanth Patlolla, KK, Bipin Banavalikar, Rogi, Supritha Maiya, Vishnu Prashanth, vishwanath, Ananth and Manish Achuth

Show Answer

Ivan Sutherland’s SKETCHPAD


emo-max

—srikanth @ July 17, 2012

Identify this old popular website:

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

Show Answer

Deadjournal, the ‘dark’ cousin of the once famous livejournal platform.


Aux armes et cætera

—srikanth @ July 16, 2012

What takes its name from things like these:

Cracked by: Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, Ananth, Harsha, Mayukh Bose, Bharath, Dibyo, KK and Bipin Banavalikar

Show Answer

Movable Type, the blogging platform, from the ‘movable type’ printing technology.


"there's a lot of caching"

—srikanth @ July 15, 2012

ID (1). (2) is a clue.

Cracked by: Bipin Banavalikar, Dibyo, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, raklodramA, Supritha Maiya, Bharath, Manish Achuth, KK, mankuTimma, Ananth and Harsha

Show Answer

NASA Nebula, their container-contained cloud computing platform