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—srikanth @ March 31, 2012

Commemorating ’today’. What is it?

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, rickde, Bharath, Amarendra Kumar, Rogi, Ananth, badideabear, Dibyo, Bipin Banavalikar, KK, raklodramA, Anjul, Manish Achuth, Logik, Raghuvansh and mankuTimma

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World Backup Day!


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—srikanth @ March 30, 2012

Internet people are reading a lot into this photo. Why?

rickde, Bharath, Rogi, badideabear, Amarendra Kumar and Manish Achuth


Check under the couch?

—srikanth @ March 29, 2012

So, as far as obscure questions go this one takes the cake. But it’s fairly workoutable and fair-fodder for Boiledbeans, so here goes.

What’s so special about the circle?

Cracked by: jayanth, Rogi, Shrey Goyal, finkle, Manish Achuth, Anonymous, Sumanth Patlolla, rickde, Bharath, Ananth, badideabear, Bipin Banavalikar, Mayukh Bose, KK, raklodramA, Amarendra Kumar, Raghuvansh and piezocake

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Prince of Persia source code


Bah. Humbug.

—srikanth @ March 26, 2012

(1) + (2) would lead you to what recently-terminated thing?

Cracked by: raklodramA, KK, finkle, badideabear, Bharath, Ananth, Rogi and Manish Achuth


Feed your head.

—srikanth @ March 5, 2012

Decipher the code.

Actually, don’t do that. Just tell us who invented the script.

Cracked by: KK, badideabear, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Ananth, rickde, Rogi, rohanquizzer, Bharath, jowens and raklodramA

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Charles Dodgson’s (Lewis Carroll) nyctography script to help write in the dark.


Many of these actually seem better.

—srikanth @ March 4, 2012

Here, take some points :P

These were the initial thoughts. What was the final decision?

Cracked by: rickde, Amarendra Kumar, jowens, Bharath, Rogi, Mayukh Bose, badideabear, Ananth, KK, Manish Achuth, rohanquizzer and raklodramA

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Mathematica, from Wolfram.


We're like them, for quizzes.

—srikanth @ March 3, 2012

Where would you see this?

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Jayaprakash B R, KK, Sumanth Patlolla, Urthstripe, rickde, Rogi, Vishwas B Sharma, Manish Achuth, rohanquizzer, jowens, badideabear, Amarendra Kumar, Bharath, Ananth and raklodramA

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That’s Derrick. Derrick thinks you would like to receive Groupon Mails. You can go punish Derrick here: http://www.groupon.com/unsubscribe


Rock out on the bongo drums.

—srikanth @ February 25, 2012

How did these two “make money”?

Cracked by: Rogi, Manish Achuth, rickde, shrik, rohanquizzer, Ananth, Sumanth Patlolla, badideabear, jowens, raklodramA and Bharath

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Feynman set out two challenges during his “Plenty of room at the bottom series”, one to create a micromotor and one to inscribe a book page on a small surface. These two were claimed by William Mclellan and Thomas Newman, respectively.


Gives "crash" a whole different meaning.

—srikanth @ February 23, 2012

What names are whited out?

Cracked by: jowens, rickde, Anonymous, Thiru d gr8, Sumanth Patlolla, raghu, Manish Achuth, KK, vishal, Vishwas B Sharma, Rogi, rohanquizzer, Abhishek, Ananth, finkle, Bharath, Anjul, shrik, Raghuvansh, raklodramA, Logik, halfbakedbeans, Jayaprakash B R and vinayaknp

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Bill Gates and Paul Allen. Traf-o-data was their first business venture together before microsoft.


Aqua Awesomea

—devadutta @ February 11, 2012

Instrument that gained popularity for being able to generate sc-fi and spooky sounds. Identify.

Cracked by: rickde, Manish Achuth, tanwi, shrik, rohanquizzer, Rogi, KK, Vishwas B Sharma, Raghuvansh, jowens and raklodramA

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Quoting Rogi