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The future is here?

—devadutta @ August 29, 2010

Identify and connect.

We sent out mails to Boiledbeans t-shirt winners today. We do not have working email IDs for the following people.

username
Auysh Agarwal
vinay.tk

Please send an email to [email protected]

Cracked by: prasanth, Girish, shrik, udupendra, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, krudebox, Logik, Gurupad, Rahul Rajeev, nishansolo, vijayaraghavan, Rogi, Ananth, Bharath, jowens, byslexia, Jean Valjean, v.chandrashekar, Rahulk, username, Anurag Sharma, Chaitanya, lanu, Bheema V, Qbrain, Bipin Banavalikar, Dibyo, raklodramA, joe, Xanda, Thejas V R and Shwetha Maiya

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Marty McFly wears a self lacing shoe in “Back to the future part 2” which was recently patented by Nike. They will probably bring it to production soon.


They're getting faster!

—srikanth @ August 28, 2010

What’s the name of the artist responsible?

Cracked by everyone.

shrik, Vasanth Kamath, Prateek Agarwal, Ananth, Logik, Jean Valjean, Dibyo, Rogi, Girish, lanu, udupendra, Rahul Rajeev, Manish Achuth, krudebox, jowens, Thejas V R, Qbrain, Bheema V, Bharath, Shwetha Maiya and Rahulk


http://guitarist.

—srikanth @ August 27, 2010

Fully framed guest question from logik!
W - founded by the people shown in (1)
X - The company that currently runs W.
The speaker adopted a very famous nickname Y, in reference to a section in the book (3) ..
Give me W, and Y

Cracked by udupendra, Logik, Manish Achuth, Rogi, shrik, Bharath, Raghuvansh, Dibyo, Qbrain, Girish, lanu, Rahulk, jowens and Thejas V R.

Check out Logik’s comment for the answer, of course :)


Question asking question

—devadutta @ August 26, 2010

Simple. Lego recreation of which masterpiece?

Cracked by: Logik, Gurupad, Ananth, Goyal, SV, shrik, byslexia, Bheema V, Girish, krudebox, Manish Achuth, Rogi, Bharath, Anjul, username, v.chandrashekar, Dibyo, dheeraj, Vasanth Kamath, Vardhan Shenoy, Rahulk, Qbrain, dineshk, Rahul Rajeev, vijayaraghavan, lanu and Jean Valjean

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Ascending and Descending by M.C. Escher


TRUE.

—srikanth @ August 25, 2010

Identify this husband-and-wife couple - who together run a famous website (that has stopped many an email forward in its tracks :p) :

A very roundabout clue below. Pseudobonus points for identifying how the clue links to the question :)

Cracked by Logik, Gurupad, shrik, Girish, krudebox, byslexia, SV, Rogi, dineshk, Raghuvansh, Manish Achuth, Ananth, v.chandrashekar, username, Vasanth Kamath, Smitha R Maiya, Rahulk, Qbrain, lanu, Shwetha Maiya, raklodramA, Thejas V R, Dibyo, Prateek Agarwal, udupendra, ht, joe, Atul Mathew, Sumanth Patlolla, Bharath, Rahul Rajeev, Bheema V and Vardhan Shenoy


Who is it?

—devadutta @ August 24, 2010

Company X that manufactured computers like the one below has its name in the history books as the first to “register” something. What?

Cracked by: username, Ananth, shrik, Rogi, Raghuvansh, Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, krudebox, Dibyo, raklodramA, Nanda, Shwetha Maiya, Rahulk, lanu, Qbrain, Vasanth Kamath, Rahul Rajeev, Vardhan Shenoy, Bheema V, udupendra, SV, Bharath, Gurupad, Logik, dineshk, v.chandrashekar, Thejas V R, mankuTimma and nishansolo


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.

udupendra, Logik, Raghuvansh, Ananth, Aparna, nishansolo, Dibyo, Rogi, shrik, Manish Achuth, krudebox, Nanda, Goyal, raklodramA, Girish, Thejas V R, Prateek Agarwal, username, Sumanth Patlolla, Vasanth Kamath, Qbrain, Vardhan Shenoy, Vishnu, Rahul Rajeev, Bharath, Gurupad, dineshk, Bheema V, Aditya Sridhar, Rahulk, Shwetha Maiya, ht, lanu, Vinay Nair Karath, SV and v.chandrashekar


Greetings!

—devadutta @ August 22, 2010

This question is inspired by another question sent in by Thejas V R. He gets the shiny %gqh% nevertheless.

1 is from India, 2 from the Navajo tribe, 3 from Peru and 4 from USA. Which “album” has these songs along with 23 other songs from all around the world?

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

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

  3. [audio:http://boiledbeans.net/audio/3peru.mp3]

  4. [audio:http://boiledbeans.net/audio/4usa.mp3]

Cracked by: username, udupendra, Vardhan Shenoy, Anonymous, Girish, lanu, Qbrain, Manish Achuth, joe, Aparna, Rogi, Anjul, shrik, Logik, dineshk, krudebox, Raghuvansh, Bharath, Thejas V R, byslexia, Rahulk, mankuTimma, nishansolo, ht and Shwetha Maiya


Botweiser, anyone?

—srikanth @ August 21, 2010

Another “current affairs” question" :-) Identify?

Cracked by Vardhan Shenoy, shrik, Thejas V R, Manish Achuth, Logik, Dibyo, Aparna, Girish, Raghuvansh, krudebox, Rogi, Prateek Agarwal, udupendra, dheeraj, Bheema V, Mahesh, dineshk, Bharath, Vasanth Kamath, Shwetha Maiya, Rahulk, Ananth, Qbrain and lanu


Does not talk

—devadutta @ August 20, 2010

This game is famous for 2 reasons. 1 because it was co-written by the founder of a very big company and 2, it was one of the first games written for the platform it ran on.

Identify the game and the co-writer we are talking about.

Cracked by: Manish Achuth, Logik, dineshk, Raghuvansh, Ganesh Prasad, Dibyo, Ananth, Rogi, Rahulk, v.chandrashekar, sandman, Vardhan Shenoy, Bharath, Prateek Agarwal, raklodramA, krudebox, Qbrain, Shwetha Maiya, shrik, Thejas V R, Aparna, Nanda, udupendra, blntechie, Vinay Hegde, username, dheeraj, Sumanth Patlolla, lanu and Bheema V